Automatic zoom

Open a Cilevi recording and the Zoom track already has clips on it. Nobody put them there.

Where they come from

The recorder wrote down every click: the moment, the place on the screen, which button. The Studio reads that list, groups clicks that happened near each other in time and space, and makes a zoom clip for each group.

Each one starts moving before the click, so the picture has arrived by the time you press the button, and eases back out afterwards. The camera aims at the pointer rather than at the middle of the screen, so the thing you clicked is the thing in the frame.

That is the whole trick, and it is why the zooms are in the right place: they are built from what you did, not guessed from the pixels.

Changing them

A zoom is a clip. Drag it along the Zoom track to change when it happens, drag its ends to change how long it lasts, and select it to change how far it goes in on the Zoom tab.

Removing them

Select one and press Delete.

To start from nothing, open the Zoom tab with nothing selected and press Remove all. You then have an empty Zoom track and can place your own.

When it gets it wrong

Two cases come up.

A settings screen with a wide gap between the label and the switch. A zoomed frame cannot hold both the name of the setting and the control it belongs to when they are 1300 pixels apart. Either widen the zoom clip so it goes in less far, or delete it and let that moment play full frame.

A stretch of typing with no clicks in it. Nothing was clicked, so nothing was zoomed. Add a zoom by hand: put the playhead where you want it and press Z.