Help center
Every feature, and how to use it.
Step-by-step help for recording, the video editor, screenshots and guides, in the Mac app and in Chrome.
New to PointerCam?Your first video in three steps.
Getting started shows you how to set up, record, edit and share, written for the Chrome.
Start
Getting started
Install PointerCam and make your first take
Recording
Tabs, windows, screens, your voice and your camera
- Record a browser tab
- Record a window or your whole screen in Chrome
- Record your screen on a Mac
- Record a guide instead of a video
- Your microphone and camera
- Pause, stop or discard a take
- Draw on the screen while you record
- Which clicks PointerCam follows
- Hide passwords and private fields
- Recover a take that stopped early
Library
Find, open, archive and bring in what you make
Video editor
Editor basics
Simple and Pro, search, Styles and the timeline
Scene
Background, frame, border, window and shape
Camera
Layouts, the smart camera and how your camera looks
Zoom & Motion
Close-ups from your clicks, and how they move
Cursor
The pointer, clicks, drawings and the spotlight
Cuts & Privacy
Trim, split, speed up, and hide what is private
Audio & Captions
Volumes, music, click sounds and captions
Brand & Export
Your logo, the intro and outro, and exporting
Screenshots and guides
Screenshot editor
Take a screenshot, mark it up and save it
Guide editor
Turn a take into a step-by-step guide
- Make a step-by-step guide
- Find your way around the guide editor
- Step headings and text
- Move between steps and reorder them
- Add, join, leave out or delete steps
- Sections
- Marker, spotlight and framing
- Choose and mark up a step’s picture
- Hide things in a guide
- The guide’s look and document
- Preview a guide
- Download or copy a guide
- Steps that move
Account
Settings and your data
Theme, backups, deleting, and where files live
Plans and Studio
What is free, what Studio adds, your licence key
Troubleshooting
Fixes for permissions, missing clicks and exports
The keys worth learning first.
Recording keys for the Chrome, and the editor’s most used ones.
- ⇧⌘S
- Stop
- ⌥⇧D
- Draw on the page
- Space
- Play or pause
- S
- Split the piece under the playhead in two, keeping every frame
- X
- Cut one second out at the playhead, so the video gets shorter
- L
- Loop what’s selected. Off plays the whole video
- F
- Fullscreen the preview
- ⌘Z
- Undo
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