24 Hours of Leopard: iChat Recording

Feature: iChat Recording

How it works: Pretty much like anything else with a Record button -- you're on an audio or video iChat, you press that big red button, iChat thoughtfully notifies your participants that they're being recorded, and off you go. Audio gets saved as AAC and video as MPEG-4 (perfect for iPod/iPhone usage, perhaps a bit less perfect for sharing online) when you're done with the conversation. For presentation use, especially when combined with screen sharing and Quick Look, this instantly creates a no-frills alternative to recordable conferencing tools like Adobe Connect, GoToMeeting and WebEx -- at least for small meetings where everyone has a Mac.

Who will use it: iChat collaborators, podcasters, conference callers, and grandparents/grandchildren -- but only those with hearty hardware, as I'd expect iChat video recording to chew up quite a bit of horsepower. For those not quite ready to make the move to Leopard, ecamm's excellent and inexpensive Call Recorder 2 offers similar functionality.

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paulryan21

Do you know whether it records the two sides of the Ichat conference on different audio channels.
Would be much easier for editing and balancing levels if it did??
Any ideas??

November 05 2007 at 9:39 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

sjk

Thanks for posting that auto-accept script screenshot link, Alex. That's won't replace Chax for me in 10'5's iChat since it's not a feature I use. But maybe the new capability to run AppleScripts with events in iChat provides a general hook for Growl notifications that I currently rely on Chax for with 10.4's iChat .

October 29 2007 at 5:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

Another pretty neat feature in iChat 3, which finally replaces Chax for good for me, is auto accept:
http://www.lypanov.net/Web/Blog/Entries/2007/10/28_Auto_accept_in_iChat.html

October 28 2007 at 11:32 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Alex

Dashcode is on the Leopard install disk together with XCode 3 etc.

October 28 2007 at 11:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Plugtwo

The post doesn't mention: The new recording feature requires Leopard on both ends of the call. Ecamm's Conference Recorder will still be needed if your chat partner is a Tiger user or Windows AIM user.

October 26 2007 at 10:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rcl

sorry, didnt see the part about dashcode/xcode separately...sorry

October 26 2007 at 5:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rcl

#7, iChat is just a client that allows you to use multiple Instant Message services, including AIM.
#6, yeah maybe he was referring to #1...and WTF? no Dashcode blows! Seriously does anyone know why? Or maybe its coming later? I dont know but I was so excited for it and now it is not there. And it is on the feature list! Just to tease us

October 26 2007 at 4:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gabe

Now does this work with AIM clients as well? Or just fellow Mac/iChat users?

October 26 2007 at 4:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Macroy

#4: Maybe he was referring to post #1? Just a thought. (Not that I'm calling post #1 an idiot! This is why I use "#x:" to address people on here!)

Anyway, no Dashcode? Nooooooo!

October 26 2007 at 4:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sean Patrick O\'Brien

Rafe: That's just the format each stream is encoded as. Both streams are included in he same file, which you can open with Quicktime.
rhett: Dashcode is actually part of the Xcode tools. It can be installed from the Leopard Retail DVD separately.

General Note: This article is about the Leopard version of iChat, but that looks like the Tiger version of the iChat icon :P. The Leopard version doesn't have the thick blue border at the bottom.

October 26 2007 at 4:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply