Open any recording and it plays in ScreenSolo's editor. The key idea: everything is a layer. The camera bubble, zooms, text, and background sit on top of your video — so you can change any of them after the fact, and the original recording is never touched.

One editor, two outputs

The switch at the top picks what you're making: ▶ Video (⌘1) is the recording with its timeline; ◆ Guide (⌘2) shows your snapshots as slides with write-ups, ready for a PDF or slide deck. The Story rail on the left lists your snapshots in both — see Scrubbing with snapshots.

The timeline

Every effect is a chip on its own lane under the video — ZOOM, BLUR, CAM, IPHONE, TEXT — with your snapshots on the STORY lane above. Drag a chip to move it in time, stretch its edges to retime it, or select it to restyle it in the right-hand panel. Use the ＋ on the playhead to add something new at the current moment.

Your camera is a layer too

If your webcam was on while you recorded, the camera is saved as its own layer, not baked into the video — on iPhone recordings, and on Pro desktop takes with Smart Capture's Animate clicks on. After you stop you can:

  • Move it — drag the bubble on the preview, or click any spot on the position grid, including dead centre
  • Resize it — drag the bubble's corner, or use the size slider
  • Hide it for a stretch — drag along the camera ribbon to carve out the quiet parts
  • Feature it full-size for the moments you're talking to camera

Clicking the bubble also brings the Camera card (position, size, shape, border, mirror) into view on the right.

You don't have to start with the camera on, either. Switch it on and off from the recording toolbar as often as you like: on a desktop take, every stretch it was on comes back as its own band on the CAM lane, each one editable. Switch it off and its recording stops instantly. (On an iPhone recording only the first stretch is a layer — turn the camera on a second time in the same take and that later stretch is part of the video itself.)

Your iPhone is a layer too

On Pro desktop takes with Smart Capture's Animate clicks on, the mirrored phone records as its own layer as well. Move it, resize it, hide it, feature it — or add a device frame that exports with the video. The full story: The iPhone layer.

Backgrounds and padding

Put the recording on a backdrop so it looks polished, not plain: a colour, a gradient (still or animated), or an image — with padding and rounded corners you control.

Text, cursor, and blur

  • Text banners — add a title anywhere on the video, drag it into place, pick the font, size and colour. The text always fits — never cut off.
  • Cursor styles — make the pointer big and easy to follow, add a glow or a click ripple, pick its colour.
  • Blur — hide an email address or password for any stretch of the video. Drag a blur region on the preview to move it, or drag its handles to resize it. No re-recording.

Two ways to edit

Do it by hand on the timeline — or press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) to open the Director and just type what you want: "blur my email at 0:12 and hide the camera until 0:30." See Direct the video.

When you're happy, press ⌘E for the Export sheet — shapes and quality are in Export shapes and quality.