A macOS screen recorder that hands back a finished video. Zooms that follow the work, a framed camera and a background, exported at up to 4K on your Mac's own media engine.
Hey Hunters 👋
I build things, and every time I wanted to show one off, the recording was the hard part. A raw screen capture looks flat, no depth, no focus, no sense of where to look. So I'd drag the file into After Effects, keyframe zooms by hand, fight with the timeline for an hour, and end up with a 40-second clip that still didn't feel quite right. For a 40-second clip.
That's a ridiculous tax on shipping. Most of us don't have a motion designer on call — we just want the demo to look like we do.
Prequel is what I wanted to exist. Record your screen, and the cinematic zooms are already there, it follows your cursor and your clicks, so the camera moves the way a good editor would move it. Backgrounds, padding, rounded corners, a camera bubble that doesn't look glued on. All native on Apple Silicon, so it's fast and the exports are sharp.
No After Effects. No keyframes. No plugin stack. Just a recording that looks like you spent the afternoon on it.
Would love your feedback, especially on what's still missing for your workflow. I'm here all day. 🙏
@haxzie nice we're always looking for ways to make our screen captured walkthroughs better.. thanks. fyi the rock's lawyers gonna come pay u a visit for that lol you got my guts than I do.
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Super cool app! The UI looks crazy good, How are you differentiating yourself in this space?
@abhiigatty Thanks! Prequel gives you fine grained control over the timeline, layouts and zoom effects. It also, auto animates between cuts and scenes with 60FPS, which most of the other apps lacks.
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Really nice product, it would be nice to have an additional payment option to OneTimePayment for a lifetime subscription, as for example I myself do not make mockup demo/production videos every month so a monthly subscription wouldn't make sense, but a lifetime would allow me to use the software three/four times a year consistently.
@ambx Not yet, but we are adding it soon! We already have an auto edit which by default edits your videos post recording.
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Congrats on your launch. Only thing that stopped me from trying is subscription fatigue. I think a lifetime option OR an option for a years license would be better where the person keeps the last version they have. I think that’s fair and if they want updates they’d need to pay for it again.
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Cool! Would it work well for recording a demo video for Product Hunt?
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@haxzie nice we're always looking for ways to make our screen captured walkthroughs better.. thanks. fyi the rock's lawyers gonna come pay u a visit for that lol you got my guts than I do.
Super cool app! The UI looks crazy good, How are you differentiating yourself in this space?
Prequel
@abhiigatty Thanks! Prequel gives you fine grained control over the timeline, layouts and zoom effects. It also, auto animates between cuts and scenes with 60FPS, which most of the other apps lacks.
Really nice product, it would be nice to have an additional payment option to OneTimePayment for a lifetime subscription, as for example I myself do not make mockup demo/production videos every month so a monthly subscription wouldn't make sense, but a lifetime would allow me to use the software three/four times a year consistently.
Prequel
@xarlizard Makes sense, can add a lifetime free one-time payment as well.
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@xarlizard I wouldn’t be too hasty on a lifetime option. Just a thought. Google it. App looks awesome btw.
@xarlizard @haxzie I would 100% purchase this as a lifetime / one-time payment.
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Zooms that follow the work is the bit people hand-keyframe and give up on. Does it decide from cursor movement or from what changed on screen?
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super cool, can we edit videos using text prompts?
Prequel
@ambx Not yet, but we are adding it soon! We already have an auto edit which by default edits your videos post recording.
Congrats on your launch. Only thing that stopped me from trying is subscription fatigue. I think a lifetime option OR an option for a years license would be better where the person keeps the last version they have. I think that’s fair and if they want updates they’d need to pay for it again.
Cool! Would it work well for recording a demo video for Product Hunt?