Publishing to Facebook

The Facebook upload will post your exported video (with an optional title and description) directly to your Facebook home page or any Page or Group you have access to. The publishing service will cause Facebook to populate the Post To field with all of your accessible information. If there is no title or description added, the video will be posted without accompanying text. There are privacy options available, but only when posting directly to your Facebook home page. These options are not relevant when posting to a Page or Group (since these are public). The URL for the upload will be returned once the publish/upload process has completed.

Note: Facebook limits uploads to a max of 1 GB or 20 minutes. Trying to upload files bigger or longer than this will most likely fail.

If you have a Facebook account, ScreenFlow enables you to encode and publish your projects directly to Facebook. Select File > Publish to > Facebook to display the Facebook Sign In window. Select video encoding and options. If you check Save Copy to Disk the Location button is enabled, enabling you to select the location for the file to be written to disk. If you do not choose a location, the file will be saved to your Movies folder. If you do not specify a file extension, .mp4 will be used.

Click Sign In when finished.

When the Facebook window displays, enter your email (or phone number) and password, then click Log In.

When the Publish To Facebook window displays, enter a Title and Description, then set the Privacy level. Click Publish when finished. The URL for uploads will be returned when the upload has completed.

Figure 77. Facebook Account Login Window

Table 23. Facebook Publishing Details
Control	Description
Post To	Select the category of your project from the options in the popup menu.
Title	Enter the title for your project. By default, this field uses the base name of your project file.
Description	Enter a description for your project.
Privacy	Public: Anyone can view this video Friends Only: Only people with a link can view this video Me Only: Only you can view this video
“?” button	Click to get publishing help
Sign Out	Click Sign Out to sign out of your Facebook account.
Publish	Click Publish to export and upload your project. ScreenFlow displays a progress bar to indicate encoding progress. Click Cancel at any time to abort the encode/upload process.