What Tool(S) How to Use to Produce iPhone App Screencasts

What tool(s) can I use to produce iPhone App Screencasts?

For my screencast here, I ran the application in the iPhone Simulator and recorded it all using ScreenFlow. I can't recommend ScreenFlow highly enough, as it really simplifies the whole process. ScreenFlow records your entire screen, but it provides excellent editing capabilities for cropping the video to the relevant 320 x 480 (or 480 x 320) section, as well as fading in and out title graphics or lettering. I also used SimFinger just to provide a good cursor, but I see that the latest release of ScreenFlow now has that capability built-in.

For a microphone, I actually used the USB one from Rock Band. It's a surprisingly good Logitech microphone that's recognized as soon as you plug it into your Mac.

I needed to do a little post-processing of the MP4 output to make sure that the video could be played natively on the iPhone. I've used both VisualHub and iMovie to produce MP4 videos with all the right settings to play on the device. Both have simple iPhone export profiles.

How to record a video of a running iOS app for promotional use?

There are two ways you can do this. If you want to run your app using the iOS Simulator, then you can use audio/video screen capture software such as http://camstudio.org/ or http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.html.

If you need to record a video of the app running on the iOS device, then that would require a slightly more complicated setup. You will need Apple TV http://www.apple.com/appletv/ and a DVR. You would connect the Apple TV to a DVR, then from the DVR you would run an output cable to a TV or monitor. The iPhone and Apple TV needs to be configured for mirroring. Afterwards, you should be able to project and see your iOS app running on the screen (over Wi-Fi) while you are recording the running iOS app on the DVR.

Capture iOS Simulator video for App Preview

Using the new release of Xcode 12.5 you can simply record the simulator screen using ⌘ + R. For details you can visit here.

Create ios app demo video

If you want to do it in simulator, Apple's quicktime player has an option to record screen activities. Try with that. In an empty background or so, start your simulator and run the quicktime player.In order to run, go to file menu and start the new screen recording option. It has an option to select only a portion of the screen. There were many other tools. Check this link. I have used Snapz Pro X to record the video of iOS apps in simulator. If you want to do it in device, try this.

To do it programmatically, try this.

In that code, change

[self.layer renderInContext:context];

[[self.layer presentatationLayer] renderInContext:context];

Is there a way I can capture my iPhone screen as a video?

Note: This answer is outdated

www.iphonevideorecorder.com. There's a free trial I think, but after that you'd need to buy it. And you need to jailbreak your iphone.

Saving video screencast of iPhone application

There seems to be two ways of capturing the content of the application while it's running:

Use the private API UIGetScreenImage() function which seems to be accepted by Apple now;
Use the following thread's captureView method to capture the image.

You'll have to capture it at many times per second (I guess 24 times should be ok for human eye persistence) then you'll have to produce the movie. Perhaps you could use the ffmpeg iphone port.

Alternatively, if you'd like to capture your application's running for a demo, your best bet would be to run your application on the simulator and use a Mac OS X screencast software to capture it. See also SimFinger which "bundle of little tricks to make a screen capture of the iPhone Simulator suck less".

Finally, perhaps the following StackOverflow thread might help you produce better screencasts.

iPad/iPod Demo and tutorial videos - What tool

There are online screencasting tools available for recording purposes and they are good. I have used http://screentoaster.com but looks like they are no more. I guess you have a couple of options

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com (online tool)
Jing: http://www.techsmith.com/jing/ (installation required)
CamStudio: http://camstudio.org/ (installation required)

What is your favorite video/screen capturing tool for the iPhone simulator?

I like SimFinger: http://blog.atebits.com/2009/03/not-your-average-iphone-screencast/

As far as screen capturing goes, Snapz Pro X is decent, but its not freeware :( Especially when the trial runs out, then it just turns into annoyware.