// What Edit adds
The recorder still does the zooming. Edit is for everything you add on top.
Lay b-roll, overlays and your camera feed over the recording. Drag a clip to move it, drag its edges to trim, split it at the playhead.
Your face in the corner, sized and placed wherever you like. When the picture zooms in, the camera shrinks so it does not cover what you are pointing at — and it can take the whole frame when you turn to address the viewer.
Import video, images and audio. Anything in a different format is converted once on the way in.
Transcribe the audio and get captions timed to the word, ready to restyle. Runs on your own machine.
Edit also finds where the screen changed while you were typing, and zooms in there.
Landscape, square or portrait, picked while you watch the preview. Fit, fill or pad the edges.
Drop in music or a voiceover and lay it under the recording, trimmed and moved like any other clip.
A fourth way to fill a frame the recording does not fit: the picture pulled in off the edges, rounded and rimmed with a shadow, on a gradient. What a screencast wants when the recording is a window rather than a scene.
Six speeds from a straight cut to a slow drift, set once for the whole project. The arrival and the departure are set separately, so a shot can land fast and leave slowly.
Transcribe the audio on your own machine and get captions timed to the word, then style the set at once — including a glitch that parts the word being said into colour and drags a ghost behind it.
// Enhance your recording
Put any of them anywhere on the timeline, set when they run, and restyle them.
change the recording you already have
Zoom
Zoom into the frame and back out, wherever you want it.
Blur
Hide a box, or blur everything except it.
Pointer
Point at something, with an optional label.
Reframe
Move which part of the frame is on screen.
Click
Mark where a click landed.
To camera
You address the viewer, and the screen steps back behind you.
Swap
The camera takes the frame, and the recording carries on in a box.
Follow
Holds one framing and pans to keep the pointer inside it.
Spotlight
Dims everything except one patch of the picture.
Magnify
A glass over one part of the picture, the rest left where it is.
Highlight
A marker pen drawn across a line of words.
Circle
A ring round something, the way you would draw one on a whiteboard.
put something new on screen
Overlay
An image or video on top of this clip.
Grid
Up to eight items tiled into columns.
Sweep
Diagonal bands that cross the frame.
Wash
A drawing over the whole frame — vignette, grain, a border.
Subtitle
Words fixed to the screen, over everything.
Projection
Light thrown onto a surface in the recording.
Tilt
The screen lies back in space, on its own.
CRT
An old television — the picture bulges behind its glass.
words on the picture, or on their own card
Text
Styled words on the picture, travelling with it.
Transition
A full card between one part and the next.
Chat
Lines of talk, arriving as bubbles that type themselves.
Shortcuts
The keys you pressed, drawn as keycaps. A keycast for demos.
// One recording, every shape
Pick the shape above the preview and it renders at exactly that size, so you reframe while looking at it.
You set the export quality too. A lower one renders faster. Rendering runs on the graphics card, so Edit needs a GPU.
Switch a landscape edit to portrait and everything on it moves with the frame, in proportion.
// What you get for paying
Omascreen stays free, and every recording it makes opens in Edit.
| Feature | Omascreen | Edit |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic zooms from your clicks | ||
| Click ripples | ||
| Title cards and transitions | ||
| Tracks | One | Six |
| Camera capture | — | |
| Import your own media | — | |
| Auto captions | — | |
| Place any effect yourself | — | |
| Retime the automatic zooms | — | |
| Zooms from typing | — | |
| Portrait and square output | — | |
| Choose the export quality | — | |
| Restyle the cursor | — |
// Early access
An Early Access Preview is a free build of Omascreen Edit from before it is released.
Before you do
If nothing happens when you run it
You need fuse2 to run the AppImage, if you don't have it on your machine install it with:
sudo pacman -S fuse2
Share the fun on X — post the recording and tag @azamuddin91 and @OmarchyLinux.
// Questions
Edit is built for it. It reads your monitors from Hyprland, which is what Omarchy runs.
Not tested yet. Omarchy is the only setup Edit is being built against right now. It needs a Hyprland session, so other Hyprland setups may well work — but nothing else has been checked.
fuse2 to run the AppImage, then ffmpeg and gpu-screen-recorder. Edit checks for those two when it starts and tells you what is missing. whisper-cpp is only needed for subtitles, and quickshell only to show which part of the screen a region recording is taking.
Yes. Rendering runs on the GPU, which is what makes the export fast and the preview match it.
No. Edit records as well, so it works on its own. If you already have Omascreen, its recordings open here.
Yes. Set how often to None and nothing is planned. You can also switch to a different zoom style once the recording is done, without recording it again.
It records when you typed, never what. Clicks work the same way: the moment one landed, not which button it was. That is all it needs to place a zoom.
No. There is no server to talk to, nothing is uploaded and nothing is reported back. Your projects and recordings are files on your own disk.
An MP4 at the shape you recorded, at whatever size and quality you pick. It opens anywhere and needs nothing installed to play.
It is free during early access, and each build stops working 30 days after it is out. Edit is paid at 1.0.