ScreenFlow User Guide
Introduction — Usage Patterns

Ways to use ScreenFlow

ScreenFlow was designed to support a variety of usage patterns (often referred to as "workflows").

This section of the documentation is intended to show you alternative ways of using ScreenFlow that may prove to be effective for your needs.

Usage patterns

There are two major workflows in which the application is most often used:

  • Record Once, Edit result

    In this usage pattern, you record the screen, along with any video or audio narration, at the same time. Then you use ScreenFlow to modify the look and feel of your recording.

    For example, you might start the presentation only showing your video, full screen, then show a Picture in Picture of your video and the screencast. And perhaps later, fading out your video altogether, leaving the audio to narrate the screencast.

  • Record Screen first, then narrate with video or audio

    In this usage pattern, you record the screen first. Then, piece by piece, you add different recordings to narrate the screencast.