Polish a Recording

The Record tab in the editor's assets panel turns a raw take into a demo people can follow. It works on the selected recording, or the first recording on the timeline, and reads No recording on the timeline when there is none.

Before you start: a recording made with Klipeo's Chrome extension or Mac recorder. Its cursor data is what places zooms. Other videos can still use the canvas, camera, and annotation tools.

Make it watchable

Select any zoom on the timeline to change its amount, from 1.25× to 5×, or drag its edges.

The rest of this page covers each section of the Record tab.

Cursor data and auto-zoom

While it records, Klipeo tracks where your cursor goes and where you click. That data is what places the zoom regions, and what powers Suggest zooms on the zoom regions page later. Without a recording made in Klipeo, that button stays disabled.

The Mac app goes further. It writes a sidecar next to every recording with the cursor position at 60 Hz, each mouse click, and keyboard shortcuts (only chords with Command, Control, or Option, or function and navigation keys; typed text is never stored). The editor reads the sidecar when the recording opens, so auto-zoom follows the real cursor instead of guessing from pixels, and click effects and shortcut overlays have exact data.

When the editor supports cursor replacement, the Mac app records without the macOS pointer in the video and draws it back from the sidecar. Show cursor is on for these recordings and the size, style, smoothing, and click effects you pick in the Record panel's Cursor tab shape the only pointer viewers see. In an edit that mixes these recordings with older ones, which already contain the pointer, the drawn pointer appears only over the new recordings.

With Auto zoom on and Accessibility access granted, the Mac app also notes where the text caret is each time you type. Zooms on a burst of typing then center on the text you are writing instead of on the resting mouse. Only the caret's position is kept; apps that do not report a caret fall back to the mouse.

Screenshots and other recording apps can include Klipeo's recorder, camera, countdown, and teleprompter windows. These windows are excluded only by Klipeo's own capture filter.

Zooms, spotlight, and cursor in the Record tab

Generate zooms in the Record tab's Zoom section places zoom regions from the recording's cursor data, on clicks and on bursts of typing, the same way as the zooms placed when a take lands. Each zoom starts just before the click or keystroke and holds for a moment after it. A long run of clicking or typing does not become one endless zoom. Klipeo splits it into back-to-back zooms of at most 7 seconds, and the camera pans from one to the next instead of zooming out. Pick 2D zoom or 3D motion above the button to choose the style of the zooms it adds. Use Zoom amount to set the multiplier for generated regions. Selecting a zoom on the timeline exposes the same amount slider, with six levels from 1.25× to 5×. Interrupted pans continue from the current camera position, so re-aiming does not jump to the previous target. The button needs Auto zoom on. A recording without cursor data shows Detect cursor instead.

Spotlight dims the frame around the cursor while a zoom is on, so viewers look where you are working. The shade fades in and out with the zoom, follows the pointer or the text caret while you type, and keeps its size however far the zoom pushes in. Dim sets how dark the rest of the frame gets, up to 85%, and Size sets the radius of the clear circle as a share of the frame's shorter side. The spotlight shows in the preview and the export. The Mac app's native editor opens a composition that uses it in the web editor.

In the Cursor section, Hide cursor when idle fades the drawn pointer out once it has rested for about two seconds or as soon as you start typing, and fades it back in when you move the mouse again. Small hand tremors do not count as movement. Click sound plays a click on every recorded click, in the preview and the export. Pick Crisp (a trackpad click), Heavy (a deeper mouse click), or Slight (a quiet tick that sits under your voice); picking one plays it once.

Keystroke badges from the Keys section stay where you placed them on screen. They are drawn after the zoom, so a zoom never enlarges, moves, or crops them.

Watermark

At the bottom of the Record panel's Canvas tab, Show watermark puts your logo or a line of text in a corner of every frame. For Source, pick an image you imported into the project, or Text and type it. Set Position, Size (4% to 40% of the frame width), and Opacity. The watermark sits on top of everything, so zooms and 3D motion never move it, and it appears in the preview and the export.

Speed up typing

Long stretches of typing slow a video down. In the Record panel's Keys tab, Speed up typing finds every steady run of keystrokes the recorder captured (at least six keys over a second and a half, with no pause longer than about a second) and puts a speed region over each one. Pick 1.5× or 2× first. Runs that already have a speed region keep it, and each region can be trimmed or deleted on the timeline like any other. Vibe can do this too.

Camera layouts

When you record with the camera on, its clip lands as a bubble. Mac recordings keep the final placement you chose; browser recordings start in the lower-left corner. The Record panel's Camera tab switches how the camera and the screen share the frame for a stretch of time:

• Camera only fills the frame with the camera, for an intro or an outro.
• Screen only hides the camera.
• Side by side puts the screen on the left and the camera in a tall column on the right.
• Large camera grows the bubble in its corner.

Each layout lands at the playhead as a region on the effects track. Drag its edges to set how long it lasts; the clips ease into the layout and back over about a third of a second. Select a layout region to switch it to another layout. For a project recorded before layouts existed, select the camera clip and press Use the selected clip as the camera. Vibe can place layouts too. Layouts and the camera shrink below show in the preview and the export.

Camera background in the Camera tab keeps your camera as recorded (Original), blurs the room behind you (Blur, with a strength slider), or cuts you out so the recording shows behind you (Remove). Klipeo works out where you are in each frame on your own device; the first time, it downloads a small model. The setting applies to every camera clip and shows in the preview and the export. Vibe can set it too: ask it to "blur my background" or "remove the background behind me".

AI avatar in the Camera tab puts a talking portrait in the camera bubble, for a recording made without the camera or a take you would rather not show. Import a portrait into Media (one face, looking at the camera), pick it and the clip that carries your voice, and press Make avatar. Klipeo sends the voice in pieces of up to a minute, each piece becomes a lip-synced video of the portrait, and the pieces land end to end on a new track where the voice plays. They take the camera clip's place and size, and the camera clip is hidden, not deleted. The button shows the credit cost first: each minute of voice is one piece. Voice clips play at normal speed and run up to 10 minutes.

While a zoom is in, the camera bubble shrinks into its corner so it covers less of what the zoom shows. Set how small it gets with Camera size during zoom in the Camera tab, from 20% to 100% of its placed size (100% keeps it as placed). It starts at 70%.

Text, shapes, and masks in the Annotate tab

The Record panel's Annotate tab adds annotations at the playhead.

• Text drops a styled caption you edit on the canvas.
• Shapes include rectangles, circles, lines, arrows, a pointer, and two hand-drawn marks: Hand circle and Hand arrow draw themselves on over half a second, like a pen circling or pointing at something.
• Masks are regions on the effects track. Spotlight dims everything outside the area, Blur softens it, Mosaic pixelates it (set Block size), Magnifier enlarges what is inside it in place (set Magnification), and Callout frames it with an optional marquee and popout. Select a mask on the timeline to adjust it; Apply to all copies its settings to every mask of the same kind. Masks show in the preview and the export.

You can also drag a mask straight onto the video: in the Effects panel, under Draw on preview, pick Blur, Mosaic, Magnifier, Callout, Spotlight, or Zoom, and drag over the area.

Ask Vibe

Vibe reads the same cursor data. It knows which clips are Klipeo recordings, how many clicks and keystrokes they hold, and how long the cursor sat still, so it can polish a recording from what you actually did:

• "Zoom in where I click." Vibe places the same cursor-following zooms as auto zoom, on every clip of the recording, and leaves any zoom you placed alone. Ask for closer zooms or the 3D look and it sets the depth and motion. Ask it to spotlight the cursor and it also turns on Spotlight, keeping your Dim and Size.
• "Cut the dead waits." Vibe cuts the stretches where the cursor did not move and nothing was clicked or typed, keeping a short pause at each side. It steps around captions so speech stays. A recording with a voice and no captions gets Smart Cut for its pauses instead, unless you tell Vibe there is no voice.
• "Blur my background." Vibe blurs or removes the room behind you in the camera clip, the same as Camera background in the Camera tab.

Vibe zooms before it cuts, so each cut moves the zooms with the footage, and one Cmd/Ctrl+Z undoes each step.

Your recordings

Every take you record with Klipeo (the browser recorder, the extension, or the Mac app) is kept in Recordings, under More in the sidebar. New recording there opens the Record launcher in the Mac app, or the Record dialog on the projects home in a browser. In the Mac app, takes saved in Downloads/Klipeo Recordings are listed under On this Mac at the top, and a new take shows up there as soon as it is saved. Search it, open a recording to play it back and see whether cursor data came with it, delete it, or press Use in a new edit to start from it. On the projects home, Record → Choose recording lists your latest takes so you can attach one without uploading it again; its cursor data still places zoom regions in the editor.

Adjust zooms in the native Mac editor

With nothing selected, open the project inspector and choose Add zoom at playhead. Select a zoom clip on the timeline to change Zoom level. The control uses six levels, from 1.25× to 5×, shared by preview and export. Apply level to all zooms changes the other zoom phases in the composition. You can add more phases and undo these changes.