Let a zoom follow the pointer, and show the shortcuts you press
A recording can keep the pointer's way and, if you turn it on, the shortcuts you press. In the Editor a zoom can follow the pointer and shortcuts show as text.
01Record with the layers kept
This works on screen recordings made in ClipHearth. In the Save tab, WHEN IT IS DONE has Keep zooms and the camera changeable in the Editor, on out of the box. With it, the recording also keeps the way of the mouse pointer, in the folder next to it that keeps the zooms and the camera. That folder is made when the recording zoomed in on a click, has your camera over the screen, or kept shortcuts you pressed. A GIF, a recording split into files, Camera only, and Sound only get none.
02Keep the shortcuts you press
In the Picture tab, POINTER & CLICKS has Keep the keyboard shortcuts I press, off out of the box. Switched on, the recording keeps each key you press while you hold Ctrl, Alt (Option on a Mac), ⌘, or the Windows key (Super on Linux), with its moment. They read the way your computer writes them: ⌘C on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows and Linux. Shift on its own does not make a key a shortcut. From 1.7.7 only shortcuts are kept, not what you type: a key that types a character with what you hold is left out, such as AltGr on a Czech or German keyboard, or Option with a letter, a digit, or a punctuation key on a Mac.
03What is kept, and where
The shortcuts and the pointer's way are kept only while you record, not while the recording is paused. They are stored next to the recording on your computer, in the folder with the recording's name ending in .cliphearth, and never sent anywhere. The folder holds the pointer's way and, with Keep the keyboard shortcuts I press, the shortcuts you pressed. A recording made with 1.7.5 or 1.7.6 may also have kept characters typed with AltGr or Option, such as @, €, or {; deleting its folder removes them.
04Turn it off, or remove it later
Untick Keep the keyboard shortcuts I press and no shortcuts are kept. The pointer's way goes with Keep zooms and the camera changeable in the Editor: switch that off and nothing is kept next to the recording, so its zooms and camera can no longer be changed later. To take both away from a recording you already made, delete the folder next to it ending in .cliphearth. From 1.7.7, deleting the recording in Completed moves that folder to the trash too; a recording deleted outside ClipHearth leaves it behind, so remove it yourself. Without it, the recording plays as before and the Editor opens it as a plain file.
05Let a zoom follow the pointer
Open the recording in the Editor, from Completed or with Choose file. Pick a zoom on the Zoom row, or add one with Z, and click Follow the pointer in the ZOOM & PAN card of the Effects tab. The zoom starts where the pointer is, stays put while the pointer moves about the middle of the view, and glides after it within half a second once it leaves. MOVES becomes Gliding, the places it made can still be dragged, and Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Z undoes it. If the pointer did not move during that zoom, the Editor says so and leaves the zoom as it was.
06Show the shortcuts as text
In the Captions tab, TEXT AND TITLES has Show the shortcuts pressed when the recording kept any. It puts a line on the Text row for each shortcut: white letters on a dark box near the bottom of the picture, fading in and out, for 1.5 seconds or until the next one. Shortcuts pressed within half a second of each other share a line. Each one is an ordinary text to change, move, or remove, and Cmd+Z or Ctrl+Z takes them all off again.
07The pointer itself
The pointer and the click rings are part of the recorded picture: Show the mouse pointer and Highlight clicks in POINTER & CLICKS decide whether they are there. Follow the pointer moves the zoom, not the pointer.
08Where it does not work
On Linux with Wayland, programs cannot see clicks outside their own windows, so Keep the keyboard shortcuts I press is greyed out there and the pointer's way is not kept. Recordings from other apps or from before 1.7.5, and a recording opened with Open the file as it is, have neither. Everything happens on your computer.
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