ScreenFlow User Guide
Recording — Overview

Initiating Recording

There are many ways to initiate a recording in ScreenFlow:

Stopping Recording

To stop the recording, use command-shift-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 document.

Which action occurs depends on whether you had documents 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 the currently open document, or create a new document.

    If you used the Add Additional Recording... menu item, the new recording will be added to the current document, without asking to do so.

    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 and drop 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.