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- Hi, this is Don McAllister
and welcome to another Edition of ScreenCastsOnline.
Following on from part one
of the ScreenFlow Foundations tutorial,
this week, I'll be taking another look
at some of the other features in ScreenFlow 8.
ScreenFlow 8 is a complete application
for the recording, Editing, exporting
and publishing of screencasts.
A screencast is just what you're watching now.
A video of a screen capture and spoken narration
explaining what's happening on screen.
Screencasts are a fantastic way
for you to capture and spread knowledge,
whether it's for friends, family, colleagues,
or even documenting processes or procedures for yourself.
With many, many more features than the built-in
screen recording mechanisms,
ScreenFlow is the premiere screencasting tool
available for the Mac.
So let's continue taking a look at ScreenFlow 8.
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So for this sreencast, I'm continuing on from episode 815.
So check that out.
That covers the basics of ScreenFlow
and I'll be using the demo project
that I set up during that screencast.
Now, I did touch on using the timeline
and working with clips in the previous screencast,
but I'm just going to show you a few other features
to do with working with clips and the timeline.
Let's start by taking a look at action menu overlays.
Now, I did refer to these in the previous show
and I prefer to have them switched off.
If I select these clips here,
you'll see at the beginning of the clip,
there is no sort of icon in the bottom corner.
If I go up to Preferences,
I've got "Hide action menu overlay in clips" switched on.
So they are hidden.
If I just uncheck that, we'll close that back down.
You'll see now as I hover over clips.
You get this little action menu overlay.
Click on here, I can access the Clip Inspector,
rename the clips, split it, replace the media,
extract audio, add a freeze frame,
which we'll come onto lock and reverse the clips
and adding transitions, et cetera.
To be honest, I tend to just prefer
to control or right-click and you get the same menu up
and now I do find these little bit distracting
when they pop up.
Where there might be useful is over here on transitions.
So I can show the Transition inspector.
I can also select any of the transitions from here
directly from the action menu overlay.
But as I say, a personal preference,
I prefer not to have them shown.
So I'm going to hide that back again.
I did show you in the previous episode how to trim clips.
Another option with a clip selected,
if you want to trim from the playhead,
which is this red bar here, to the beginning of the clip,
you can just press the W key and that will trim the clip.
I'll do Command-Z to bring that back
or just press the E key,
and that will trim to the end of the clip.
Again, I tend not to use them very much to be honest,
but you need to know that they're available.
And I'll bring that back with Command-Z.
Let's take a look at some of the other things
you can do from the Edit menu.
So we've got Undo, Redo Trim End to scrubber.
These're just undo and redo commands, could copy and paste.
I'm going to come back to Paste Properties
when we start looking at the inspector.
Delete, Select All, Deselect All, and as you can see,
lots of keyboard shortcuts.
I really would suggest that you do make an effort
to learn some of the common keyboard shortcuts.
It pays lots of dividends
when you're using a video Editing application.
Split Clips, we've already had a look at.
You can replace the media if you want to
and it will retain the properties of the clip
that you have selected.
But let's have a quick look at these ones here.
So Add Freeze Frame.
This is invaluable.
I use adding freeze frame all the time.
Shift-Command-F.
I'll show you what it does.
If we go to our example here.
Let's say that I have recorded this clip
and I want to add some additional narration to the end,
but I don't necessarily want to rerecord my desktop
because well perhaps nothing is changing.
I just want to add some additional comments
to this part of the screencast.
What I can do is to make a gap.
And this is my video clip.
So I want to freeze this frame, really,
and talk over the frame.
So if I just do Shift-Command-F,
that adds a freeze frame
and I can now go in and you'll see that I've got
all this space to play with.
Now I can add some additional narration here
and still see something on screen and I can grab this.
There are no limits to how far it can be extend it.
I can reduce it, I can trim it as before.
It's just really another video clip now
contained within my project that I can narrate over.
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