Author Archive

Meet the ScreenFlow-er: Dr. Frank Lowney

My next subject in the Meet the ScreenFlow-er series is Dr. Frank Lowney.
As the Senior Director for External Projects in Web Enabled Resources, as well as a Professor in the School of Education at Georgia College & State University, Frank adds an interesting angle to this series in that he’s using screencasting in novel ways [...]


Screen highlights and special effects with OmniDazzle

Occasionally I will come across a free application that offers something that might be useful for ScreenFlow users. A few weeks ago, I wrote about “Ratio” the free widget that helps calculate standard screen sizes (I use that one all the time). My most recent discovery is OmniDazzle – a free program that lets you [...]


Screencasting in Technical Support

I recently suffered through a frustrating hour of trying to unsuccessfully add a URL link to one of my blog posts in WordPress.
Let me first defend myself by saying: I’ve been using WordPress for quite a while; I’ve added dozens, if not hundreds of successful URL links. But suddenly, this particular link kept redirecting to [...]


Full-screen capture vs. partial-screen capture

There is some debate among screencasters about what’s better: full-screen capture or partial-screen capture. Full-screen capture is just that: your entire screen gets recorded, then you crop and edit in post-production. Partial-screen capture requires that you size and position a “viewport”  or recording window prior to recording, and only things in that window get recorded.  [...]


Apple H.264 vs. x264 in ScreenFlow – better exports?

If you export your ScreenFlows using the “Web” presets or the built in Apple H.264 codec, you’ll be interested to hear of a way to reduce your data rates while maintaining the quality of your H.264 movies by installing a free x264 codec.
x264Encoder is an encoding engine that produces video in the H.264/AVC standard. It [...]


When rejection and insensitivity are good things by Andy White

Andy White has been regularly producing podcasts, for clients large and small since 2006, including Internet Marketing, which is regularly in the featured list under the Management and Marketing categories in iTunes. In an effort to reach more people, Andy is now writing a book and running training sessions to teach people how to turn [...]


How to show the passage of time in your ScreenFlows

It’s a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up.  ~J.K. Rowling, “The Hungarian Horntail,” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, 2000
In our day-to-day lives, we can’t control the speed of time. But in ScreenFlow, [...]


Screen resolutions made easy – no math needed

Here’s a nifty little widget I came across recently, called Ratio, which automatically calculates screen resolutions. This is handy if you want to scale your screen resolution to a different size.
So, say you record your screencast at 1920 x 1080, but want to export it – keeping it at 16:9 – for a container that’s [...]


Come see us at MacWorld

Hey, if you’re at MacWorld, come by and visit our booth!
We are at booth #1556

Also, be sure to listen to the ScreenFlow-focused podcast interview done by Rob Griffiths from MacWorld.com featuring  our own Andy Engberson.
Have a great weekend!


Meet the ScreenFlow-ers: The Noble Samurai team

Interview with the dynamic team behind the Market Samurai screencasts
I love hearing the experiences and advice in this “Meet the ScreenFlow-er” series! My next subjects are Mr. Ben Galt and Dr. Anthony Fernando from Noble Samurai. Noble Samurai are the makers of Market Samurai, a really powerful software product which we at Telestream use to [...]