ScreenFlow is powerful, easy-to-use screencasting software for the Mac. With ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor while also capturing your video camera, microphone and your computer audio. The easy-to-use editing interface lets you creatively edit your video, and add additional images, text, music and transitions for a truly professional-looking video. The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog or directly to YouTube or Vimeo. Use ScreenFlow to create high-quality software demos, tutorials, app previews, training, presentations and More...
What's New
Version 6.1:
Major Changes
Optimized Animated GIF support
Implemented two-pass encoding for GIF export
Implemented dithering methods 'Error Diffusion’ and 'Ordered’
Added dithering Strength - Low, Medium, and High for additional customization capability
Implemented: Playback 'Loop’ preference in GIF encoder Added 5 and 10 fps framerate More...
ScreenFlow is powerful, easy-to-use screencasting software for the Mac. With ScreenFlow you can record the contents of your entire monitor while also capturing your video camera, microphone and your computer audio. The easy-to-use editing interface lets you creatively edit your video, and add additional images, text, music and transitions for a truly professional-looking video. The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog or directly to YouTube or Vimeo. Use ScreenFlow to create high-quality software demos, tutorials, app previews, training, presentations and more.
Version 6.1:
Major Changes
Optimized Animated GIF support
Implemented two-pass encoding for GIF export
Implemented dithering methods 'Error Diffusion’ and 'Ordered’
Added dithering Strength - Low, Medium, and High for additional customization capability
Implemented: Playback 'Loop’ preference in GIF encoder Added 5 and 10 fps framerate options for GIF export
Fixed - Animated GIF produces inaccurate colors
Fixed - Default GIF export looks bad
Fixed - GIF motion has a weird trail after it
Fixed - GIF Loop only Loops in Safari
Fixed - GIF export hangs mid-way
Fixed - Export to Animated GIF flickers
Fixed - Artifacts in GIF export
macOS Sierra - Please note that macOS Sierra (10.12) is under active de- velopment and we cannot support this operating system until it has been officially released from Apple. Use at your own discretion.
Team is actively working on preparing ScreenFlow for macOS Sierra
Fixed - Batch export does not display export progress bars
Fixed - Partial screen recording resolution selection incorrect when front end is on secondary display
Disabled 'Show Tab Bar' View menu item for Batch Export window
Screen Recording Show Keystrokes - In order to fix this, we had to break the ScreenFlow document format. This means that ScreenFlow documents created in version 6.1 will no longer open in version 6.0
Fixed - Keystrokes may not display on cropped canvas
Added option 'Attached To Clip’ - this is the default and will behave as 6.0 and below did. If 'Attached To Clip’ is unchecked, the key display will attach to the canvas instead
Added 'Width’ option for keystroke background
Fixed - Runtime Error from attempting to add Text Box or Annotations after altering Show Keystrokes in French/German
Minor Changes and Bug Fixes
Fixed - Push transition reversing direction for Left-to-Right and Right-to-Left
Fixed - Purchasing method can result in blank store window
Fixed - Media Library search is case sensitive
Fixed - Spacebar does not function for Play/Pause if Media Library is selected
Fixed - Crop Enter and Esc keys do not work after selecting the canvas area
Fixed - Audio Inspector UI elements can be pushed out of view space
Fixed - Audio channels reverse sides when played back in Reverse
Implemented the ability to adjust audio pan to multiple clips at a time, provided that they have the same number of audio channels
Fixed - Runtime Error from attempting to solo audio of 3+ selected clips
Fixed - Panning Options are missing from Audio Mix drop down menu
Fixed - SF5 projects with Mix to Mono enabled have incorrect channel configuration in SF6
Fixed - Audio panning dial does not update to reflect undo / redo action until clip is deselected and reselected
Fixed - No longer able to solo audio channels
Fixed - Clip Empty Path console event thrown when audio clip is Muted
Fixed - Waveform does not redraw after adding audio snapback action
Fixed - All snapback actions are causing audio waveform redraw
Fixed - Waveforms do not redraw to reflect ducking and mixing after audio action
Fixed - Exported audio is distorted if exported while waveforms are drawing
Fixed - Mix Audio properties playback in default configuration after adding video action to clip
Fixed - Recording only computer audio creates a document with resolution 1x1
Fixed - Dual Displays: Recording of smaller resolution display has canvas of larger-resolution display
Fixed - Using an external monitor as main monitor will break pointer recording on built in display
Fixed - Mouse pointer not recording
Fixed - Recording Monitor displays a Negative (-) number for countdown
Fixed - Recording countdown timer able to stop counting down
Fixed - Default Action Curve tooltip in Preferences is not localized
Fixed - Wistia Publishing is either failing with error 400 or uploads a .bin file
Fixed - TS Cloud store credentials in keychain is cut off in localized versions
Fixed - Scrubber does not move on timeline and hangs when editing
Fixed - No audio playback from Nested clip
Fixed - Touch callouts are made smaller and moved after clip is nested
Fixed - Video filters add visual artifacts to export and playback of nested clip
Fixed - Replacing clip creates an invalid clip on Timeline in certain use case
Fixed - Runtime error after reverting project changes
Fixed - Runtime Error produced after deleting clip from timeline
Fixed - Crashing on Export after confirming output directory
Fixed - Running a Batch Export causes a Runtime Error and crash
Fixed - Crashing when opening a specific project
Fixed - Crash from closing ScreenFlow 6.1 document containing audio
Fixed - Crash when starting recording from Helper with application closed
Implemented a warning message that gets thrown if the user selects a FAT16/32 formatted volume as the scratch volume
Updated the Carbon Component Manager
Removed the Video Filter 'Masked Variable Blur’ as it did not do anything
Changed the Linear curve type to be a "true" linear animation
Clearly the leading screen recording application you even need. Has great after-editing features to tweak your recordings.
A wonderful piece of code.
I've used ScreenFlow for years (since v3), and it’s been riddled with inefficiencies (caused by lazy programming and an apathetic attitude toward user feedback) for years. Its UI is awkward, cumbersome, and unintuitive.
Over the years, I’ve made numerous common-sense suggestions for improvement, sometimes even receiving personal replies from a representative, asking for clarification. Nearly a year ago, I exchanged email with an upper-level representative. But has anything ever changed? NOT ONCE.
Examples:
- After recording a movie, one naturally looks to the right to select options. But they’re grayed out. Why? Because—for no logical reason whatsoever—none of the options is available until you first SELECT the movie at the bottom left. But if you’ve just launched the app, and you've recorded only ONE movie, what else is there to select? Answer: Nothing. This is a 100% unnecessary step that the developer refuses to eliminate.
- Although ScreenFlow is feature-rich, my needs are simple, and I always, ALWAYS choose the exact same options: "Click Effect: Radar," and "Show Keystrokes." But does SF ever remember these choices? No. Is there a way to save a preset of these selected options? No. So, every time I record a movie, I have to dig through pages and reselect these options. Every. Single. Time. I’ve reported this, asking that, in lieu of presets, ScreenFlow at least be made smart enough to simply remember the last selected options! I’ve been requesting this since version 3. Now we’re at version 6. Any change? Nope.
- For some, unknown reason, each time I export (save) a movie, the Save dialog defaults to exporting the movie at 50% of normal size. So, each time I export a movie, I have to change that to 100%. For the love of Pete, why can’t ScreenFlow be made smart enough to remember that for 4 YEARS now, I’ve exported at 100%. Version 3 doesn’t. Version 4 doesn’t. Version 5 doesn’t. And version 6 doesn’t.
- Years ago, Apple made a smart change to Open/Save dialogs: When you save a document, the default filename is automatically highlighted, but the file *extension* is NOT highlighted. As such, all you have to do is type the new filename—and the extension will remain unchanged. But ScreenFlow defaults to both the filename AND the extension highlighted! So, of course, when you type a custom name, the extension gets overwritten, as well. When I submitted this issue, someone replied and said it didn’t matter because ScreenFlow would still add the extension back to the name. I said that was fine, but still, the *visual cue* suggests otherwise. For those of us who pay attention to these things, it looks like the extension is being overwritten! The reprentative was actually argumentative (and of course nothing ever changed).
(I haven’t tested this in v6, because I was so disgusted by the other omissions that I never got as far as saving a file.)
On a scale of 1-10, most developers are somewhere between 5 and 10 on the "we listen to our users and make reasonable, common-sense improvements" scale. But on that same scale of 1 to 10, Telestream gets a big, fat zero.
And now—adding insult to injury—when I launch v5 (which is paid for), I’m frequently nagged about buying v6. Ugh.
Telestream is an awful developer, and I’m done with ScreenFlow. They won’t get another penny from me unless and until they fix these basic usability issues. I’d rather buy a new app and support a developer that actually listens to user feedback. Maybe Screenium is that app. We’ll see.
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