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 [...]

Any tip that improves efficiency is a worthy tip in my opinion. Here’s a quick one: use the “[" and "]” keys to nudge your clips left or right on your timeline. This  makes it easy to slightly adjust the placement of a clip in time, without having to click and drag it to an [...]

“Snap to guides”, or “Snapping” is a useful feature when you’re trying to align or position items in your Preview Window or on your Timeline. When Snapping is on, the mouse will snap to various guidelines. For example, in the Preview Area, the mouse will snap your objects to the center and edges of your [...]

Just a quick tip for resizing your timeline. As you may know, you can increase and decrease the size of your timeline by grabbing and dragging from just above the time-counter bar. But here’s an efficient tip: If you double click where you grab the timeline to change the size, it will reset back to [...]

A picture-in-picture presentation can be a very effective way of presenting both a computer screen with your own commentary — adding a human touch to an otherwise tech-heavy presentation. It may seem like an advanced technique, but creating a  picture-in-picture presentation is really quite easy. All you need to do is take two separate video [...]

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, we have [...]

If you’ve ever created a long screencast, you’ll immediately understand the benefits of using Markers. But even if your longest screencasts are less than a few minutes, you too can experience the joy of Markers also – don’t fret! Markers are essentially “bookmarks” that allow you to define a point in your timeline, and can [...]