Onboarding videos you only record once

You have given the same onboarding walkthrough four times already. Recording it pays off only if next quarter’s change is an edit to the project rather than another afternoon of filming.

Step Movie is part of Studio, a one-time $99 purchase. Everything else on this page is free.

The OwnClip Step Movie panel with an ordered list of steps, a preview, and the style and motion controls beside it — Steps in order, with the camera move between them under your control

The fifth time you explain it

An employee onboarding video is the same walkthrough you give every time somebody joins — the same accounts to set up, the same place everyone gets stuck. Doing it live is fine once and expensive by the fifth time.

The reason it stays live is that a recording made in an afternoon goes stale in a quarter, and nobody wants to film it twice. So the useful question is not how quickly you can record it. It is what you have to redo when one screen changes.

Annotations

Mark the click, not the screen.

Arrows, boxes, a highlighter sweep and numbered step badges land on the video at the moment a new hire would otherwise lose the thread. Each mark holds for its own stretch of the timeline, and nothing is burned in until export.

Eight tools
Numbered steps
Time-ranged

A screen recording of the OwnClip site marked up with arrows, a box, a highlighter sweep and numbered step badges, each appearing and leaving at its own moment — Arrows, boxes, highlighter and numbered steps, each on its own stretch of the timeline

What makes it repeatable

Most of this is on the free tier. The paid tiers are noted where they apply.

A display, a window, a region

Record the whole screen, a single window, or a region you drag, so the walkthrough shows the tool a new hire will actually open.

Captions for a silent read

Transcription runs on your Mac and produces timestamped captions you can correct, burn in at export, or hand off as a subtitle file.

Steps that number themselves

Badges that renumber as you add and reorder them, so a sequence on the video reads as a sequence.

Edits that stay editable

Every change lives in a project file beside the recording, and the original take is never rewritten.

A link you can switch off

Sharing uploads to your own Google Drive and hands back a link the same dialog can disable later.

Step MovieStudio

A sequence of captures becomes a walkthrough that exports as a video and as a written HTML guide.

Step Movie — Studio

The setup, as numbered steps.

The screens you captured while doing the setup once become numbered steps, with the frame travelling from one to the next rather than cutting between them.

OwnClip Step Movie turning captured screenshots into numbered steps with a guided camera move between them — Step Movie — captures become numbered steps, with the camera moving between them

Next quarter, the button moves

Editing is non-destructive. Trims, captions and annotations live in a project file beside the recording, so amending last quarter’s video means opening the project, fixing the part that went stale, and exporting again.

A screen that has genuinely been redesigned still has to be re-recorded. The difference is that it is one stretch of the walkthrough rather than the whole thing, and everything around it survives.

The link lives in your Drive.

Sharing uploads to storage you already own and gives you a link to drop into the handbook or the onboarding checklist. When the process is retired, the same dialog switches the link off again.

The OwnClip share dialog: a share link ready on view.ownclip.io, a Copy button, and a Disable link control in red — Sharing is the moment a recording leaves your Mac — and the link can be switched off again from here

The walkthroughs worth recording

First-week setup

The accounts, tools and permissions everybody configures once and then forgets.

Internal documentation

The in-house tool with nothing written down and one person who knows how it works.

Handover

The process that would otherwise leave with someone, recorded before their last week.

Recurring tasks

The monthly job that has to be done the same way every time, shown rather than written.

Questions people ask

OwnClip needs macOS 26 or later on an Apple silicon Mac. It is a native Mac app — there is no Windows or web version.

Free includes the whole editor — timeline, camera effects, audio cleanup, captions, annotations, and the screenshot and PDF editors. What it caps is the take itself: three minutes, recorded at 720p, with a small watermark composited into the frames as they are written. You can keep 25 recordings. A few tools are paid rather than capped — Smart Zoom and Scroll Capture are Pro; Brand Studio, Go Live and Step Movie are Studio. Pro is $39 once and lifts every cap.

Yes, and it is free. Transcription runs on your Mac in 20 languages and produces timestamped captions you can correct and style. They are burned in at export, or exported as an SRT or WebVTT file instead.

Your edits live in a project file beside the recording and the original is never rewritten, so a change is usually opening the project, adjusting that part and exporting again. A screen that has been redesigned does need that section re-recorded.

No. Step Movie is part of Studio, a one-time $99 purchase, and is not available on the free or Pro tiers. Recording, the editor, annotations, captions and sharing are all on the free tier.

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