# How auto-zoom works

Every click in your take becomes a close-up, timed to start a second before the click and pushed in between 1.5× and 2.5×. You can tune them all, or any one.

Where to find it: Video editor › Simple › Done for you › Auto-zoom

## What PointerCam does with your clicks

- Each close-up starts a second before its click, so the camera has settled when the click lands.
- It holds after the last click for a moment, so viewers see what the click did.
- Clicks close together in time and place share one close-up. When they move across the screen, the camera pans instead of pulling out and back in.
- The depth comes from how spread out the clicks are: tight work gets 2.5×, broad work keeps its context at 1.5×.
- Fast scrolling is left alone, and typing gets a close-up that holds on the field.

## Tune them in Simple

- **Auto-zoom**: How many zooms there are. **Subtle**, **Balanced** or **Strong** sets how far all of them push.
- **Panning**: **Follow** pans with the pointer to keep it in the middle of the shot. **Steady** holds the shot and moves only for clicks, typing and where the pointer stops.
- **Zoom to drawings**: Each drawing you made while recording gets a close-up, like a click. Only for takes with drawings.

If a take has clicks but no zooms yet, the row offers **Make zooms**.

## Start again

To start over with a fresh set of zooms from your clicks, typing and drags, choose **Rebuild zooms from activity** in Pro under **Zoom & Motion › Auto-zoom**, or **Regenerate zooms from clicks** in the timeline’s **⋯** menu.

> **Tip:** Rebuilding replaces every zoom, including any you added or moved by hand. Press `⌘Z` to get them back.

> **Note:** A take recorded from Chrome only has clicks on web pages. If it might have missed some, Simple says so under Auto-zoom and offers **Add a zoom here**.

## Read next

- [Edit a zoom](https://pointercam.com/help/edit-a-zoom)
- [Add a zoom by hand](https://pointercam.com/help/add-a-zoom)
- [How zooms move](https://pointercam.com/help/zoom-feel)
- [Which clicks PointerCam follows](https://pointercam.com/help/which-clicks-are-followed)

Source: https://pointercam.com/help/auto-zoom