@maricochran Great topic question.  We were just starting a similar conversation at our place today.  so I look forward to the comments of this wonderful group with with great interest.

@maricochran @trudy @melissaagnes

Melissa, I have a mac, too, and haven’t tried Screeny. Is it free or paid? How much? I know “free” is usually too much to ask for with macs, but…

I have found several other tools I use:

• Jing, a freebie… can add text, arrows, color text background highlights… there’s a site where graphic artists have gone wild with their favorite Jing creations… some really funny, Google for it. There’s also the paid upgrade and bigger program where movie editing is possible. Can’t remember the name… maybe Cam Studio or something like that.
• Camtasia is the classic… Just don’t want to pay for it.
• Screencaster.com allows you to record for 15 minutes, while all the other freebies usually limit you to 5 minutes. Students in the fifth grade made AWESOME professional presentations with this one. Got so distracted and jealous… didn’t do any more work the day I saw that, lol!
• I subscribed to someone’s newsletter I met on these SME Clubs, but can’t remember her name. Her website is full of instructional videos she made with Screenr. I think that’s a dot com, but haven’t followed up on that yet. If you do, please come back and report what you find to the rest of us.

Hope these help! Let me know what yall think about any of these — pro or con — as I’ve used the three free ones, but know there’s much more you can do with the paid ones. My big thing is, though, if I can do something for free, why pay?

Robin Carlisle

@maricochran

I use ScreenFlow (Mac Only) and I love it. It’s so easy to use that often I import non-screen capture video into it so I can use their editing tools.

You’d think it was created by Apple, it’s so intuitive. Except it’s better than the Apple editing products out there, IMHO.

@atlantarobin This is what I love about this forum. Thank you for all your suggestions.  Someone else recommended Camtasia.  I’m going to research all the ones you suggested.  I don’t mind paying because I know I will be using it a lot.  

I’ve started to use one at screencastomatic.com and really like how easy it is to use. Their free version is up to 15 minutes, or about $30 a year for the paid, longer version. You can see one of my tutorials on my motivatedtolearn.com blog. I would love to learn Camtasia, but not ready for the learning curve right now.