Cursor
How Playback records your cursor as data — and what you can do with it today.
The mouse pointer is the thing a viewer’s eye follows, so it’s worth getting right. Playback records your cursor’s motion and clicks as data — separately from the screen pixels — and keeps that track alongside your footage.
Why that matters
Because your cursor is data, not just pixels, Playback can reason about it. That one track is what powers the parts of the app that feel like magic:
- Auto zoom reads where the cursor moved, paused, and clicked to decide where to push in.
- Reframing snaps a zoom’s aim to the clicks and gestures you actually made.
- Click effects draw a ripple and play a tick on each real click, perfectly in time with what you did.
Recording the cursor this way depends on Accessibility permission — that’s how Playback sees the pointer and clicks. A take recorded without it has no cursor track to work from.
What you can adjust today
The cursor-related controls in the app right now are about clicks — the visual ripple and the click sound. They live in the Cursor panel of the inspector (visible when nothing is selected on the timeline). See Clicks.