Spectacle is the smarter way to create and maintain high-quality videos for your SaaS product.
Unlike traditional screen recording, Spectacle captures Actions (clicks, form submissions, etc.) and arranges on a timeline to generate a video — making it easy to update, add or remove actions, and make edits at any time.
Create high-quality videos: Deliver a professional feel with 30+ voiceover options, subtitles & background music and precision editing like playback speed adjustments and zoom functionality.
Share your videos seamlessly across all platforms: Embed directly on your site, create attention-grabbing GIFs or download for offline viewing. The link and embed code will always show the latest successful recording.
Update automatically with your product: When your product changes, hit regenerate and get an updated version in just minutes. You don’t need to reshoot or start from the beginning — saving you time, money and resources.
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Spectacle's answer
Spectacle is unique to other tools because, instead of recording your screen, it captures actions (clicks, form submissions, etc.) and creates a script.
These actions are arranged individually on a timeline to generate your video. This makes it easy to update, add or remove actions, and keep your videos up-to-date.
This was designed specifically with SaaS tutorials and product demos in mind, so when your product changes, you just need to hit re-record and get an updated version. You don’t need to reshoot or start from the beginning.
ABBYY FineReader's answer:
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Spectacle's answer
Screen recordings are a great way to teach your users how to use your product and get the most out of it. But creating screen recording videos of your product can be time-consuming. And frustrating. And a pain to do.
Especially if you need to update your documentation often.
Spectacle is a smarter alternative to traditional screen recording videos.
Having the ability to generate updated videos automatically with a single click saves you both time and money.
ABBYY FineReader's answer:
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ABBYY FineReader's answer:
FineReader PDF empowers professionals to maximize efficiency in the digital workplace. Featuring ABBYY’s latest AI-based OCR technology, FineReader PDF makes it easier to digitize, retrieve, edit, protect, share, and collaborate on all kinds of documents in the same workflow. Now, information workers can focus even more on their expertise and less on administrative tasks
Spectacle's answer
This was developed out of a challenge we faced at a previous SaaS company: the constant need to keep tutorial videos current.
The recurring roadblocks we can into doing this included:
No money or resources to create something professional: Free screen recordings always looked cheap.
Spent a lot of money on a video agency: After we had the budget, we hired a fancy design agency to create explainer and tutorial videos. To be fair, the videos looked good. But it was expensive and the collaboration process was time-consuming, especially for one-off videos that weren’t timeless.
Couldn’t maintain videos and our product docs were outdated: After just one product release, these videos were no longer relevant. So despite the help from an agency, we found that we still didn’t have a maintainable or scalable strategy in place.
Spectacle is our solution to creating and maintaining SaaS tutorial and product videos without the hassle or high costs.
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