Launching Wednesday: a screen recorder that zooms itself (feedback welcome before then)

Hey everyone — Phtonix Studio goes live here Wednesday, and I wanted to

put it in front of people before that rather than just drop it cold.

The short version: it's a free Chrome extension with two tools. A screen

recorder that watches where you click and type, then bakes a cinematic

zoom into the video automatically — no timeline, no placing keyframes

after the fact. And a screenshot framer that sits a capture on a

gradient you mix yourself, with a real crop editor and actual 3D tilt.

Why I built it: I make demo videos for my own product, and the part I

hated wasn't recording — it was the hour afterward in an editor, placing

zoom keyframes on top of clicks I'd already made. The information was

already there. I'd clicked the button. Why was I telling the software

where?

Two things I didn't want to compromise on:

• Constant frame rate — it seeks each output frame and encodes through

WebCodecs, so 60fps means exactly that, not "60fps-ish with drift."

• Nothing leaves your machine. The manifest sets connect-src to 'none' —

not a policy promise, a technical fact. No account, no backend.

It's free, no card, no usage limits beyond a 15-minute cap per recording

(memory, not a paywall).

If you've got two minutes before Wednesday — what would you actually

want a tool like this to do that it doesn't yet? Genuinely shaping the

list of what's next based on real answers, not guesses.