Posts Tagged ‘png’

How to add a mouse click effect to your screencasts manually

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 [...]


Quintessential ScreenFlow: Birthday party invite

Matthieu Blanco wants to encourage people to stop hiding behind technology. As he says, (in his native French,) “La force de ce que vous créez (un podcast, une peinture, une musique, ou autre chose) c’est vous. C’est l’émotion que vous allez transmettre.” [Translation: The strength of what you create (a podcast, painting, music, or anything [...]


ScreenGenius How To: Add a watermark to your videos

How to use opacity to put a “watermark”  in the corner of your video. This video takes you through the 3 easy steps of creating a watermark on your video. (Having trouble viewing this? View in a web browser)


PNG cursors and shapes for download

One of our wonderful ScreenFlow users, Michael Glasser from Prescott Computer Guy recently created some PNG cursors and shapes for ScreenFlow users. Michael posted these files for download from his site, along with a short video on how to use them, and another short video on how he made the cursors. As Michael says, “I [...]


ScreenGenius Tip: Changing your background to white

I’ve been asked by several people lately how to change the video background to white from the default black. The easiest way I know to do this is to put a white PNG graphic as the bottom layer in your timeline. You can extend this graphic in your timeline for as long as your movie [...]


Sizing images for a better ‘Flow

Since we’re on the subject of using images in ScreenFlow (see yesterday’s post “Using still images in your ScreenFlow movie“) our resident ScreenFlow support guru, Willow,  has written a follow up on sizing images for the best results. By Willow Wray Adding images to a ScreenFlow document is easy. However, you can sometimes end up [...]


Using still images in your ScreenFlow movies

Logos, thought bubbles, arrows, rectangles… there is going to come a time when you will want to add an image or icon to your screencast.  How can you do that and what are the best formats to use? How to add images In ScreenFlow 2, it’s easy to add image files to your documents. Simply [...]