Thanks for the information, Dan. We're going to continue making more feature spotlight and tutorial videos, so having something with good caption editing will be important. I think I'll try the trial of Screenflow as that has closed captioning support.
Matthew,
One other consideration - mobile device support for your content. One general goal I have is to create content that is available to the target audience across all their platforms including mobile devices. I don't want to spend the time and money dealing with workarounds to make my content available to all of my target audience. A key limitation of iPhone and iPad is lack of Flash support. (Since the vast majority of my web browsing and reading is on my iPad, iOS device support is on my radar screen.)
The screencasting software field is becoming much more robust, but some still have limited support for some user platforms. For example, ActivePresenter can export to a large number of formats, but they focused on Flash in the past. That's a negative. That said, they are working on HTML5 support for an upcoming release. So it looks like a short term negative. But I'm glad I dug deeper.
Suggestion: Check out user platform support carefully. When I looked past the marketing verbiage and dug deeper, I found the ActivePresenter limitations. Now that I know these limitations and how long they will be limitations, I think I can work around them. I.e. I'm probably OK with them since it's still looks like the best option for my needs. OTOH, if I found out about the limitations after I shelled out several hundred dollars, I would be seriously PO'd.
Good luck and I look forward to more of your videos.
Best regards,
Dan.
p.s. While writing this, I looked at ScreenFlow out of curiosity. It looks like ScreenFlow can directly publish to YouTube or Vimeo. That's a nice feature that ActivePresenter does not have (I just looked). You can publish to these services with AP, but it's more hassle. Kind of proves my point about digging deeper.
