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-Because ScreenFlow is optimized to capture an entire screen and doesn't support region capture, it's better if you're running Oni in full-screen mode. If running in windowed mode, ScreenFlow's post-recording editing suite will allow you to crop the recording down to just the game window:
+As of version 6, ScreenFlow can now capture regions of the screen, useful when playing Oni in windowed mode. System audio is captured by the Telestream Audio extension which the program offers to easily install for you.
-. Hit the Change Canvas Size button. Make sure the Snap to Front Window box is checked.<br />
+A couple tips on preferences before starting a recording:<br />
-. Drag the white lines at the edges of the recorded screen inward until they snap to Oni's window.<br />
+. Under Advanced, choose "Lossless" compression or you will not get satisfactory results.<br />
-. In order to crop out Oni's window title bar, you'll need to zoom in on the video so you can see the individual rows of pixels and try to drag the top canvas line down to the top of the actual window content. You might think you can adjust the canvas size manually by typing in a smaller height value, but a decrease in pixels will be subtracted from the top and bottom of the window equally, whereas you want the lower edge to remain snapped to the Oni window.
+. Under General, you'll probably want to turn off the countdown option.
-If you want a total A/V solution that also supports region capture, see iShowU.
+To capture just Oni when playing in windowed mode:<br />
+. Create a new recording (File>New), choose the right monitor in the "Record Desktop from:" menu, check the "Record Computer Audio" box, and on the second screen (notice the blue dots), the choice for "Record Desktop Framerate" should be set to "Automatic". <u>This will allow ScreenFlow to record Oni at 60fps.</u><br />
+. Instead of hitting the Record button, press the button with the icon of a rectangular marquee, then hover over Oni's window and press Space to select its area as the capture region. Now you can hit the big red circle button to record.<br />
+. Stop recording using the ScreenFlow icon in the menu bar.
+However, you will still have to use ScreenFlow's post-recording editing suite to crop out the title bar of the game window:<br />
+. Hit the Change Canvas Size button. (If you recorded the whole screen, not just a window, make sure the "Snap to Front Window" box is checked.)<br />
+. You'll see fields for typing in a custom canvas size, but don't use them. If you recorded Oni at 1024x768, as an example, the canvas size will be 1024x790, but if you changed "790" to "768", it would just deduct those 22 pixels from the top and bottom of the window equally.<br />
+. In order to crop out Oni's window title bar, you'll need to zoom in on the video so you have enough control to move the top canvas boundary by individual rows of pixels. Drag the top canvas line down until the canvas size in those text fields reflects the actual resolution that Oni was running at (again, that should be 22 pixels less than what you started with).
+Saving the recording will only save a ScreenFlow project with the raw video. To get a standard format video such as .mp4, choose File>Export…. Pick "Web - High". Then click the "Customize…" button. Here you can set the framerate to 60fps if desired, as well as picking a good bit rate (4000 kbits/sec seems adequate when using 60fps). The quality of the audio should not need to be higher than 128kbit AAC. Save the settings, then back on the export screen make sure that the Dimensions setting is "Scale by 100%".
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