Paste Adjustments in Screenflow With a Video Action
This is a follow up to the post from last week about pasting adjustments in Screenflow. A tricky situation can arise if you are pasting adjustments from a clip that has a video action on it.
3 Different Pan/Zoom Settings
Here we have two clips but there are actually three pan and zoom settings.
1. There is the initial pan and zoom setting of the first clip. This consists of the x/y coordinate of the video and the zoom setting.
2. Next we have a video action. All a video action does is allow you to set a new x/y coordinate and zoom setting for the clip. The video action then animates the transition between the original pan/zoom setting and the new pan/zoom setting to create the pan/zoom visual effect.
3. The new clip has its own pan (x/y coordinate) and zoom setting.
Let’s say that we want to copy the zoom settings from clip 1 to clip 2. At the beginning of the clip (1) the zoom is set to 100%. At the end of the clip, after the video action the zoom is set to 300%. At the beginning of the 2nd clip (3) the zoom is set to 100%.
What we want is to change the zoom setting of the 2nd clip (3) to 300%.
The Wrong Approach
Here I have placed the playhead at the end of clip 1. What I will see on the screen is a zoom of 300% because I have the playhead placed after the video action. So I might think that I am copying a zoom setting of 300%. BUT I AM NOT. The Edit > Copy command copies what is selected, not what is under the playhead. If I copy right now I will be copying a zoom setting of 100%.
The Right Way
Now I have the video action selected. If I select Edit > Copy I will be copying a zoom setting of 300%.
Finish
Now just select the 2nd clip and choose Edit > Paste Adjustments > Video and you will be applying the 300% zoom to the 2nd clip.
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January 11th, 2010 at 4:50 pm
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January 12th, 2010 at 9:15 am
This is an interesting post. Would have loved to have seen a quick video explanation though.
January 12th, 2010 at 10:49 am
@Michael- Sorry about that. This was in response to a question that someone submitted and I had a busy day yesterday. This took 5 minutes to throw together where putting together a video would have taken quite a bit longer. Hopefully the information is clear enough that it is still useful. If you would like to create a video demonstrating this just send me the link and I will add it to the blog post ;).
April 1st, 2011 at 12:56 pm
Greg ~
Just wanted to let you know I really appreciated your 5-minutes of work here! I am just learning Screenflow and am trying to learn all the techniques to push it to its limits. At the end of the first day, this [post topic] is one of the steps that stumped me. I made it work a few times, but I think that was on accident! Haha.
Though, I hope you were kidding about this post (only) taking you 5 minutes. I have an attention to detail (as it appears you do with the nice way you illustrated your screengrabs here) and it would have taken me about 5 hours to make this post! At least 5 hours.
Thanks!
April 2nd, 2011 at 9:59 am
@Curtis – Thanks. It actually did take 5 minutes. We develop an app, ScreenSteps, that makes creating blog posts with screen captures really, really fast. That is what I used.