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Customizing Your Cursor in CANVID

Customize your cursor in CANVID with styles, click effects, and smooth animations. Learn how to enhance your screen recordings for a polished, professional look.

Lorenz Cruz
Lorenz Cruz
September 29, 2025

The Cursor sidebar in the CANVID Editor offers a variety of customization options to match your content style and give your recordings a more polished, professional look.

Changing the Cursor size and Styles in the Editor's Cursor sidebar

Show Cursor (enabled by default)

Makes the cursor visible in your screen recording.

Cursor Style

Choose from three different cursor styles: Windows, Mac, or Touch.

Always Use Pointer Style (disabled by default)

Enable this to prevent the cursor from changing into other interactive elements such as hand pointers or text cursors.

The Cursor changes into different Interactive cursor elements with Always Use Pointer Style disabled.
The cursor keeps its appearance with Always Use Pointer Style enabled.

Click Effect

Add a visual Ripple effect to highlight mouse clicks.

Mouse Clicks with the Ripple effect enabled
Mouse clicks with the Ripple Effect feature set to None.

Cursor Movement Smoothing (enabled by default)

Smooths the cursor’s path for a more natural, less jarring movement.

The different Cursor movement animation styles, with extra customization options for Tension and Friction.

You can also fine-tune the smoothness by adjusting the Cursor Movement Animation properties. Choose from four presets or customize your own tension and friction levels for a perfectly tailored look.

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