iShowU HD &
HD Pro
iShowU Feature Comparison
| iShowU | HD | HD Pro | |
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| Realtime capture | |||
| Pause/Resume | |||
| Follow mouse | |||
| Record microphone audio | |||
| Record system audio | |||
| Custom presets | |||
| On the fly scalingBoth HD and HD Pro are capable of performing on the fly scaling of footage using your graphics card. This provides a massive boost in capture performance whenever you want to create a movie of something larger or smaller than the final output size of your video. | |||
| Custom backgroundsNeed a tidy background for your recording? Easy - just turn on custom background mode and select the picture you want displayed on your desktop during the recording. You can even turn off the icons! | |||
| iSight / webcam supportGive your video the personal touch by introducing yourself to your viewers. Most webcams are supported (if it works in QuickTime it'll work in iShowU HD). | |||
| Works with full screen OpenGL apps keynote, world of warcraft, etcWe play the odd game here at the office - and now we can record them without having to think about capture placement. When you switch to full screen, iShowU HD automatically adjusts its capture area accordingly. No more problematic placement or worrying about what resolution the game is in. Now "it just works". |
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| Upload to web YouTube built inNow you can upload directly from iShowU HD. What's more the API is pluggable so as time goes by we expect that both users and site-owners will help us add additional upload destinations. We've made our YouTube upload implementation public, so everyone can see how to go about it. |
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| Embed watermarksNow it's simple to brand your videos, without requiring you to edit after your capture. Simply drag a picture from anywhere (either the built in Media manager, or Finder) and position it within the preview area. You can move it, resize it and adjust border width, color and opacity of the watermark directly from the preview. | |||
| Record keystrokesWhen you are recording tutorials it's helpful to reenforce what you're saying by showing the keystrokes you're making at the time. iShowU HD Pro lets you do this directly as you're recording without the need to buy additional pieces of software. | |||
| Support for all CoreAudio inputs (multi channel mixers)If you're a pro user, then it's likely you have more than just a simple microphone plugged into your machine. Now you can record using any existing Core Audio compatible equipment (Alesis, M-Audio, Edirol to name a few). On top of that you can choose which channels to record and specify exactly how these should be mapped to the channels of the recording. Lovely. All channels remain discrete so if you want to perform post editing in Logic or Soundtrack Pro, no problem! | |||
| Specific support for Final Cut Express/Pro and pro-like tools in generalNever export your video using QTPro again! No longer do you have to re-export captured media in order to get it to play nicely with Final Cut. Simply drag the media from the preview bar directly into your project. iShowU HD Pro also comes with a bunch of built-in presets making use of the ProRes codec. |
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| Low CPU usage modeiShowU HD Pro is smart. Real smart. If it finds you're running out of CPU power while recording, it'll begin saving out just the differences per frame. This can be a massive performance boost. Once you're finished recording it'll resume compressing and finish up the video. If you know for sure that you'll be recording a CPU or disk intensive application (that would otherwise slow down a real-time capture) then you can have iShowU HD Pro just low CPU mode right from the start. The best of both worlds! |