Initiating Recording
There are many ways to initiate a recording in ScreenFlow:
New Recording (command-N) from the File menu.
Presents the new recording dialog.
Configure Recording… from the ScreenFlow Status Menu (
).
Presents the new recording dialog.
Record (shift-command-2) from the ScreenFlow Status Menu (
).
Begins recording with the most recent settings you have configured via either New Recording or Configure Recording….
Add Additional Recording… (shift-command-R) from the File menu.
Presents the add recording dialog.
Stopping Recording
To stop the recording, use shift-command-2 (or the hot keys you’ve selected in Preferences).
After Recording
When you are finished making a recording, ScreenFlow will either create a new document or add to an existing, open, document. Which action occurs depends on whether you had a document open when you began recording:
No ScreenFlow document is open
If no ScreenFlow document is currently open, a new document is created, and your new recording is added to it.
Document is open
If, when you started your recording, a document was open in ScreenFlow, then you will be asked whether to add the new recording to any currently open document, or create a new document.
If you used the “Add Additional Recording…” menu item and you have a saved document open, the new recording will be added to that document without asking to do so, otherwise you will be asked if you want to create a new recording or add to a currently open document.
When a new recording is added to a document, it is added to the Document Media tab of the document properties. You can then drag it to the Timeline or double-click it to add it to the Timeline.
Recording Limits
ScreenFlow will stop recording when you have less than 100 megabytes free on your system disk volume. This is where ScreenFlow’s temporary files are created and as you are recording screen and video data, these files can become quite large.