Comments on: Camtasia vs. ScreenFlow: Creating Your First Screencast

By: Marcos

Marcos — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:46:52 +0000

Haha, I have read all the comments in hopes of determining which software to purchase and I have to say I still have no idea which one is best. Sounds like I will have to flip a coin. I am very impressed with the feedback from the reps at Telestream and Techsmith. Kudos on the customer service!

By: walter

walter — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:08:26 +0000

I love Screenflow but the lack of Shapes (vectors) is really frustrating. I’ll try Camtasia this week.

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iLife and iWork ’11: My Hopes and Dreams: Apple « — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:31:16 +0000

[...] that Snow Leopard can record my screen, I’d like to see them borrow some of the features of ScreenFlow and integrate [...]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:30:52 +0000

You can unlink audio in Camatasia.
On the timeline there is a lock icon you needed to click to unlock the audio.

Once that happens you can do move or chop the audio and video separately.

The feature has been around since Camtasia 6.0

Its a feature one should not be living without.

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download DVD Ripper — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:42:03 +0000

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By: Willow

Willow — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:53:24 +0000

You can speed up the clip by selecting it, right click (control-click), select “show clip inspector.” In that pane you can drag the bar to select how fast or slow you want the clip to go. Hope that helps.

By: CraigS

CraigS — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:20:16 +0000

ScreenFlow Forum
http://forum.telestream.net/forum/categories.aspx?catid=42&forumid=1
ScreenFlow Direct Support
http://www.telestream.net/telestream-support/screen-flow/contact-support.htm

Yes, see ScreenFlow 2.1 User Guide page 53
The graphic symbols don’t convert here but this is the text.

You can change the playout speed of a clip by alt-clicking on the clip near the beginning or end of the clip.
When you do this, the Mouse Pointer will change to to indicate you can change the speed. Alt-click and drag out to speed up the clip or drag in to slow it down.
You can also change the playout speed in the Clip Inspector.
A clip that has been slowed down will be marked with a , a speeded-up clip with a .

By: CraigS

CraigS — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:19:48 +0000

Yes, see ScreenFlow 2.1 User Guide page 53

By: Manon

Manon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:10:15 +0000

Help!!

I’m trying out screenflow – but can’t figure out if there is any way of finishing the screencast by speeding up the original ‘real time’ to faster speeds – i’m trying to record myself painting on my desktop and I need to speed up the video and keep it that way – does screenflow do this? If it does have the ability to edit it so that it plays in high speed, then i’m keen on buying the licensed version.

Thank yoU!

By: Nile Cruises

Nile Cruises — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:57:55 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to do the comparison and letting us know the results. I’ve just moved over to a Mac after years of using pc’s and Camtasia. I think I’ll probably go with Camtasia although I think it’s different in the Mac version. But it was good to read your findings and to learn more abour Screenflow.

Colin

By: vanisacker

vanisacker — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:15:28 +0000

Hi Clay,

We apologize for the frustration and understand how that can put a crimp in your workflow. I will say (however vaguely) that ‘pause’ is something we have looked into and we will be addressing that short-coming. Thanks for listening to your professor and your loyalty to TechSmith products!

Jeremy Vanisacker
Camtasia:mac Product Management

By: Clay Franklin

Clay Franklin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:35:17 +0000

I have Camtasia for Mac, yet find it very frustrating to not have a pause during recording capability. I see that it is available on the latest screenflow and wonder when it will be available on Camtasia for Mac?

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:59:50 +0000

And one more thing, I happen to have iShowU HD….as well..

By: Harry

Harry — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 04:58:01 +0000

Back to Johanna’s post, I too, am thinking about doing it on Keynote and then transfer it over to iMovie, can someone give me a idea on what specifically I’d be missing?

By: fulchiero

fulchiero — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:10:33 +0000

I have used Telestream products for years, and have had good support from them. We have spent thousands on them, and I think they are a good company. I believe C.Price’s story was an aberration. However, I can feel his pain, and Telestream was in the wrong. Hopefully they learned their lesson, though it meant losing a good customer and getting a black eye.
I don’t think anyone should make their Camtasia vs. ScreenFlow decision based on the above story, though it was important to get it out.
Base your decision on the technical merits of each product, and your own specific needs. Thanks for posting, Mr. Price.

By: C.Price

C.Price — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:07:48 +0000

I just wanted to say that since my posting, Telestream, the company behind ScreenFlow have indeed made a kind offer as way of recompense for the way I was treated.

Thank you for supportive postings on here, your comments and help were appreciated.

I think it’s only fair to say that although the company did make an error in judgement, from the correspondence I have received since, I truly believe that this was probably a one off error due to new staff not understanding how to handle a particular situation, and I also believe them when they say they have now addressed this.

So credit where it is due, they have sorted this out, although sadly we have now bought a competitors product, at least they have had the ‘guts’ to admit when something was handled poorly, and then done everything they could to rectify the issue.

We will now continue to use the competitive product, but at least as I said in my original posting, I never had issue with how good ScreenFlow was, just in the way I was treated, and I bear Telestream no malice and thank them for rectifying the situation.

My faith in ‘doing the right thing’ has been restored, so when making a purchase decision, try not to judge them too harshly, it’s not about pointing the finger when an issue arises, it’s how you deal with it and resolve it, and they have pulled out all the stops in the end to take away some of the bitterness I felt.

C.Price