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 [...]

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 spent any time using ScreenFlow, you’ll be somewhat familiar with the timeline, which appears across the bottom of your ScreenFlow window. The timeline in ScreenFlow is where you place all your media clips  (video, audio and still images) to control when they start and stop, or appear in your presentation. Adding clips to [...]

Someone recently asked if it was possible to blur text  or blur out parts of the screen in ScreenFlow. This can be useful if your screen recording includes filling out a form that has sensitive information in it. There’s not a direct way of blurring out text currently in ScreenFlow. (Though I’ve seen this mentioned [...]

There are a lot of nice effects that you can import into ScreenFlow from other applications such as Adobe After Effects or iMovie. But what if you don’t know those programs? How do you create some cool effects using only ScreenFlow? Here’s an example of how to create a text effect I call “falling text” [...]

There are some pretty nifty new features in ScreenFlow 2.0. One of my favorites is  “Curve Types”. (It’s the little things, you know?) See the video demonstrating Curve Types below: (Having trouble viewing this? View in a web browser) Do you have a favorite feature? Please share! To embed a YouTube video in your comment, [...]