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The Zoom tool was renamed Effect in September 2026. Click Effect in the editor sidebar, or press E, and you will find the same zoom controls, plus cursor styling, blurs, and highlights, together on one timeline. No zoom feature was removed, and zooms already in your videos are unchanged.

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What moved where

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Keyboard shortcuts

  • E opens Effect.
  • Z adds a zoom to the selected range or at the playhead while Effect is open.
  • X splits the selected zoom at the playhead.
The full list is in Keyboard shortcuts.

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I don’t see Cursor settings in Effect

Cursor settings only appear for recordings made with the Tella Mac or Windows app using the Animated or Hidden cursor mode. If you recorded with the System cursor, or with the web app or Chrome extension, the pointer is already part of the video and there is nothing to restyle, so the section is hidden. See Customize the animated cursor.

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Effect asks me to record my screen or add media

Zooms apply to the footage in a layout’s Screen slot. On a camera-only clip there is nothing to zoom into until a media layout puts an image or video there. To zoom in on your camera instead, use a punch-in, which is a Layout option: see Punch in (zoom in) on your camera.
Last modified on September 23, 2026