UPDATE: I eventually paid $69 for SnapZ Pro X, excellent, though pricey.

… Later somebody sent me a link for a $30 competitor, Voila. … Looks great.

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Original post:

I need to quickly capture video from my computer. There are still no ideal solutions, as far as I’m concerned.

• Jing FREE … 5min maximum, no audio, saves to crappy .SWF (flash) format

• Jing PRO $15 … 5min maximum, no audio

• Camtasia $99 … complicated, slow, has features I don’t need

• Screenflow $99 … getting good reviews, but I find it even more complicated than Camtasia, slow, has features I don’t need

Screenflow also seemed to bomb the Finder on my Mac. The free trial version was first to be deleted.

• SnapZ Pro X is the best I’ve tried. But it’s $69.

I wish there was an open source, free alternative.

Apple Quicktime 10 is free on the most recent version of their operating system, Snow Leopard 10.6. It provides basic video screen grabs with audio. That’s only a CAD$35 upgrade for me.

I think I’ll try that.