FollowCursor¶

A Windows screen recorder with cinematic cursor-following zoom.

Record your screen or any individual window, then export a polished MP4 or GIF where the camera smoothly follows and zooms into your cursor movements. Perfect for tutorials, demos, and product walkthroughs.

FollowCursor screenshot

Key Features¶

Screen & Window Recording

Capture any monitor via hardware-accelerated Windows Graphics Capture, or record individual windows without bleed-through.
Smart Zoom

Auto-detect typing bursts and click clusters to generate cinematic zoom keyframes — or let AI analyze your recording like a professional cameraman. Add pan path points to smoothly guide the camera between areas while staying zoomed in.
AI Voiceover

Add text-to-speech narration at any point in your timeline with Azure AI Foundry TTS. Six voice options, adjustable rate and volume.
Visual Polish

84 background presets, 5 device frame styles, annotations (text, arrows, highlights), click effects, keystroke overlays, and polished frame presets.
Cinematic Export

H.264 MP4 with GPU acceleration (NVENC, QuickSync, AMF) or GIF with palette-based encoding. Cursor, click ripples, keystroke overlay, annotations, and voiceover baked in. Auto-detected and manual chapter markers embedded in MP4 metadata.
Project Files

Save and resume work with .fcproj bundles. Full undo/redo, trimming, ripple segment deletion, and chapter markers.

Get Started¶

New here? Follow the Quickstart Guide to record, edit, and export your first video in under 5 minutes.

Looking for every option and feature? Browse the User Guide.

Want to contribute? See the Contributing Guide for dev setup, coding conventions, and how to submit changes.

Architecture at a Glance¶

Layer	Technology	Purpose
UI Framework	PySide6 (Qt 6)	Widgets, layout, painting, signals/slots
Screen Capture	Windows Graphics Capture (WGC)	Hardware-accelerated monitor/window capture
Window Capture	Win32 PrintWindow (ctypes)	Per-window capture without bleed-through
Recording Pipe	ffmpeg via imageio-ffmpeg	H.264 intermediate codec piped via stdin
Video Export	ffmpeg (libx264 / HW accel)	H.264 MP4 or GIF with zoom/cursor baked in
Image Processing	OpenCV + NumPy	Frame manipulation, thumbnails, cursor rendering
Input Tracking	Win32 Hooks (ctypes)	Low-level mouse, keyboard, and click tracking
Zoom Engine	Pure Python	Quintic ease-out keyframe interpolation
AI Features	Azure AI Foundry	AI zoom analysis, TTS voiceover
Design System	tokens.py + Fluent 2	4px grid, semantic colors, consistent spacing

For the full deep-dive, see the Architecture Guide.