Screenflow Screen Capture Software for Mac

Screenflow Screen Capture Software for Mac

ScreenFlow is a new application for creating amazing screen recordings on your Mac.

Using a unique new screen capture system, powerful enough to capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer’s audio, you’ll be creating incredible screencasts in no time.  Screenflow is simply the best screen capture software for the Mac and it has two Apple design awards to it’s name.

The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

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Ways to Use Screenflow

There are two major ways in which Screenflow is generally used:

Record and then Edit Screencast
With this method, you record everything you are going to use in your screencast at the same time: the screen, and any narration (video or audio). Then use ScreenFlow to modify the look of the your recording.

For example, you might start the presentation only showing your video, full screen, then show a Picture in Picture of your video and the screencast. And perhaps later, fading out your video altogether, leaving the audio to narrate the screencast.

Record Screen, then Narrate with Vdeo or Audio
You record the screen first (or part of the screen first). Then, piece by piece, you add different recordings to narrate the screencast.

Key Features

The Best Capture: ScreenFlow has the best screen capture available. Using a custom multithreaded SSE & Altivec accelerated, 64-bit enabled compression system, ScreenFlow can handle everything from capturing DVD video & audio to fast moving Keynote presentations.

Record Everything: You don’t need to pick an area of the screen for capture, ScreenFlow has advanced algorithms that only encode areas of change on your screen. The application is powerful enough to simultaneously record from your iSight or DV camera at the same time as your screen (and your microphone and computer’s audio!).

Highlight: During your screen capture, ScreenFlow tracks where your mouse cursor is, when you click and when you press a key. This allows you to add mouse click effects (both visual and audible), an overlay showing your key strokes and even lets you zoom the mouse pointer up & down.

Edit: Once your screen capture is complete, you’re transported to the ScreenFlow editor. Using a familiar timeline interface, ScreenFlow lets you easily add zoom & pan effects, trim clips, add drop shadow & reflection, adjust audio levels etc. You can even combine existing media into your screencast.

Callout: Callouts let you highlight & focus in on the mouse or frontmost window. Want to circle the area around the mouse? What took an experienced user minutes or hours in Final Cut Pro or After Effects is now a couple of clicks away.

Motion: ScreenFlow introduces actions to the editing interface. These make it very quick & easy to modify parameters of your screencast over time. For example, adding a video action lets you put zoom & pan effects on your clips, while the audio action lets you adjust volume at different points in your screencast.

Export Quality: When resizing high resolution screen content into a QuickTime movie, ScreenFlow uses custom GPU algorithms to give your finished movie the best possible quality. You’ll find even small text suddenly becomes legible for your viewers.

Leopard Only: ScreenFlow was built for Mac OS X Leopard. It makes extensive use of the best of Mac OS X technologies: Core Animation, QuickLook, Spotlight, QTKit, Quartz Composer, OpenGL, Core Image, Automator, Core Data and many others..

Testimonials

“ScreenFlow is chock-full of tools that really expand what we’ve come to expect from screen-capture software, and makes it quite easy to make superbly sophisticated recordings of onscreen activity with minimal hassle. It’s the new best-in-class tool. “
- David Biedny, Mac|Life

“ Every once in a while we get a game changer, something that comes along that makes us rethink what we thought a certain category of products can do. ScreenFlow, for me, is that type of product.”
- Jem Schofield, Studio Monthly

“It isn’t just good: it’s eye-opening. I quite frankly had no idea that an application could look and act like this. This program has knocked my socks off - with my shoes on.”
- Matt Neuburg, TidBITS

“it’s an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink solution, with a fantastic editor, amazing effects and simultaneous recording of a video camera (or iSight), your full screen, microphone audio and computer audio without even kicking up my fans. Am I gushing? Definitely.”
- Brett Terpstra, tuaw.com

“ScreenFlow is the best screen capture utility on any platform. If I didn’t have a Mac I’d buy one just to use it!”
- Leo Laporte

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of graphics card do I need?
For Mac OS X, we require a Quartz Extreme capable graphics card. If you are unsure if your graphics card is supported, please download our evaluation versions; the application itself will notify you if it can be run. You can expect most Mac hardware made in the last five years to fully support Quartz Extreme.

Does ScreenFlow work on Mac OS X Tiger?
ScreenFlow requires many of the unique Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard features, and will not be able to run on older versions of Mac OS X (such as Tiger or Panther).

Does ScreenFlow work with Parallels or WMware?
Since ScreenFlow captures everything on your screen, both Parallels and VMware are supported (including Computer Audio output). However, ScreenFlow will not be able to capture the “Foreground Window” rectangle in a Windows environment (we do not have access to the internal windows rectangle data).

We have run ScreenFlow with Parallels in all of it’s modes (Coherence, Window, and Full Screen) without issue. In fact, using Parallels / VMware, some users have reported ScreenFlow to produce smoother output while using less CPU than native Windows screen capture applications.

Can I export Flash from ScreenFlow?
ScreenFlow cannot directly export to Flash (SWF or FLV). We recommend using Episode desktop media encoding to transcode your ScreenFlow QuickTime export into an FLV or SWF file.