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! [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

If you’ve ever wanted to create a ScreenFlow tutorial you might have asked yourself: How do I record the little box that comes up BEFORE I start recording?? Well, that is called the “Configure Recording” screen, and it *is* possible to record yourself configuring your recording.  There are also a few handy tips surrounding this [...]

ScreenFlow is great at capturing what’s going on on-screen. But what if you want to add a video of your talking head, or stream in other video for your screencasts? What kind of camera should you use to capture your video? The easiest answer, which many of you undoubtedly know, is the built in webcam [...]

I personally can’t imagine anyone NOT wanting to show off their ScreenFlow icons… but OK, there may come a time when you might not want to draw attention to ScreenFlow in your screencast. So how do you hide the icons? There are two icons in ScreenFlow: The Application icon and the icon in the top [...]