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Highlight your cursor and clicks Draw a circle, ring, glow, square, or spotlight around the pointer, and a ripple, pulse, or burst on each click, so viewers can follow you.
Where to find it Studio → Screen recording → Picture → Frame rate & pointer
How to do it 1 Open the studio and choose Screen recording .
2 Under Frame rate & pointer , turn Show cursor on or off.
3 Choose a Highlight style: Circle , Ring , Glow , Square , or Spotlight .
4 Set its Color , Size , Opacity , and Lag . Spotlight also has Dim for the rest of the screen.
5 Choose a Click effect: Ripple , Pulse , or Burst , and its Click color .
Good to know The highlight is drawn on screen and recorded into the take, so it can’t be removed in the editor afterwards.
Who can use it Free
Where it works Mac This guide answers How do I highlight the mouse in a screen recording? Can I show mouse clicks in my recording? How do I make the cursor bigger or easier to see? How do I hide the cursor in a recording? What does Spotlight do? Related guides Turn a video into a brief for ChatGPT, Claude or another AI
Make a timestamped JSON of what was said and shown in a video, plus an optional ZIP with images and a storyboard, to give to an LLM. Runs on your Mac.
Change the camera shape, ring, and shadow
Make the camera a circle, rounded square, pill, star, heart, and more, then add a ring, a gradient, and a shadow.
Make the frame follow your cursor in a browser recording
Find the mouse pointer in a video that has no cursor data, so a vertical crop follows it and zooms in where it stops. It runs on your computer.
Make word-by-word or karaoke captions
Show two or three big words at a time as they’re spoken, or highlight each word as it’s said, the way short-form videos do.
Still stuck? Support covers install, permissions and how to send feedback from the app.
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