What tools do you use to make a demo video?

Everything that I want to demo on my desktop, I'll just record with Quicktime on MacOS, then edit in iMovie or Final Cut Pro (pretty sure there are a lot more options on the video editing and I don't think it plays a huge role at all).

+1 for Loom

Ugh. Wish I had come across this post a couple weeks ago. I just made a demo video for Keysmith, it was a much bigger pain than I had anticipated.

I used Loom for screen recording. Best feature for me was that you can highlight mouse clicks in the video. Downside was I recorded everything at 720p, so if you put the video in full screen on a big monitor it looks kinda fuzzy :(. I'd still recommend Loom, just make sure you're recording at high quality.

I found speaking and timing all the mouse clicks and getting it all right in one take was more than I could manage, so I recorded audio separately (using QuickTime and an AKG Lyra mic).

Then I edited the audio and screen recording together with iMovie. I anti-recommend iMovie. I'm on a 2020 MacBook Pro with a 10th-gen processor and it was still super slow and often would just freeze up for ~10 seconds. (I've also got a 4k monitor plugged in though, so YMMV.)

My co-founder made the little animations at the beginning / end of the video using html / CSS and recorded that with a QuickTime screen recording. And he made the music using Garage Band.

You can see the demo video on our website, keysmith.app.

Hope that's helpful, good luck Darlene!

I use https://screencast-o-matic.com/
It has all the tools needed for screencast, editing, focusing, etc
And a great price as well.

Have you heard about kite video? I cannot post link, but it looks f*cking awesome — apple-like product demos using just one app!

I want to make something like Framer do with their product updates — could anyone suggest more tools to try there?

We acquired a couple of hundred users through a simple loom video recording of our UX.

Loom's great tbh

I use Filmora 9. I have the pro membership which removes branding. It works pretty well for my needs.

Uclusion uses TechSmith Camtasia, under Windows. It's not super easy to use but seems to be fairly powerful.

https://storycreatorapp.com/

This product has come onto my radar recently looks like it could be up your street.

I am on Windows, I use OBS Studio for longer videos and Screen2GIF for short gifs. I do the editing in DaVinci Resolve.

I'm building MockRocket.io, which helps make professional looking product videos. You can drag and drop a screen capture of your app and display it on the screen of a photorealistic 3D phone, laptop, or tablet. Then you can easily pan, zoom and rotate around to focus on different parts of the screen capture at different points–no editing experience required. If you want you can also adjust settings like lighting, depth of field, and reflections, but it's set up to look great out of the box, and is loaded with templates you can use as a starting point.

Down the road a bit you'll be able to edit a full product video in MockRocket–combine multiple shots, add music, text, etc.

I'll be opening it up for beta users in a few weeks, if you want to try it out, let me know!

I use Capto for screen recording (I get the app via Setapp which is pretty great if you have a Mac).

For audio recording, I use Audacity which feels old but works well.

For video editing, I am trying to advance my skills from iMove to something more advanced. I got DaVinci Resolve and am still going through the learning curve, but am getting the hang of it. Plus, it's free. Which seems crazy since it has a ton of features.

I recorded this video and published yesterday - https://youtu.be/kkl3X49uNoA. I still have a long way to go before getting good at this... 😂

Loom (https://www.loom.com) is really nice for this too