# Add automatic zooms to a screen recording > In the Tella editor, press E to open Effect, then click Generate under Zooms. Auto Zoom places zooms on your clicks in one of five styles, from Gentle to Intense. You can also ask the Tella Agent in the chat on the right of the editor, for example "Zoom in when I click the Settings button". Auto Zoom needs recorded cursor data, but you or the Tella Agent can add a manual zoom with a fixed focus point to any screen recording. Page: https://www.tella.com/agent/auto-zoom-screen-recording ยท Part of Tella Agent (https://www.tella.com/agent) ## How do I add automatic zooms to a screen recording? In the Tella editor, press E to open Effect, then click Generate under Zooms. Auto Zoom places zooms on your clicks in one of five styles, from Gentle to Intense. You can also ask the [Tella Agent](https://www.tella.com/agent) in the chat on the right of the editor, for example "Zoom in when I click the Settings button". Auto Zoom needs recorded cursor data, but you or the Tella Agent can add a manual zoom with a fixed focus point to any screen recording. ## Prompt to start from ```text Generate zooms from my clicks across this whole video using the Focused style. Then remove the zooms in the two sections where I'm just talking over the Brightwell dashboard, and turn on Shrink camera during zooms. ``` ## More prompts ### Moments in the transcript ```text Zoom in at 2x on the export button when I say "now hit export", and on the invoice total when I say "there's your balance". Hold each zoom for about three seconds and use a hard cut out of the second one. ``` ### Help center walkthrough ```text This is a Quillmark settings tutorial. Regenerate the zooms with the Gentle style, and remove any zoom in the first five seconds while I introduce the page. ``` ## How to do it in Tella 1. Open your screen recording in the Tella editor. If the sidebar on the right is hidden, press Shift + S to show the Tella Agent chat. 2. Ask the Tella Agent to generate zooms from your clicks, or name the moments to zoom on by what you say. 3. Name a style if you want one: Gentle, Subtle, Moderate, Focused or Intense. Moderate is the default. 4. Press E to check the zoom cards on the Effect timeline. Drag, resize or delete them, or ask the Tella Agent for changes. ## Good to know - Needs a paid plan or the 7-day trial. Messages use your workspace's credits. - Auto Zoom uses cursor data from the Tella Mac and Windows apps, and from a Chrome tab recorded with the Tella Chrome extension. Web recordings and Chrome extension recordings of a window or entire screen have no cursor data. Single window recordings from the Windows app have it from version 0.15.0. - Zooms apply to the footage in the layout's Screen slot, not the camera. - Generated zooms don't move when you add cuts later. Delete them and generate again to fit your edits. ## Questions people ask ### Can Tella add zooms automatically after every recording? Yes. Click your workspace name, open Settings, go to Preferences and, under Automated editing, check Auto zooms. Tella then adds click-based zooms to eligible screen recordings once their uploads finish. It uses the last Auto Zoom style you picked in the editor, or Moderate if you haven't picked one. ### What if my recording has no cursor data? Generate is unavailable and the Zooms panel tells you why. You can still select a range, click Add zoom or press Z, and set a fixed target and scale yourself. You can also ask the Tella Agent to do it. ### Can Claude or ChatGPT add zooms to my Tella video? Yes. Connect [Claude](https://claude.ai/directory/tella) or [ChatGPT](https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6a7026f78434819186579d93d20ab38b?open_in_app) to Tella's [MCP server](https://www.tella.com/mcp). It can generate zooms from your clicks in the same five styles. It can also add a zoom at a set time, either with a fixed focus point or following the cursor. ## Related - [A smoother, bigger cursor in every walkthrough](https://www.tella.com/agent/smooth-cursor-in-screen-recording.md): Smooth, resize and restyle your pointer - [Put your brand behind every screen recording](https://www.tella.com/agent/change-screen-recording-background.md): Your brand's gradient or image behind every recording. - [Blur emails, API keys and customer data in a screen recording](https://www.tella.com/agent/hide-sensitive-information-in-video.md): Blur emails, keys and customer data while they're on screen - [Generate zooms automatically](https://www.tella.com/help/editing/add-a-zoom#generate-zooms-automatically) - [Zoom in on a video (guide)](https://www.tella.com/edit-with-ai/zoom-in-on-a-video) - [Edit with the Tella Agent](https://www.tella.com/help/editing/edit-with-the-tella-agent) - [All of Tella's AI features](https://www.tella.com/ai.md)