There are many operations requiring the same type of action repeatedly. To eliminate this cumbersome process, requiring either copy and paste or a lot of manual operations, ScreenFlow enables you to take the current values of an Action and save them to a template, allowing you to quickly use the Action’s state repeatedly.
You can also create an Action Template by right-clicking an Action and selecting Create Template Action.
Create Template Action is not enabled for actions that are already templates. Snapback actions cannot be converted into templates.
When you are selecting Create Template Action, a popup menu displays above the selected action, prompting the user for the name of the template. Enter the Action Template name. If you click away, the popover is cancelled, otherwise clicking
Create creates the template and converts the action to a template action type.
Once you have created the Action Template, an animation will occur on the action as the name changes and is available under the
Action > Templates. Select the action you want to add the Action Template.
The action gear menu will only show appropriate action templates for the selected function. For example: Callout action templates will only show in the Callout inspector.
Once an action template has been added to a clip, it’s name will change to reflect that of its template so you can see at a glance what kind of template it is. If you modify the properties of an individual template action, it will not automatically update any other template actions of the same type in the timeline. If the template has been updated, an asterisk (*) will appear in front of the action name, to let you know the action has been modified from its original template. If you wish to update all instances of the template with the modified parameters, you can select the
Update Template to update all the actions in the current document.
