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    ScreenFlow Concepts: Easy Video Editing for Professional Screencasts
    ScreenFlow Concepts: Easy Video Editing for Professional Screencasts
    ScreenFlow Concepts: Easy Video Editing for Professional Screencasts
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    ScreenFlow Concepts: Easy Video Editing for Professional Screencasts

    By Jose John

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    Do you want to create video tutorials on Mac OS X? ScreenFlow is a popular video editor for Mac OS X that provides elegant tools for screen capture, for video editing and for publishing to video-hosting websites such as YouTube. This short ebook will simplify the complexity in this powerful application to help you create screencasts with confidence.

    When you master 5 key concepts, you will be well on your way to mastering ScreenFlow:

    Concept #1: Before you start your screen capture, take a moment to plan the final output and save a lot of editing time down the road.

    Concept #2: ScreenFlow places clips on a timeline, and there are many types of clips. If you understand video clips, you've got them all figured out.

    Concept #3: A polished screencast has helpful animations such as zoom-and-pan effects which are accomplished using video actions in ScreenFlow. And if you understand video actions, you got audio under control too.

    Concept #4: Selectively and judiciously emphasize the mouse & keys pressed during a recording.

    Concept #5: Use Callouts to draw attention to a region of the screen capture.

    The ebook also provides a practical 10-step workflow to guide you from screen capture through to video editing to publishing your screencast. The workflow has been sequenced to maximize editing efficiency and save you time during video editing.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJose John
    Release dateAug 22, 2015
    ISBN9781311675484
    ScreenFlow Concepts: Easy Video Editing for Professional Screencasts
    Author

    Jose John

    Developer of Mac OS X apps, and author of several books.

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      ScreenFlow Concepts - Jose John

      ScreenFlow Concepts

      Easy Video Editing for Professional Screencasts

      by

      Jose John

      (c) 2015 Jose John. All rights reserved.

      Contents

      Introduction

      Concept 1: Always Start with the End in Mind

      Concept 2: Everything is a Video Clip

      Concept 3: Animate using Video Actions

      Concept 4: Screen Recording Clips have depth

      Concept 5: Guide the Viewer's Eye with Callouts

      The Workflow

      Next Steps

      Introduction

      ScreenFlow is a popular application on Mac OS X for capturing the screen and creating a movie. These movies can be used for both marketing and instructional purposes. What sets ScreenFlow apart from other screen capturing software is that it provides an integrated solution for both capturing and editing the movie to create high-quality output. Indeed, many professionals who create video tutorials prefer the ScreenFlow application to improve their workflow and to have tighter control over the production process. ScreenFlow has been optimized to create screencasts on Mac OS X.

      ScreenFlow is a complicated piece of software. Not only does it capture the screen, but it also provides several video editing tools so that we can create a professional screencast. In a good production, the viewer’s eye must be guided through the many busy elements on the screen so that the instruction or the marketing message can be easily understood. ScreenFlow provides many tools to guide the viewer’s eye and offers flexibility so that you, the producer, enjoys fine creative control over the screencast.

      When we ask ScreenFlow to start recording, it will capture the full screen. Once it has stopped recording, we can crop the video to select only a portion of the screen which we would like to convert into a movie. At the most basic level we would want to use trimming functions so that we can edit out any mistakes. Once we have cleaned up the obvious errors, we can export to a movie file on disk by specifying settings for compression and video size, or simply use an inbuilt export preset.

      The two fundamental user interface (UI) elements in ScreenFlow are the timeline and the canvas. The timeline allows us to sequence the video clips in order from beginning to end and from top to bottom. The video clips that appear higher in the timeline cover up the video clips that appear towards the bottom. We can see the exact composition at any point in time on the canvas. The canvas always displays the composition at the location of the playhead.

      When we start putting the screencast together, the first step will be to record the screen. This will give us the first video clip for the timeline. We can continue to make recordings and add them to the same ScreenFlow project. Each of these recordings will show up as additional video clips in the media panel. We can drag these clips onto the timeline and

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