Highlight something, or each click

Dim the rest of the recording round a box so what is in it stands out, or do it before every click. All of them share one look, and any one can keep its own.

Mac appChrome

Where to find it

Video editor
Pro
Cursor
Highlights

Before every click#

In Simple, switch on Highlight before clicks under Done for you. In Pro it is under Cursor › Highlights. A moment before each click the rest of the picture dims round what is about to be clicked, and lifts as the click lands.

It works on Chrome and Mac takes: both record what each click landed on.
Off takes those highlights away again. One you placed yourself stays.
Each one is on the Highlights lane, to move, trim or delete like any other.

Highlight something yourself#

1Move the playhead to where it should start.
2Press Draw a box beside Add a highlight, or Add › Highlight something on the timeline.On a Chrome take, Point at it and click the thing on the preview instead: the highlight stays on it as the page moves.
3Drag the box onto what it points at, and its ends on the timeline to set how long.

One look for every highlight#

Every highlight wears the same look, and a new video starts on Float. Set it in Pro under Cursor › Highlights, in Every highlight. In Simple, once there is a highlight, Highlight look and Wash set it too.

Float: What is highlighted floats up round, in a soft glow, while the rest greys a little and softens.
Dim: The rest darkens round a clean box with a thin line.
Spotlight: A soft round pool of light, with the rest in shade.
Blur: The rest goes out of focus and what is in the box stays sharp.
Lift: What is highlighted rises toward you over a soft shadow, with the rest softened behind it.
Mono: The rest loses its colour.
Glow: A light round the box, as if it were lit from inside.

Under the looks, Wash is the colour the rest fades into: Shade, Light for a pale wash, Iris, or any colour. Dim the rest sets how far it fades.

Adjust it#

Blur the rest: Softens everything outside the box.
Grey the rest: Takes the colour out of everything outside the box.
Soft edge: From a clean cut round the box to a wide soft edge.
Room: Space left round what is highlighted, so it is not cut tight.
Corners: From square to round.
Lift: How far what is highlighted rises, larger over a soft shadow. Float lifts it 100%, and it goes to 200%.
Edge: None, a thin Line or a soft Glow, in the colour you pick.
Fade: How long it takes to come in and to go. It is never more than a third of the highlight.

One highlight its own way#

1Select the highlight on the Highlights lane or on the preview.
2Change its look in its panel. What you change there is that highlight's own, and the others keep the shared look.
3Press Use for all to make its look every highlight's, or Reset to give it the shared look again.

In Cursor › Highlights, Use this on all gives every highlight the shared look again.

Hide or Highlight: The same box either way: Hide covers what is under it instead.