One of the things I love about ScreenFlow is how powerful and quick it can be to create a great-looking screencasts. As you get more proficient with the interface, you’ll start learning how much keyboard shortcuts can dramatically speed up your workflow. These are a few of the handy shortcuts I find myself using all [...]
Someone recently asked an interesting question on the forum: What’s the best practice for dealing with a sloppy mouse cursor on a screencast? I have a terribly annoying habit of jiggling the mouse cursor on screen in a subconscious attempt to emphasize what I’m talking about. Luckily, in ScreenFlow, I have several options for dealing [...]
In your ScreenFlow screencast, you want your page curl transition to curl from the right side instead of the left side? No problem. Now you can do that!
One of the things I do here at Telestream is send out our email marketing. We use a program called Communigator. Although Communigator is a web-based interface, it ONLY works when accessing it through Internet Explorer. So, when I decided to ScreenFlow some internal training videos about how to use Communigator, I realized I was [...]
Throughout the years, we’ve had quite a few great basic audio tips posts. Many people say that without great audio, you can’t have a great video. But, being visual, I contend that the video picture is just as important as audio. And what’s the one most important element to making a great video picture? Lighting! [...]
One of the nice time savers in ScreenFlow is the ability to publish directly to YouTube or Vimeo from the timeline. This takes the guesswork out of trying to decide what formats, data rate, size and frame rate you should use for optimal quality. I’ve often been asked what settings are used ‘behind the scenes’ [...]
A few people have contacted me recently with questions about cropping. So, here’s a brief primer on all the different ways to crop and scale within ScreenFlow. Cropping: ScreenFlow provides for two different types of cropping: Canvas cropping and image cropping. Canvas cropping is used to change the resolution or aspect ratio of your workspace and your [...]
