And today I'm starting off a tutorial series on ScreenFlow 4

made by Telestream.

ScreenFlow is a software program

that allows you to record the screen of your computer

and edit video.

If you want to know more specifics about the program

or purchase it, you can go to their website

right here. (Link in the Description)

If you do want to purchase it, you have to options:

You can go to the Mac App Store and purchase it.

or purchase it from their website here.

Now I personally recommend purchasing it

from the website for two reasons:

with the website version,

you're going to get updates to the program

immediately, as soon as they come out.

With that App Store version,

there is an approval process which causes a delay.

And the more important reason

with the website version,

you can get lower-cost upgrades

when the new version comes out.

Say ScreenFlow 5 comes out,

it's going to cost you less

with the website version

because the Mac App Store doesn't

support lower-cost upgrades.

So let's get ScreenFlow set up and ready to record.

When you open ScreenFlow,

you'll get this configure recording window.

Now I'm going to ignore that for now.

That will be a topic in the next video.

So to get things set up, go up here to ScreenFlow

click on Preferences.

The first thing we want to do with Preferences

is get that license put in

if you have the web store version of the program.

The Mac App Store, you don't need to put in a license.

So you should've received an email

from Telestream after you purchased it from the web store

and this is where you input that keycode, that serial number.

Now if you want to move this license

to another computer,

that's where this Deactivate Serial Number comes in.

You want to deactivate your serial number

and then activate it on the other computer.

Now as far as licensing goes,

The Mac App Store version allows you to

put ScreenFlow on any computer you own.

And the web store version of it

allows you to put the program on

two different computers that you own.

So go over here and click on the Advanced tab.

So the first thing here on the Advanced tab is

Video Magnification.

This is for whether it's going to be smooth or sharp

when you're doing zoom in and zoom out

things in your editing.

The Screen Recording Compression

This allows the program to compress the video

while it's recording to take up less disk space.

And one other very important thing you want to do is

install the Computer Audio driver.

This driver allows the program to

record the audio that's generated from the computer itself.

And the other option down at the bottom is the

Capture Scratch Disk.

This allows you to control where the

temporary file is stored

when the program is recording the screen captures.

The other tab here is Timeline.

Now I'm going to go over all the

Timeline stuff in a future video.

So I'm going to ignore this tab for now.

It will make a lot more sense when I'm talking about it later.

And then the General tab.

So the first item in the General tab

controls the icon that you see up here

in the menu bar.

This gives you some ability to

pause and start and configure recordings.

It's really convenient. I recommend having it there.

Then there's the Countdown.

This is a countdown that happens before the actual recording starts.

The third item is whether that icon in the menu bar

shows up when you first log onto your computer

so that you're ready to record right away.

Then there is Auto Updating.

I recommend that to keep your program up-to-date.

And the last thing is the Recording Hotkeys.

You can customize to whatever you want for

shortcuts for starting the video and pausing the video.

Alright, that's all there is to getting ScreenFlow set up and ready to record.

In my next video, I'm going to go over the different configuration

options for making a recording,

actually do a recording,

and then I'll go over the basic layout of the Editing Window.

I'm Jake, the Geek Out Tech.

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