I'm sure you're aware that Camtasia is now cross platform and includes a license for both, whereas Screenflow is mac only. If you've used other video editors, Screenflow would be favorable, it supports "JKL" key navigation of it's timeline and seems to have a few shortcuts that would make editing faster for someone who's memorized the shortcuts and gotten semi proficient. On the other hand if you make a video each day, you would learn how screenflow does that, so your time spent googling would be limited to your first few videos. This is my opinion only, but I feel like Camtasia is a better tool if you only make a video once in a while - I can always do what I need in Camtasia without googling how to do it. Camtasia puts a bunch of functionality right in front of you. You accomplish mainly the same thing in both tools, but the editing experience is drastically different. To me the main difference is in the user interface. If one was, then we'd have a clear 'best' program and a decision would be easy.īoth programs do the core functionality of recording and editing a basic screencast. Neither program is perfect unfortunately. (ie spending a little each year vs buying a bigger upgrade every few years) Camtasia releases paid updates every few years, and lots of free 'point' upgrades in between (just look at version 2 you own now, it's on 2.10.8 the 10th free update) I mention this because it's easier to think one tool is cheaper than another, but I suspect that the average yearly cost is about the same. I'll try to point out some differences I've observed over the years. That’s totally awesome.I own both programs and for the most part, you can't go wrong with either one. From what I read in the documentation of the app, it seems like Screenflow captures everything on screen as a standalone channel, and that explains features like mouse pointer and modifier keys. You can set the X,Y and Z rotation, adjust Saturation, Brightness and Contrast, show / hide / zoom the mouse pointer, show which keys and modifier keys were pressed, enter callout action, text boxes and even choose the right fonts and font sizes for them. Let’s just focus on what you can actually achieve with a few clicks in the sidebar. As I mentioned before I’m not really that skilled into this kind of stuff, so I won’t enter the technical details behind Screenflow. There are 6 tabs you can choose from: Video properties, Audio properties, Screen Recording properties, Callout Action, Text properties and Media. I’m not a video recording pro, but I definitely found every feature inside it usable and easy to set up. Last, there’s the sidebar, which is the heart of Screenflow. Last thing I’d like to mention about the video preview is that Screenflow shows “coordinates” both vertically and horizontally when you drag anything inside it: it could be the video itself or a text box, coordinates really come in handy if you wanna keep everything aligned the right way. Also, you can crop the whole canvas with the crop button right above the timeline: enter the size you want to crop, choose if you want to snap to the front window and hit Apply. You can also manually resize the video with the corner indicators. The window is draggable, if you want to exclude some parts like the menubar. Useful to get a very detailed of what you’ve been recording. Let’s start from the video itself: the preview is zoomable, and just like in other apps like, say, Photoshop you can zoom in and out, zoom to 100% and zoom to fit. Screenflow it’s organized into three main “zones”: the video itself takes most part of the window, properties are listed in the right sidebar and, last, there’s what I call “ video timeline” in the bottom part. The interface theme is dark and matte, the buttons are crisp and, overall, it’s very user friendly. Once you’ve recorded something Screenflow will automatically open the editing window which is possibly one of the best user interface designs currently available on Mac OS X.
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