Cursor Effects

Highlight the Cursor or Mouse Clicks

Highlight Cursor focuses the viewer’s attention to the movement of the mouse cursor and ensures that the cursor does not blend into the background.

Highlight Clicks adds emphasis to mouse clicks during recording.

To enable before recording, select Effects > Cursor > Highlight Clicks, Highlight Cursor, or Highlight Cursor & Clicks.

To enable during recording, click Cursor Effects on the Recording toolbar to expand the options. Select Highlight Cursor, Highlight Clicks, or both options.

To customize the cursor highlight, select Effects > Options > Cursor tab. You can select the shape, color, size, and opacity for the highlight.

Record with a Custom Cursor

1.	Select Effects > Options > Cursor tab.

2.	Select the Use custom cursor or Use cursor from file option.

Camtasia Recorder supports cursor (.cur) or icon (.ico) files for the custom cursor. C:\Windows\Cursors includes several icons you can use as the custom cursor.

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Click OK.

During recording, the system default cursor shows. The custom cursor is imprinted into the recording file and appears during the recording preview.

Show or Hide the Cursor

By default, Camtasia Recorder records the cursor in the recording file.

To not record the cursor, select Effects > Cursor > Hide Cursor. During the recording, the cursor appears on the screen. However, the cursor will not appear in the recording preview or recording file.