Tools+-+Recording-Production+Software

**Make your own mathcasts: Getting Started -- Tools --** Tutorials and book
Screen recording and production software is required for capturing writing, typing of text, or animations and producing them in a format for the web, CDs, or portable devices like the video iPod, Pocket PC, Palm, or Sony PSP.

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 * Windows:**
 * 1) **TechSmith [|Camtasia Studio]** - by far the best software for this purpose. About $150 for an individual license for educators, but the price goes way down for multiple user licenses (e.g. $99/license for 5-9 licenses all the way down to $40/license for 100-249 licenses and still lower for 250+ licenses). The full version is available as a 30 day free trial. Camtasia Studio 4 has the ability to produce files for the video iPod and upload files automatically to Screencast.com which makes distribution of mathcasts and other screencasts extremely easy.
 * 1) [|Kinoma Producer 3] - for producing mathcasts for the Palm Kinoma Player (free version or [|Kinoma Player 3 EX]).
 * 1) **Macromedia (Adobe) [|Captivate]** (formerly RoboDemo) - much more expensive and difficult to use than Camtasia Studio or Qarbon ViewletCam. Has advanced options for adding interactivity and scoring to movies but be aware that adding either of these can easily require something like 3-10 times the original time that it takes to create and produce a movie using Camtasia Studio.

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 * Mac**:
 * 1) The SMART Notebook recorder on the Mac records movies in QuickTime (.mov) format.
 * 2) Ambrosia Software [|SnapZ Pro X] **for recording and production (to QuickTime movie format).**
 * 3) **If you'd like to see a Mac version of TechSmith Camtasia Studio let them know.**

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