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recordit.co

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It's meant to be lite and fast. Hope you like it

This is very useful and nicely put together. Well done! An easy iframe embed link on the playback page would be nice (pro feature?). Also, being able to target a window using the spacebar (like the native screenshot app) would be useful, as would full screen recording (at the moment if I go to the top left of the screen with the intention of dragging the selection box over the whole screen, the menubar gets in the way). Finally, I noticed that the progress percentage goes backwards sometimes (41% ... 42% ... 43% ... 41% ... 44%)

Thanks pastylegs. Love this feedback.

%: yes, we gotta fix that

menu bar overlap: that too - thanks for pointing it out.

iframe embed: a few people asked for that. we'll definitely consider it.

please add option to output as animated gif. I will pay money

we're going to add that this coming week.

Is it possible to upload via sftp for example? Or is it only usable with your hosted service?

that's a cool idea - maybe we'll add that for the pro version - great suggestion. i know i'd prefer that myself.

There are a few free alternatives that has this feature, for example MonoSnap and Skitch (I think).

I use MonoSnap myself.

MonoSnap/Skitch - true. I use that feature from skitch all the time.

There is a great little app for Mac and Windows called LICEcap (http://www.cockos.com/licecap/) that does exactly this. It's free and works really well. I use it all the time.

That said, this project looks awesome for when you need more fidelity than a gif and instant sharing.

Quickcast which is free from app store with no account needed will do this for you.

Great focus on doing one thing and doing it well. Excellent work!

Thank you :)

Know a few of these features already been mentioned, but after trying it out...

The upload proximitor gets stuck, so it's not possible to start another recording unless you restart recordit.

The player doesn't scale it to fit on screen, unless you use full screen.

The possibility to delete what you have uploaded would be great. And possibly password protect it.

Great feedback. Thank you.

Did you come at this from the perspective of software like OBS and xSplit? Or from an alternative point of view?

my point view: i want to show somebody something that has a sequence and don't want it to take a long time. that was really it.

Why would anyone even want this? The most important part of recording is the ability to have multiple takes, which is hindered if every take is to be uploaded at the same time. All other use cases can be covered by streaming your desktop.

how do you stream your desktop?

Skype screen sharing works fine. Apparently Quicktime does too.

Use OBS http://obsproject.com/ (Open Broadcaster Software) and stream to a website like justin.tv/twitch.tv.

It's also possible to save to a file, so it's easy to do screen capture for anything else too.

Live uploading is cool. Are you sending the frames as they are being recorded & recompress on the server or do you just reserve the url upfront & upload once everything's done?

nice! I usually use Quicktime for this, but even some of my most technical friends don't realize its possible, I think this is a great idea!

Best of luck!

thanks for Quicktime tip!

glad to help! :)

Kinda bothers me that the demo video wasn't recorded using the software.

Is there any way to delete a video once I upload it?

We're adding that next week

Can you enable for iOS?

USP over Quickcast?

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