reel

What it is

• A one-take demo camera: the viewport follows your pointer, so the recording always looks where you're working.
• Live direction — zoom and reframe mid-take with trackpad gestures; the easing is rendered straight into the movie.
• Click ripples and drag highlights, drawn into the file, so viewers see exactly what you pressed.
• Webcam picture-in-picture, cropped to a circle (or square it off) with its own device picker.
• System sound and mic captured as separate audio tracks — mix or mute them later without re-recording.
• Set a region once and every take frames exactly that slice of screen, zoom included.
• Finished takes land in ~/Movies/reel, or any folder you pick from the menu. Turn on save to waveloop cloud and they go to iCloud Drive/waveloop/reels instead — on all your machines by the time you switch chairs.
• The rec-red marquee shows you what's captured, and never appears in the recording.

How to drive it

• 3-finger spread / pinch — zoom in / out, centred on your pointer.
• 3-finger move — pan the frame off the pointer; zoom out and it eases back.
• ⌥ pinch / ⌥ scroll — the same camera, two fingers at a time.
• fn + right-click — options popup right at the cursor, mid-take.
• ⌃⌥⌘R — start / stop from anywhere; a one-click stop button also appears in the menu bar while rolling.
• Siri — "start recording in reel" / "stop recording in reel"; the same actions live in Shortcuts, plus reel://record and reel://stop for scripts.

What it isn't

Not an editor. No timeline, no render queue — the take is directed while it happens.

Privacy

Local. No accounts, no telemetry. Screen, camera, mic go one place: the movie, on your disk and your iCloud.