Introducing Highlights - Direct your viewer's attention to what matters
TL;DR - You can now dim everything in your recording except the part that matters. Drop a highlight on the timeline, drag a rectangle over the area you want to spotlight, and your viewer’s eye goes exactly where you want it.
The problem with busy screens
Screen recordings are full of noise. Menus, toolbars, notifications, tabs - there’s a lot competing for your viewer’s attention. When you’re walking someone through a feature or explaining a workflow, the most important thing on screen is often a small area surrounded by everything else.
You could zoom in, but sometimes you want the viewer to see the full context while still knowing exactly where to look.
How Highlights work
Highlights dim the entire screen except for the area you define. The effect is immediate and intuitive - the bright region pops, and everything else fades into the background.
Here’s what using it looks like:
- Open the Highlights tab in the editor settings
- Click Add Highlight - a new segment appears on your timeline at the current playback position
- Click Configure Highlight Area to open the area selector
- Drag a rectangle over the part of the screen you want to spotlight
The highlight appears as a segment on a dedicated timeline track. You can drag it to reposition, resize its edges to change the duration, or stack multiple highlights to spotlight more than one area at the same time.
Multiple highlights, one screen
Sometimes you need to draw attention to two things at once - a button and the result it produces, or a code change and the output it generates. When you add multiple highlight segments that overlap in time, they combine into a union of bright areas. Everything outside all of them gets dimmed.
Available to everyone
Highlights are available on all plans, including Free. Download Tight Studio and try it on your next recording.