Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability Testing/How To/Software
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Software choices for usability testing.
This list is very OS X centric- if you work on another platform please add anything you have actually used.
Contents
Capture
See this post for insights on each software package.
Proprietary
- Has a nice project organizer and the remote control bookmarking makes this killer Usability testing package. Doesn't have batch export option but using the Apple animation codec makes this relatively painless and then using your batch exporter makes this relatively painless.
- Powerful, especially with the encoder functionality.
- Snapz Pro X $70
- Very low resource usage but you must encode immediately after each test, which takes 2x-4x the original length of the test...
- Screen Flow
- Popular screen capture application. Don't remember much from the testing.
FOSS
Freeware
Converting
You can use Turbo.264 for h.264 content, but this is likely to be marginalized as we move towards OGG video and GPGPU comes on the scene.
Proprietary
- The gold standard, distributed processing, audio/video filters, multi-target output (HQ, Web Quality, + podcast in one go), a queue, etc.
- Allows for Turbo.264 use, auto import from iShowU HD
FOSS
- The über DVD converter now accepts any video input type, but still fails on .mov file! Might need to use a different container format. Has a queue! Does not have GPU or acceleration.
- Distributed encoding, beta quality, Windows Linux only.
- VLC
Freeware
Hosting
Video websites as well
FOSS
- Archive.org
- Has FTP uploading option, good for super HQ originals.
- Wikipedia
Proprietary
- Viddler
- Medium quality, has Tagging.
- Vimeo
- High quality, expensive, however. No tagging.
Freeware
Editing
Proprietary
- iMovie
- Fast and furious tagging and clip management, which is what Usability testing is! Doesn't allow for exporting of said clips as bookmarks, nor transferring those bookmarks to Viddler video.
