Producing videos with Screenflow

A great video production software, halfway between too simple and too complex alternatives.

Feb 2020 started using.

19 Jul 2022 starting note.

Produced 150+ Sales videos with it since start.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Preview Area (Canvas Editing)

Shortcut Action
Shift + mouse Resize while maintaining aspect ratio
Ctrl + mouse Crop object
Mouse wheel Scale selected object(s)
Temporarily toggle snapping
⌥⌘0 Set Preview area to natural size
⌘= Zoom in Preview area
⌘- Zoom out Preview area
Ctrl+N Toggle snapping to guide lines
⌥⌘V Paste style
⌥⇧⌘V Paste and match style
Arrow keys Nudge item on canvas
+ scroll wheel Resize canvas

Timeline Editing

Shortcut Action
Space Play/pause
J / K / L Scrub backward / stop / forward
JJ / LL Fast backward / fast forward
; Scrubber to previous clip start/end
' Scrubber to next clip start/end
` Insert marker at scrubber position
⇧~ Delete marker at scrubber position
⇧↑ Next marker
⇧↓ Previous marker
W Trim front of clip(s) to scrubber
E Trim end of clip(s) to scrubber
I Set In point
O Set Out point
⌥Z Clear In/Out points
⇧I Move scrubber to In point
⇧O Move scrubber to Out point
⌘⌫ Ripple delete between In/Out points
+ click Extend selection in layer
⌘A Select all clips
⇧⌘A Deselect all clips
Double-click track bar Select all clips on a track
+ drag in header Create/extend In/Out selection
Forward one frame
Backward one frame
⇧→ Forward one second
⇧← Backward one second
] / [ Nudge clip on timeline
Double-click action Select all actions in clip
Home / fn← Scrubber to start of presentation
End / fn→ Scrubber to end of presentation
⇧Z / Ctrl+T Resize timeline to fit visible area
⇧S Toggle live audio scrubbing
= Zoom in timeline
- Zoom out timeline
+ mouse wheel Resize timeline

Actions & Editing Operations

Shortcut Action
T Split clip (left clip stays selected)
⇧T Split clip (right clip stays selected)
⌘K Add video action
⌘L Add callout
⌘R Add screen recording action
⌥⌘T Insert Annotations clip
⇧⌘F Add freeze frame
⌥⌘L Lock/unlock clip
⌘G Group clips
⌘U Ungroup clips
⌥⌘N Nest clips
Drag clip end Adjust clip duration
+ drag clip end Adjust clip speed
⌥⌘A Paste audio properties
⌥⌘C Paste callout properties
⌥⌘I Paste video properties
⌥⌘S Paste screen recording properties
⇧⌘V Insert media at scrubber position
+ select region Remove portion of freehand callout

Recording & Export

Shortcut Action
⌘⇧2 Start recording (default)
⌘N New recording
⌘O Open recording document
⇧⌘R Add additional recording to current doc
⌘E Export as video
⌘H Hide ScreenFlow windows
⌥⌘H Hide other windows
⌘⇧/ Open help window

Properties Panels

Shortcut Panel
⌘1 Video Properties
⌘2 Audio Properties
⌘3 Screen Recording Properties
⌘4 Callout Properties
⌘5 Annotations Properties
⌘6 Text Properties
⌘7 Media Library

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