Bryn Doyle — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:30:20 GMT

Karl, thank you so much for this great information. I manage a small software organization where our products are developed in Eastern Europe. Our software team is exceptional, but It has been somewhat of a challenge to manage resources remotely and get our design built exactly as we envisioned. As a result, Usability Testing has grown in to a very high priority in our organization and we were hunting for a decent tool that would help us communicate and provide user feedback to our development organization. I have been looking for a product for exactly this purpose for a while and test drove a lot of products with little success. Your website was a big help since it focused on exactly what my needs were.

After researching a number of products, we finally agreed on the Sentryworks abra product (much better than the Camtasia or BB tool). The cost was $99 for the Professional Version which included a very good and really easy to use editing tool (lacking some bells and whistles, but a total breeze to use). Using the editor (which does not come in the free version) we are able to resample recordings of users from 1280×1024 into 640×512 and immediately add notes to the recording and publish to the web in SWF. The SWF files are small and give the exact feedback we need.

P.S. The free version does allow you to record audio inline while you are recording the screen. The Paid version allows you to add/edit an audio track fully (not just while you are recording). I agree with the previous poster, this is a very good product and the best bang for the buck.

Boxes and Arrows: Comments by Bryn Doyle