When words alone are not enough.
Need to show something to someone? iShowU is your answer! iShowU is designed to record anything on your screen, instantly — both audio, and video!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a movie is worth a million. Imagine the time you’ll save writing Grandma an email about how to magnify her dock when you can just shoot a movie
iShowU v1 Features
Flexible presets
Small snippets or full screen shots – iShowU comes with super-useful, built-in presets to help get you on your way, and you can create your own with just a few quick clicks.
Instant recording
No more waiting for encoding, as soon as you stop recording your video is instantly available.
Easy to use
ust drag the capture rectangle over what you want to record and hit enter. There’s only one button (that’ll be the one labelled "record") between you and video bliss.
You're in Control
Don’t want to record system audio? Microphone level too low? Video too big? iShowU has simple settings to control your capture, and does so from a single-window interface, so you can’t get lost.
Understands your mac
iShowU is a Universal Binary and also knows what monitors you’ve got connected (so you’re not restricted to capturing just one screen) – drag the mouse wherever you want to go and iShowU records it all.
Take the Night Off
Don’t sit and watch the recording, waiting for the right point to stop it. Setup a recording timer then go out for dinner!
One-Click Publishing
Zero effort encoding and publishing of your movie directly to the web from within iShowU. Supports iPod/iPad and also 1:1 high quality H264.
Other cool features
- Captures mouse positions (or not)
- Supports any QuickTime compression method
- Pause / Resume recording
- Compatible with OSX 10.5+
- Can automatically feed completed videos to Stomp
- Made by a good Kiwi
Screenshots
iShowU v1 preferences window screenshot
iShowU Want to show the actual FPS being achieved? Or hide the window upon starting a recording? Do it all here. Yes, the amazing Preferences window!
iShowU v1 main window screenshot
iShowU Couldn't be simpler. Set your options and hit record. Everything is visible from the one screen.
iShowU v1 screen capture area screenshot
Setting the capture area - A nice visual way to choose what to capture, just drag the handles and position the lightbox over what you want to capture.
Comparison
| iShowU | HD | HD Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Realtime capture | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pause/Resume | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Follow Mouse | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Record microphone audio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Record system audio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom presets | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| On the fly GPU scaling | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom backgrounds | No | Yes | Yes |
| iSight/Webcam support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatically detects and scales full screen apps1 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Upload to web2 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Embed watermarks | No | No | Yes |
| Record Keystrokes | No | No | Yes |
| Support for all CoreAudio inputs3 | No | No | Yes |
| Specific support for Final Cut Express/Pro4 | No | No | Yes |
| Low CPU usage mode | No | No | Yes |
1 Keynote, Worlds of Warcraft, etc. iShowU HD will automatically capture the full screen when an application itself goes “full screen”.
2 YouTube, Blip.TV and Howcast built-in.
3 Multi Channel Mixer. HD Pro lets you capture every audio channel independently (so if you want to remix just one later, that is possible).
4 In general, Final Cut prefers video with no “skipped frames”. iShowU HD Pro lets you specify whether or not gaps in a recording should be filled or expanded to fill the correct frame duration.
Changelog
1.91.4(07 December 2011)
Fixes
- Fixed issue whereby you could not choose ~/Desktop as a location for files.
1.91.3(27 October 2011)
Fixes
- 1771: Fixed problem whereby you could not set the codec back to JPEG under Lion, once you'd chosen H.264.
1.91.2(28 September 2011)
Fixes
- 1749: Re-fixed issue where recording would get a blue tint on Lion when scaled.
- 1739: Fixed issue under Lion where recording would be deleted upon quitting app.
- 1733: Fixed 'follow mouse' in Lion. Now smooth.
- 1722: Some Lion stability improvements, and better error handling. Fixed default sound output being set incorrectly (Lion only).
- 1676: 'Pause' now works in Lion. 'Abort' now works in Lion.
- 1652: Complete re-write of Lion integration. No longer uses any old QT code and the entire engine now uses new Lion tech.
- 1592: Many fixes for Lion, including detection of errors writing to disk.
- 1549: Additional stability improvements - fixed issue with excessive CPU usage in last beta build.
- Lion - Fixed issue causing crash when pressing pause.
1.91.1(23 July 2011)
Fixes
- Fixed issue in Lion where audio was out of sync with video.
- Fixed issue that'd prevent iShowU hiding itself from the dock.
- Fixed a thread leak.
Changes
- You can now hide recordings within One Click Publishing. This means the recording will not be shown in the index, and that only people knowing it's URL can access it.
1.91(03 June 2011)
Changes
- Added feature to lock capture (and selection thereof) to a single display.
- Initial support for OS X 10.7 (Lion). Caveat: This is still a development in progress.
- Fixed some memory leaks.
1.90(16 May 2011)
Changes
- Updated to have minimum requirement of OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
- Additional stability improvements.
- We have reworked the underlying frameworks that make up the base of our products, due to these new frameworks / reorganizations - all localizations have been temporarily removed. We will be working with our localizers to being complete localizations in future releases. We didn't want to have half-baked localizations, and so decided it'd be better to remove them temporarily. Watch this space!
1.89(26 April 2011)
Fixes
- Fixed a bug that'd cause a crash when you sorted the presets via clicking the table header
Changes
- Additional validation and checking in capture code - this is a partial fix while we discover the underlying cause. It will result in a minimum capture size of 16x16 instead of a potential crash situation. If you see small 16x16 captures, we'd like to hear from you.
- Updated to have minimum requirement of OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
1.88(07 April 2011)
Changes
- Last 10.4 compatible release. Later releases will be for 10.5+ only (read more).
- Allow a user to change their One-Click publishing name (via the Menu in the OCP manager).
- Stability and performance improvements to the Uploader.
1.87(16 February 2011)
Changes
- Fixed crash under 10.6 when editing capture area.
- A number of stability and performance improvements.
1.86(20 December 2010)
Changes
- Fixed issue with publishing names and naming of files under Leopard.
1.85(15 December 2010)
Changes
- Various fixes to OCP within OS X 10.5.x
- You can now "lock" a published video. This prevents you from unpublishing it by mistake.
