Zoom in and out with ScreenFlow

Ryan Warner: [0:00] With our screen-recording already on the timeline, select video. Ensure that the screen-recording is selected by clicking on it in the timeline.

[0:09] Move your play head to about the point where you want the zoom-in effect to happen. Then click the Add Action button in the top-right.

[0:17] You'll notice our action gets added, overlaid on top of our screen recording. This represents the start and end-point over zoom in animation. You can click and drag to adjust the duration.

[0:31] With our play-head at the end of this action, scale up our video by clicking and dragging the handles, or by sliding the scale slider in the top-right.

[0:43] ScreenFlow will automatically tween between the start and end-states of this action. You can see this by scrubbing over the timeline.

[0:53] To zoom back out, move your play-head to about the point where you want the zoom-out action to take place.

[1:00] In the ScreenFlow menu, select Actions, Add Snapback Action, Video or option command K. This will create an action that automatically reverts a screen-recording back to its default state.

[1:12] Add easing by right clicking on an action and selecting a Curve Type. This will give our animation more natural feel. Let's see how this looks by playing our video from the beginning,

[1:27] We started by adding a video action to a screen-recording, and then scaled up our video and let ScreenFlow create a tween animation between the two states. We then created a snapback action to zoom back out and added some easing to make the animation feel more natural.