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TUAW Best of 2011: Vote for the best Mac photo and video apps
The nominations are in, and the poll is ready to go! The TUAW Best of 2011 awards are all about you -- the readers -- and what you think is the cream of the crop of Apple or third-party products and software. To vote, select one entry from the top nominations made by readers. We'll be announcing the winner in just a few days. Vote early and often! Today TUAW is asking for your vote for the best Mac photo and video apps of 2011. While we received relatively few nominations in this area, there were several apps that stood out as potential winners in this category. Rather than have video and photo apps punching it out for the Best of 2011 title, I've decided to split the voting into both categories. In the video realm the new Camtasia 2 ($99.99) app pulled in the most nominations, while Apple's Final Cut Pro X ($299.99) was popular despite all the complaining when it was released earlier this year. ScreenFlow ($99.99), another screencasting app for Mac, will fight it out with Camtasia 2 for the honors. For photo apps, FX Photo Studio Pro ($39.99) grabbed the attention of readers, along with Sketcher ($14.99), Flickery ($9.99), and effect / texture app Flare ($9.99). Be sure to vote for one of each below -- one Mac photo app and one Mac video app. I'll announce the winners in a few days. %Poll-72024% %Poll-72020%
Camtasia for Mac 2 screen recorder is out
Camtasia is certainly among the most popular of the apps for producing training and demo videos. Mac versions of the popular Windows software first became available in 2009. This latest version, released today, has a boatload of new features, including custom annotations, tilt and restore animations, speed tweaks, and a complete redesign of the editor interface. Camtasia has been tremendously popular for creating screencasts and many of the new features were created at the urging of users. If you'd like to try it you can download a 30 day free trial. The software is US $99.00 for new users and an upgrade from version 1 is $49. The software requires a Mac with an Intel processor and OS X 10.6.3 or later with Quartz Extreme support.
