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Hello everybody, I'm Jake, the Geek Out Tech.
And I'm going to talk to you about using
Callouts in ScreenFlow 4.
To use a Callout, just go up here to the Properties Pane
and click on the little icon that looks like a dark
circle with a mouse pointer on the inside.
And here are the Callout Properties.
Now callouts work a little bit differently
than video and audio properties and action.
To use a callout, you have to add the callout
to a screen recording clip.
So let's do that.
I'm going to highlight my screen recording clip here
and adjust the scrubber to where you want the callout.
Then click Add Callout.
Quick Note: A callout is on the screen only from the beginning to the end of the callout.
So all you need to do to adjust the duration
is click on the beginning or end when you see this
icon and drag it to change the duration.
And you can click on it to
move it left or right in your Timeline
and position it where you need it.
Alright. So the first option here with
callout properties is the
mouse cursor highlight.
This highlights around the mouse cursor
and it has the normal
circle around the mouse cursor
and everything else is quite a bit darker and it follows
the mouse pointer
where ever it goes in the video. Let me show you it here.
You can see it moving around with where you move the pointer.
Alright. So you can change the lightness and
darkness around this circle by changing the opacity.
Make it lighter or darker.
You can also blur it inside the circle
by adjusting the blur slider.
Like so.
And you can also blur the background by checking
Blur Background
You can zoom up
to make this circle larger.
Increase the zoom there.
And you can also increase the size of this
circle by increasing the border.
you can see here.
You can add an outline by increasing
the pixel width here for the outline.
Click that. Got a blue outline. You can adjust the color
Like so.
You can add a shadow.
And you can increase or decrease
the size of the shadow with the slider.
And you can feather it to blur
the outline.
And you can also adjust the Build In
and Build Out duration.
Let's adjust this to a half a second.
And the build out to a half.
And I'll show you what this looks like.
You can have that affect
come in and fade out like so. Let me play it.
Show that there. In.
and build out.
So that's with the mouse cursor.
The other option... let me reset
All the properties here.
reset to defaults.
You can highlight the foreground window by clicking here.
And let's move the scrubber to the callout
area so you can see what's going on.
And this highlights around the foreground wiindow which
happens to be the calculator.
If you had a browser open,
and that's the foreground window, it would highlight around that.
And you can adjust everything like
did with the mouse cursor, the opacity
and so on and so forth.
And the third option is to do it
freehand. I'll select freehand here.
And you can freehand a circle. With the
circle you can adjust the size
by scrolling left and right with this slider.
Maybe, let's select the circle first.
and then you can see the size there.
And to create a perfect circle, just go
in your preview and click once
and that will create a nice circle.
If you want to click and drag
you can scroll around
and it's kind of like using a paint brush in Photoshop.
And you can define an area.
And then you can have your normal
property adjustments like opacity
blur and things like that. I can see using this
say if you want to blur somebody's face out in a video
you can define the area of where their
face is at and then adjust the blur
Like so.
You can also define a
square or rectangular area.
Just click here.
and the way to add this is just click in the preview
and hold it down and drag it
to define the size the way you need it.
And that's all there is to using
callouts in ScreenFlow 4.
I'm Jake, the Geek Out Tech.
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