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Screenium 1.2 has arrived: More features and flexibility, further improved quality and performance for A/V capture. More compatible with older Macs, yet making full use of the most recent Multicore-CPUs on recent hardware. Easier handling thanks to Screenium's enhanced, very intuitive single-window user interface.

3-2-1… Start!

… And Growing Strong

We made Screenium 1.0 available on October 1st, 2008. Frequent updates with enhancements and feature additions followed, and we're proud to have received numerous raving reviews over the past months. Screenium well established itself among other peer applications in the dominion of screen capture and screen casting, offering our customers a highly rewarding, yet ever-improving, unparalleled user experience.

Screenium 1.1 premiers a much more powerful capturing engine, with support for reliable, pristine multichannel audio and video from various internal and external sources. We also added configurable visualization for mouse actions, including display of button names. New »Status Indicators« clearly show if Screenium is still recording or if it has been conveniently paused in mid-session. By one look at Screenium's Dock icon, you're able to tell if your picture-in-picture recording is actually running fine.

The introduction of version 1.2 marks improvements to the user interface, making Screenium all the more accessible and intuitive to use. While reworking the mouse-based area selection, we added a textual input window for area size and position. Our HotText feature now allows to define the font size as well as font color, position and duration - oh, and the text overlays fade in and out smoothly. The mouse pointer visualization now features a click counter and even shows mouse wheel usage.

Should you miss any particular feature in Screenium, we're happy to receive comments and suggestions from you, our users. Whenever you wish to contact us with feedback about Screenium, simply drop us a line at

screenium@synium.de

Animate Your Screenshots

Quickly make live videos of your Mac's screen… capture everything that's happening there, including mouse pointer, selections and movements — in real-time! Since the very first release of Screenium, we support virtually any resolution your Mac is capable of: you can capture just small excerpts of your screen or even »Full HD« video and even higher resolutions.

Describe what you are doing on-screen, with on-the-fly voice recordings and iSight Picture-in-Picture. Simply use the built-in microphone or iSight. Any external audio input device and QuickTime-compatible webcam are also fully supported.

For the more creative tutorials, you can capture »Movie-in-Movie«: Screenium records your screen just like it is — including ongoing video playback, in multiple windows.

Screenium's built-in Movie Library

Whether you need to demo software, teach your class, or help your friends and family how to use a Mac — Screenium is the right tool for your screencasting needs. Our continued support for Mac OS X 10.4 »Tiger« and the very perfomance-efficient software design make Screenium ideally suited for the use in classrooms, equipped with e.g. older G4 Macs.

Multiple Languages

We set out with English and German localizations right from the start. Meanwhile, we've added more languages to the package. This is the full list of languages, Screenium is currently available in, and more localizations are due to follow soon:

Free Update From Beta Version

For all users who have purchased Screenium 1.0.x or during the Public Beta period, the update to Screenium 1.2 is free.

Video Tutorials In A Snap

Rely on Screenium, whenever you want to teach friends and family about their computers. No need for lengthy essays and tedious »Copy & Paste« with screenshots — using Screenium, you describe precisely what you are doing, including all steps, windows, mouse movements and keyboard entries.

Guide your audience through what's really important during presentations: Screenium supports you with Mouse Area and Single Window capturing modes to keep the focus on where it should be.

Vivid Presentations —
Comprehensive Product Support

Professional users appreciate Screenium for creating product demos and documentation as well as for the ease it brings to product support. Support agents can quickly and comprehensively reproduce complex workflows and visually guide their customers towards a solution.

Thanks to Screenium's high quality encoding capabilities, you receive pristine video in compact and portable movie files. So you can even deliver hi-res video clips to your customers via e-mail, Web or FTP.

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Maximum Flexibility

And you are not limited by some standard settings. For truly professional environments, as well as to perfectly run on different hardware systems, Screenium helps you to perfectly adjust your recordings' quality and compression.

This allows you to adapt quickly to varying storage space and bandwidth limitations as well as to specific workflow requirements: High quality video for DVD or ultra-portable streams for cell phones, iPod, e-mail transfer and Internet download.

Screenium is built to support a wide range of Macs. We recommend a sufficent amount of RAM and free hard disk space, yet you can use Screenium on older G4-equipped Macs too. This maximizes the value of your investment, as you do not need to upgrade your entire setup, for the occasional tutorial recording.

Desktop Movies —
For Mac, iPhone, PC … You Name It!

Playback of your movies is easy. On most computers, suitable players are already preinstalled. If needed, you can download Apple's free QuickTime software over the Internet. What's most convenient is that your movies are virtually independent of any specific computer hardware and operating system. You may even use them on the iPhone, other »Smartphones« and portable media players as well as on all video-capable iPods.

A Multitude of Video Formats

Screenium leverages Apple's QuickTime for multiple video formats and encodings as well as for high quality through and through. Easily adapt Screenium to your workflow, with completely configurable video controls for the pro and our choice of carefully predefined settings for the casual user.

Continuous High-Quality Video Capture

Ensuring reliable, high-quality results on different system configurations with varying performance specifications, is a difficult task. That's why Screenium handles capture and storage asynchronously. As a result, even the recording of several video playbacks complete with live manipulation of windows and other items on your Desktop is possible.

Screen Resolutions Without Limits

iSight Picture-in-Picture

Do you want to give your videos the »Live« touch? This is truly easy with Screenium: just one click and you activate your Mac's iSight or external QuickTime-supported Webcam. The PiP stream can be configured to suit your needs and style and then overlays the Desktop video capture. — Ah, yes, and Screenium can capture the iSight's microphone audio too!

Video features:

• Single Window, Fixed Rect and Full Screen recording
• Capture whatever resolution your Mac supports — from iPhone-size to »Full HD« and larger!
• Mouse Area (capture follows your mouse pointer)
• Optional and configurable Mouse pointer visualization (your mouse pointer will be visibly recorded — ideal for documentation and support!). With Screenium 1.1, we introduced customizable mouse effects and optional display of mouse button names. Screenium 1.2 adds visualization of the mouse wheel.
• iSight A/V capture with customizable size, position and frame
• Configurable video quality and compression settings for professional-grade results
• … or simply rely on our various predefined settings for a broad choice of recording situations

Support for External Audio Sources

Multiple audio streams can be recorded simultaneously: sound output from system and applications will be synchronized with your own voice comments and external audio recordings.

True Multi-Track Audio!

Movies created with Screenium can thus contain your voice, spoken and sound messages from Mac OS X and audio output from application programs. You can even add background music and a realistic soundscape to your presentations, using external audio equipment from a professional studio to achieve technically perfect results. These audio tracks are stored in separately in the movie file.

Screenium´s new audio level meter

Audio features:

• true multi-track audio recording
• capture system audio and application sound output
• use your built-in or attached microphone, iSight or QuickTime-compatible webcam
• external USB and Firewire audio devices are supported
• New in Screenium 1.2: Audio input level meter gives you control over your level settings.
• configurable audio quality and compression settings for professional grade results
• … or simply rely on our various predefined settings for a broad choice of recording situations

HotText — Captions At Your Fingertips

Give your screencasts the true professional touch. With contextual captions you can illustrate your tutorials and emphasize your spoken word. HotTexts are quickly defined, and with customizable keystrokes are on-the-fly applied to your recording during runtime.

Comprehensible Video Tutorials For Everyone

HotTexts make it much easier to follow your spoken word and demonstration on screen, especially when it comes to user-computer interaction: where and when to click with the mouse, which dialogue to acknowledge, what button to press… For novice users and the hearing-impaired alike, HotTexts are a perfect way to illustrate and guide through your tutorials.

• adjustable hotkey and appearance for each HotText caption
• separately adjustable caption size, font type, color, duration and on-screen postion
• interactive configuration with preview
• easy and intuitive activation
• New in Screenium 1.2: captions fade in and out smoothly

Additional Features and Concepts

• clean and uncluttered user interface
• intuitive handling and fully keyboard-controllable
• optional time-delayed and time-limited recording (configurable)
• asynchronous capturing for enhanced recording quality
• Screenium's »Library« gives you direct movie access — ideal for reviewing and postprocessing
• NEW (v. 1.1): optimized export option for videos compatible with YouTube and Apple's iPhone or iPod touch
• comprehensive export function to integrate with external video applications, such as but not limited to Apple's iLife suite (iMovie…)

Clean Design — Compact User Interface

Feedback Always Welcome!

Should you have any questions or comments or even feature requests regarding Screenium, feel free to send us an e-mail:

screenium@synium.de

You will also find help in either the User Guide, accessible from Screenium's »Help« menu, or by visiting our Screenium Support Forum.

Thank you for your interest in Screenium!

Version 1.3 (2/3/2010)

• Vastly improved recording of system audio
• Further speed and stability improvements

Minimum System Requirements: