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Step titles
"Step 2: Connect your channel". Tells viewers where they are when they skip ahead.
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Add text to a screen recording at every key moment, in one click
Auto overlays read your voiceover and your clicks, then place a callout at each key moment of the tutorial, with the clicked button circled. You can also place text overlays and callouts yourself.
Where this fits
Braiv Capture
Braiv Capture is a native Mac app for tutorial videos. Talk through the task the way you normally would, and Capture rewrites the voiceover into clean sentences, re-voices it in your own voice with studio-mic sound, translates the audio and on-screen text, and lipsyncs your webcam. Then export to Braiv to package and publish.
Explore Braiv CaptureCapability 5 of 6
- Voiceover optimization
- Full video translation
- Braiv Lipsync for screen recordings
- Export to Braiv
- Auto overlays You’re here
- Localized interface replay
Available now
Text overlays and callouts you place yourself
Every Capture project already has an Overlays lane on the timeline. Add titles, step labels and callouts where you want them.
Timed on the timeline
Each overlay is a clip. Drag it to the right moment and trim how long it stays on screen.
Move and resize on the canvas
Select an overlay in the preview to place it exactly where it should sit over your screen.
Save your style as a preset
Font, colour and background saved once, so every tutorial from your team looks the same.
Callouts with a highlight
Pair a label with a circle around the button you are talking about.
What this does
What auto overlays do
Auto overlays in Braiv Capture add timed text callouts at the key moments of a screen recording in one click, written from the voiceover and placed on the clicks. Manual text overlays, callouts and style presets are available today.
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One click, every key moment
Callouts are placed across the whole tutorial at once, not one by one.
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Written from your voiceover
The text comes from what you said, so callouts and narration agree.
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Pinned to your clicks
Each callout lands on the moment you clicked, with the clicked element circled.
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Translated with the video
Generated callouts are normal overlays, so translation picks them up like any other.
How auto overlays place a callout
Capture already knows two things about your tutorial: what you said, and where you clicked. Auto overlays combine them.
- 01Listen
Reads the voiceover
Uses the transcript, preferring your optimized voiceover, to find the instructions in the tutorial.
- 02Match
Lines them up with your clicks
Each instruction is matched to the click it describes in the recording.
- 03Place
Adds a callout at that moment
Short label text, timed to the click, with a circle around the element you clicked.
- 04Edit
Leaves you in control
Callouts are normal overlays you can move, rewrite or delete. Run it again to refresh the generated set.
Text overlay examples
Three overlays every tutorial needs
Whether you place them yourself or let auto overlays do it, these are the ones viewers rely on.
Action
Click callouts
A label and a circle on the exact button, so nobody has to hunt for it.
Context
Notes and warnings
"Admins only" or "This cannot be undone". The details a voiceover says once and viewers miss.
Deep dive
Everything you need to know about Auto overlays
Why tutorials need text on screen
Viewers skim tutorials. They skip ahead, pause, rewatch a step and follow along in another window. Narration alone does not survive that. Step titles tell them where they are, and callouts show them exactly what to click. In a translated tutorial the overlays need to change language with the voice, or the result looks unfinished.
Add text to a screen recording today
Every Braiv Capture project has an Overlays lane on the timeline:
- Timed overlays. Each title or label is a clip. Drag it to the right moment and trim its length.
- Placed on the canvas. Select it in the preview to move and resize it over the screen.
- Presets. Save the font, colour and background once and reuse them across tutorials.
- Callouts. Pair a label with a circle highlight around the button you mean.
When you translate the video, these overlays are translated too. See full video translation.
Auto overlays
Placing ten callouts by hand is the part of tutorial editing most people skip. Auto overlays do it in one click. Capture reads the transcript, preferring your optimized voiceover, matches each instruction to the click it describes, and adds a callout at that moment with the clicked element circled. Everything it adds stays editable, and running it again refreshes the generated set.
Auto overlays are part of Braiv Capture. They are available now in the macOS app.
Also in Braiv Capture
Related capabilities
Other attributes of the same product — useful if this page was not quite the one you meant.
Voiceover optimization
Optimize voiceover rewrites your first take into clean, full sentences with no ums or false starts, then re-voices it in your own voice with studio-mic sound, still in time with every click on screen.
Learn more
Full video translation
Translate video dubs your voiceover into the languages you choose with your cloned voice, and translates every text overlay you added in Capture at the same time, right inside the app.
Learn moreBraiv Lipsync for screen recordings
When your face is in the tutorial, a new voiceover can make it look dubbed. Braiv Lipsync matches the presenter's mouth to the optimized voiceover or to each translated language, as an option in Braiv Capture.
Learn more The bigger picture
One capability, one step in a longer workflow
Braiv Capture covers the Capture stage. Braiv runs the rest of the sequence on the same recording — so what you make here ends up packaged, localized and published without leaving the platform.
See the full workflow Questions
Frequently asked questions
How do I add text to a screen recording on a Mac?
In Braiv Capture, open the recording in the editor and add a text overlay on the Overlays lane. Drag it to the right moment, set how long it stays, then move and resize it on the canvas. Save the style as a preset to reuse it.
How do I add a text overlay to a video?
Add it as a timed clip above the video, place it over the part of the frame it refers to, and keep it short enough to read in a couple of seconds. In Capture, overlays live on their own timeline lane so they never affect the recording underneath.
What are auto overlays?
One click in Braiv Capture reads your voiceover and your clicks and adds a callout at each key moment, with the clicked element circled. The callouts are normal overlays you can edit.
How do I use auto overlays?
In the Capture editor, click Auto overlay. Capture places a callout at each key moment from your voiceover and your clicks. Move, rewrite or delete any of them, or add overlays by hand on the same lane.
Are overlays translated?
Yes. Text overlays you add in Capture are translated with the voiceover when you use full video translation, keeping their timing, position and style. Generated callouts are translated the same way.
Can I add callouts to a video?
Yes. A callout in Capture pairs a short label with a circle highlight around the part of the screen you are explaining.
Download Braiv Capture for Mac
Native macOS app. Record a tutorial once, optimize the voiceover, translate it, and export to Braiv.