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Cursor
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Customize how the mouse pointer appears in your video in the Cursor properties. Pick an icon set, then change its size, colors, smoothing and more.
The Cursor properties are grouped into Icon set, Appearance, Movement and Visibility.
Pick an icon set
Rapidemo replaces your system cursors with vector graphics that stay sharp at any resolution and zoom level. Besides the arrow, this covers the text input cursor, the hand cursor and many others.
Choose the look from the Icon set grid. The Style strip above the grid sorts the sets into Filled, Outline and Color.
Preview opens a dialog showing every icon the selected set includes.
Change the size, stroke width and shadow
Adjust the cursor Size to increase visibility or make it more subtle.
Stroke width changes the thickness of the cursor’s outline. It isn’t available on every icon set.
The Shadow control adjusts the drop shadow intensity of the cursor. Set it to 0% to remove the shadow completely.
Choose the cursor’s colors
Colors are a grid of round swatches. Each swatch is split into the colors that icon set actually uses, so you see what you’ll get before you click. Light and Dark are always there.
Click + to build your own: pick a color for the cursor’s body and one for its outline, and every icon in the set previews live as you choose.
Colors are remembered per icon set, so changing one set’s colors leaves the others alone.
Dynamic and static cursor types
By default the Cursor type is Dynamic, so the pointer changes with context: a text cursor over a text field, a hand over a link.
Set it to Static to always show the arrow instead.
Adjust smoothing, motion blur and rotation
Smoothing removes jittery movement from the cursor path. More smoothing looks more fluid, but it also gives up some fidelity, for instance near mouse clicks.
Motion blur blurs the cursor during fast movements, which makes it look more dynamic. Adjust the slider to match your video’s style.
Movement rotation tilts the cursor slightly as it moves, which makes the motion feel more alive.
Hide the cursor while it sits still
Hide when inactive fades the cursor away while it isn’t moving, and fades it back in as soon as it moves again. Clicking counts as moving, so a cursor parked over a button is there for the click.
Cursor motion at the end of the scene
At the end of a Scene, cursor movement often only leads to the stop button. Switch on Cut off at end to keep the cursor still there instead. This is a per-Scene setting, in the Scene’s Cursor properties.
Loop cursor applies to the whole project, so it lives on the transport bar next to the playback controls rather than in the Cursor properties. It glides the cursor back to where it started, so you can loop the finished video cleanly. It changes the cursor path only. It doesn’t make playback repeat.
