The August 2026 release focuses on making your product videos smoother, more engaging, and more polished. With Cursor Smoothing, new transitions, animated Callouts, and an expanded library of ElevenLabs voices, you now have even more ways to create professional product videos with less manual editing.
You can now create smoother, more natural cursor movements when recording with the Zenious Chrome extension.
When recording a browser tab, enable Cursor Smoothing and Zenious automatically smooths abrupt cursor movements as you navigate through the application. The recording toolbar is also hidden from the captured video, giving you a cleaner recording from the start.
Cursor Smoothing is currently available when:
Recording using the Zenious Chrome extension
Using the Tab Area recording option
Recording in Full HD
Videos recorded with Cursor Smoothing now include a dedicated Cursor tab in the Zenious editor.
Use Hide Cursor to select portions of the video where you don't want the cursor to appear. You can adjust or remove these hidden-cursor ranges at any time.
This gives you greater control over the final recording while keeping cursor movement clean and distraction-free.
In our previous release, we introduced the ability to insert slides anywhere within your video without splitting clips or managing the timeline manually.
With the August release, you can now make movement between scenes and sections even smoother with video transitions.
Choose from:
Fade
Slide Left
Slide Right
Wipe
Zoom
Dissolve
Transitions help create a more polished viewing experience when moving between workflows, chapters, screens, or sections of your video.
They are especially useful when combining different recordings or moving between distinct parts of a product workflow, helping the video feel more continuous and professionally produced.
We've introduced a new Callout effect to help draw attention to important elements on screen.
Position the Callout around a button, field, menu, or other area you want viewers to notice.
Zenious uses a Draw animation to highlight the selected area and then zooms into it, naturally directing the viewer's attention to the element that matters.
Use Callouts to:
Draw attention to important buttons or controls
Highlight fields and settings
Emphasize important actions
Make complex product workflows easier to follow
Callouts combine visual emphasis and zoom into a single effect, helping you guide viewers without manually creating multiple animations.
We've expanded the voice options available in Zenious with many more voices from ElevenLabs.
This gives you a broader selection of voices for your product videos, making it easier to find narration that works for your content, audience, and preferred style.
You can preview the available voices and choose the one that best fits your video before applying it to your narration.
The August 2026 release brings another level of polish to videos created in Zenious.
Cursor Smoothing creates cleaner screen recordings, Transitions make movement between scenes and sections more seamless, Callouts help guide viewers to important actions, and the expanded ElevenLabs voice library gives you more narration options to choose from.
Together, these enhancements help you transform everyday screen recordings into polished, engaging product videos with less manual editing.