Watching someone click around a busy screen can be painful, especially if you lose track of the mouse cursor and miss a critical step in the process. Instead of forcing viewers to squint and guess where they should be looking, help your audience follow along everytime by guiding them using both verbal descriptions of your actions and visual aids to keep them engaged.
It's best to describe where and what you are doing on screen as you record (e.g. "On the top right, I will click "Settings"") This will keep viewers on track with the workflow, even if they get distracted or look away for a second.
To help even more with directing the audience's attention, use tools like ZoomIt from the Sysinternals suite let you enlarge, pan, and draw while recording the screen so viewers never lose track of what matters. They are quick to set up, work with any recorder, and help you avoid redoing takes because people missed a cursor movement.
Follow these steps before you hit record:
Using this tool helps you keeping the audience engaged, reduces editing, and makes your recording align with the clarity expected in a video recording.
If you record on macOS, try Brilliant to zoom, annotate, and script actions while capturing the screen. It delivers the same clarity benefits as ZoomIt and adds automation to speed up repeat recordings.
See Homebrew install command:
brew install --cask brilliant