Screen Recording Properties
These properties control the mouse pointer and keyboard properties of a screen recording clip. Changing any of these options affects only the selected clips.
Screen Recording Properties are only available on clips based upon screen recordings, as they require the data on window identity and cursor movement captured along with your screen recordings. All of these effects can be varied over time by using a Screen Recording Action.
Properties
Show Mouse Pointer
When checked, the mouse pointer is visible in the clip.
Pointer Zoom
Controls the zoom amount of the Mouse Pointer. Many screencasts are reduced in size to 50% or even 25%, and the mouse pointer becomes lost in the resulting output. Zooming the mouse pointer is very useful to counteract this effect.
Click Effect
Choose the visual effect that occurs for each mouse click.
“Invert” can be very useful for iPhone applications that use the Circle Pointer. This makes it clear that the finger has been pressed.
Pointer
The look of the Pointer can be changed.
The default Pointer is the pointer that was seen when the recording was made, but one can use the Circle (good for iPhone examples), Square, or import an Image to use for the cursor.
NOTE: When importing an Image to use as the cursor, be sure to select the correct Hot Point Position. This is the location inside of the Image that should be considered exactly where the Mouse point is. For example, a “target” Pointer cursor would probably use the Middle Hot Point position, whereas a Pointer that mimics the default arrow cursor would use the Top-Left Hot Point position.
Opacity
Modifies the opacity of the pointer.
Sound on click
A sound is played when the mouse is clicked.
Show Keys Pressed
Visually shows your typing—if you are typing into a field, the typing is displayed.
Show Modifier Keys Pressed
Shows the command-keys pressed.
For example, if you press command-W to close a window, you will see a command-W appear on screen.