iShowU and Stomp are made by the guys at Shinywhitebox. iShowU has to be the best know of all their apps, incase you don’t know it, it does screen capture. Over the next few weeks you will find that I am going to be doing a couple of review on screen capture software as i am working on doing more video and especially screen capture. Stomp is there video encoding software and you can buy the two as a pair for a lower price than individually.

I will start off with iShowU there are not amazing feature nothing to mention that any other screen capture software can’t do, but that is exactly what makes it great, it so simple. The only down side is that some of their presets are not what you expect, so don’t go off and recoding a 15 minute video with out testing your settings. I went and made my own present for screen capture, so I know what I am getting. It is extremely simple to use and configure, you can start recording in a matter of seconds and the rendering of the video takes no time at all. It is better than SnapzPro for video because it is so much simpler to use.

The neat thing about these two products is they work together; you can send your video from iShowU into Stomp, so if you have a podcast you can put it into different formats such as for iPod Apple TV ect.. Stomp has a great deal of presets which work great inlike the iShowU ones. Stomp also allows you to crop your video and add some basic effects such as Sepia if you want. Stomp is so easy to use. Again it has not thrills but thats what makes these pieces of software great they are simple and quick to use, no messing around just click and you are done.