Clipzoom Support

Pick the window in the recorder, choose a camera and any microphones you want, and press Record. Your camera floats in a round bubble you can park anywhere; it is kept as its own track, so you can still move it in the editor. Stop the recording and it opens in the editor.

macOS only applies the Screen Recording permission after the app restarts. Quit Clipzoom (⌘Q) and open it again. If it still can't, check that Clipzoom is switched on in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Screen & System Audio Recording.

In the Movies folder, under Clipzoom. Each recording is a .clipzoom file: open it from the recorder's list, or double-click it in Finder. Exported MP4s are saved beside it.

In the editor, click a point of the video to zoom in there at the playhead, and pinch to zoom further. Drag the ends of a zoom on the zoom lane to change when it starts and ends. Zooms suggested from your clicks wait on that lane, dashed, until you add them.

Drag across the cut lane to take out a slip. Pauses in your speech wait on the cut lane, dashed: click one to cut it, or cut every pause longer than a length you choose at once. Select a cut and press Delete to put it back. Drag the handles at either end of the video lane to trim.

Watch its level meter in the recorder: Clipzoom calls out a microphone that sends only silence, which usually means a headset muted at the headset itself, or a Mac input volume turned all the way down in System Settings → Sound.

No. Recording, editing, noise reduction and export all happen on your Mac, and Clipzoom makes no network connections.

Macs with Apple silicon or Intel processors running macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

Purchases go through the Mac App Store, so Apple handles refunds: request one at reportaproblem.apple.com.