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Articles about tutorials

Guides, comparisons and playbooks about tutorials, from the team behind ReScreen, the native screen recorder and editor for Mac.

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 read

Product 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 read

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 read

Product 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 read

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 read

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 read

Video 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 read

Use 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 read

Video 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 read

Product 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 read

Comparisons

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 read

Use 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 read

Feature 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 read

Use 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 read

Product 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 read

Comparisons

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 read

Use 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.

5 min read

Feature 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 read

Record the next one properly

Install it, hit ⌥⌘R, and watch a take that would normally cost you an evening in a timeline come out finished.

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