Version 2.0.3 — $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.
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.
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.
Upgrading from v1.6
Important Reasons to Upgrade
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.
Free Upgrade — For Qualifying Users
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I make my movie file size smaller?
The 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 good one-size-fits-all solution. As a general rule, you can stick to using 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.
- Make sure non-essential background processes using the CPU or hard drive are not running (such as Time Machine, Spotlight, etc).
- Use the the smallest screen area you can in the recording. — The smaller the area, the less work Screenflick needs to do resulting in higher recording rates.
- Adjust the recording quality in Screenflick's preferences. — See the Advanced tab in Screenflick's prefs and adjust the quality slider down a bit to affect how much CPU power is needed. The lowest quality setting uses quite a bit less CPU than the highest setting.
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. Also, the "Capture Rate" number to the right of the preview accurately reflects the average recording rate.
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 launch after the system output device has already been changed to Soundflower. There are two ways this can happen.
- Launch the program which plays the audio after you start a Screenflick recording
- Before starting the program, go into System Preferences and change the system output audio device to "Soundflower (2ch)", start the program, and then start the recording when you're ready.
You can read an in-depth explanation here.
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.
