ScreenFlow User Guide
Text Capabilities — Creating and Editing

Creating

Create a Text Box clip by either selecting "Text Box" from the Insert menu or pressing the "Add Text Box" button in the Text Properties panel.

This is a newly created Text Box:

Editing the Text

To start editing text, select the Text Box, press Return, and start typing. Alternatively, one can click the Text Box again once it is selected to begin editing at a certain point.

The Text Box acts like a normal Text Editor: the Arrow Keys will move the cursor and clicking the mouse will move the insertion point.

Double click on a word to select that word. Click-dragging is supported for making a selection of text.

To stop editing the text, press the Escape key and the Text Box will be selected, but text cannot be entered. Press Return or click to start editing again.

Changing Text Style

Being Rich Text capable, Text Boxes are capable of having multiple Fonts, Sizes, and Styles applied to different pieces of text inside the Text Box.

Use the mouse to select a piece of text to change the Style.

To change the Style of all the text in the Text Box, press command-a to select all while the cursor is inside of the Text Box. Alternatively, press the Escape key while you are editing and the whole Text Box is selected. Using either of these paths will apply Style changes to all of the text in the Text Box.

The Text Style can be changed via the Font Menu, by selecting Show Fonts menu item, or by modifying the properties on the Text Properties panel.

Changing the Backdrop

ScreenFlow Text Boxes support the ability to set a backdrop on the Text Box (an Image or a Solid Color with optional rounded corners)

See the Text Properties for available options.

Video Properties

ScreenFlow Text Boxes also respect Video Properties (Scale, Reflection, Shadow, Position/Rotation)
These properties (especially Shadow) can be very useful when modifying the look of a your text.

See the Video Properties for available options.
See the Example Image for an example of using Drop Shadow and Reflection to change the look of the text.