Snow Leopard Screen Recording Software VS. 3rd Party Software?

I want to do some screen recordings and bring them into a 720P 24n sequence in FCP. How is the quality of the screen recording built into Snow Leopard? Is there any reason to still need 3rd party programs like iShow U?
Thanks.

The quality of the Snow Leopard capture is fine, but the reason to use 3rd party programs is that Snow Leopard screen capture is very limited. You can't set the size of the capture, that's OK for a laptop but if you have a big monitor you could be capturing massive amounts of unneeded data. You can't restrict the capture to one window. You have no control at all over settings, while in a 3rd party program you can set the frame rate, the bitrate, the video and audio codecs, audio sources (one program or all, include mic), audio quality, the capture area and location, the file format, file name and save location, limit the capture time, create presets, etc. I think the frame rate of the OS X capture is also low, like 8fps, but I'm not sure about that one. You could do a short capture and analyze the clip in FCP.
A 3rd party program would, in short, let you do a capture with specs that match the FCP project you are working on.

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