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Welcome to this guide to ScreenFlow. This lesson provides a 30,000 foot view of the application, perfect for those who have never used it before. If you're new here, you'll soon discover that ScreenFlow is user-friendly and incredibly effective.
At the top of the ScreenFlow interface, you'll find the preview window. This is where you can view what your video will look like at a particular point when it's exported.
Below the preview window is the timeline. This is where all your clips, whether they are video, camera, microphone, or screen recordings, are organized. You'll be able to see the changes in the preview as you move the playhead across the timeline.
To the right of the timeline, you'll find the timecode and navigation tools that allow you to fast forward and skip around the timeline. Below these is a set of zooming shortcuts, although these aren't frequently used.
Clicking on a clip will highlight it in yellow, indicating that it's selected and ready for editing. A drawer on the right-hand side hosts various tabs; the first one displays all your raw recordings.
ScreenFlow supports non-destructive editing. For example, deleting a clip isn't permanent because you can always re-import it from the drawer.
The properties tab contains multiple features for editing clips, such as scaling and modifying opacity. It's frequently used for tasks like creating insets in the top right corner of the frame.
ScreenFlow offers audio, motion, and screen recording options. It also provides callouts, annotations, drawings, text, and titles to enrich your content. While callouts can be viewed as tacky, they can be executed tastefully.
That’s a brief tour of the ScreenFlow interface. Your main work area will be the preview window, timeline, and properties tabs. Now let's move on to delve deeper into the exciting features that ScreenFlow offers.