Ask HN: SaaS instructional video – which tools?

5 points by osullivj 9y ago ↗ HN

I'm trying to make a series of instructional videos for my SaaS offering. I've tried ezvid for screen capture, and lightworks & videomap for editing and struggled. ezvid seems to be adware, and flaky if I pause. lightworks refuses to import the .wmv ezvid produces. videopad will import and edit, but then produces a blank .mp4. I'm happy to pay for something that works; what's worked for you?

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alexgaribay 9y ago ↗

I've used Screenflow[1] and it works well enough. There some nice editing features like calling out specific area or making small annotations on screen. Theres also a feature of exporting a video as a GIF, which can be nice in certain situations.

[1] http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/overview.htm

osullivj 9y ago ↗

Thanks. Looks like Screenflow is Mac only. I'm going to try ScreenCast-o-matic.