Iris is free to use as much as you like. An in-app purchase is required to remove the “Recorded with Iris” watermark and the outro from new recordings. Read More
There are some Macs that do not support hardware accelerated h.264 encoding. For the best possible frame rate try using “Encode Later”. Then bring up the History where you can save the encode the recording as an h.264 or Apple ProRes movie.
Beta 13 was sent out to testers today. With some luck it will be the last beta build and we can send out a GM build soon and shortly after that submit it to the Mac App Store.
It’s been a long road. As usual, the the last 10% takes 90% of the effort. Hopefully we’re 99.9% complete and only the final touches remain.
We set out to create a new high performance screen recorder with a UI that makes sense. I think we’ve accomplished that. Here are some highlights of what sets Iris apart.
– Simple UI.
– Records directly to h.264.
– Can record your Mac’s audio, even targeting specific applications.
– The best color management available.
– Time lapse recording.
– Timers for starting/stopping a recording.
– Presets for saving/loading commonly used settings.
– Powerful auto-naming and Finder tagging.
Purchasing Iris
Early on we made the decision that Iris should be useful even without purchasing it. Our goal was to design a product that you’ll purchase because you want to, not because you have to. With that in mind we designed a tasteful watermark that is placed on recordings and a nice outro.
We plan on offering Iris exclusively through the Mac App Store. Iris will be free to try. An in app purchase will remove the watermark and outro from new recordings.
Before In App Purchase
After In App Purchase
Even though we’re nearing the end of Iris 1.0 development we still appreciate any feedback. Also, you can still join the Iris beta at MacDeveveloper.net for early access to Iris.
Sound Siphon doesn’t have a built-in EQ (yet), but you can use Sound Siphon along with another application to apply EQ to all of your computer’s audio. Read More
We’ve been hard at work on Iris for a while now. As development of 1.0 nears the end we’ve started working on demo videos and marketing materials as well. Here is a quick demo of Iris.
The Iris beta has been in full swing for about 2.5 months now. The core of the program has firmed up a lot, stability and performance are up, and many enhancements have been implemented to make Iris not only powerful, but a joy to use.
Changes since last progress update.
Recordings to native Iris format now use delta frames to save on disk space
Encoding and decoding native format are now massively parallel to take advantage of more CPU cores
Decoding native format is now 25% faster
Cursor can now be enabled/disabled during recording
Mute button can now optionally function like a cough button
Talking head now has additional appearance options: border thickness, border color, corner radius
Can now record and export to h.264, Apple ProRes and JPEG
Audio can now be recorded as mixed, discrete channels, or separate tracks
Added window and freeform selection
Added settings presets
Other bug fixes and improvements
Notably, the Iris recording UI was overhauled. It looks nicer and the item grouping makes more sense.
We’re looking forward to releasing Iris. There a few things to wrap up before we can ship it.