Automatic zoom
The camera follows your cursor, so you don't have to.
A screen recording is hard to follow at full size and tedious to zoom by hand. SmoothCut places the zooms for you as soon as you stop recording, and leaves every one of them editable.
- Zooms placed for you on every recording
- Depth, timing and easing per zoom
- Add your own with ⌥Z
- Drag a zoom on the timeline to move or resize it
How it works
Automatic zoom, step by step
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It knows where you were working
The cursor is recorded as data, not as pixels. SmoothCut reads where you clicked and lingered and moves in on those places, so the viewer is looking at what you were looking at.
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Each zoom is an ordinary edit
Every automatic zoom is a block on the timeline. Drag it, stretch it, change how deep it goes and how it eases in and out, or delete it. Nothing is baked into the recording.
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It survives a change of shape
Lay the same edit out as 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 and the zooms come with it, so a vertical cut for Shorts is not a second edit.
Automatic zoom: questions
Can I turn automatic zoom off?
Yes. The zooms are ordinary edits on the timeline: remove the ones you do not want, or all of them, and add your own with ⌥Z.
Does zooming reduce the quality?
The zoom is drawn from your original recording at export rather than by enlarging an already-exported video, so text stays as sharp as the recording allows. Record at your screen's full resolution for the deepest clean zooms.
Does it work on Windows?
Yes. Automatic zoom works the same on macOS and Windows.
More of what SmoothCut does
- Cursor smoothing Smooth cursor for screen recordings: SmoothCut records your cursor as data, so you can smooth, enlarge and restyle it and add click effects afterwards.
- Auto fix Auto fix reads your recording and plans the edit: silences, filler words, zooms, layout and sound. You read the plan first, and each step is an undoable edit.
- Camera layouts Record screen and camera together, then arrange them afterwards: picture-in-picture, side by side, stacked or fullscreen. Switch layouts mid-video.
- All features
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