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 [...]

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 [...]

We’re in the middle of revamping our ScreenFlow studio here at Telestream headquarters. So when the opportunity came up a few weeks ago to record an interview with Grant Crowell, I had to scramble to pull together some lighting, microphones and computers to make it work. Luckily, everything turned out OK.  But one unfortunate consequence [...]

I recently had a customer ask me:  How can I add mouse click effects to a screen recording that I made with  ::gasp!:: a screen recorder other than ScreenFlow? (The gasp was mine, not the customer’s.) One of the unique features of ScreenFlow is the ability to automatically add an effect — such as a [...]

I was recently introduced to Mark Burgess through his brother Craig, who works here at Telestream. Mark is doing some really interesting video work, and even more interestingly — he’s doing all his editing using ScreenFlow. After watching one of his recent interview videos, I asked Mark if he would write up some tips for [...]

Our friend Marty (@turtleknife) posted a fabulous ScreenFlow  yesterday on how to create your own unique transitions, where he shows us, step-by-step, how to create your own customized transition. This got me thinking about the importance of transitions, and how we can use them to enhance our ScreenFlows. Most ScreenFlows, after all, are ‘stories’. Whether [...]