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Screenflick

Mac screen recorder with audio

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Version 3.0 — $35 — Requires macOS 10.14 or Later

How to Use Screenflick’s Record and Export Controls

Easy, yet powerful.

While Screenflick has a variety of features to offer a lot of flexibility, it’s still very easy to use. It’s this combination of ease and power that make Screenflick such a useful tool for everything from recording video games to instructional training videos.

Step 1: Recording Settings

Screenflick recording settings

Step 2: Screen Selection

After choosing the recording settings, select which area of the screen you want to record. You can drag a rectangle with the mouse to select any specific area, click on a window to record just that window’s area, enter specific sizing, enter an aspect ratio and select a rect of any size, or use one of several helpful presets, such as “Full Screen.”

Screenflick recording screen area selection

Step 3: Recording

After starting the recording, you can pause, resume, or stop it at any time using the configurable keyboard shortcuts. You can also use the global menu in the top right of the menu bar.

Screenflick recording interface

Step 4: Export Options

A major strength of Screenflick is its capability to tweak the recorded movie’s appearance after it has been recorded. For example, Screenflick can hide the mouse cursor for video games, but show mouse clicks and keyboard shortcuts for software demos. You can even customize the style of the click and keypress display. You can also enable picture-in-picture video overlays when recording from a video camera was enabled, or export the camera movie separately for special handling in an external video editor.

Screenflick movie editing

Step 5: Export Formats

Screenflick exports to a variety of movie file formats, including MPEG-4 (mp4), QuickTime (mov), Flash (f4v), and Animated GIF. Screenflick also includes some helpful panels for easily exporting to a YouTube-friendly movie, and ProRes for importing into professional video editors such as Final Cut Pro X.

Screenflick exporting

Done!

But wait — there’s more!

That’s all it takes to use Screenflick, and a variety of its advanced features. It’s a cinch! But that’s not all Screenflick is capable of. More advanced users will love the ability to create time lapse screen recordings, tweak recording settings for performance, and even remotely control Screenflick from another device! All of this combined, makes Screenflick the best screen recorder for macOS.


How to Record Your Screen on a Mac

Using Screenflick to record your Mac's screen and audio is simple.

Other programs like QuickTime Player can record the screen, but can have few options and poor performance, in many situations and don't offer a way to record the audio/sound being played in applications (your web browser, iTunes, games, etc). Screenflick makes recording everything a seamless all-in-one experience, even recording your video camera, microphone, mouse, and keyboard.

To screen record your Mac with audio:

  1. Launch Screenflick
  2. Click "Record System Audio" to capture the sound playing on your Mac
  3. Click "Record Microphone" to record your voice
  4. Click "Record Camera" to record your FaceTime camera
  5. Select the area of the screen (or full screen) to record
  6. Start the Recording!

How to Hide the Mouse Cursor in Mac Screen Recordings

Screenflick lets you hide the mouse cursor in the final movie. This is useful for recording the iOS simulator, or certain games and applications where the cursor is distracting and should never be seen.

To hide your mouse cursor in Mac screen recordings:

  1. Launch Screenflick
  2. Start and finish a screen recording
  3. Select the recording in the Export view
  4. Click on the "Mouse" options tab
  5. Click to turn off "Show Mouse Cursor"

Because you can change this option after making your recording, you never need to re-record your movie if change it.

How to Show Mouse Clicks in Mac Screen Recordings

When recording application demos and tutorials, it's often very helpful for the viewer to be able to see when the presenter clicks the mouse in screen recordings. With Screenflick, mouse clicks can be shown. You can even change the styling of the clicks, or hide the clicks altogether, without having to redo the entire recording like you would with most other screen recorders.

To show mouse clicks in Mac screen recordings:

  1. Launch Screenflick
  2. Start and finish a screen recording
  3. Select the recording in the Export view
  4. Click on the "Mouse" options tab
  5. Click to turn on "Show Mouse Clicks"
  6. Customize the appearance of the mouse clicks as you desire

Because you can change this option after making your recording, you never need to re-record your movie if change it.

How to Show Keyboard Shortcuts in Mac Screen Recordings

When recording application demos and tutorials, in addition to the mouse clicks, it's often very helpful for the viewer to be able to see when the presenter presses keyboard shortcuts and certain keys in screen recordings. With Screenflick, keyboard shortcuts, arrow keys, function keys, etc, can be shown with in the recording. You can even change the styling of the how the presses are display, or hide them altogether, without having to redo the entire recording.

To show keyboard key presses in Mac screen recordings:

  1. Launch Screenflick
  2. Start and finish a screen recording
  3. Select the recording in the Export view
  4. Click on the "Keyboard" options tab
  5. Select either "Show one event at a time" or "Show multiple events"
  6. Select which key presses are shown, including "Commands", "Characters", and "Other keys"
  7. Customize the appearance of the mouse clicks as you desire

Because you can change this option after making your recording, you never need to re-record your movie if change it.

How to Create a Time-Lapse Screen Recording on a Mac

Screenflick makes recording long time-lapse recordings very efficient, using a relatively small amount of disk space and performance capability, while sipping energy laptop battery power. This efficiency leaves more performance power and battery life for the applications actually being recorded.

To create a time-lapse Mac screen recording:

  1. Launch Screenflick
  2. Reduce the Capture Rate for maximum efficiency1
  3. Start and finish a screen recording as you normally would
  4. In the recording's "Time" options, choose "Times Faster" and enter the desired speed-up (eg "10" for a 10x speed up)
  5. You can preview or export the recording to see the effect

1You can create a timelapse from any recording, but Reducing the Capture Rate proportionally to the amount of expected speed-up maximizes the efficiency of the recording process. Example: For a 10x speed-up, then reduce the Capture Rate about 10x; ex. 30 fps reduced by 10x would be 3 fps, so choose 5 fps.

Maximizing Time-lapse Efficiency

The key to maximizing the efficiency of Screenflick for time lapse recordings is to first consider how long might the recording might be, and how long you might want it to be when played back. For example, if you the recording will be about an hour long, and you want it to take about 3 minutes to playback, that's a 20x speedup.

Knowing that amount of speed-up, you can then reduce the recording Capture Rate in Screenflick's recording settings. Normally, video is recorded at 30 frames per second, but if the final movie will be sped up by 20x and still have a final frame rate of 30 fps, then most of those frames will simply be thrown away because they're not needed. In this example, the Capture Rate could be reduced to its minimum of 1 fps, and then when the final movie is sped up by 30x, the recording will still be very smooth. The key is that reducing the Capture Rate will keep the recording very small and use less energy during the recording itself, saving battery and performance for the other applications which are running.