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Recordings people actually watch, and how to make them
Feature deep-dives, honest comparisons, product video playbooks and problem-first walkthroughs — written by the people who build the recorder.
Product Features
The features that set ReScreen apart
What ReScreen does differently from other Mac screen recorders — automatic zoom, separate audio tracks, crash-safe capture and local-only recording.
Product Features
4K 60 FPS Screen Recording on Mac: Resolution, Codecs and Quality Explained
Blurry text and choppy scrolling come from the wrong settings, not the wrong Mac. Here is what resolution, frame rate, codec and quality actually do.
5 min readProduct Features
A Private, Offline Screen Recorder for Mac: Nothing Is Ever Uploaded
Screen recordings are the most sensitive video you make. Here is what a recorder that never uploads your footage looks like, and who needs one.
5 min readProduct Features
A Screen Recorder With a Built-In Editor: Cut the Take Without Leaving the App
The take is fine except for eleven seconds. ReScreen opens a timeline the moment you stop, so fixing it never means importing into another video editor.
5 min readProduct Features
Crash-Safe Screen Recording on Mac: Never Lose a Long Take Again
A recorder that writes one big file loses everything when something goes wrong. Here is how saving the take continuously, and offering to recover it, protects a long recording.
5 min readProduct Features
How to Record System Audio on Mac Without a Virtual Audio Driver
Your Mac recording has your voice but not the app's sound. Here is why that happens, and how to capture system audio without a loopback driver.
5 min readProduct Features
Instant MP4 Screen Recording: A Playable File the Moment You Stop
Most recorders hand you a project, not a file. ReScreen writes a playable MP4 the moment a take stops, with no second encode.
5 min readProduct Features
Screen Recording Backgrounds and Padding: Make a Capture Look Designed
A raw capture reads as a screenshot that moves. Padding, rounded corners, a shadow and a background of your own make the same take look designed.
5 min readProduct Features
The Auto Zoom Screen Recorder for Mac That Builds Zooms From Your Clicks
Viewers cannot read a 40-pixel button on a 4K capture. Here is how Smart Zoom builds editable zooms from your clicks, and who it saves the most time.
5 min readProduct Features
Vertical Screen Recording for Shorts, Reels and TikTok From One Landscape Take
Your screen is wide and the feed is tall. ReScreen's vertical presets reframe one landscape recording into 9:16 and follow your pointer so the action stays in shot.
5 min readProduct Features
Why Separate Audio Tracks Save Your Screen Recording
One flattened audio track means one loud ping can ruin a good take. Here is what recording mic and system audio separately lets you fix afterwards.
5 min readFeature Guides
Every setting, explained
Plain-language guides to ReScreen settings: Smart Zoom timings and easings, camera shapes, cursor smoothing and click effects, with recommended values.
Feature Guides
Cursor Smoothing and Click Effects: A Guide to Every Cursor Setting in ReScreen
A setting-by-setting guide to making the pointer readable: size, smoothing, idle hide, click effects and click colour, with values for each kind of video.
5 min readFeature Guides
Smart Zoom Settings Explained: Every Control, Default and Recommended Value
What each Smart Zoom control in ReScreen does, what it defaults to, and the values worth using for tutorials, product demos, social clips and courses.
5 min readFeature Guides
Webcam Overlay Shapes for Screen Recordings: Which Shape, Size and Position to Use
Circle or pill? 15% or 30%? A setting-by-setting guide to ReScreen's camera overlay, with values for tutorials, demos, social clips and courses.
5 min readComparisons
ReScreen compared, honestly
Fair comparisons between ReScreen and other screen recorders for Mac, including when the other tool is the better choice for the job you have.
Comparisons
ReScreen vs Camtasia: A Full Production Suite or a Native Mac Recorder?
Camtasia is a broad production suite with annotations, quizzes and templates. ReScreen is a focused native Mac recorder. Here is which job each one fits.
5 min readComparisons
ReScreen vs Loom: Local Polished Video or Cloud Async Messaging?
Loom sends a link in seconds. ReScreen makes a finished video that never leaves your Mac. Here is how to choose between them by the job you are doing.
5 min readComparisons
ReScreen vs OBS Studio: Which Mac Screen Recorder Fits the Job You Actually Have?
OBS Studio is a live production studio. ReScreen is a recorder and editor for polished tutorials. Here is how to tell which job you actually have.
5 min readComparisons
ReScreen vs QuickTime Player: Built-In Recorder or Purpose-Built Tool?
QuickTime Player is already on your Mac and costs nothing. Here is exactly where it is enough, and where a purpose-built recorder earns its price.
5 min readComparisons
ReScreen vs Screen Studio: An Honest Comparison for Mac Users
Both record your Mac screen and zoom in for you. The differences are in the details: audio tracks, crash recovery, sharing, GIFs and how you pay.
5 min readComparisons
The Best Screen Recorder for Mac Depends on the Job: An Honest Roundup
Six Mac screen recorders, sorted by the job each one does best, from quick clips to live streams. Written by the makers of ReScreen, and we say so up front.
6 min readVideo Marketing
Market your product with screen recordings
Playbooks for product demos, launch videos, tutorials, onboarding and sales videos — how software teams show their product with a screen recorder.
Video Marketing
Customer Onboarding Videos That Shorten Time-to-Value and Reduce Churn
New customers rarely leave because the product is bad. They leave because they never reached the part that is good. Short onboarding videos get them there.
5 min readVideo Marketing
How to Build a YouTube Channel for a Software Company That Customers Actually Use
Most software company channels are a webinar graveyard. Here is a practical way to build a tutorial channel people search for, watch and come back to.
5 min readVideo Marketing
How to Make a SaaS Launch Video From a Screen Recording (No Agency)
You do not need an agency or motion graphics to launch. A clear 60-second structure and a well-framed screen recording will carry a SaaS launch video.
5 min readVideo Marketing
How to Make Software Tutorial Videos Customers Actually Finish
Tutorials get abandoned when they are long, quiet and hard to follow. A repeatable method for short, clear software tutorials, with the settings that speed it up.
5 min readVideo Marketing
How to Record a Product Demo Video That Converts
Most demo videos are feature tours nobody finishes. Here is a step-by-step method for a short demo built around one outcome, and the settings that make it quick.
5 min readVideo Marketing
Landing Page Product Videos: Show Your Product in 60 Seconds
A hero video has seconds to show what your product does. How to plan, record and export a 60-second landing page product video that works on mute.
5 min readVideo Marketing
Sales Demo Videos for Outbound: A Playbook for Personalised Async Demos
Prospects ignore paragraphs and dodge calendar links. Here is a repeatable way to send a short, personal demo video instead — and record it in one take.
5 min readVideo Marketing
Screen Recordings for Social Media Marketing: A Strategy for LinkedIn, X and Shorts
Your product is your best content and it is already on your screen. A practical system for turning short screen recordings into a steady social media presence.
5 min readUse Cases
Real problems, solved with a recording
Problem-first walkthroughs for support teams, course creators, developers and anyone whose viewers cannot follow what happens on the screen.
Use Cases
Async Video Updates: How to Replace Meetings With Walkthroughs People Watch
Most status meetings are one person talking over a shared screen. Record it once instead. A practical workflow for async updates, SOPs and training.
5 min readUse Cases
How to Edit Screen Recordings Faster: Stop Spending Three Hours on a Five-Minute Video
A five-minute screen recording should not cost an afternoon. Here is where the editing time really goes, and a record-to-export workflow that removes it.
5 min readUse Cases
How to Fix Bad Audio in Screen Recordings: Quiet Voice, Loud App Sounds and Background Noise
A quiet voice, a deafening notification and a humming fan are three different problems. Here is why one flattened track hides them, and how to fix each.
5 min readUse Cases
How to Record Confidential Screens Safely When the Cloud Is Not an Option
Client data, NDA work, finance and health screens should not pass through a cloud recorder. Here is a local-only recording workflow for Mac.
5 min readUse Cases
Screen Recording for Developers: Bug Reports, PR Demos and Walkthroughs People Can Follow
Bug reports nobody can reproduce, PR demos nobody can read. A practical Mac workflow for developer screen recordings that reviewers can follow.
5 min readUse Cases
Screen Recording for Online Courses: Stop Losing Lessons and Hours to the Edit
Course creators lose lessons to crashes and weekends to editing. Here is a recording workflow that keeps forty lessons consistent, safe and quick to finish.
5 min readUse Cases
Support Videos That Reduce Tickets: Stop Typing the Same Answer Twice
Your team answers the same ten questions every week, one careful paragraph at a time. A small library of short support videos answers them once.
5 min readUse Cases
Viewers Can't See What You Click? How to Fix Unreadable Screen Recordings
Tiny buttons, a four-pixel pointer and silent clicks: why screen recordings become unreadable on small players, and the fixes that do not mean re-recording.
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