Am I in the minority for thinking ScreenStudio is actually worth the money?
The recent video I did for Cling for example (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) I’ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the right amount of motion and highlighting. I did it in a few minutes of editing in the ScreenStudio UI.
I’m not saying it’s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that’s what matters. It would have taken me days to do the same with DaVinci Resolve because of my inexperience with complex editors.
A $30/month subscription is indeed too much, but I see it as a one time payment for that month when I release something, then I pause the subscription. I need it rarely, very few videos need zooming and motion.
Anyway I love to see alternatives like OpenScreen! What I would miss the most would be presets, not sure if it’s already there, but it’s a nice quality of life feature to have a consistent look to the motion effects between videos.
Smart choice using PixiJS for the rendering pipeline — WebGL gives you hardware-accelerated compositing for the zoom/pan effects without needing to shell out to ffmpeg for every preview frame. The auto-zoom feature alone makes this worth it for anyone doing quick product demos where you'd otherwise spend 20 minutes keyframing in a full NLE. Would love to see cursor click highlighting land at some point, that's the one Screen Studio feature I actually miss.
Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.
Suggest you add preferences dropdown to floating bar, and ability to highlight parts of an area for record, ability to set the default save location or change it at will. Also noted that though I closed the app via the customary way, and removed the AppImage, the apps ICON remained present in GNOME's notification area.
Will keep an eye on its progress since OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates :)
I've been using this for the past month or so and have had nothing but positive experience. It's easy to use and works well. I wish the zoom was a slider instead of preset options, that way I could get finer control. Easily one of the best apps I found recently along with Handy.computer.
For non AI era, putting efforts to make software like Screen Studio and charge $30 per month might have made sense. But with AI, burning credits for Open source will become a trend. Hail oss..
I see that this is for MacOS. Isn't there a stock feature for screen recording, like on the iPhone, or on Windows (snipping tool can do screen recordings since Windows 10 or 11)?
Thanks to open source and AI, we don't need every software to be a subscription or an enshittified SaaS.
Screen Studio at $29/mo is unusually and extremely expensive for a video recorder app, and not counting the fact that it is proprietary, which means they can change pricing at any time.
"OpenScreen is your free, open-source alternative to Screen Studio (sort of)."
If you rip something off, at least have the decency to not compare your product to it. I mean, why is it good to have zero revenue and at the same time killing revenue for something else, that existed for a long time?
What's wrong with people, why are they biting their own hand? FOSS is a trojan horse and look, how many borderline idiotic manchildren kill their livelihood and offer their arz on a platter and at the same time killing revenue streams for others. And for what? So someone could expropriate it in an instant???
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The recent video I did for Cling for example (https://lowtechguys.com/cling) I’ve had many people ask about how I did it because it has just the right amount of motion and highlighting. I did it in a few minutes of editing in the ScreenStudio UI.
I’m not saying it’s a great video, but people say it conveys the info well enough and that’s what matters. It would have taken me days to do the same with DaVinci Resolve because of my inexperience with complex editors.
A $30/month subscription is indeed too much, but I see it as a one time payment for that month when I release something, then I pause the subscription. I need it rarely, very few videos need zooming and motion.
Anyway I love to see alternatives like OpenScreen! What I would miss the most would be presets, not sure if it’s already there, but it’s a nice quality of life feature to have a consistent look to the motion effects between videos.
Thought it came out pretty good
I just tried Open Screen but it didn't work on my machine (Cachy OS) - it didn't detect the screen or my microphone. Hopefully it gets better
Just tried the AppImage version on Linux, simple to use, and works Ok on my end.
Suggest you add preferences dropdown to floating bar, and ability to highlight parts of an area for record, ability to set the default save location or change it at will. Also noted that though I closed the app via the customary way, and removed the AppImage, the apps ICON remained present in GNOME's notification area.
Will keep an eye on its progress since OBS (what I used) seems to have stopped receiving updates :)
Since it's much easier to port source code to other languages now, I'd love to see more projects like written in Swift, or C#.
Btw, it seems that "How trimming works" screen has some missing translations.
Screen Studio at $29/mo is unusually and extremely expensive for a video recorder app, and not counting the fact that it is proprietary, which means they can change pricing at any time.
Thanks for building this.
If you rip something off, at least have the decency to not compare your product to it. I mean, why is it good to have zero revenue and at the same time killing revenue for something else, that existed for a long time?
What's wrong with people, why are they biting their own hand? FOSS is a trojan horse and look, how many borderline idiotic manchildren kill their livelihood and offer their arz on a platter and at the same time killing revenue streams for others. And for what? So someone could expropriate it in an instant???
I mean what on earth is wrong with people???