When words alone are not enough.
Need to show something to someone? iShowU is your answer! iShowU is designed to record anything on your screen, instantly — both audio, and video!
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a movie is worth a million. Imagine the time you’ll save writing Grandma an email about how to magnify her dock when you can just shoot a movie
iShowU v1 Features
Flexible presets
Small snippets or full screen shots – iShowU comes with super-useful, built-in presets to help get you on your way, and you can create your own with just a few quick clicks.
Instant recording
No more waiting for encoding, as soon as you stop recording your video is instantly available.
Easy to use
ust drag the capture rectangle over what you want to record and hit enter. There’s only one button (that’ll be the one labelled "record") between you and video bliss.
You're in Control
Don’t want to record system audio? Microphone level too low? Video too big? iShowU has simple settings to control your capture, and does so from a single-window interface, so you can’t get lost.
Understands your mac
iShowU is a Universal Binary and also knows what monitors you’ve got connected (so you’re not restricted to capturing just one screen) – drag the mouse wherever you want to go and iShowU records it all.
Take the Night Off
Don’t sit and watch the recording, waiting for the right point to stop it. Setup a recording timer then go out for dinner!
One-Click Publishing
Zero effort encoding and publishing of your movie directly to the web from within iShowU. Supports iPod/iPad and also 1:1 high quality H264.
Other cool features
- Captures mouse positions (or not)
- Supports any QuickTime compression method
- Pause / Resume recording
- Compatible with OSX 10.5+
- Can automatically feed completed videos to Stomp
- Made by a good Kiwi
Screenshots
iShowU v1 preferences window screenshot
iShowU Want to show the actual FPS being achieved? Or hide the window upon starting a recording? Do it all here. Yes, the amazing Preferences window!
iShowU v1 main window screenshot
iShowU Couldn't be simpler. Set your options and hit record. Everything is visible from the one screen.
iShowU v1 screen capture area screenshot
Setting the capture area - A nice visual way to choose what to capture, just drag the handles and position the lightbox over what you want to capture.
Comparison
| iShowU | HD | HD Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Realtime capture | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pause/Resume | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Follow Mouse | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Record microphone audio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Record system audio | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom presets | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| On the fly GPU scaling | No | Yes | Yes |
| Custom backgrounds | No | Yes | Yes |
| iSight/Webcam support | No | Yes | Yes |
| Automatically detects and scales full screen apps1 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Upload to web2 | No | Yes | Yes |
| Embed watermarks | No | No | Yes |
| Record Keystrokes | No | No | Yes |
| Support for all CoreAudio inputs3 | No | No | Yes |
| Low CPU usage mode | No | No | Yes |
| Support for Final Cut Pro (Snow Leopard Only)4 | No | No | Yes |
1 Keynote, Worlds of Warcraft, etc. iShowU HD will automatically capture the full screen when an application itself goes “full screen”.
2 YouTube, Blip.TV and Howcast built-in.
3 Multi Channel Mixer. HD Pro lets you capture every audio channel independently (so if you want to remix just one later, that is possible).
4 Final Cut Pro prefers video with no “skipped frames”. When running on Snow Leopard, iShowU HD Pro lets you specify whether or not gaps in a recording should be filled or expanded to fill the correct frame duration. This feature is activated by disabling “Variable Frame Durations”. This feature is not available under Lion.
