CANVID Editor: Sidebar Tabs

The CANVID Editor Sidebar Tabs houses essential tools that transform your screen recordings into professional-grade, aesthetically pleasing videos.

Background

The Background sidebar tab allows you to customize your screen recordings by adjusting the background and shape.

Types of Background

1. Color
   • Use a solid color as your background.
   • Adjust the slider or use the dropper tool to pick your desired color.
   • You can specify the color in RGB, HSL, and Hex formats for accuracy.
2. Wallpaper
   • Choose from high-quality backgrounds provided by Canvid or select ones from Windows.
   • Adjust the Background blur slider to control blur intensity.
3. Gradient
   • Combine two colors into a gradient background.
   • Choose from Gradient Presets or specify colors in RGB, HSL, and Hex formats.
4. Image
   • Upload your own image (must be 10 MB or less).

Background Shape

• Padding: Adjust the padding to show more background and shrink the screen area.
• Rounded Corners: Make the edges of your screen area rounder.
• Shadows: Add a drop shadow effect under your screen area.

Cursor

Use the Cursor Sidebar Tab to customize cursor properties for your content.

• Hide Cursor: Make the cursor invisible in your final video.
• Cursor Size: Adjust the slider to change cursor size.
• Cursor Type:
  • Pointer: Default Canvid-style cursor.
  • Touch: Changes the cursor into a round circle.
• Cursor Movement Smoothing: Keep this enabled for smooth cursor movement.
• Cursor Movement Animation Style:
  • Choose from different animation styles (Molasses, Default, Gentle, Stiff).
  • Personalize animation style by adjusting tension and friction sliders.

Camera

Use the Camera Sidebar Tab to modify webcam properties, including CANVID's Camera AI Background Features.

Basic Camera controls

• Show Camera: Toggle to enable/disable the camera in your video.
• Camera Position: Change camera placement to avoid covering important content.
• Mirror Camera: Switch between regular and mirrored camera view.
• Camera Properties:
  • Roundness: Adjust webcam edge roundness.
  • Offset: Change webcam distance from the video edge.
  • Size: Affects webcam size when zoomed in/out.

Camera AI Background

This feature uses CANVID's next-generation AI algorithms to blur, replace, or remove your real-world background, with no greenscreen required.

Refer to this guide for more details.

Generate Transcript

The Generate Transcript feature automatically creates captions for your voice during recording. Note that this feature only works with microphone input and won’t capture spoken words from system audio.

Transcript Settings

• Mode:
  • Local: Runs the transcript offline on your system. It requires additional downloads initially but provides more accurate results than cloud-based transcription.
  • Cloud: Generates the transcript online via our servers. This option is faster but may sacrifice some accuracy.
• Language: Choose the language that matches your spoken content.

• Quality (Local only):
  • Choose between normal and high quality transcription.
    • Normal: Faster but less accurate.
    • High: Produces highly accurate transcripts with longer processing times.
• Prompt: Add prompts that describe the type of content you’re transcribing. This improves transcription quality and accuracy.

Generate Transcript Tab Properties:

• Show Captions: Toggle to show or hide captions from your video.

• Word Highlighting: Enable to emphasize individual words as they’re spoken in your video.

• Transcript: Displays the complete transcript.

• Editing Words:
  • Click a word in the transcript to move the timeline to the exact moment it was spoken.
  • When clicked once, it becomes available for editing. This is great for fixing typos, or removing/adding words to the transcript.
• Re-Generate Transcript: Use this option to overwrite the current transcript. It takes you back to the “Generate Transcript” settings window.

Cutting Unwanted Parts via the Transcript:

Clicking a word in the transcript will bring the timeline to the exact moment the word was spoken. You can use this to your advantage when cutting words or phrases from your final video.

Microphone

Use the Microphone sidebar tab to control features related to your audio input device

• Enable Microphone: Toggle to enable/disable microphone audio from your video.

• AI-Enhanced Voice Clarity: Enable to use CANVID's AI-driven noise reduction. It enhances voice quality by removing background noise.

Zoom

Use the Zoom sidebar tab to change the animation style of your zooms.

• Available Animation Styles:
  • Molasses
  • Default
  • Gentle
  • Stiff
• Personalize Zoom Animation: Adjust tension and friction sliders to customize the zoom animation style.

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Once you have made all the necessary adjustments to transform your video, it's time to Export & Share it with everyone!

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