MeCorder
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In development · macOS

Program your screen videos.

Don't edit every frame. Record once, then tell the video how to behave when something happens inside it.

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macOS 14 or later · Apple Silicon

MeCorder 00:00
  1. Record
  2. Understand
  3. Program
  4. Finished video
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00 · The idea

A screen recorder sees pixels. MeCorder sees what you did: the button you pressed, the field you typed into, the moment it happened. So instead of editing every frame, you say what the video should do whenever it happens, and the edit writes itself.

RecordUnderstandProgramPolishExport

The old way

Don't edit every frame.

A three-minute demo can have dozens of clicks. Giving each one its own zoom means placing, timing and easing every keyframe by hand, and doing it again when the recording changes.

01 · Record

Record the way you already work.

MeCorder captures the screen, and beside the pixels it keeps the cursor, every click, scroll and shortcut, so nothing is burned in.

02 · Understand

Every click knows what it hit.

Through macOS accessibility, a click is recorded as the element it landed on: a button called Create Project, a search field, the sidebar.

03 · Program

Say what should happen.

When Create Project is clicked: focus on it, wait a beat, highlight it, then reset. One Program, applied to every matching moment.

04 · Polish

It becomes an ordinary edit.

The Program compiles to camera moves and effects on the Timeline. Preview it, adjust any keyframe by hand, undo it in one step.

05 · Export

A video that feels designed.

What you previewed is exactly what exports, frame for frame. MP4, MOV or GIF, for YouTube, a social feed or a quick message.

Recording

Semantic targets

It understands what you clicked, not just where.

A screen recorder sees a click at a pixel. MeCorder also records what was there, so a Program can say Primary Button and keep meaning it when the window moves or the resolution changes.

  1. A click is recorded at a point.
  2. The point is resolved to the element under it.
  3. The name becomes something you can program.
  4. The layout changes. The name still matches.

Names come from macOS accessibility while recording. If an app exposes nothing, the click has no name and a Program skips it rather than guessing.

Programmable video

Your video can respond to what happens inside it.

A Program says when something happens in the recording and what the video should do about it. It runs on every matching moment, and compiles to camera moves and effects you can still edit by hand.

When…

When Click Primary Button
When Hover Search
When Scroll Down
When Key Press Return
When Text Input Any field
When Time 0:00

…do this

Focus Primary Button
Highlight Primary Button
Wait 0.3 seconds
Zoom Out
Play Click Ripple
Reset

Every block here works in current development builds of MeCorder. Programs are visual blocks in the app; nothing to type.

Try it. Program this recording.

Pick an element, and the demo builds a Program for it. Then change the trigger, swap blocks, retime the wait. The video is regenerated from your Program every time.

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Program

Pick a target to start.

When Click ?

Choose an element in the recording, or pick one here:

See the Program as data 
 
The video on the left is drawn from this object alone: matched against the recording's events, laid out in time, and compiled to camera keyframes and effects, the same way MeCorder does it.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
A small language for how videos behave.
 
Beyond single rules, Programs have the parts you'd expect from a real language, shaped as blocks.
 
 
 
 
  
WHEN Click Any button
IF Target matches Primary Button
Focus Primary Button
ELSE
Reset
END
 
 
Conditions
 
One Program can tell clicks apart: IF the target matches, do one thing, ELSE another.
 
 
  
WHEN Click Save
PARALLEL
Focus Save
BRANCH
Play Sound
END
Reset
 
 
Parallel
 
Start several things at the same moment, then carry on when every branch has finished.
 
 
  
WHEN Click Next
Change clicks by 1
IF clicks = 3
Highlight Next
END
 
 
Variables
 
Count, remember and compare. Later events see what earlier ones changed.
 
 
  
WHEN Click Search
Run Emphasise Target Search
 
 
Behaviours
 
Turn a run of blocks into a reusable Behaviour with parameters. Edit it once; every Program follows.
 
 
  
WHEN Demo starts
Focus Sign In
Wait 1.2 seconds
WHEN Demo ends
 
 
Scenes and shots
 
Scenes from the Timeline get ENTER and EXIT blocks, shots that start on an event, and Cut or Fade transitions.
 
 
 
✦ “Make the camera follow every button click”
 
WHEN Click Create Project
Focus Create Project
Highlight Create Project
 
 
Ask
 
Describe what should happen in plain words. The proposal is checked against the recording and shown as blocks before anything changes.
 
 
 
 Planned 
Loops, an IF directly inside another IF, variables shared across a whole project, and finding elements visually in apps that expose no accessibility information are not built yet.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
Two views, one edit
 
Use intent when you can. Use the Timeline when you need it.
 
    
 
 
Timeline: edit what happened. Clips, scenes, camera keyframes, text, effects and audio, laid out in time and adjustable to the frame.
 
Program: define what should happen. The rule behind those keyframes, written once and applied to every moment that matches.
 
 
Program doesn't replace the Timeline. It writes to it: every block becomes ordinary keyframes and effects that you can open, move or delete.
 
 
  
 Click When Click Primary Button 
 Focus Primary Button Focus Primary Button 
 0.3 s Wait 0.3 seconds 
 Highlight Highlight Primary Button 
 Reset Reset camera 
 
Timeline: a click at 4.3 seconds; a camera move to the Primary Button; a 0.3 second hold; a highlight on the Effects track; the camera resets. Program: When Click Primary Button, Focus Primary Button, Wait 0.3 seconds, Highlight Primary Button, Reset camera.
 
 
 
 
   
 
 
 
Before and after
 
Same recording. A different film.
 
Drag across. On the left, what the screen saw. On the right, one Program for every click: the camera finds each element, the cursor gets weight, every press lands.
 
 
 
  
   
 After 
 
   Before 
   
 
 
   
 
 
 
Everything else, done properly
 
A complete screen studio underneath.
 
 
 
  
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Camera
 
     
  1. Recording
  2. Automatic camera
  3. Focus
  4. Smooth movement
    5.  
 
Zooms are generated from what you did the moment you stop recording, with styles from Calm to Lively. Every move is a keyframe you can retime, re-aim or ease differently.
 
 
  
 02 
Cursor
 
     
  1. Normal cursor
  2. Click emphasis
  3. Highlight
  4. Smooth glide
    5.  
 
The cursor is recorded separately from the pixels, so you can resize it, smooth its path, change its look on click and drag, or hide it, after the fact.
 
 
  
 03 
Timeline
 
     
  1. Recording
  2. Scenes
  3. Camera
  4. Effects
  5. Text
  6. Audio
    7.  
 
Scenes, clips, camera moves, clicks, keys, text, effects, webcam and audio on one Timeline. Cuts never touch the original, so anything can come back.
 
 
  
 04 
Export
 
     
  1. Project
  2. Render
  3. Check
  4. Finished video
    5.  
 
Tell it where the video is going: YouTube, a vertical feed, a message under 25 MB, or a GIF. The file is read back and checked before it replaces anything.
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
 
Documentation
 
Written like the app: clear, exact, short.
 
Every setting, shortcut and block, with animated examples. Press ⌘K anywhere to search.
 Open the documentation 
  
 
  
   
 
Make your next screen recording behave.
 
Record once. Program the behaviour. Export a video that feels designed.
 
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