Faster Exports, Real Undo & a Camera That Keeps Up
Exports no longer freeze your Mac, every edit can be undone, a new timeline makes cutting easy, and auto-zoom keeps up with fast cursor moves.
Exports that don’t freeze your Mac
Exporting a long recording used to eat more and more memory until the whole Mac slowed to a crawl. That’s fixed: memory use now stays flat no matter how long your recording is, the export runs at a lower priority so you can keep working, and cancelling stops it right away.
It’s faster, too — a 5-minute 1080p60 recording with a webcam exports in about two minutes on an M1 Pro.
- Audio stays in sync after cuts — every cut used to shift the audio a little further out of sync. It now lines up to within a millisecond.
- Consistent colors everywhere — exported videos are now color-tagged, so they look the same in QuickTime, Safari, Chrome and on YouTube.
- Cleaner blurred backgrounds — the blur background no longer has dark edges.
What you see is what you export
The editor preview is now drawn by exactly the same renderer as the export. Zooms, the cursor, click effects, keystrokes, the background and your webcam look in the editor precisely as they will in the final video.
Playback stays smooth at 60 fps, scrubbing shows every frame, and changing a setting updates the preview instantly. Animated wallpapers play smoothly as well.
Undo everything
Every edit — cuts, zooms and settings — can now be undone with ⌘Z and redone with ⇧⌘Z.
The button that used to remove all your cuts in one click (it looked a lot like undo) is now a clearly labeled Reset Cuts that asks before doing anything.
A timeline built for cutting
- Zoom and scroll — ⌘+ / ⌘− or pinch to zoom in, scroll to move around, ⇧Z to fit the whole recording.
- Select, then cut — drag across the timeline (or press I and O at the playhead) and hit Delete to cut the selection.
- Fine-tune cuts — drag a cut’s edges to adjust it; double-click or right-click it to bring the section back.
- Audio waveform — see at a glance where you’re talking.
- Home / End — jump to the start or the end.
A camera that keeps up
The cursor-following camera has been rebuilt. Small movements in the middle of the frame no longer make it jitter, and when you fling the cursor across the screen, it glides straight to where the cursor lands instead of lagging behind. In our tests, the time the cursor spent off-screen while zoomed in dropped from about 7% to 0.5%.
- Follow Cursor or Fixed — choose for each zoom whether the camera follows the cursor or holds still.
- Simpler zoom settings — one Zoom slider for how close to get, and a Transition setting for how fast to get there.
- Smooth zooms on MacBook screens — when your screen’s shape doesn’t match the video’s (a MacBook screen in a 16:9 video), the screen now grows smoothly into the frame instead of jumping at the start and end of each zoom.
- A cursor that belongs to the screen — the cursor now grows with the zoom like everything else on screen, and the tip of the arrow lines up exactly with where you clicked.
Instant webcam, sharper recordings
- No more black frames — the webcam warms up during the countdown, so it’s live from the very first frame.
- Everything in sync — screen, webcam and microphone now start on the same clock, and the microphone no longer misses your first words.
- Retina capture — recordings are captured at your display’s full resolution (up to 4K), so text stays crisp when zoomed in.
Good to know
- Recordings made with earlier versions keep their original resolution.
- Cursor size now sets the cursor’s size when the video isn’t zoomed in. If it looks too big in older projects, lower Cursor Size.