10 years of recording tutorial videos on Mac — here’s what actually saved me time

I’ve been recording IT tutorial videos on Mac for 10 years. Hundreds of chapters. The biggest challenge wasn’t the content — it was keeping editing time sane while still making videos useful to watch.

Two things made the biggest difference:

1. Cutting dead air automatically

Mid-recording pauses (waiting for apps to load, losing my train of thought) waste every viewer’s time. Wondershare Filmora has a silence removal feature — run it once after recording and it strips all the dead air automatically. Simple, but massive time saver.

2. Live zoom + drawing without post-editing

Mac’s built-in zoom doesn’t get captured in screen recordings. So I tried DemoPro for drawing, and ScreenStudio/FocuSee for auto-zoom on mouse clicks — but auto-zoom on every click meant my drawing strokes would get zoomed in and disappear from view. Back to manual editing.

Recently found ZoomShot which lets me zoom with a keyboard shortcut + scroll only when I want to, draw in both zoomed and normal view, and it all gets captured directly in the recording. No post-editing needed.

Current workflow: record → silence removal → done.

Anyone else doing a lot of screen recording for work? Curious what tools or tricks you’ve settled on.