Screen recorder with automatic zoom

Vidova is a screen recorder with automatic zoom for Mac and Windows. You record your screen as usual. After the recording, Vidova looks at where you clicked and places smooth zooms on those moments so a viewer can follow buttons, forms, and menus without staring at a full desktop.

How Vidova decides where to zoom

A zoom is a shot on a place where something happened. In Vidova, a click is what earns one. Cursor stillness does not. The cursor sits still constantly while someone reads the screen. Treating that as intent used to produce a zoom every couple of seconds. The current engine ignores idle motion.

Clicks are clustered in time and space. Clicks a few seconds apart, or far across the frame, start a new moment. Clicks that belong to the same form, menu, or dialog share one zoom. A lone click is treated as someone passing through. A burst in one region is treated as work worth pushing in on.

The last click is dropped. That press is almost always the click that stops the recording, not a UI action you want to showcase.

Each zoom starts before the first click in the cluster so the move has settled by the time the action lands. It holds after the last click long enough to see what the click did. Short zooms that would read as a twitch are skipped. Zooms that would cover most of the clip are thinned so the push-in still reads as emphasis.

Cursor-following camera, not only punch-ins

Automatic zoom is the punch-in. Cursor-following is the camera path while you are zoomed. Cursor zoom covers the four styles in detail. Vidova ships:

• Steadicam: holds dead still, then moves once and lands softly. Clicks stay near centre. Best for demos and product walkthroughs.
• Director: cuts between the areas you click and work in. Best for tutorials that move between a few regions.
• Anchor: stays put until the cursor leaves a centre zone, then eases back. Best for long recordings.
• Momentum: a continuous weighted drift toward the cursor, pulled onto clicks.

Click-follow can start the camera moving before the click, and it punches in only when a click would sit outside the current view. Clicks already in frame stay put unless they sit near the edge.

What you still control

Automatic zooms are clips on a zoom layer, not a baked effect. You can change the magnification, timing, and path. You can add a manual zoom on a region that never received a click. You can turn tracking intensity down. Motion blur is available on the move so the camera does not stutter.

That mix is the point of an automatic zoom screen recorder that is also an editor. The first pass is done for you. The last word is yours.

Mac and Windows

The same recorder and zoom engine run on macOS and Windows. If you want this workflow on Windows, you do not need a separate product family. See the Screen Studio alternative for Windows page if that is the comparison you are making.