Screen Capture and Video

Since I had a fair amount of previous experience with using iMovie to create video, I decided to try screen capture for my LMS site to add some instructional material.  It turned out to be an all day activity!  I used two different tools to try them out, the first was Screentoaster a completely web based tool that comes with a free trial period.  It worked well and was easy to use, but the file upload took almost an hour, and then I lost the original .mov file in the process of the upload (somehow?) so I couldn’t add titles or anything else to the screencast.  Because the save and upload took so long, I decided to go and look for another tool, this time I chose Jing which is also free, but requries a downloaded program on your computer.  Jing was also very easy to use, but only allows file save in a .swf  format which is not supported by iMovie either, so I am still without a title page.  I imagine that if I dug around enough I could either find another tool, or a converter of some kind, but I’m drawing the line at 8 hours on one 2 minute movie.  Here is a link to the first video on [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGeZn44HbdU[/youtube], and the second one usingaudacity.