The Reality of Remote Working

Remote working is now a reality, even for the Media & Entertainment industry. In the short term, we know that everyone able will continue to do their jobs from home. Longer-term, there is also a distinct possibility that more businesses will make remote working the norm for some people who would previously have worked in facilities. It is critically important to make it simple and straightforward for those working remotely to get access to their organization’s content so that they can work efficiently from any location. Here are a few ways Telestream is enabling remote working for broadcast workflows.

GIFs aren’t just about funny memes anymore! GIFs can be used in social media or email marketing as a way to quickly inform your audience with visually pleasing content. GIFs are great looking, and short animations for the web, memes, tutorials or social media. Here at Telestream, GIFs play an important role in our content marketing strategy. They are used in our tutorials, webinars, feature announcements, launches and more.

Not using ScreenFlow’s chroma key tool yet? You should be! Chroma key is a great to give your videos a professional look without spending a lot of money. Instead of costly studios or “shots,” you can simply replace your background with a photo, video or PowerPoint presentation.

New in ScreenFlow 7 is the ability to customize your Shortcuts! Now editing videos is even faster with the ability to map out your own personalized Hotkey configuration. Set up Hotkeys for your most used actions to personalize your Screenflow experience and edit even faster.

The wait is finally over. We’re excited to announce the release of ScreenFlow 7, with text animation, custom keyboard shortcuts, play clips in reverse and more! Once again, we’ve created an easy-to-use editing interface that lets you creatively edit videos for professional-looking screencasts that are ready to share anywhere. ScreenFlow 7 adds more options and more ways to help create epic content – all with a fresh new look.

Can you see the difference between these two gifs?

One likely feels a bit smoother, maybe even a bit…better? But why? What is that subtle difference?

Welcome to the wonderful world of curve types.

The Perils of 16:10

If you record with ScreenFlow on a MacBook, chances are you will be recording in 16:10 resolution.  I get to use a late 2013, 15 inch retina display MacBook Pro when I make videos with ScreenFlow.  If you haven’t used this machine in particular, it is tons of fun. It is powerful, beautiful and its high pixels per inch make the retina display shine!  The only issue I run into is the native 16:10 resolution.

When creating an HD video, then uploading it to YouTube, you will want it to be 1920:1080, standard HD, which works out to an aspect ratio of 16:9.  While you can change your canvas size in ScreenFlow to be 1920:1080, the recording from your MacBook screen will actually be a bit taller than your canvas.  This unfortunate incompatibility, 16:10 vs. 16:9, means you either have to stretch your recording to fit, or crop off either the top or bottom.  So frustrating!