Zoom Effects

Zoom effects draw your viewer’s attention to important areas of your recording. They smoothly zoom into a specific point on the screen and then zoom back out, creating a polished, focused presentation.

Auto-Generated Zooms

Recorded automatically tracks your cursor position and click activity during recording. When you open the editor, it can analyze this data and generate zoom regions at the points where you interacted with the screen. This gives you a solid starting point — you can then tweak, add, or remove zoom points as needed.

The auto-zoom feature also automatically splits your video segments at zoom boundaries, making it easy to apply different settings to zoomed and non-zoomed sections.

Manual Zoom Points

Add custom zoom effects at specific moments in your timeline. Select a segment on the timeline and open the Zoom tab to configure it as a zoom region.

Zoom Level

Set the magnification level from 1.0x (no zoom) to 4.0x (400% magnification). Higher values focus on a smaller area of the screen, making details more visible.

Target Position

Click on the preview to set the zoom target — the point on the screen that will be centered during the zoom. The target is stored as a normalized X/Y position, so it works correctly at any export resolution.

Easing Curves

Control how the zoom transitions feel with easing functions:

  • Ease Out — Starts fast and decelerates (default, natural feel)
  • Ease Out Circ — Circular deceleration, slightly more dramatic
  • Ease Out Expo — Exponential deceleration, very smooth finish
  • Ease In-Out Circ — Symmetrical acceleration and deceleration
  • Expo Out — Strong exponential ease-out for cinematic zooms

Transition Duration

Fine-tune how long the zoom-in and zoom-out animations take:

  • Ease-in duration: 0.1s to 2.0s — How long it takes to zoom in
  • Ease-out duration: 0.1s to 2.0s — How long it takes to zoom back out

Shorter durations feel snappy and energetic; longer durations feel smooth and cinematic.

Removing Zoom Points

Select a zoom segment on the timeline and delete it, or change its zoom level back to 1.0x. You can also undo any zoom changes with Cmd/Ctrl + Z.

Tips

  • Don’t overdo it — A few well-placed zooms are more effective than zooming on every click. Let the viewer see the full context between zooms.
  • Match zoom to content — Use higher zoom levels (3–4x) for small UI elements like buttons and menus, and lower levels (1.5–2x) for larger areas like text editors.
  • Start with auto-zoom — Let Recorded generate zoom points automatically, then fine-tune the ones that matter most and remove any that feel unnecessary.