Annotate your recordings

Bring your video recordings to life with our annotation tool

Step 1 - Start a recording

Once you've installed and pinned the Searchie Extension to your Chrome browser, click the Searchie icon in your browser's top-right corner. After clicking the icon, a pop-up window will appear. From this window, click ⏺️ Start Recording.

There are three main recording options: Screen, Tab area, and Camera. For example, if you choose Screen and click Start Recording, you must select between Entire Screen, Window, and Chrome Tab. Click Share after you have made your selection to begin the recording.

Step 2 - The Annotation/Drawing tool

Once the recording begins, click the annotation (pencil) icon of the Control Menu.

Step 3 - Draw, erase, and point to information

Now that the annotation options are visible, you can draw, highlight things, and do more on your recording.

When you click the annotation icon, you'll have these options (from left to right):

• Select tool: Select different elements you've drawn on your canvas

• Pen tool: Draw free-hand in your chosen color anywhere on your canvas

• Highlighter tool: Emphasize text and other details

• Eraser tool: Delete anything you drew

• Color and stroke: Choose the color and thickness of your drawing
• Text tool: Enter text anywhere on your canvas
• Shape tool: Draw a shape outline/fill
• Arrow tool: Point out details seen on your canvas
• Image tool: Upload images from your local storage

• Other options

  • Undo, Redo, and Clear canvas

Here's a quick demonstration of the drawing/annotation tool. Let's see it in action: