A cursor your viewers can follow.
Lumae hides the system pointer while you record and draws its own in its place: bigger, steadier, and leaning into fast moves. Every click can ripple or press, so viewers see exactly where you clicked.
How it works
- 01
Record with Smooth Cursor on
It's on by default. Lumae hides the system pointer and saves its path, its clicks and its shape as you go.
- 02
Pick a pointer and a click
With nothing selected, open the Cursor tab. Choose As recorded, Arrow, Touch or Hidden, then a click effect: None, Ripple or Press.
- 03
Tune how it moves
Set Size, Smoothing and Tilt for the whole video. To hide the pointer over one clip, change it on that clip's page.
What you can change
Each one is named the way it appears in Lumae.
- Pointer
- Hidden, As recorded, Arrow or Touch. As recorded follows the app, from arrow to I-beam to pointing hand.
- Click
- None, Ripple or Press. Press is the default; Ripple sends a ring out from where you clicked.
- Size
- 50 % to 400 %, starting at 250 %. The ripple grows with it.
- Smoothing
- How much of the hand's wobble Lumae takes out, from 0 % to 100 %.
- Tilt
- How far the pointer leans into sideways moves. At the default 60 % it leans at most 9°.
- Motion blur › Pointer
- Blur on the pointer as it travels, 70 % by default, in the Motion tab.
The numbers
- The pointer's default size, from a range of 50 % to 400 %
- 250 %
- How often the pointer's position is recorded
- 60 Hz
- The most it leans at the default Tilt. Full Tilt allows 15°
- 9°
- How far it presses on a click, easing in over 70 ms
- 76 %
- How far a ripple spreads, over half a second
- 21.5 pt
- Default motion blur on the pointer as it moves
- 70 %
Questions
Anything else, ask on the feedback page.
Can I keep the real macOS cursor?
Yes. Turn off Smooth Cursor (drawn by Lumae) before you record, in the Record menu or the capture bar's options. The pointer is then part of the video, exactly as it was on screen.
Does it work on videos I import?
No. Imported videos carry no pointer data or clicks, so they keep the pointer they came with, and the Cursor tab tells you so.
Can I hide the cursor for part of a video?
Yes. Split the clip, then set Pointer to Hidden on that clip's page. Size, Smoothing, Tilt and the click effect stay the same for the whole video.
Does Lumae record my keystrokes?
No. It records where the pointer goes and where you click, never what you type.
Next
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Lumae is free for Mac. It zooms on your clicks, smooths your cursor and writes your captions, so your time goes into the demo, not the edit.
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