ScreenFlow 2.0

Written by C Ford | 22 August 2009
Posted in Articles

ScreenFlow screencasting software allows you to capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. ScreenFlow has sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is a High Quality High Definition movie file, ready for publishing to your website or blog.

New Features in ScreenFlow 2.0 screencasting software

• Transitions – Support added for 2D and 3D video transitions across your clips in the timeline, transitions are created automatically.
• YouTube export – Direct export to YouTube from within ScreenFlow 2.0, simply select Publish to YouTube from the menu.
• Adjust the speed of your clip or freeze a single frame – ScreenFlow Version 2.0 adds the ability to individually adjust the speed of your clips.
• Pause Screen Recordings – ScreenFlow Version 2.0 adds unlimited pausing & resuming during the recording process.
• Advanced Audio Edits – In a single click, attach or detach the audio from the video in the timeline.
• Audio Ducking –  With this feature, the background music level is automatically faded-out when a voiceover is playing.
• Drag & Drop – Drag and position content from your media list or from one open document to another.
• Document Packages – Version 2.0 now gathers all the media used in your screencast into a document package when you save.
• Action Curves – Get finer-grain control over the look of your actions with the setting of the interpolation used for your clip's actions.
• Productivity – New keyboard shortcuts for resizing the timeline, zoom in and out, nudging clips and time overlays all make for a streamlined timeline.  More context sensitive menus, support for the multiple selection of media sources and new track-pad gestures.
• Timeline Performance – This is now significantly faster, especially when dealing with large documents with many clips and actions.
• Export Performance – Includes improved export performance of between 5% for single pass encoding and 25% for multiple pass H.264 encoding.
• Export part of the time line – ScreenFlow version 2.0 allows you to choose to only export a part of the timeline and not the entire document.
• Color Correction – Ability to adjust saturation, brightness and contrast.
• Live Audio Scrubbing – Adds the ability to scrub the timeline with the audio.
• Snow Leopard support – Optimized for Apple’s latest Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6

Standard 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 keystrokes 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 front most 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.
Customizable Cursors – Customize your cursor's shape, size, opacity and use your own PNG file to personalize and brand your demo presentation.
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.
Format Support – ScreenFlow lets you share your screencast with the broadest audience to be viewed in any media player. ScreenFlow supports export to any QuickTime format, including H.264 MOV for playback in the Flash media player. It also supports direct export to Windows Media video with the Flip4Mac Windows Media component. The variety of export formats allows you to produce content for any user, regardless what media player they prefer.
Powerful titling – ScreenFlow supports titling and text objects, including multiple fonts and styles that enables you to add striking titles to your screencasts.
Picture-in-Picture – With the simultaneous recording of computer desktop and camera, and with the support for various layers, you can easily include a picture-in-picture effect in your ScreenFlow video recording. While demoing a software, or presenting slides you can have a smaller picture of the demo artist or the presenter on top of the actual demo/presentation to make the experience for the viewer even closer to a real world presentation.
Export Quality – When resizing high resolution screen content into a QuickTime or Windows Media 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.
Optimized for Mac OS X – ScreenFlow was built for Mac OS X Leopard, to make 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. ScreenFlow also supports Apple's latest OS Snow Leopard.