Grouped, never twitchy
Clicks close together become one held zoom instead of a dozen lurches, and a drag or a scroll keeps the zoom alive for as long as the interaction lasts.
Smart Zoom
Screen recording that zooms to every click
ReScreen watches where you click, drag and scroll, then pans and zooms the way an editor would — while you are still recording.
The problem
Your viewer is squinting. The button you just clicked is forty pixels wide on a 4K display, and the only fix anyone knows is an hour of keyframing a scale value that never quite lands on the right frame.
What happens instead
Clicks are recorded as events, not as pixels. The editor groups them into zoom blocks, frames them away from your camera bubble and the edges of the screen, and hands every block back to you to move, retime or delete.
In detail
What smart zoom actually does
Seven easings, three phases
Choose how a zoom enters and leaves, and set the in, hold and out timings per block until the motion matches the way you talk.
It knows where your face is
Framing is clamped to the source bounds and steers around the camera bubble, so a zoom never crops the thing it was pointing at.
Always yours to override
Add a manual zoom anywhere on the timeline, or set a selected zoom’s focus by clicking the preview. Undo and redo cover every change.
Specifications
The short version
- Triggered by
- Clicks, drags and scrolls
- Easing modes
- Seven
- Timing
- Configurable in, hold and out phases
- Manual zooms
- Add, move, retime, delete
- Applied in
- Live preview and export alike
- Requires
- Input Monitoring for click detection
FAQ
Questions about smart zoom
Do I have to set zooms up before I record?
No. ReScreen records cursor and click events while it captures and builds the zoom blocks when the take opens in the editor, so you can concentrate on what you are demonstrating.
Can I remove a zoom I do not want?
Yes. Select the block in the timeline and delete it, or change its focus, easing and phase timings. Zoom blocks are ordinary editable objects, not a baked-in effect.
Is the zoom burned into the recorded file?
No. Zooms are applied by the compositor at preview and export time. The ready-to-play MP4 written beside the project keeps the original framing.
Keep reading
The parts that work with it
Cursor & clicks
Size, smoothing, idle fade and click effects — drawn from recorded events rather than burned into the capture.
Read moreTimeline editor
Splitting, trimming, ripple deletes and per-section speed, without exporting into another application first.
Read moreExport
Up to 4K at 30 or 60 FPS, MP4 or MOV, H.264 or HEVC — plus a playable MP4 written the moment you stop.
Read moreFrom the blog
Guides that use smart zoom
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