Version 2.2.21 — $29 — Requires Mac OS X 10.6+
You be the Director
Screenflick records anything shown on your screen. Record a movie of yourself creating an artistic masterpiece in Photoshop, or record a training video to teach someone how to use new software. Screenflick 2 is even plenty fast enough to record the latest 3D games.
Beyond the Screen
Screenflick can tap into user events like key presses and mouse clicks and highlight them in the movies you create. This is extremely useful for training videos and video podcasts, or wherever you use keyboard shortcuts. And of course, their appearance is customizable.
Live Scaling 
Just because Screenflick can record your screen at its full resolution, doesn't mean you need to! For times when you want to record fullscreen but export at a lower resolution, you can now record at a smaller scale, saving precious CPU time and disk space.
Multiple Exports
Export movies multiple times at different scales and qualities. Record a movie once and create small low quality movies, large high quality movies, and even export to different file formats, without having to use another program.
Fast Recordings
Screenflick 2 contains an all-new recording engine which can capture large resolutions at high speed and high quality. By taking advantage of the the pixel-hungry graphics processor and multiple processor cores, Screenflick 2 attains outstanding performance when recording even the most demanding scenes on your Mac.
Time-Lapse Movies
Show off your hours-worth-of-work in a minutes-long movie. Record a movie at a super low frame rate and then speed it up on export to create time-lapse movies. Perfect for exhibiting your digital art skills.
Export Presets
In Screenflick 2 you can create presets for your video, audio, keyboard, and mouse options. Fine tune your settings and save them as a preset, so you can use them later in a snap.
Export Movie Formats
Screenflick creates QuickTime movies, but it also creates Flash f4v movies, movies formatted specifically for iPods, iPhones, iPads, and Apple TVs, MPEG files, and can export to any other format, such as Windows Media, using any QuickTime plugins.
Microphone & System Audio
Screenflick captures live audio from the microphone of your choice, and all audio playing on your Mac. Silent movies are a thing of the past.
Pause & Resume
Sometimes life interrupts you, or you just need to take a break. When recording with Screenflick, it's not a problem; pausing the recording is a simple key-combo away. Simply press it again, and the recording continues right where you left off. No post-editing required.
Screen Camera Modes
Not only can you record the entire screen, but you can also record a specific area of the screen, keeping your movie focused as well as saving processing power for other applications and disk space. When recording an area smaller than the screen, you can also choose to have the "camera" smoothly follow the mouse cursor.
Recording Preview
Before exporting your screen recording, you can preview the movie with all of the keyboard and mouse options. Start, stop and scrub through your video with audio playback as well.
Smaller Recordings
Screenflick 2 impressively improves recording speed, but it does while also dramatically reducing the amount of disk space used by recordings. Even when recording four times as many frames per second, Screenflick 2 reduces the recording sizes by as much as an astounding 11x!
Watermarking & Metadata
Put your stamp on it. Before exporting your movie, you can drop in an image to "watermark" your movie so everybody knows you created it. You can also add metadata tags which will be embedded into the movie file.
Easy Setup
Pick a maximum capture rate, which audio devices to record, and off you go.
Keyboard Options
Choose how to show keyboard events so viewers can see shortcuts/commands and other key presses.
General Prefs
Screenflick's behavior is flexible to either always hide in the background, or be a full-UI app.
Mouse Options
Customize the appearance and duration of mouse click animations to your liking.
Export Formats
While QuickTime .mov files are supported on every Mac, sometimes you need to target your recording for iOS devices, Flash, Windows, or just a specific movie format.
UI Prefs
One great feature is Screenflick's ability to hide icons your desktop, making your movies cleaner.
Not sure you need to upgrade? Here are a few key reasons why you will want to:
Lion Compatibility
Changes in Mac OS X Lion forced all screen recording programs to be rewritten, and although Screenflick 1.6.15 works for now, to ensure Screenflick keeps on ticking you'll need to move over to Screenflick 2 which is fully Lion compatible and future-proof.
Big Disk Space Savings
Recordings in 1.6 that were long, high resolution, and had a high capture rate, could end up being very large pretty quickly. Screenflick 2's new recording engine saves over 10x times the disk space, and reduces the performance impact on the rest of the system in high demand situations.
Higher Capture Rates
Version 2 has an all-new recording engine which can record many more frames per second than Screenflick 1.6. Although 1.6 was fast and efficient at recording normal desktop usage, it wasn't optimal for recording 3D games and video. Version 2 on the other hand, records 4x the frames per second, while using less disk space too.
Features and Refinement
Beyond the critical things above, Screenflick 2 has many new features and refinements over 1.6 which make it better in every single way. Once you use it, you'll understand why you need to have it.
Big Performance Increases
Screenflick 2 has byte-sipping disk usage while greatly boosting recording performance.
Comparison to Screenflick 1.6 with full screen recording of 3D game running at 1680x1050 on 2008 Mac Pro.
If you bought Screenflick 1.6 on or after April 1, 2011, you qualify for a free license key for Screenflick 2. Enter your order number and email address below, and you will instantly receive your license key. If needed, we can help you find your order number.
I don't have Mac OS X 10.6 or later. Can I still buy Screenflick 1.6?
Sure. Although 1.6 is no longer under development, if you need Screenflick 1.6 to run on Tiger (10.4) or Leopard (10.5), you can find the download link at the bottom of this page. Try it out and make sure it does what you need it to do. To purchase a license for it, go ahead and buy Screenflick 2 and then email us to retrieve your license for 1.6. This way you'll have a license for 2.x as well, which you can use when you do eventually move to 10.6 or later.
How do I record Skype calls?
It's easy! You can read an explanation here.
Why is the video dark when I record a game like "Amnesia"?
It's darker because the gamma alters the display's gamma. You just need to change the brightness in Screenflick. Read this for an explanation.
Why do I see a white and grey checkerboard when recording DVDs?
This is OS X's DRM at work. Read this for an explanation and work around.
Why isn't audio from this application being recorded?
When you start a recording with system audio turned on, Screenflick switches the system-wide default audio output device to the "Soundflower" virtual audio device, which Screenflick then uses as an input to record audio from. Some programs unfortunately will play all audio over a specific output device determined when the application launched rather than always using the current system setting which can lead to problems like this.
What needs to happen is the program playing audio needs to decide that it should play that audio to the Soundflower device, rather than your speakers. There are two ways this can happen.
You can read an in-depth explanation here.
How do I make my exported movie file size smaller?
The file size of the resulting movies is completely dependent on the video compression settings you choose for the export. Screenflick assumes you have some knowledge of them because there are a lot of choices and trade offs for various applications, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. However, for a one-size-fits-most guideline, you can stick to using QuickTime exporter, selecting H.264 video compression, 96kbps AAC for audio compression, and use the "Quality" slider to determine the movie quality and thus, movie size.
You can read an in-depth explanation here.
How can I get better recording performance?
There are three key factors to improving recording performance in Screenflick.
When recording video games or other programs with high performance OpenGL graphics, make sure the game has V-Sync turned on. With V-Sync off, the frame rate of the game can go above the maximum of the display (and the chosen recording FPS in Screenflick) which can steal precious GPU processing power away from Screenflick.
When I playback the movie in Screenflick, why does it look choppy?
The movie preview in the export view of Screenflick is a rough preview, and can play back at a lower frame rate than the actual recording. For a true representation of the speed/smoothness of the recording, export it and watch it in QuickTime player.
Where are my old movies from Screenflick 1.6?
Screenflick 2 can't export videos created with version 1.6. If you have some old movies recorded with 1.6, you'll need to keep a copy of it around to export and then delete them when you're done with them. If you've deleted 1.6 already you can grab it again below.
If you need to grab an older version of Screenflick for some reason, you can do that here.
