Style your screen
Open the Frame tab (⌘6). Under Around your screen, pick a look (Edge, Snug, Balanced or Roomy), then fine-tune Corners and Shadow.
Pick a look
Click Frame in the tabs on the right, or press ⌘6. Under Around your screen, click one of the four looks. Hover a look first to see it on the video before you commit.
| Look | What you get |
|---|---|
| Edge | Edge to edge: no padding, square corners. |
| Snug | A thin border and soft corners. |
| Balanced | The default frame. |
| Roomy | Lots of space and a deeper shadow. |
Fine-tune
Under the looks:
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Corners | How round the screen's corners are. |
| Shadow | How strong the shadow under the screen is. |
| Crop | Shows Whole recording, or the part you kept. Crop… opens crop mode. |
Open More settings at the bottom of the tab for the rest:
- Edges: Padding, the space around the screen as a share of the frame, and Smoothing. 0 % is a plain round corner, 100 % a smoother, Apple-style corner.
- Shadow: Distance, Angle and Blur. Turn on Directional for a shadow cast from a point of light: the far side reaches further, and it moves as the screen zooms.
Inset band
Under More settings › Inset, add a frosted band between the screen's edge and your recording. Set its Size, Tint and Opacity. Origin places the recording inside the band: Even, Title bar, Footer, Left or Right, or drag it.
Go further
More settings also has:
- Background blur: shown when the background is a picture. See Choose a background.
- Motion blur: a touch of blur on fast moves, like a real camera. Amount sets how much, Preview how smooth it looks while you edit.
- Timeline › Frame rate: the rate you step and edit at. Each export picks its own.
- Device frame: for Mac recordings. See Device frames.
The header of More settings says how many settings you have changed, such as 2 changed. To jump straight to one setting, press ⌘K and type its name. See Find any setting.
Export quality, such as Supersample and Sharp text, lives under More options in the Export window.