# Cutaway

> Record your screen and camera, get a first cut, and export a finished video. No editing experience needed.

- [Welcome to Cutaway](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/index.md): Record your screen and your face, and Cutaway helps you turn it into a finished video. No editing experience needed.
- [Install Cutaway](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/install.md): Get Cutaway onto your Mac and let it record your screen.
- [Quickstart](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/quickstart.md): Make your first video in about 5 minutes. Record, let Cutaway tidy it up, and save it.
- [Words to know](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/words-to-know.md): Simple meanings for the video words you'll see in Cutaway.
- [Start a recording](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/record/start-a-recording.md): Choose what to record, press Start, and press Stop when you're done.
- [Layouts and cameras](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/record/layouts-and-cameras.md): Choose how your face and your screen sit together in the video.
- [Use videos you already have](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/record/import-footage.md): Bring in videos from your phone, camera or another app, and edit them in Cutaway.
- [Teleprompter](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/record/teleprompter.md): Read your script while you record. It floats over your screen and is never in the video.
- [Record a demo of Cutaway](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/record/record-cutaway.md): Make a how-to video of Cutaway itself, with Cutaway's own recorder.
- [A tour of the editor](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/editor-tour.md): What each part of the editor is for, in one picture.
- [The first cut](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/first-cut.md): Cutaway puts your video together for you. Here's what it does and how to steer it.
- [Timeline and clips](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/timeline-and-clips.md): Move around your video, cut out parts, and arrange clips.
- [Edit by transcript](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/edit-by-transcript.md): Cut your video by deleting words, just like editing a document.
- [Zoom in](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/zoom.md): Make part of the screen bigger for a moment, so viewers can see the detail.
- [Camera and layouts](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/camera-layouts.md): Show your face, your screen, or both, and make your camera look good.
- [Background, crop and shape](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/background-and-shape.md): Put a nice background behind your screen, crop out extra bits, and pick the video shape.
- [Captions](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/captions.md): Show the words you say as text on the video.
- [Text and titles](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/text-and-titles.md): Add a title, a name label, or any words on top of your video.
- [Animations](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/animations.md): Add moving graphics like a subscribe button, a name tag, a counter or an arrow, or describe your own and let AI make it.
- [B-roll: pictures and video over your footage](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/b-roll.md): Show a photo or a video clip on top of your recording while your voice keeps playing.
- [Callouts](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/callouts.md): Point out something important with a label on the screen.
- [Voice, music and sound](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/music-and-sound.md): Make your voice clear, add and shape background music, add sound effects, and add a voiceover.
- [Make voice, music and pictures with AI](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/ai-generation.md): Generate a voiceover, music, sound effects, pictures and short videos, and put them straight into your video.
- [Hide private info](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/hide-private-info.md): Blur or cover emails, passwords and anything else you don't want people to see.
- [Cursor, keys and animation](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/cursor-and-animation.md): Make your mouse pointer easier to follow, show the keys you press, and change how fast zooms move.
- [Undo and versions](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/edit/undo-and-versions.md): Go back if you change your mind. Your work is saved for you.
- [Set up the AI helpers](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/ai/set-up-ai.md): Optional. Connect Claude or Codex so Cutaway can make smarter edits and suggest titles.
- [Ask AI](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/ai/ask-ai.md): Ask for changes in plain words, like "make the intro shorter".
- [AI review](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/ai/ai-review.md): See every change the first cut made, and undo any of them.
- [Make videos from Claude Code or Codex](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/ai/make-videos-from-claude-or-codex.md): Ask your AI assistant to edit a video for you, and watch it happen in Cutaway.
- [Thumbnail and title](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/share/thumbnail-and-title.md): Make the picture and title people see before they click your video.
- [Shorts](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/share/shorts.md): Turn the best part of your video into a short, upright video for phones.
- [Export your video](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/share/export.md): Save your finished video as a file you can upload or share.
- [Keyboard shortcuts](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/help/keyboard-shortcuts.md): Handy keys to work faster. You never need these, but they save time.
- [Settings](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/help/settings.md): Where your projects are saved, and other app-wide choices.
- [Troubleshooting](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/help/troubleshooting.md): Quick fixes for common problems.
- [Tutorials](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/tutorials/index.md): Short videos that show you how to do one thing at a time. Each one is under a minute.
- [Your first video](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/tutorials/your-first-video.md): Record your screen, let Cutaway tidy it up, and save the finished video. About 1 minute.
- [Cut out mistakes](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/tutorials/cut-out-mistakes.md): Remove words you didn't mean to say, just by selecting them. 30 seconds.
- [Zoom in on a detail](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/tutorials/zoom-in-on-a-detail.md): Make part of the screen bigger for a moment, so viewers can see it. 30 seconds.
- [Add captions and music](https://cutaway-docs.mintlify.app/tutorials/captions-and-music.md): Show your words on screen and add background music. 30 seconds.


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