A macOS screen recorder that hands back a finished video. Zooms that follow the work, a framed camera and a background, exported at up to 4K on your Mac's own media engine.
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Prequel is a macOS screen recorder that doesn't just capture your screen — it hands back a finished video. Instead of raw footage that needs hours in a separate editor, Prequel watches where you click and type while recording, then opens an editor with zooms already placed, the camera framed, and a background applied. The result is a polished, directed-looking video exported as a single MP4 at up to 4K, rendered on your Mac's own media engine.
Prequel records your clicks and typing bursts while it captures. When the editor opens, those moments are already clustered into zooms — pushed in on what you were doing, pulled back when you moved on. Every generated zoom is an ordinary slice on the timeline, so you can move, retime, or delete it freely.
Your webcam is never burned into the recording. After you stop, you can shape it as a circle, squircle, rounded rectangle, or wide frame, place it in any corner, and resize it. Nothing about the camera is decided while you record.
Your own wallpaper is the default, with seven bundled presets, gradients, and solids on top. Padding, radius, border, and shadow are all adjustable, so the final frame looks intentional rather than accidental.
Trim dead air and slice clips on a timeline with a waveform under every segment and a scrubbing playhead. Layout, background, and audio can all change mid-take, and the preview matches the export exactly.
Prequel hands back a directed video, not a recording.
The core idea is that the editing pass is already done when you stop recording. Zooms are placed, the camera is framed, the background is applied, and the cursor is cleaned up — all before you touch a single control. You're not assembling a video; you're approving one. That shift from "record then edit" to "record, review, export" is what separates Prequel from a plain screen capture tool.
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You're tired of flat, lifeless screen recordings that make your work look smaller than it is. If you regularly produce tutorials, demos, or product walkthroughs on a Mac and want zooms, a framed camera, and clean exports without a multi-hour post-production session, Prequel is worth a look. It's free for 14 days with no watermark and nothing held back, so you can test whether the automatic pass matches your workflow before committing.
