Screen Mimic 2.1.0 has been released!

One of the new features that I am really excited about is the ability to pause and resume recording.

While you are recording, you press the pause hot key (Command-Shift-U by default, configurable in preferences), the selection window then changes from red to green to indicate that the recording is paused. You can then do whatever you want and press the pause hot key again to resume. You don’t realize how useful this is until you start using it.

When the final movie is created, the different segments are blended together using whichever transition type that you specify in the save dialogue. Right now you can choose from cross-dissolve, page curl, flash, and none.

Another big change is that all of the Flash Video files now have the proper duration, height, and width metadata inserted so that flash video players (like Jeroen Wijering’s excellent player) can set the progress bar properly, as well as handle proportional scaling correctly.

Finally, this release comes as we simultaneously rolled out our new website (featuring flash videos highlighting all of our new features), and our new online store. Now, instead of users going to a 3rd party site for payment processing, we handle everything our selves. This not only saves us money, but also provides our users with a more seamless experience, (not to mention protecting them from extraneous fees that some payment processors have recently decided to charge).

You can download the new version from: http://www.polarian.com/products/ScreenMimic.php