Screen recording with a highlighted cursor
The system cursor is about 12 pixels tall, and once a recording is scaled down for the web it is nearly invisible — clicks leave no trace at all. The fix is to draw a larger cursor and a ripple on each click into the video itself. ReelCap does this while recording, so the effects are already in the exported file.
Doing it without an extension
- 1Turn on your operating system's cursor accessibility options to enlarge the pointer system-wide.
- 2Enable 'show mouse clicks' in your recorder, if it happens to offer that option.
- 3Record the demo as usual with a desktop screen recorder.
- 4In an editor, add zoom-ins or highlight shapes over the moments where you click.
Where that falls short
- System-wide cursor settings change how you work every day, not just while recording.
- Tab capture doesn't include the hardware cursor at all, so browser recordings can end up with no pointer whatsoever.
- Adding highlights in an editor is per-click manual work, and it has to be redone for every retake.
Doing it with ReelCap
- 1Switch on Highlight cursor and Click ripples in the popup before you record.
- 2Record the tab — ReelCap hides the hardware cursor and draws its own in the same place, so there is never a double pointer.
- 3Click as you normally would; each click leaves a ripple that fades on its own.
- 4Download the file with the effects already rendered into the frames.
Every step happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and the export carries no watermark.