Highlighting the Cursor
Alan wrote and asked how to highlight the cursor the way he can in Camtasia Studio. In ScreenFlow there are couple different ways to handle that.
View Highlighting the Cursor Video
Excuse the length of this video, I’ll try to keep them more brief in the future. =:)
Creating a Cross Dissolve Transition
While ScreenFlow may not have transitions in the same manner as Camtasia Studio, you can still quickly craft your own transitions.
Screencasting and the Mac: ScreenFlow Review
Until recently the only great screen recording software was Camtasia Studio — and it’s only offered on a sub-standard computing platform (Windows). For those of us who make our living presenting information to others, we had to have a Windows machine whether we wanted to, or not.
Then, not too long ago, Vara Software released ScreenFlow, a screen recording program that was a little shaky, but showed great promise. After a few weeks the 1.1 version was released and…
…I no longer have any reason to keep a Windows machine in the house!
While the current version of ScreenFlow lags behind Camtasia Studio if all you do is compare number of features, the quickness that new features were added (and bugs squashed) makes me very excited about the future. Right now there are a couple things missing in ScreenFlow that I still need to use an external program for (such as creating titles), but there are also some features that are head-and-shoulders above the Camtasia version.
For example, something a lot of people (including me) initially thought of as a drawback — possibly a serious design flaw — is the fact that Camtasia allows you to specify a certain segment of the screen to record and ScreenFlow just records the whole screen.
How silly! How wasteful! Um…oh, wait, how cool!
You see, with Camtasia I was always grabbing a window that appeared outside of the view and dragging it in so the viewer could see it. I no longer have to worry about where things are positioned, etc. If a window appears somewhere else on the screen, I can just swivel the view to it. You just have more freedom with ScreenFlow’s way of doing things.
Camtasia doesn’t suck, don’t get me wrong — I appreciate what TechSmith has done. And I appreciate the Jing Project they did that’s cross-platform. But while I was waiting for a Mac version of Camtasia to come along, Vara snuck up and gave me something that is really cool.
And with the responsiveness I’ve seen from their tech support people and the speed at which they’ve added some neat features, I don’t think I’ll be looking to switch way from ScreenFlow any time soon.