Record the product demo once, and fix the layout afterwards

Most recorders flatten the screen and the camera into one picture the moment you press stop. If the camera bubble covers the one button you needed to show, the fix is another take. Zidi keeps the screen, the camera, the microphone and the system audio as separate lanes on the timeline, which is why the layout is still a decision after recording.

That changes how you record. You can run through the product once at a natural pace and decide later whether the intro is full camera, whether the pricing screen needs the whole frame, and whether the vertical cut for social should keep your face at all. The Layout panel offers presets, a position grid for the camera, size and shape controls, split view, and backgrounds from 22 gradients and 30 solid colors.

One rule does not bend: sound has to be right at recording time. Microphone and system audio cannot be added to a recording afterwards, and on a Mac, Chrome can capture a tab's audio but not system-wide audio. Check the input before a long take, and record a ten-second test if the demo includes product sounds.

The editor is built for trimming, arranging and labelling a recording, not for cinematic post-production. Cut splits the selected clip at the playhead and Cut All splits every video and audio track, Delete removes a segment, and the Ripple toggle decides whether the gap closes. Linked mode keeps picture and sound together. The project saves itself a couple of seconds after each change.

AI does the tedious parts. Captions come from the speech in the recording, with the language detected for you, and you can correct any line and its timing in Edit Subtitles. Editing works on a copy as well: opening a recording in the editor creates an edited copy with its own link and leaves the original as it was. Two one-click cleanups on the video's page, remove filler words and remove silence, run in the background and deliver a new copy in the same way, so you can compare before you commit. They accept videos up to 15 minutes on Free, 1 hour on Starter and 3 hours on Pro.

Exports are MP4, rendered in the cloud in Full HD for the chosen aspect ratio at 30 frames per second, and captions are burned into the exported file. There is no 4K export on any plan. Downloading needs Starter or Pro; on Free the demo is shared by link only.

The quickest route is the share link, which opens a page with the player, the transcript and, when they exist, an AI summary and timestamped chapters. Viewers do not need an account, and the page plays inline on phones. Nothing is listed publicly: a video is reachable only through its link, and you can add a password when a demo shows unreleased work.

For the website, the embed tab produces an iframe in a responsive or a fixed size, which works in WordPress, Webflow, Wix, Squarespace, Notion and other builders that accept custom HTML. For a campaign or a launch, publish the video as a standalone webpage from the page builder, with your own headings, text and call-to-action button. On Pro that page can sit on your own domain. Two limits apply: a password-protected video cannot be published this way, and views of a published webpage are not counted in the video's analytics. The embed code from the Share dialog points at the share page, so embedded views are counted like any other.

A readable transcript comes with every processed video and sits with the player on its share page, which helps buyers who skim. Published webpages show the video without it. You can copy it, download it as a text file, or translate it, and captions export as an SRT file when another platform asks for one.