My next subject in the “Meet the Screen-Flow-er” series is our good friend, Chris Beiting. Chris is a talented and professional screencaster. In fact, we’re proud to mention he was the talent behind our four ScreenFlow 2.0 teaser screencasts.

Being a freelance motion designer, voiceover performer, editor and screencast jedi definitely has it’s challenges, but Chris recommends giving it a try:  “Not working for “The Man” is at the same time extremely rewarding and super scary. It took me awhile to get used to being in shorts around the house every day. My wife loves that I work from home and I know the dogs do too. If you have a chance to ditch your typical “day job” then go for it. With the job market the way it is, people have to get creative… freelancing and working for yourself in this business is becoming very popular.”

Chris has some great recommendations and a very solid workflow. I hope you enjoy the interview with him as much as I did:

How long have you been screencasting?

I’ve been producing screencasts for almost three years. In addition to screencasts, I also produce videos that are necessarily screencasts in their pure form, but have ScreenFlow elements in them. I’ve produced probably close to 200 screencast/ScreenFlow videos in that time. Some of them are 30 seconds, some of them 10 minutes.

Prior to ScreenFlow I used iShowU but nothing is as easy or as powerful to use as ScreenFlow.

For what purpose to do you make your screencasts?