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Put a screen recording on a background with a frame

Applies to ClipHearth 1.11.0 and later · updated

Show a video on a gradient, a colour, or your own picture with rounded corners and a shadow, draw the pointer larger and smoother, and zoom in on every click.

  1. 01Show the picture on a background

    Open the video in the Studio and click Shape and size on the Whole video page. In the BACKGROUND AND FRAME card, tick Show the picture on a background: the picture gets a little smaller and sits on a Gradient (eight to choose from), a colour, or a picture of your own. It works for any video, not only for recordings. A GIF gets no frame.

  2. 02Room, corners, and shadow

    Room around sets how much of the background shows, Round corners rounds the picture's corners, and Shadow lifts it off the background. Captions, text, marks, and a watermark lie on the frame, and the frame is kept with the project.

  3. 03Record with a drawn pointer

    In Recording and streaming, the Picture tab has Draw the pointer larger and smoother under POINTER & CLICKS, off out of the box, with its size. The screen is then recorded without the system's pointer and one is drawn afterwards from the way it went. It is always an arrow. It is not available on Linux with Wayland, and it is not drawn in a live stream.

  4. 04Change the pointer in the Studio

    For such a recording, the Camera and recording page has a POINTER card: show it or not, its size, how smoothly it moves, and hide it after it has rested for 2 or 4 seconds.

  5. 05Zoom in on the clicks

    For a recording kept changeable in the Studio, Zoom in on the clicks on the Zoom page adds a zoom at every click that has none yet; clicks close together share one. They are zooms like any other on the Zoom row, and one Undo takes them back.

  6. 06Export

    Export… opens the Export window, and Export to Queue writes a new file with the background, the frame, and the pointer in it. The original recording stays as it was.

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