Pretty Good - will be excellent after a few tweeks
Overall, this is a great piece of software that could be improved with a few tweaks. It is most certainly worth the price.
PROS:
1. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that we can move the inset camera, and easily resize it (after recording the video). Love that you can click into "adust layout" and move the camera position on the screen.
2. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE being able to include a watermark
3. The video editor is intuitive and easy to use.
4. The captions features might be useful for some users and is a nice to have.
5. Auto zoom feature works well. I love that we can scrap the zoom (or add more in) after filming, if we want to. I also like the option to add click sounds and change the look of the cursor.
OVERALL, I am very happy with this software
(I am listing quite a few cons, for the feedback of the creators. None of these cons is a deal breaker for me, other than when my little image of myself darts to a different part of my screen, and sometimes onto a different screen - meaning that it is outide of the field of recording and then is excluded from the video recorded).
CONS:
1. Can't give them feedback, without creating a new account for a new feedback software. Surely you WANT feedback. Feedback should be as EASY AS POSSIBLE. I really don't want to sign up to yet MORE software, and have yet another password to remember, when I am helping the designer improve their product.
2. Oh, no, no option just to record the presenter (talking head style). That is a big fail for someone who switches between screen review style and a talking head type video.
3. Yuck, have to choose a background (padding). No option to use your studio as a background (other than for your tiny little webcam view - would be great if this could record your studio background over the whole screen). It would be a great improvement if you could record with your studio as the background and the screen recording as the inset (rather than the screen recording being the main focus).
4. Watermark can't be set permanently, and has to be inserted each time.
5. Camera showing the presenter has to either be on or off for the hole clip. Being able to turn it off for part of the video would be a good addition to this software.
6. I set up my screen exactly as I would like to record (place my image from the webcam in the correct spot) and as soon as I select the custom recording area (which includes where my face was supposed to me), there is some odd re-set and my face now appears in a totally different spot, that I did not want it to be in (sometimes right outside of the custom record field, in which case it does not show on the recording, even though I set it up to be inside of the custom field). Sometimes my face recorded on my webcam does not show on the screen I am recording and jumps to an adjascent screen (while I am recording, and then does not show on the recording at all). Can this be fixed so that the camera showing your face just stays where the user drags it, when they are about to record?
7. Why does it ALWAYS show padding around the screen recorded? If you want to get rid of that, you have to manually crop and resize. There needs to be an auto option for the screen recording NOT to include padding. eg. if I am recording my screen and overlapping my image from my webcam, I don't want a padding background automatically added. I want the screen I recorded to be the full size of the video (assuming screen ratio matches). For me, MOST of my recordings need to be without padding. Not sure why it auto-defualts to padding and no auto option not to have padding (ie to resize the video captured to avoid the need for padding).
8. It should not default to auto opening on start up of PC
9. It should not auto play a video once it has processed it (very annoying when I am working on a different project and the earlier project starts playing and breaks my focus).
FocuSee
Jul 2, 2024Hey, really appreciate for your support and detailed feedback.
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