ScreenFlow User Guide
Main Window — Key Mappings

Preview Area

shift-mouse Resize while maintaining aspect ratio
control-mouse Crop object
mouse-wheel Scale selected object(s)
command Holding the command key temporarily toggles snapping
alt-command-0 Set Preview area to natural size
command-= Zoom in Preview area
command-- Zoom out Preview area
ctrl-N Toggle snapping to guide lines
alt-command-V Paste style
alt-shift-command-V Paste and match style
command-B Bold
command-I Italic
command-U Underline

Timeline Area

j Play presentation
space bar Play/pause presentation
; (semi-colon) Move scrubber to previous clip start/end
' (single-quote) Move scrubber to next clip start/end
` (backward-quote) Insert Marker at current scrubber position
shift-~ Delete Marker at current scrubber position
shift-uparrow Next Marker
shift-downarrow Previous Marker
w Trim front of selected clip(s) to the scrubber position
e Trim end of selected clip(s) to the scrubber position
i Insert In Point
o Insert Out Point
shift-I Move scrubber to in point
shift-O Move scrubber to out point
command-backspace Ripple delete between current In/Out Points
shift-click Extend selection in layer
command-A Select all clips
shift-command-A Deselect all clips
shift-drag in header Create/Extend In/Out point selection
[ Move selected clip 0.1 s left
] Move selected clip 0.1 s right
shift-[ Move selected clip 1 s left
shift-] Move selected clip 1 s right
rightarrow Forward one frame
leftarrow Backward one frame
shift-rightarrow Forward one second
shift-leftarrow Backward one second
double-click action Selects all actions in the clip
Home Move scrubber to start of presentation
End Move scrubber to end of presentation
delete Delete the currently selected objects
command Holding the command key temporarily toggles snapping
shift-Z, ctrl-T Resize timeline to fit visible area
shift-S Toggle live audio scrubbing
= Zoom in timeline
- Zoom out timeline
command-K Add video action
command-L Add callout
command-R Add screen recording action
shift-command-T Split clip
shift-command-F Add freeze frame
alt-command-L Lock/unlock clip
drag on clip end Adjust the clip duration
alt-drag on clip end Adjust the clip speed
ctrl-N Toggle snapping to guide lines
alt-command-A Paste audio properties
alt-command-C Paste callout properties
alt-command-I Paste video properties
alt-command-S Paste screen recording properties
shift-command-V Insert media at scrubber position

Inspector

command-1 Show Video Properties
command-2 Show Audio Properties
command-3 Show Screen Recording Properties
command-4 Show Callout Properties
command-5 Show Text Properties
command-6 Show Media

Everywhere

backspace Delete selection
command-, Open Preferences window
shift-command-2 (default) Start/stop recording
command-? Open help window
command-C Copy
command-E Export as video
command-H Hide ScreenFlow windows
alt-command-H Hide other windows
command-M Minimise current window
command-N New recording
command-O Open recording document
command-Q Quit ScreenFlow
shift-command-R Add additional recording to current document
command-S Save document
shift-command-S Save document as
command-V Paste
command-W Close current window
command-X Cut
command-Z Undo
shift-command-Z Redo