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Record a browser tab or your full desktop and let Origami AI do the camera work for you. While you record, it tracks your mouse cursor and automatically applies smooth cinematic pan-and-zoom effects during idle pauses — turning a raw screen capture into a polished, engaging video without any manual editing.

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Auto-Zoom

Origami AI watches your mouse cursor throughout the recording. Whenever the cursor stays still for a moment, it treats that pause as a moment of focus and smoothly zooms the camera in on that area of the screen. When movement resumes, the view gracefully pans and zooms back out. Key details:
  • Default idle threshold: 2 seconds. If the cursor is stationary for 2 seconds or longer, an auto-zoom is triggered at the cursor’s resting position.
  • Adjustable: You can raise or lower the idle duration in ⚙️ Settings → General to suit your recording pace. A shorter threshold gives more frequent zooms; a longer one reserves them for deliberate pauses.
  • Zoom level: Also configurable in Settings, so you control how close the camera pulls in during each pause.
The result is a recording that naturally draws viewer attention to whatever you’re demonstrating — without any post-production work.

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Chrome Extension (Optional)

For the most precise auto-zoom, install the Origami AI Chrome extension. It provides DOM-level telemetry: exact cursor coordinates, click events, and scroll actions are captured with high fidelity and fed directly to the zoom engine. Without the extension, Origami AI falls back to an in-page tracker that captures basic window-level mouse movements. Auto-zoom still works in fallback mode, but cursor tracking is less precise.
Install the Chrome extension for the best auto-zoom results, especially when recording complex UI interactions, code editors, or anything with dense interface elements where cursor position really matters.
To load the extension manually:
1

Open the Chrome extensions page

Navigate to chrome://extensions in your Chrome or Chromium-based browser.
2

Enable Developer mode

Toggle Developer mode on using the switch in the top-right corner of the page.
3

Load the extension

Click Load unpacked and select the chrome-extension/ folder from the Origami AI repository.
Alternatively, download a pre-packaged ZIP directly from inside the app: open the header menu → Download Chrome Extension, then follow the same load-unpacked steps above using the downloaded folder.

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Recording Sources

Origami AI supports two capture sources, selectable when you start a recording:

Browser Tab

Capture a single browser tab. Best for recording web apps, documentation walkthroughs, or anything running in the browser.

Desktop Window

Capture a specific application window or your entire desktop. Useful for recording native apps, terminal sessions, or cross-app workflows.
Your browser will display a system permission prompt the first time you start a recording — grant screen capture access to proceed.

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Settings

Fine-tune your recording behaviour in ⚙️ Settings → General:
Origami AI requires specific browser security headers (Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy and Cross-Origin-Embedder-Policy) to enable screen recording and in-browser video processing. These headers are automatically present when you use the hosted app or run npm run dev locally. Never open index.html directly via the file:// protocol — that bypasses the dev server and the required headers will be missing, causing recording and rendering to fail.