Auto Zoom on Every Click — effect skill for cursors & clicks

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The camera eases in toward each upcoming click, trails the cursor on a spring, and eases out after.

What it does

Built on Zoom Follow Cursor by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

Zoom begins slightly before the click, the frame follows the cursor smoothly, each click gets a ring; between actions the camera returns to full view.

When: Any cursor-driven screen recording; it is the default polish for SaaS demos.

Watch out: Do not track every mouse jitter; smooth the path and only re-target when the cursor dwells.

Timing: Lead the click by 0.3–0.5 s, zoom 1.5–2×, follow spring damping ~20, ease out 0.6 s.

Also called: screen studio zoom, zoom to cursor, click zoom

In FFmpeg

# zoom around a known click (x=1380,y=420) from 4.0 s to 6.0 s
-vf "zoompan=z='if(between(it,3.6,6),min(zoom+0.04,1.8),max(zoom-0.04,1))':x='1380-iw/zoom/2':y='420-ih/zoom/2':d=1:s=1920x1080:fps=60"

In HyperFrames

npx hyperframes add cursor-zoom-follow

Set slots: image, zoom (1.8), click1_x/y, click2_x/y, click3_x/y, accent.

In Remotion

// npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/cursor
const z = clicks.reduce((acc,c)=> acc + interpolate(frame,[c.f-15,c.f,c.f+40,c.f+58],[0,0.8,0.8,0],{extrapolateLeft:'clamp',extrapolateRight:'clamp'}),1);
const origin = `${smoothX}px ${smoothY}px`;

In CapCut

Desktop: select the recording → Video → Basic → keyframe Scale/Position around each click; use Graphs → "Ease in-out".

Ready-made components

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Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/e57251ca12d3/take-auto-zoom-on-click.mp4 — The Zoom Follow Cursor component rendered as installed (npx hyperframes add cursor-zoom-follow), defaults only (credit: Rendered by varg · HyperFrames Zoom Follow Cursor, https://hyperframes.heygen.com/catalog/components/cursor-zoom-follow)

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