Screencast.com: anyone use it?

bearkub

I was reading some posts on the Silo message boards and happened across a video posted using this site: http://www.screencast.com

The video it had was REALLY crisp and appeared to be a desktop capture. Was wondering if anyone had seen/used it before?

http://www.screencast.com/users/TorgeirHolm/folders/Jing/media/5a504bb2-d5e7-4993-bf44-3134905b2d88
This is the video I was watching (disregard the content of the video, it was just showing a "bug" in Silo..).

Gav

I've actually been watching a bunch of videos using that (that I can't post here because it's work related...) but was curious about it as well, it seems pretty bad ass

adamlewis

Whoa, I just checked it out. It's pretty intuitive to capture with and the image quality is insane. I don't know how practical it would be for a big video tutorial, but if you just wanted to show a friend something real quick it seems like a perfect way to do it.

*edit

Removed link since my bandwidth was exceeded.

Michael Knubben

The catch seems to be that it costs money, though.

adamlewis

Yeah their hosting is pretty lousy. My little video I put up already exceeded their 1 gigabyte transfer limit. The software is still quite cool though.

bearkub

holy crap, are you kidding? that video is already over limit? Yike. That does change things. Still, considering that those are holding a lot of the original quality in the video, I can also see how you could burn through bandwidth quick.

adamlewis

Bandwidth goes surprisingly fast. 25 meg video x 40 views = 1 gig bandwidth. It's not that big a deal if you've got a decent webserver (my modest hosting package has 6 terabytes of bandwidth), because you can use the FTP function and it will upload the video in a nice self-contained .swf file onto your site. As I said before though this is probably something you would only want to use if you were going to share a relatively small video with a limited group of people.

Eric Chadwick

That's the TechSmith codec, been around a long time. Codec is free, encoder isn't. Windows Media Player has its own free version, not quite as good, but close.