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Screen Recording Properties

These properties control the the mouse pointer and keyboard properties of a screen recording clip. Changing any of these options only affect the selected clips.

Screen Recording Properties are only available on clips based upon screen recordings, as they require the data captured along with your screen recordings. All of these effects can be varied over time by using a Screen Recording Action.

Properties

  • Show Mouse Pointer

    When checked, the mouse pointer is visible for the clip.

  • Pointer Zoom

    Controls the zoom amount of the Mouse Pointer.

    Many screencasts are reduced in size by 50% or even 75%, and the mouse pointer becomes lost in the resulting output.

    Zooming the mouse pointer is very useful to counteract this effect.

  • Click Effect

    Choose the visual effect that occurs for each mouse click.

    Invert can be very useful for iPhone applications that use the Circle Pointer.
    This makes it clear that the finger has been pressed.

  • Pointer

    The look of the Pointer can be changed.

    The default Pointer is the pointer that was seen when the recording was made.

    One can use either the Circle (good for iPhone examples), Square, or import an Image to use for the cursor.

    NOTE: When importing an Image to use as the cursor, be sure to select the correct Hot Point Position. This is the location inside of the Image that should be considered exactly where the Mouse point is. For example, a "target" Pointer cursor would probably use the Middle Hot Point position, whereas a Pointer that mimics the default arrow cursor would use the Top-Left Hot Point position.

  • Opacity

    Modifies the opacity of the pointer.

  • Show Keys Pressed

    Visually shows your typing - if you are typing into a field, the typing is displayed.

  • Show Modifier Keys Pressed

    Shows the command-keys pressed.

    For example, if you press command-w to close a window, you will see a command-W appear on screen.