Screenflick is a program for Mac OS X that features high performance screen capturing for smooth, fluid motion up to 60 fps. Screenflick can record any portion of the screen, simultaneously recording audio from internal or external microphones and the system audio.
An excellent utility for software screencasters and software trainers, Screenflick offers the ability to display keyboard commands, and highlights mouse clicks to better communicate which actions are being performed during screen recording.
Unlike other solutions, Screenflick allows you to record a movie once and compress it as many times as you want at different resolutions, qualities, and with or without audio, offering you the maximum amount of flexibility when choosing which presentation options to offer to movie viewers.
Version 1.6.1:
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Refined interface: Added a giant Record/Compress toggle switch at the top left of the window. |
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Recorded movies in the sidebar can be renamed. |
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The keyboard shortcut code has been completely rewritten from scratch to be much more flexible in what is shown. |
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Keyboard shortcut viewer now has option to show one or multiple events |
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The compression pane's movie preview can now play movies that are recorded with Screenflick 1.6. |
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Added a shortcut to toggle the camera mode between fixed and follow. |
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Compression now makes "Fast Start" movies by default. This means when you start to download the movie in a web browser, it can start playing the movie while it's still downloading. |
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Added preference to optionally show window at startup, for login items. |
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Added a little background process (affectionately named audiobuddy) to restore the system audio output device if Screenflick crashes or is force quit. The system audio seemingly being broken and going silent when Screenflick crashed has been very confusing to some users, and this cures that. |
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Added a keyboard shortcut for deleting the selected movie. Delete will bring up the confirmation sheet, and Cmd-Delete will delete immediately. |
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This version is able to handle movies recorded with 1.0 and later that are moved between Intel and PPC machines. |
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There is a new video data file format which should be better at being forward compatible. |
| Optimization |
Intel machines now record using the native video format which bumps raw frame grabbing speed. |
| Optimization |
Writing video data to the hard drive when recording is now done in a semi-asynchronous fashion. Combined improvements can be as great as 20%. |
| Optimization |
Reduced the memory footprint. |
| Optimization |
There has been a lot of general code cleanup and tweaks, affecting all parts of the program. |
| Fix |
Reorganized some steps to work around a bug in QuickTime which prevents errors from being propagated. |
| Fix |
Reduced useless wait time in preparing to record system audio. |
| Fix |
Added extra error checking in audio recording. |
| Fix |
Fixed some inconsistencies with the video codec settings when selecting a different movie, or click on the "Choose" button. |
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The display link now has a path to stop itself instead of being stopped in stopRecording:. This fixes the lock up. (This made its way into 1.5.1) |
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Fixed a bug with single-pixel-wide/high movies causing a crash. |
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Fixed record selection aspect ratio popup bug. |
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Fixed a bug where the video dimensions popup in the compression pane would not see that 100% was re-selected. |
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Fixed progress wheel not stopping if changed movies while compressing. |
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Fixed bug that would cause an exception when the last captured movie was deleted. |
| Fix |
When compressing, the number of frames remaining is determined by the total number of frames minus the number of frames that have been compressed, rather than the number of frames that have been scheduled to be compressed. Theoretically this, with the added while loop into the compression thread will keep the compression session from being released before all compression is done. |
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Trying to tidy up any loose ends with stopping a recording writing bad data to the file |
| Fix |
Found and fixed a bug new to 1.6 which would cause a crash when exporting some movies. |
| Fix |
Fixed a crash which would occur when stopping a recording using the global status menu item. This is the last known crash in Screenflick. |
| Fix |
Includes a fix from 1.5.3 which resolves a problem with system audio being silence when saving a movie. |
| Change |
When camera is fixed, no longer dims the entire screen except the selection view. May add this back in using a separate window, but the old way made the screen flash when toggle camera modes. |
| Change |
Keyboard and Mouse settings have been separated. |
| Change |
The "Max capture rate" popup's values are determined by display configuration. |
| Change |
Some settings and preferences have been renamed. |
| Note |
We definitely will be adding a smooth cursor follow mode. It's a popular request, and regrettably we didn't get it in this version as we planned, but we do have a working prototype, so it's only a matter of finalizing the implementation and integration. |
| Workaround |
Added a check to see if system audio is actually recording when it should. If not, it cancels the recording and displays an error message. A small minority of users are still having trouble with recording system audio that we've been unable to track down. This check will at least warn them ahead of time that it's not working. |
Mac OS X 10.4 or later, QuickTime 7.2 or later.
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