Everything in ScreenCraft

One app that records your screen, then lets you shape the result in a real timeline. Here is the complete list, grouped by what you are trying to do.

Record

Display, window or area
Capture a whole display, a single window, or drag out an area. The rest of the screen is dimmed so you can see what is in frame.
Camera, microphone, system audio
Each has a device picker and a live level meter. The camera shows as a bubble you can restyle later.
Resolution and frame rate
Native, 2560, 1920, 1600 or 1280 wide at 30 or 60 fps, using ScreenCaptureKit on macOS and Windows.Graphics.Capture on Windows.
Cursor and keys on the side
The system cursor is not baked in. Positions, clicks and shortcut keys are logged separately so they can be redrawn and restyled. Ordinary typing is never stored.
Always within reach
A draggable recording bar, a cancellable countdown, a global shortcut, and menu-bar controls.

Zoom and cursor

Automatic zooms
Zoom regions are generated from your clicks and typing, with adjustable ease in and out. While you type, the camera follows the text caret.
Manual control
Add a zoom anywhere, drag and resize blocks, select several at once and edit them together or move them as a group.
Spring-smoothed camera
Movement uses spring physics, so it settles naturally instead of sliding on rails.
Restylable cursor
Several styles, size, smoothing, click effects and hide-when-idle. It hides while you type and returns when you move the mouse.

Timeline and pace

Cut and arrange
Split, trim, reorder, duplicate and delete clips, with undo and redo throughout.
Speed
Set a speed per clip, jump over idle stretches found from clicks, typing, cursor motion and speech, and ease changes into smooth ramps.
Freeze frames and transitions
Hold a frame for a moment, then move between clips with a true cross-dissolve, fade, flash, blur, slide or zoom.
Work on long recordings
Zoom the timeline itself, resize the panes, and rely on a preview proxy that is built in the background when you stop recording.

Look

Backgrounds
Twelve built-in wallpapers, each with optional subtle motion (drift, bokeh, waves or dust), plus gradients, solid colours and your own image with blur.
Device frames
Wrap the screen in a laptop, monitor, tablet, phone or browser window.
Framing
Padding, corner radius, shadow, crop and any aspect ratio: 16:9, 9:16, 1:1, 4:3, 3:4, 4:5 or 21:9.
Watermark and presets
Place your own logo with size and opacity, and save a whole look as a named preset.

Camera and audio

Camera layouts
Bubble, large, camera only, or side by side on either side. Each block has its own size, position, shape, mirror, border and shadow, and the change eases in.
Music
Lay music on its own track with fades, and let it duck automatically under your voice.
Microphone levelling
Quiet microphones are lifted to a healthy level without ever turning anything down.
Optional sounds
Add subtle click and key sounds. They are synthesised in the app, so there are no samples to license.

Captions and annotations

Automatic captions
Transcribed on your computer with whisper.cpp. Choose tiny, base or small English models, or the multilingual base model.
Caption styles
TikTok-style by default, plus red, highlight, classic and minimal looks. Edit text and timing, import and export SRT.
Annotations
Text titles, arrows, boxes, circles, highlights, blur, pixelate and spotlight. Pin them to the recording so they follow the zoom, or to the frame.
Shortcut display
Show keys like Cmd+C or Esc as you press them.

Export

MP4 and GIF
H.264 or HEVC at 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K, 30 or 60 fps, with quality presets and motion blur.
Hardware encoding
Frames are rendered and encoded locally. A stalled hardware encoder is detected and retried in software.
Smaller files
Compress after export, or use the standalone compressor on any video.

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