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Comment on Screen highlights and special effects with OmniDazzle by Mitchell

Mitchell — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:07:44 +0000

This is soo cool. I wanted something like Mouseposé for work, but free. This is awesome!

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Comment on Feature Requests by Lynn Elliott

Lynn Elliott — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:45:47 +0000

Thanks for the clarification and correction, Craig.

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Comment on Feature Requests by cseeman

cseeman — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:35:51 +0000

Adobe Flash is officially extension agnostic when it comes to H.264. .mov, .mp4, .f4v, and several other extensions all work equally well. Adobe engineers have recommended not changing the extension especially to .flv as the file metadata is different and may, therefore, not work at some point in the future. Note that H.264 .mov will also work in Silverlight which is also extension agnostic with regards to H.264.

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Comment on Feature Requests by Jono

Jono — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:41:31 +0000

Add Markers during recording: The ability to add Markers, real-time, while recording would be really great - pressing CMD + ~ could pop open a window to enter a Marker. Currently, Markers can only be added after recording. Note: the pop up would have to be ignored by ScreenFlow as to not mess up or appear in the recording. Perhaps you could type the marker in the menu bar.

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Comment on Show Off! by Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:44:23 +0000

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Comment on Apple H.264 vs. x264 in ScreenFlow – better exports? by mgutz

mgutz — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:45:02 +0000

Wow. Apple better hire that “amateur” programmer. Imagine how much money apple could save in bandwidth using x264.

Just tried this on a few of my programming screencasts. At 200Kb/s the default Apple encoder is not readable. I then tried x264 and wow. I noticed encoding required more processing time but for the size savings this is definitely worth it.

Thanks for the writeup. And thanks to the programmer.

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Comment on How to show the passage of time in your ScreenFlows by Jim Rea

Jim Rea — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 08:33:50 +0000

Frank, I'll second that. In fact I recently submitted exactly this suggestion.

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Comment on Screencasting in Technical Support by Lynn Elliott

Lynn Elliott — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:13:06 +0000

Thanks for your comment Bakari. I totally agree - screencasting is so easy and powerful, there's few reasons not to be using this technology :)

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Comment on Screencasting in Technical Support by Bakari

Bakari — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:11:16 +0000

I totally agree with you. I’m not a developer, but I really think developers could get a lot more mileage with helping their customers if they start using screencasts to communicate solutions. Often times now when I‘m reporting a problem to a developer, I‘ll do a quick screencast to show what I‘m trying to describe. I use ScreenFlow all the time, but for quick, down and dirty screencasts, I use Jing. Screencasting in all areas of work is so powerful, that’s there’s very few reasons not to be using this technology. Anyway, glad I found your site.

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Comment on Apple H.264 vs. x264 in ScreenFlow – better exports? by Lynn Elliott

Lynn Elliott — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:16:50 +0000

Thanks for your comparison, Frank. I’d be interested to see what your settings were for each. And you may be right, this codec may not give you anything you don’t already have with the existing h.264, for your particular situation.
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owever, what I believe to be the main benefit of x264 is that you can reduce the bit rate and/or frame rate dramatically — which significantly reduces file size — without seeing significant quality differences. For those making videos for the web, this is very important. Though if you’re looking to create a very high quality master, like you said, then this may not be applicable.

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