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Creating basic shape annotation

Creating basic shape annotation - Screenflow Tutorial

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Creating basic shape annotation

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- [Instructor] ScreenFlow includes a set of primitive drawing tools in the annotations panel that you can use to draw your viewer's attention. If you're following along, I'm in the annotations project. Now unlike all of the other property panels that we've seen thus far, annotations become their own clip. You add an annotation by clicking on the plus button at the top of the panel. ScreenFlow will then create a new five-second clip that begins where your scrubber is currently located and placed on the next available track. You then need to select the type of primitive shape that you wanna create. You can create a line, a solid rectangle, a hollow rectangle, a hollow ellipse, or use the new freehand drawing tool. I also like the line tool. Then click and drag the shape on the canvas. The line primitive is created between two control points. You can click and drag either of these two control points to change the length and direction of the line or you can click and drag on the line…

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