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’ [...]

There is a lot of planning and thought that goes into a creating screencast. Determining your ideal screen resolution is an important factor to consider before you start your recording. Here’s a quick overview of what it is and why it matters. First things first: What is screen resolution? Screen resolution is a measure of [...]

Have you ever clicked to watch an online video and waited… and waited… and WAITED until it finally loaded and started playing? If you’re making video, you can avoid this outcome for your viewers by clicking one little box during export. In ScreenFlow the option is called “Prepare for Internet Streaming“  and you can find [...]

Andy Beach is a digital media professional whose knowledge of video post-production, compression and interactive design has attracted clients such as: Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Apple, and Adobe. Andy has a book and a website devoted to Real World Video Compression, and he has done several webinars on video compression recently. This is the second [...]

Andy Beach is a digital media professional whose knowledge of video post-production, compression and interactive design has attracted clients such as: Microsoft, Major League Baseball, Apple, and Adobe. Andy has a book and a website devoted to Real World Video Compression, and he has done several webinars on video compression recently. I thought it would [...]

Someone recently asked, “What are the best export settings to use for uploading HD video to Vimeo?” Well, being the inquisitive person that I am, I decided to do some investigating. My first efforts took me to a set of great tutorials on the Vimeo forum: Vimeo HD exporting from many editors. This page has [...]

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. [...]