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Back to School: ProfCast half off today
TUAW's going Back to School! We'll be bringing you tips and reviews for students, parents and teachers right up until the bell rings in September. Read on for help for professors and instructors.
Humble Daisy is offering 50 percent off its ProfCast software, which helps educators (or anyone else who presents via PowerPoint or Keynote) record slide-based lectures as podcasts, and share them via iTunes U and iWeb.
The promotion is only available today, August 14. Academic users will receive an additional 25% off over the 50% discount. Purchasing today also allows you to upgrade to the next version for free.
The software is $30 today only (normally $60). For Academic customers, ProfCast is $15 $22.50. Volume discounts are also available.
ProfCast is a universal binary, and requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher. You can check out a 15-day demo, too.
Update: My mistake, folks: the $15 price was based on a faulty calculation I did -- commenters are reporting that the Academic price is $22.50. A thousand apologies for that.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Mike said 12:38PM on 8-14-2008
Went to the checkout, reduced price is not showing. $22.50 is still not a bad price (Academic), but if there is a discount it should be easy to find.
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Robert Palmer said 12:50PM on 8-14-2008
That's totally my fault: the press release didn't mention the regular academic price, and I did my back-of-the-napkin math as a quarter of the regular (non-academic) price. I was wrong. Sorry about that.
Thanks for letting me know.
Kwahnoom said 2:33PM on 8-14-2008
ProfCast, despite it ambition and promise, has been very buggy and problematic for the past year or so. Partly due to the application coding and partly due to Apple's updating of QuickTime, ProfCast has not been reliable in recording, saving and/or exporting files. Although my students appreciated the availability of recorded lectures with chapter markers, I have had to stop using ProfCast due to its unreliability. David Chmura of Humble Daisy promises things will improve in the next major release, however.
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QuakerProf said 10:05PM on 8-14-2008
I was excited when I first read about this program, as my university currently offers only Tegrity, a buggy, non-Mac friendly lecturecast program. However, I'm shocked that ProfCast does not appear to offer video recording of the speaker. Even Tegrity offers a split-screen recording, with the professor video on the left and the slides and screen activity (for PowerPoint, or PDF/other using -video- screen capture) on the right. ProfCast offers neither instructor video nor live screen capture (still shots only). It's just not there yet.
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