Every Screen Crisp feature, in detail.
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Recording
Everything that happens before you stop.
Three sources
Full screen, a custom region that can span monitors, or any visible application window with a live thumbnail picker.
GPU capture
Windows Graphics Capture when available, with an automatic BitBlt fallback if frames do not arrive.
Clean frame
The recorder bar, selection overlay and webcam preview are excluded from the capture where Windows allows it.
Devices
Independent microphone, system audio and webcam selection with live meters, remembered between sessions.
Preflight
Source, devices, encoder, folder write access and free space are re-checked before every take, not just at setup.
Live controls
Pause without counting the gap, mute the mic as silence, move or resize the webcam, restart or discard — all mid-recording.
Quality
24/30/60 fps, three quality presets, source-native resolution capped at 4K, even dimensions guaranteed for the codec.
Shortcuts
Ctrl+Shift+R to start or stop, Ctrl+Shift+P to pause. Settings tell you if another app already owns the combination.
Editing
Non-destructive from the first cut to the last.
Ripple timeline
Trim, split, delete and reorder video segments. Remaining segments connect automatically — never an unintended gap.
Independent tracks
Video, webcam, zoom, music and annotation lanes each carry their own visibility and lock state.
2D zoom
1.05×–3.0×, automatic cursor focus or a manual point you drag on a miniature preview, 0–3000 ms transitions.
3D motion
One projective transform per frame with the whole composition on a single plane, ±45° horizontal and ±12° vertical.
Cursor control
61 styles in seven groups, 0.8×–2.6× size, spotlight glow, six click effects, synthesized click sound and idle fade.
Adaptive preview
The preview raster steps between 1280 and 3840 px based on your viewport and upcoming zooms, and prewarms three seconds ahead.
Undo & redo
Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y cover timeline edits and serialized editor state; toolbar actions grey out when invalid.
Waveforms
Microphone and system audio peaks are drawn in the video lane so you can cut on silence.
Export
What you previewed is what encodes.
Parity
Preview and export share one time model and one composition order, down to the 3D matrix and easing curves.
Hardware encoding
NVIDIA, Intel and AMD H.264 encoders are probed and validated, with high-quality software encoding as the fallback.
Audio
AAC at 192 kbps, with music and cursor click sounds mixed in when audio is enabled.
GIF
Two-pass palette generation for clean colour, constrained to a practical width and frame rate.
Resampling
A single final resampling stage with cubic sampling, so quality is not lost twice on the way out.
Feedback
Estimated size and duration up front, real encoder progress during, and open-the-folder when it lands.