Suggestion to Add Cursor Effects in Openshot

Components

Openshot is an open source video editing software used to create high-quality videos. Openshot lets you create professional quality videos with powerful video editing tools & animation solutions. Openshot also then allows you to export your projects directly from within the app to your machine in various file formats.

Proposal

Cursor effects are used to enhanced the cursor for better visibility using a highlight, spotlight, magnifier, rings, click sounds, and more. Sometimes user's just need a cursor effect for a few seconds, perhaps user's want to highlight a tiny check box in the corner of the screen or some very small text or maybe a little icon or something like that but user's don't wanna use the effect for the entire video, they just want it for a few seconds that's where cursor effects came into play, When i first used openshot, i observe that there is no cursor effect option exist in openshot and then i do more research on it and find that in order to use this features we first have to export our video track into our machine and then use any other software like camtasia studio or else, now the problem with this is that it is very time taking and irritating process to first export and then use any other software, so i suggest it's great if we able to use the cursor effects in openshot directly and once they add this as default then user's just need to install and open software and cursor effects show up by default in openshot and i hope users also appreciate this enhancement, let me show you examples that how openshot looks like when they add cursor effects.

Link to download Openshot Software: - https://www.openshot.org/download/

Mockups / Examples

After left clicking on cursor effects tab new menu opens up and user's can choose & apply required cursor effect on their video projects. See the below image

Below i make a gif to show you how these effects might looks like when user's apply them on video projects.

Benefits

With the help of cursor effects user's able to draw their viewers attention to on-screen actions effectively, This feature is especially useful if user's producing video tutorial / showing people how to do something on your computer screen, because it allows your viewers to follow along with what you’re doing and pay attention to where you’re clicking/pointing. When Openshot add this feature then user's able to use this tool directly in Openshot and they won't need to use any third party software, this induction will save precious time of user's and it also catch more clients as peoples find Openshot equipped with awesome tools.

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