Is there a way to make screencasts using apple s/w?

Does anyone have experience with making screencasts and if so what would you recommend as the best tools (probably defined as flexible and easy to use).
It appears there is an apple podcast creator,which does screen capture in video, but that only works with apple server as far as I can tell. So it doesn't appear to be a good candidate for individuals and single computers.
Reports seem to suggest that "screenflow" is the best tool to use for capture and editing.
My applications would be mostly of an education type, explaining concepts etc. Most of the presentations would be onscreen, although there might be some people views.
For on screen views I anticipate using "keynote" to illustrate concepts.
I have no experience in this subject and would appreciate any references to tutorials.
Finally if this not the best place to post this are they any suggestions on a more appropriate forum.
Thanks

{quote:title=Richard Bullen wrote:} I should have been clearer in my post, my goal is not to produce a webinar type of product but rather create educational material that I can embed in blogs and websites.{quote}
Sorry about the misunderstanding. I agree now that iMovie might be a very handy tool for throwing all sorts of different things together to produce your output. Anything that can export a Quicktime movie or a photo can probably be a source for your iMovie project, from which you will have many options for output size and quality.
On the other hand, Powerpoint or Keynote is also useful and allows tying your content to an underlying outline. Either can output a presentation as a movie. If I was just throwing together slides and clips. I think I'd lean more towards a presentation tool like Keynote over iMovie. I'd only choose iMovie if my content was "movie heavy", where I would want the more specific movie editing tools available in iMovie.

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