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Simple and Pro

Simple holds what the editor did and the choices most videos need, one click each. Pro has every setting, under the same names. Switch with the pill in the header.

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Where to find it
  1. Video editor
  2. Header
  3. Simple | Pro

Simple#

Simple opens on a verdict: Ready to export when there is nothing left to do, or what PointerCam set up for you. Under it, in groups:

Done for you
The zooms made from your clicks, the pointer and the mark a click leaves, drawings, and captions with their size and place.
Suggested
What PointerCam found and did not do, such as long pauses or private fields, for you to take or dismiss.
Privacy
Hide something: draw a box over a name, a number or a tab, or on a Chrome take point at it.
Look
Styles, the background (six to pick from, any colour or a picture of your own), the video’s shape, the frame, its border, a window around it, and how the video opens.
Camera
Where your camera sits, its shape, size and ring, and whether it moves itself. Only on takes with a camera.
Brand
Your logo, and its intro and outro.
Sound
Your voice, when the take has one, music, and click and key sounds.

Under the preview, Simple’s timeline has Split, Cut and Add. Split divides the video at the playhead, and a piece you click can be removed with ⌫. Cut takes out a second, which you widen by its ends, or drag across the footage to mark a stretch to remove. Add puts a zoom, a cover, a speed change or a callout at the playhead.

Pro#

Pro has every setting, in seven areas: Scene, Camera, Zoom & Motion, Cursor, Cuts & Privacy, Audio & Captions and Brand & Export. Each area opens into sections, one at a time, and each section’s line says what it is set to now.

  • Changed shows only the sections you have changed from a new video, with a count.
  • The search field at the top finds any setting. See Search the settings.
  • The timeline gains its toolbar and every lane.

Read next

Search the settingsPress ⌘K in the editor and type what you see or what you want, like shadow or silence. Each result says where it lives, and Return opens it.Find your way around the editorThe editor has four parts: the header across the top, a column of settings on the left, the preview in the middle, and the timeline under it.Styles: save a look and reuse itA style remembers how a video looks and puts it on another in one click. 12 starter styles come built in, and you can save, share and import your own.

Something not working the way this page says? See Troubleshooting, or start from Getting started.