You can certainly insert titles, but they’re very basic. Then there occasions when you wish the program did just a bit more so that you didn’t have to leave it. ScreenFlow’s titling, for example, isn’t as slick as iMovie’s. Why not skip the copy step and simply allow me to create a preset from scratch? You must choose the Export command, click the Manage button, copy an existing preset, and then edit and save that preset. It’s something you get used to, but it’s a lot of steps for something that should be easier.Ĭreating export presets can be tedious as well. But no-instead I have to select the Media tab in the browser, click the Add Recording button, choose what I want to record (the screen, video, external audio, and/or computer audio), click Record, make my recording, locate the finished recording in the browser, drag it to the timeline, and then edit it. It seems logical that I’d place the playhead in the position where I want to record that bit and initiate the recording, and then the snippet would appear in the timeline, ready for me to edit. For instance, I might wish to add a bit of audio to my video after the fact. Then there are those operations that seem to take more steps than necessary. Other times I’ll hover my cursor over a video clip expecting to see the tools menu icon, where I can choose to add a transition, but it doesn’t always appear. The only way I’ve been able to correct the problem consistently is to save and close the project and then reopen it. I often use this preview for navigation, particularly when producing a screencast that has a long static image, which provides no clues about where I am in the project. After extolling its virtues, though, we’ll also agree that it can be quirky.įor example, when I’ve made cuts and moved clips around, the waveform preview in audio tracks can get confused-showing audio where there is none, or vice versa. And we’ll all report that it offers a fast way to put together great-looking videos. I’ve been using ScreenFlow for video projects for the better part of two years, as have many of my colleagues. With version 4, Telestream moves beyond basic capture, edit, and annotation features to make multiclip projects easier to edit as well as to provide tools for enhancing (or, at least, altering) the look of your clips. Not only can you split and trim audio and video, but you can also scale portions of clips (for zooming in on important parts of the screen), add reflection, add transitions to the beginning of clips and between them, adjust a clip’s speed, adjust color controls, add video filters, duck audio, add audio effects and filters, enlarge the cursor, show keystrokes, add callouts, annotate videos (with lines, arrows, and shapes), add titles and overlaid text, and record and import additional bits of audio and video. Audio, video, and screen-capture clips appear in a timeline at the bottom of the ScreenFlow window (if you record both audio and video from a camera, the two tracks will appear in a single clip, though you can extract the audio portion to a new track). Then, rather than having to import the results of your capture to a video-editing application, you can do much of your major editing directly within ScreenFlow. The program offers export templates, but you can export in any format that QuickTime supports, including H.264, MPEG-4, and Apple ProRes (if you have the ProRes plug-ins installed). At this point you put ScreenFlow’s editing tools to use in a timeline interface and, when you’re done, you export the edited video in one of a variety of formats. The ScreenFlow editor pops up immediately (no rendering needed at this stage), complete with your recording. When you’re finished, stop the recording with a hotkey or menu command. ScreenFlow then captures the Mac’s entire screen. (If you have multiple displays connected to your Mac, you can choose from which one to capture video.) Setting up your ScreenFlow recordingĬlick the Record button, and you see a countdown, which allows you time to clear your throat and organize your thoughts for the upcoming recording. Regardless of how you configure these settings, ScreenFlow will record the action on your Mac’s display. Your options include choosing whether to record live video through a camera built into your Mac or a compatible external camera, selecting an audio input (a Mac’s built-in microphone or an external microphone or audio interface), and deciding whether to record audio your computer produces.
First you launch ScreenFlow and configure your recording.
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