I haven’t tested this but I bet you could make it 1×1 pixels if you wanted to. On the Apple Cinema Display, you get to see the resolutions but there are only four options and I can’t choose 1024×768.ĭon introduced me to a terrifying system preference pane application called SwitchResX from that allows you to do any darn thing you want to your resolution. So how do you actually do that? Mavericks on the Retina MacBook Pro has removed our ability to see what resolutions we’re choosing – instead they put in “helpful” things like “best for retina display!” which drives me a bit bonkers.

For example, if he’s doing a recording for the iOS show, he likes it to be formatted at 1024×768 which is the native resolution of the current iPads. In particular things like deciding what screen resolution to use before you start recording is super important. Don is spoon feeding me tips along the way which is great, and of course he does this by making me little videos to follow along. I feel clumsy but I’m getting better at it, learning the keystrokes and trying really hard not to grab the wrong controls. I’m actually pretty lame at it so far, not a master like the Don.

I bring all this up because I’m having great fun learning to use ScreenFlow on the Mac now that I’m doing some occasional guest screencasts for Don McAllister’s ScreenCasts Online tutorial series. In any case, when I was working with Camtasia Studios, you could constantly hear non-girlscout-safe words coming out of my office back then. I should point out that my buddy Slau who is completely blind and owns his own recording studio thinks it’s hilarious that I can’t edit audio if I can’t see the waveform! To him that makes zero sense. My personal favorite was when the visual representation of the audio waveform would suddenly go flatline, even though the audio was still there. I was constantly battling bizarre audio problems (Techsmith would tell me it was audio driver problems). My hate for Camtasia Studios stemmed from how buggy it was, especially for $300 a copy. I did screencasts when I was working, using Windows 7 and the worst piece of software I’ve ever used in my life, Camtasia Studios for Windows. While it’s a LOT of work to create these, it’s also a lot of fun because of how much I’m learning. As you know, Don McAllister has enlisted my services to create screencasts for his tutorial series, ScreenCasts Online at.

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