ScreenGenius Tip: Adjust your transition properties
In your ScreenFlow screencast, you want your page curl transition to curl from the right side instead of the left side? No problem. Now you can do that!
Archive for the ‘Text & Transition Tips’ Category
3 Tips for Using Transitions Wisely in ScreenFlow
Our friend Marty (@turtleknife) posted a fabulous ScreenFlow yesterday on how to create your own unique transitions, where he shows us, step-by-step, how to create your own customized transition. This got me thinking about the importance of transitions, and how we can use them to enhance our ScreenFlows. Most ScreenFlows, after all, are ‘stories’. Whether [...]
Sharp scaling vs. smooth scaling
You may have noticed in your Preferences window an option to change your “Video Magnification” to “Smooth” or “Sharp” What does this mean? Well, like any sort of compression or magnification, the mathematics and code behind this change are good, but are never exact. When you want to increase the size of a video (or [...]
ScreenGenius Tip: Placing & aligning items
Have you ever needed to add media or text to your ScreenFlow, move it around, and then move it back to exactly where it was before? Although ScreenFlow 2.1 does not currently allow you to set XY coordinates, or ‘nudge’ media on the canvas (though this has been logged as a feature request) here are [...]
ScreenGenius Tip: Create a picture-in-picture presentation
A picture-in-picture presentation can be a very effective way of presenting both a computer screen with your own commentary — adding a human touch to an otherwise tech-heavy presentation. It may seem like an advanced technique, but creating a picture-in-picture presentation is really quite easy. All you need to do is take two separate video [...]
ScreenGenius Tip: Blur out text
Someone recently asked if it was possible to blur text or blur out parts of the screen in ScreenFlow. This can be useful if your screen recording includes filling out a form that has sensitive information in it. There’s not a direct way of blurring out text currently in ScreenFlow. (Though I’ve seen this mentioned [...]
ScreenGenius Tips: 3 steps to cool “falling text” effect in ScreenFlow
There are a lot of nice effects that you can import into ScreenFlow from other applications such as Adobe After Effects or iMovie. But what if you don’t know those programs? How do you create some cool effects using only ScreenFlow? Here’s an example of how to create a text effect I call “falling text” [...]
