What Cilevi does

Cilevi is two programs that share one window. The first is a screen recorder for Windows. The second is a video editor that opens what you just recorded and has already made most of the decisions a nice looking demo needs.

That second half is the point. A raw screen recording is usually unwatchable: the picture is too wide to read on a phone, the pointer jerks, and nothing draws the eye to the thing being clicked. Cilevi fixes all three before you touch anything.

What it has done by the time the editor opens

It put the recording on a background. Your screen sits inside a frame with padding, rounded corners and a soft shadow, on a wallpaper or a gradient you can change in one click.

It wrote the zooms. While you were recording, every click was logged with the moment and the place. The editor reads that list and builds a zoom clip for each cluster of clicks, easing in before the click and back out after it. You did not place any of them.

It replaced the pointer. The recorder leaves the real Windows pointer out of the frames on purpose. What you see in the editor is drawn by Cilevi, in the shape you really had at that instant, moving on a spring instead of teleporting from sample to sample.

What is still your job

Trimming the dead bits at each end, saying what the video is about with a title or two, and pressing Export. Everything else is optional, and everything else is what the rest of this guide covers.

What it never does

It does not upload your recording, anywhere, for any reason. There is no Cilevi account you need in order to record, no cloud rendering and no sharing service. Captions are made by a speech model running on your own processor. The privacy policy is the long version of that sentence.