Apple website software demos

which program is used to record the video demo of software products ie ;-
http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/dashboard.html
also any ideas what settings are used to encode them so small..

What do you mean, encoded so small? That Dashboard demo is 40 Mbytes, encoded using the Animation codec at 30 FPS and a data rate of almost 2Mbit/sec! It's fast start, but for a less-than-3-minute presentation, it's HUGE. Granted, it's a large screen size. Also, it has an audio track, which seems kind of weird. I know I didn't hear anything when I played it (and yes, sound is working on my system).
It looks to me like Apple used whatever capture software they used, and didn't bother to do any optimization on it at all!
--Dave Althoff, Jr.

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