Recording options

The gear menu

Click the gear on the recording bar. The menu stays open while you switch things on and off.

• Hide desktop icons (off at first): leaves the files and folders on your desktop out of the recording.
• Hide notifications (on): keeps notification banners out of the recording.
• Hide Framecast’s Dock icon (on): the icon leaves the Dock while you record and comes back when you stop. Untick it to keep the icon: it shows a dot while you record and two bars while you’re paused, and its menu offers Stop Recording and Pause.
• Dim around what you record (on): dims the rest of the screen when you record a window or an area, only on your screen.
• Show recording controls (on). See While you record.
• Show notes while recording and Edit notes…. See Speaker notes and teleprompter.
• Show the after-recording card and Open the editor decide what appears when you stop. See After recording.

Countdown and frame rate

Countdown gives you None, 3 sec, 5 sec or 10 sec to get ready after you press Record. It starts at 3 seconds. Click the countdown to skip it, or press ⌥⌘↩ or ⌥⌘esc to cancel it.

Frame rate is 60 fps at first, which makes the pointer and scrolling smoother. 30 fps makes smaller files.

Settings › Recording

Click Settings… at the bottom of the gear menu, or press ⌘, while the bar is open. The Recording tab repeats several of the options above, plus:

• Play a sound when recording starts and stops, on at first. You hear a soft sound; your recording doesn’t.
• Record with HEVC (smaller files), on at first.
• Record system audio by default. See System audio.
• Permissions, to check or allow screen recording, camera, microphone and Accessibility. See Permissions.