Archive for the ‘Tutorials & Reviews’ Category

Cropping and scaling your videos

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 [...]


Tutorial: How to create a video trailer by Matthieu Blanco

We are lucky to have a community of ScreenFlow users who love our product and like to share their tips and expertise. We count French podcaster and screencaster Matthieu Blanco as one of our most loyal and valued ScreenFlow friends- and he’s got some mad ScreenFlow skills that we can all learn from! Matthieu is [...]


Customer Gallery: Screencast Library

If you’re looking to improve your skills in anything Mac-related, be sure to check out  Screencast Library. This helpful site provides a variety of free video tutorials once a month for non-members, and weekly HD video tutorials for their members. Their tutorials range from basics, such as the recent “Mac OSX basics” video to more [...]


Quintessential ScreenFlow: Piano lessons

The next video I want to share in this series comes to us from Mario Ajero, who publishes his popular “The Piano Podcast” on YouTube. Mario’s piano podcasts are actually fairly in-depth tutorials, each of which feature a different song that he teaches his audience to play on the piano. He uses ScreenFlow to capture [...]


A demo is worth a thousand words

Have you seen our video demo on how to add text to your videos? Do you have a question about how to copy media from one project to another? We have a whole library of short, informative video demos that can help you get started with ScreenFlow, or learn something new. Do you have an [...]


Sharing knowledge

I thought I’d dedicate today’s post to sharing a few of the very nice ScreenFlow tips and tutorials that we’ve seen lately from some of our fabulous users. These are in no particular order, and if I’ve missed any recent ones, please let me know in the comments below. Thank you to all of you [...]


Where to find background music for your screencasts

When you want to use music in your screencasts, unless you create it yourself or get explicit rights from a composer, you will generally need to obtain a license to use that music. You might think that music you downloaded on iTunes for your iPod would work perfectly… but think again! When you buy a [...]