ScreenFlow 2.0: The Best Screen Recorder Gets Better
Ever since ScreenFlow came out there just hasn’t been a better application for making screencasts. ScreenFlow allows you to quickly create high quality screencasts. Just recently, Telestream updated ScreenFlow to version 2.0. If you want to check out our video review of ScreenFlow 1.0, look at Michael Mistretta’s great post here. In this article I’ll be covering most of the new features in version 2.0.
ScreenFlow 2 adds some great features to let you create sleek screencasts. There are now new transitions to flow between different clips. If you drag two clips together a transition will automatically be placed in between. You can change the type of transition by double-clicking the transition area. You can also drag new clips in from another screen recording and you can speed up or slow down clips.
This update adds a lot of features to help you edit the audio in your clips. First off, you can detach the audio from the video clip, and even copy it to a different video. You can also have ScreenFlow automatically fade out the background audio when you have a voiceover player, and fade back in after it is over. They have added live audio scrubbing too, so you can quickly scan through to get the the section in the audio that you want.
ScreenFlow 2.0 also added a few other useful features. You can now export your video to YouTube, right out of the application. And Telestream added a feature that lets you pause the recording, and then resume it later. Finally, they added a few keyboard shortcuts, improved performance, and added Snow Leopard support.
This is a great update to a great application. It is a little pricey, $99 for a new license or $29 for an upgrade, but I think that anyone interested in screencasting should try out the demo. If you just need a cheap simple application to record your screen, you might want to try another alternative. You can download the trial and buy ScreenFlow at Telestream’s website.
Hi!
Is it possible to separetely make an audiorecording in another software and then import it to screenflow? And/Or is it possible to edit the audiotrack from Screenflow in another editor and then move it back?
/regards David S, sweden
Interesting, but have you tried out TechSmith’s Camtasia’s screen recording utility, as well? Otherwise, how can you purport that it’s the best thing out there? (“Ever since ScreenFlow came out there just hasn’t been a better application for making screencasts.”) Does ScreenFlow offer an easy to use storage/streaming service, the way that TechSmith does? Their Camtasia (one of your site’s sponsors) enables you to upload / stream your creations for free (2 GB storage/2GB streaming / mo.). Also, what about mpeg 4 support?
I just think it’s ironic that you have all these ads for Camtasia for the Mac, and haven’t even mentioned it in your review.
Just sayin’…
I feel that overall, Macapper has missed the opportunity to be the one site for app-to-app comparisons and reviews.
There should be a screencasting app CAGE MATCH, and you should review all of them against each other, figuring out the pros and cons for each. That’s something that’s missing from MacWorld and MacLife, where they usually focus on one product per review.
That’s fine, but if I’m looking to buy, reading a review of one product isn’t doing due diligence, you know? Is there another site that has more regular app-against-app comparisons/reviews? Making the rounds of every applicable MacUpdate or VersionTracker page gets tedious after a few YEARS.
You people have the lamest apps!
I’ve used both Camptasia and ScreenFlow, and I must agree that ScreenFlow 2.0 is the best screencast software on the Mac. I used the Windows version of Camptasia and this Mac version is not even a shadow of the PC counterpart. For those of us who still miss the iMovie ‘06 inline editing, ScreenFlow becomes very intuitive. The 2.0 version brings very welcomed features (already mentioned in the review) that will make your screencasting products more appealing to your audiences.
I’m only familiar with Camptasia, I should try ScreenFlow soon.
This app is very good when it comes to screen records. The quality of the videos are excellent and you can easily separate sound recording from the video ones.
In the Mac community, just a few apps are able to compete with ScreenFlow (SnagIt, in beta mode, but doesn’t come with the video capture), Jing (not so easy to record and edit) or BoinxTv (maybe the best competitor in this category).
–OGenius–
“Jing (not so easy to record and edit)”
Really? I don’t know if I’ve found a more intuitive GUI on any screen capture app. Of course, I’ve never used a screen capture tool to edit (always PShop for that), but for simple capture, Jing is seriously great (including the auto-upload feature to your online folder(s). I’ll have to take a look at Screenflow, but unless it comes w/ free/easy storage space built right into the app, that’s a drawback IMO. Of course, no one had addressed the integration issue on this thread (other than me) for some reason.
(NOTE: integration with other cool/needed capabilities is also why the Google phone isn’t an iPhone killer, but I digress….)