Tips & Tricks: Screenshot Highlights

Want to draw attention to a specific part of a screenshot in your video? In this quick tip, you’ll learn how to crop, animate, and layer screenshots so your viewers stay focused on exactly what matters—super handy for tutorials, explainers, and product walkthroughs.

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Conversation Summary

The discussion centers around a helpful tip for highlighting screenshots in videos, focusing on how to crop, animate, and layer them effectively. Participants shared questions and solutions about specific features like rounding corners and accessing example videos, while also addressing a technical issue related to screenshot clarity during editing and previewing.

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Eli Hunstad (Oct 15, 2025)
Hi Lou - I simply love this tip and it’s really effective when a screen-recording is not really needed. However, I have a really weird issue where the screenshot highlights gets ‘out of focus’ when I do other edits on the page. E.g. I preview my scene and the highlighted screenshot looks perfect - crisp clear. But then if I add another element (like adding a heading to the page) and I then preview the scene - the highlighted screenshot is suddenly all blurry. Have you ever experienced this?

Lou (Oct 17, 2025)
Hi Eli Hunstad! Whenever adding/editing/previewing, I run into drop in resolution as well, sometimes quite severe:

I think it has to do with decreasing the load time for scenes to be able to be previewed—and maybe when editing, it has to re-cache all the content so it takes a bit to get back to normal.

Could you let me know:

• Does the preview remain blurry when you’re viewing a preview of the full video from the top-right in the toolbar, or is it just when previewing the scene?
• Does it go back to normal after refreshing the page?
• Does it remain blurry in the generated video?

Mervi (Aug 20, 2025)
Very cool. I would like to try it out, but I could not figure out how to get the example video into my Synthesia.

Cathy Perez (Jul 22, 2025)
This is a great tip. Much cleaner than only using arrows and box shapes to highlight text. How do you round corners? I have seen this a couple of times, but when I ask the Synthesia AI, it tells me I cant round corners. Maybe it's how I asked 😊 I need rounded corners in my life!!!

Lou (Jul 22, 2025)
Glad this tip is helpful Cathy Perez! And AI isn’t all-knowing just yet 😅

To round corners for an image or video, there is a setting in the Inspector Panel on the right when you select the media asset called Radius in the Layer section. You can enter a numerical value directly, or adjust the rounding of the corners by dragging the slider.