How to Make Tutorial Videos with AI on a Mac

You shipped the feature on Thursday. By Friday a customer cannot find the setting, a new hire needs the same walkthrough, and a prospect’s team does not work in English.

You record it, hear the ums, and promise to clean it up later. Later becomes a timeline, then a second language, then another recording. The help centre stays English.

How to make tutorial videos with AI, in the useful sense, flips that order. You perform the task once. The production happens afterwards, on the same Mac, without a reshoot per market.

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Record one task on your Mac

Pick one job. Invite a teammate. Connect billing. Show where the API key lives. A tutorial that tries to teach five jobs teaches none of them, and it is the recording you will refuse to update when the UI moves.

Braiv Capture is a native macOS app. It runs on macOS 26.2 or later. Windows is not available yet.

1. Download Braiv Capture for macOS and sign in with your Braiv account.
2. Record a display, a single window, or a custom area. Microphone, system audio, and webcam are separate tracks.
3. Talk the way you would to a colleague. Stumble. Restart the sentence. The first take is the source, not the master.
4. Stop when the task is done.

Zooms follow your clicks and stay editable. The cursor and shortcuts are redrawn on top, and a webcam bubble can sit in any corner. Leave the camera off unless a face helps. Screen-only is a perfectly good tutorial.

That is how to record a tutorial video on a Mac. The hours usually hide in the next three jobs.

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Clean the voiceover without a second take

A screen recorder saves the words you happened to say. A support video needs the words you meant. Cutting ums on a timeline leaves half-sentences and the sound of the room. Rewriting the line is a different job from polishing the audio.

Optimize voiceover

Optimize voiceover rewrites a natural first take into clean sentences, with the ums, repeats, and false starts gone. It then re-voices that script in your own cloned voice, with studio-mic sound, kept in time with your clicks. “Now open Settings” still lands on the click.

The clone is made from the recording, and the original take is kept. You can also pick a voice you have already saved in Braiv Speech. Read the rewritten lines before you translate. The dub uses the cleaned script, so a sloppy sentence becomes a sloppy sentence in Japanese.

The longer version of this pass is AI voiceover cleanup.

Enhance microphone

Enhance microphone is the audio-only path. It makes the recording you actually spoke clearer and more even. It does not change the words.

Use it when the phrasing was already tight and the only problem is room echo, or when an aside has to stay verbatim. Use Optimize voiceover when the take sounds like someone thinking out loud. That is most founder recordings.

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Put the callouts on the clicks

Viewers do not re-read your voiceover. They look for the button.

Auto overlays are live in Capture. One click adds callouts and text overlays at the key moments, timed from the voiceover and the clicks, with the control you clicked called out on screen.

Manual overlays are for the lines Auto overlays should not guess: a title card, a warning, a step label you want worded a particular way. Save those styles as presets so the next tutorial matches.

Add the overlays before you translate. Translate video localises the text overlays you added in Capture. It does not invent labels for buttons you never annotated.

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Translate the voice and the overlays

A dubbed voice over English callouts still looks unfinished. Translate video dubs the tutorial into 80+ languages in your cloned voice and translates the text overlays in the same pass, keeping their timing, position, and style. Switch language in the editor and listen before you export. The filler never gets translated, because the dub starts from the optimized script.

If your webcam is in the frame, turn on Lipsync the speaker. Braiv Lipsync matches the presenter’s mouth to the new voiceover, in the original language and in each dub. Screen-only tutorials should leave it off. Lip sync on a cursor spends credits and changes nothing a viewer can see.

Translation here is support video translation, on the same engine as Braiv Dubbing. Optimize voiceover, translation, and lipsync use AI Credits. Allowances are on pricing.

It will not yet replay the walkthrough inside your product in another language. The menus stay in the language you recorded. Localized interface replay is still coming. Until then, say the menu names out loud and put the translated label in an overlay.

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Save the file, or publish it from Braiv

Save to Computer exports an MP4 or MOV for each language, at native resolution, 1080p, or 720p. Use it when the file has to sit in a help centre, a Notion page, or a customer’s LMS.

Export to Braiv sends the tutorial and every language you made into your Braiv workspace, and it uses no credits. From there you can package a title, description, and thumbnail with Braiv Thumbnails, publish to YouTube with Braiv Connect, or embed one multilingual Braiv Player. Viewers switch language in the player. One embed, not a stack of files named _fr_final_v3.

If someone would rather read, Generate guide writes a step-by-step guide with screenshots, in the source language only. It is a companion to the video, not a translated help centre. See step-by-step guides from a screen recording.

For SaaS and customer success teams, the job is the library customers finish, not a product tour. A share link is fine for a one-off. It is a poor way to keep twenty walkthroughs current. Braiv vs Loom and Braiv vs Camtasia draw the line: those tools keep the take you performed. Capture also rewrites it, translates it, and hands every language to one player.

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When to skip it

Skip Capture if you need Windows today. The download is macOS only until that app ships.

Skip it if you want AI to invent the tutorial. Capture will not fabricate your product, your clicks, or a stock narrator reading a guessed script. If you did not perform the task, there is nothing honest to clean.

Skip lipsync when nobody is on camera. Skip translation when you only needed the ums gone. Optimize voiceover is useful on its own.

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Record the task you keep explaining

The next support video is probably a question you already answered in Slack this week. Record that task once, on your Mac, with the ums still in.

Download Braiv Capture for macOS →

macOS 26.2 or later. Sign in with your Braiv account and publish the version you would actually send to a customer.