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Screenflick IconRecording Area Selection

Screenflick lets you record any display attached to your computer. Once you click on the recording button at the bottom of the main window, Screenflick will go into a mode letting you select the area of whichever screen you want to record. If you have multiple screens attached, simply click on the screen you want to record to choose to record from that screen.

Selecting the area of the screen to record is quick and easy. The area that will be recorded is shown with a blue rectangle around it. On the corners and sides of the rectangle are grab handles where you can resize the area. To move the area, you can click and hold inside of it, and drag to move it to a new location.

Other ways to set the recording area:


Capture Scale

Normally you would capture the screen at 100% scale. That means if you're recording the full screen and your screen is 1920 x 1080, the recording itself will naturally be 1920 x 1080. However sometimes you know you're always going to export to a movie resolution smaller than the screen itself. For example, if you're on a 27" iMac with a display resolution of 2560 x 1440, and know that you only need a 1280 x 720 video exported from Screenflick, you can use a 50% Capture Scale. This will mean Screenflick will use four times less disk space and CPU usage during the recording because it's scaling the video down during recording from 2560 x 1440 (~ 3.6 million pixels) to 1280 x 720 (~ 0.9 million pixels). This will allow you to record at a higher frame rate and quality with less impact on performance.


Capture Retina

All Mac computers have Retina screen with millions of pixels on them, 2x the density of a typical PC screen. When turning on "Capture Retina", Screenflick will record the full Retina-quality of your screen, creating a recording with the same sharp display you see normally. However, for some uses (such as the web), Retina-quality recordings don't make sense, so recording in Retina quality will use up more resources of your Mac (processor and file space). In these cases, turning off Capture Retina will improve efficiency and performance.


Hide Desktop

Have a bunch of files on your Desktop which makes your screen recordings look messy? No problem. Just turn on the Hide Desktop checkbox and choose what to cover your desktop with (a solid color, a custom image, or your desktop background), for a perfectly clean background.