you can’t be walking around with your iPad while recording). First you need to start the video recording, and then once that is going, click the microphone button to start recording your voice.īecause X-Mirage uses your Mac’s microphone (not the microphone in your iPad) you do need to be aware of your computer’s proximity (Ie. That’s in fact the only part of this process that is anything less than child’s play – you have to click both those buttons when you start recording. To record your microphone as well, you also need to click the smaller microphone button immediately to it’s left. To start recording, click the (quite obvious) red ‘Record’ button at the right edge of the window. You will then see your iPad screen mirrored to your computer.
Tap the AirPlay button at the bottom of the Control Centre, and choose the X-Mirage option and toggle mirroring to ‘on’. With your iPad and computer connected to the same WiFi network, Launch X-Mirage on your computer, then swipe up from the bottom bezel of your iPad to bring up the Control Centre. When you are finished, the video and two audio tracks are mixed down into an MP4 video and saved to your computer. Now you can simply work on your iPad and describe what you are doing, and X-Mirage captures it all!. It allows you, via your computer’s microphone, to simultaneously record your voice. But X-Mirage does something these others don’t. In fact, both AirServer and Reflector have made this possible for some time now. It’s not even the first to provide a video recording function. X-Mirage is not the first computer application to allow video mirroring from an iOS device. Nor can you use them in combination with a content-based app to make a screencast explaining a topic. In other words you can’t use Explain Everything to make a video tutorial about how to change settings in the Settings app, or how to create an eBook in Book Creator or how to write a formula in Numbers or Excel. I’m a fan of iPad screencasting apps like Educreations, Collaaj and Explain Everything, but the limitation on all these apps is that they can only record within the app itself, due to Apple’s sandboxing policy. I’ve been waiting for someone to implement this for ages.įirst, Before we get to the details, here’s a little video I made to demonstrate how good the result is. Yesterday X-Mirage added the ability to record not only your iPad screen and audio via Airplay, but also your voice narration.
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