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Ask in your own words. Every guide says where the control lives in FrameCast, the steps to use it, and who can use it, on the Mac, iPhone and the web.
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What people ask most
- How do I record my screen on a Mac with FrameCast?
- How do I share a screen recording as a link?
- Why is my screen recording black?
- How do I record my voice with my screen?
- How do I add subtitles to my video?
- How do I remove silence from a recording?
- How do I make a vertical video?
- How do I make a GIF from a screen recording?
- Does FrameCast add a watermark?
- Who watched my video?
- How do I screen record on my iPhone with FrameCast?
14 topics
Get started
11Installing on Mac, the menu bar, permissions, signing in and updates.
- Install FrameCast on your Mac
- Open the FrameCast studio
- Use the FrameCast menu bar menu
- Grant FrameCast permissions on your Mac
- Grant screen recording permission
- Sign in to FrameCast on your Mac
- Update FrameCast on your Mac
- Take the welcome tour and setup checklist
- Open FrameCast when your Mac starts
- Send feedback or report a bug
- Turn off usage statistics
Record your screen
22Choosing what to capture, audio, following the action, screenshots and recording controls.
- Record your screen with your camera
- Record system audio and your microphone
- Record only part of the screen
- Choose which display to record
- Pause, resume, or stop a recording
- Highlight your cursor and clicks
- Find your recordings after you stop
- Find and organize your projects
- Use and change keyboard shortcuts
- Show a list of shortcuts on screen
- Save and switch recording setups
- Take a screenshot
- Copy text from anywhere on screen
- Mark up a screenshot
- Find and organize your screenshots
- Choose what happens after a screenshot
- Use FrameCast for ⇧⌘3, ⇧⌘4, and ⇧⌘5
- Add a calendar event from the screen
- Show FrameCast itself in a recording
- Fix a black or blank screen recording
- Fix a recording with no sound
- Fix a recording that won’t start
Camera & overlays
18The floating camera, pinning it in frame, backgrounds, name labels, keys and live captions on screen.
- Show your camera on screen
- Change the camera shape, ring, and shadow
- Resize and move the camera
- Pin the camera inside the recording frame
- Blur, replace, or remove your background
- Put a flat chroma key color behind you
- Zoom, mirror, and frame the camera image
- Keep your face centered with face tracking
- Adjust camera color and lighting
- Save a camera look as a preset
- Add a name label or title on screen
- Add a photo or logo on screen
- Show the keys you press on screen
- Show live captions on screen
- Add a live preview of your screen crop
- Hide the camera and overlays, or click through them
- Replace yourself with an avatar on camera
- Fix a camera that isn’t showing
Edit a recording
19The Mac video editor: trimming, cleanup, reframing, zooms, text, music and sound.
- Open a recording or video in the editor
- Start a new video project from scratch
- Trim the start or end of a clip
- Cut out a part in the middle of a video
- Speed up or slow down a clip
- Remove silences, ums and repeated words
- Change a video to vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
- Crop a screen recording
- Zoom in on clicks automatically
- Make the video follow your mouse
- Add videos, images and audio to a project
- Put a video or image on top of another (picture-in-picture)
- Blur or hide passwords and private info in a video
- Add background music to a video
- Fade audio in and out, or add echo and other sound effects
- Separate the audio from a video
- Undo or redo an edit
- Use keyboard shortcuts in the video editor
- Save a project to keep editing later
Captions & transcripts
8Transcribing, editing by text, styling captions, burning them in and exporting SRT.
AI tools & voice-over
13Scripts, voice-overs, visuals, video briefs for AI and the credits they use.
- Have AI write a narration script for your video
- Generate an AI voice-over
- Replace your recorded voice with an AI voice
- Choose and preview an AI voice
- Change how the AI voice sounds
- Rewrite or shorten a script with Apple Intelligence
- Write a video script from a website
- Add stock photos and clips to your script
- Generate AI images and clips for your script
- Compose AI background music for your video
- Turn a video into a brief for ChatGPT, Claude or another AI
- Add credits for voice-overs and AI
- See what a project has spent on AI
Export & GIFs
13Formats, sizes, frame rates, GIFs and saving without a watermark.
- Export a video file from the editor
- Export a screen recording without a watermark
- Choose between MP4, HEVC and ProRes
- Export a video in 4K
- Make a video smaller to send or upload
- Change the frame rate of an export
- Turn a video into a GIF
- Export a recording as MP4, ProRes or GIF from its card
- Repeat a video several times in one file
- Find your exported videos, or save them to FrameCast Files
- Save only the audio from a video
- Remove background noise and polish your voice
- Make your video’s audio louder or set it to −14 LUFS
Meetings
17Video meetings, inviting people, recordings and meeting notes.
- Start a video meeting
- Join a meeting with a code or link
- Schedule a meeting and email invites
- Invite people to a meeting
- Add a meeting to your calendar
- Use your personal meeting room
- Control who can join a meeting
- Check your camera, microphone, and speaker
- Share your screen in a meeting
- Draw on a whiteboard or a shared screen
- Chat, raise your hand, and react in a meeting
- Mute, remove, or make someone co-host
- Record a meeting
- Turn on live captions and meeting notes
- Read, download, or delete meeting notes
- Understand meeting time limits and group minutes
- Add a video call to an event from a screenshot
Files, clipboard & photos
13FrameCast Files, the shared clipboard, photo sync and moving files between devices.
- Browse and preview your files on the web
- Upload files and folders
- Make folders, rename, and move files
- Search and filter your files
- Delete files and restore them from Trash
- Use FrameCast Files in Finder on your Mac
- Use FrameCast Files on your iPhone
- Back up your iPhone photos with photo sync
- Send iPhone photos to a team folder
- Restrict a team folder to certain people
- Get more storage, or fix storage full
- Use clipboard history on your Mac
- Sync your clipboard between Mac and iPhone
Web editor & recorder
16Editing and recording in the browser at getframecast.com.
- Edit a video in your browser
- Start a new project in the web editor
- Open a FrameCast recording in the web editor
- Trim, split, and arrange clips in the web editor
- Resize a video for Reels, TikTok, or Shorts in your browser
- Make the frame follow your cursor in a browser recording
- Use your FrameCast Files and assets in the web editor
- Find, open, or delete your web editor projects
- Save a web project to the cloud and open it on another computer
- Export an MP4 from the web editor
- Make a GIF in your browser
- Share a link to a video you edited in the browser
- Record your screen in the browser
- Record your webcam, or your screen with a camera bubble, in the browser
- Fix “This browser can’t encode video” or a recording that won’t start
- Use your FrameCast dashboard on the web
iPhone
21Recording, the camera, the iPhone editor and controlling your Mac from your phone.
- Install FrameCast on your iPhone and sign in
- Record your iPhone screen
- Start a FrameCast recording from Control Center
- Stop an iPhone recording from the Dynamic Island or Lock Screen
- Get a share link the moment you stop recording on iPhone
- Fix an iPhone recording that stopped early or didn't save
- Take photos and videos that upload to FrameCast Files
- Record a video message with a link on iPhone
- Edit a video on your iPhone
- Add captions to a video on iPhone
- Remove ums and long pauses on iPhone
- Crop a video to vertical or square on iPhone
- Export from the iPhone editor as MP4, HEVC, ProRes, or GIF
- Share a recording's link or file from your iPhone
- Find your recordings and share links on iPhone
- Control your Mac from your iPhone
- Move between your Mac's screens from your iPhone
- Lock a shared iPhone to the camera with lock mode
- Add voice credits on your iPhone
- Add a calendar event with a video call from a screenshot on iPhone
- Switch between your account and a team on iPhone
Teams & workspaces
15Inviting people, roles, shared storage and team billing.
- Create a team
- Invite people to your team
- Join a team you were invited to
- Let people from your company domain join
- Change roles, remove someone, or leave a team
- Switch between your own space and a team
- Move your own files into a team
- Change your team's name, brand color, and sharing default
- Turn team features on or off
- See your team's activity
- Set where team photos go and check team phones
- Lock a shared iPhone to your team
- Pay for, renew, or cancel a team's plan
- Check and add team storage
- Transfer ownership or close a team
Plans & your account
10What's free, Pro, credits, referrals, signing in and deleting your account.
Still stuck?
Install, permissions and how to reach a person.
Workflow guides
Longer walkthroughs for lessons, demos and captions.
What’s free
Everything you can do without paying, and where Pro starts.
Try it on your Mac
macOS 14 or later. Recording, editing and export are free.