Morae: Software Testing Lab

Wowsers! TechSmith’s Morae is a cool product. It is an entire replacement for my usablity lab hardware. I don’t have to upgrade my video mixer, video cameras, etc. I can now just plugin a USB camera and microphone and record participants to a network server. WOW!!!!.

It is only US$999. Too bad it only works on Windows, but since over 97% of my users use Win2K or above (and I am pretty sure that the 3% is mostly me when I look at a combination of my http stats and network traffic stats).

This is fabulous. I need to build this into my budget!

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  • Daniel Ponech

    <p>I'll be reviewing Morae at an upcoming meeting (April 13) of the Toronto Usability Professionals' Association &lt;tupa.org&gt;. It really does kick ass. </p>

  • Daniel Ponech

    I’ll be reviewing Morae at an upcoming meeting (April 13) of the Toronto Usability Professionals’ Association . It really does kick ass.

  • Amy Haworth

    <p>I am considering a purchase…but it would be sight unseen. Are there any negatives? The price is pretty amazing…</p>

  • Brad Wiederholt

    <p>The kind folks at TechSmith shipped us our copy of Morae the day they received the packages on their end. At the moment, it exceeds my expectations. I've been able to do some sample recordings, and have even been able to stream data across a wireless network. We are running on equipment that is slightly below/above their recommendations (we run on 32Mb video cards, but have 1 Gb main memory and 1.5 Ghz machines), but so far I've not had any performance problems. We run our first set of usability tests using Morae next week…</p>

  • Amy Haworth

    I am considering a purchase…but it would be sight unseen. Are there any negatives? The price is pretty amazing…

  • Brad Wiederholt

    The kind folks at TechSmith shipped us our copy of Morae the day they received the packages on their end. At the moment, it exceeds my expectations. I’ve been able to do some sample recordings, and have even been able to stream data across a wireless network. We are running on equipment that is slightly below/above their recommendations (we run on 32Mb video cards, but have 1 Gb main memory and 1.5 Ghz machines), but so far I’ve not had any performance problems. We run our first set of usability tests using Morae next week…

  • Yoram Chisik

    <p>I had a quick look at Morae and although I like the product overall I find the lack of ability to import avi files highly annoying as Camtesia their previous product produced avi files and now one can not simply move over to Morae and use the built in editor to edit old files especially when you are trying to create a video spanning several sessions.<br />
    <br />
    The developers either think people work in a vaccum with no past to consider or they wish to maintain two income streams. The first notion is misguided the second unappealing to say the least.<br />
    <br />
    When one uses a software product one makes a commitment to it and expects some commitment from the developers, despite the promise of Morae as a software package I have sever reservations about making further investments in a product whose developers assume such attitudes. </p>

  • Yoram Chisik

    I had a quick look at Morae and although I like the product overall I find the lack of ability to import avi files highly annoying as Camtesia their previous product produced avi files and now one can not simply move over to Morae and use the built in editor to edit old files especially when you are trying to create a video spanning several sessions.

    The developers either think people work in a vaccum with no past to consider or they wish to maintain two income streams. The first notion is misguided the second unappealing to say the least.

    When one uses a software product one makes a commitment to it and expects some commitment from the developers, despite the promise of Morae as a software package I have sever reservations about making further investments in a product whose developers assume such attitudes.