[nozzlegear]

macOS does have overlay functionality, it’s called presenter mode or something like that. Look for it in the green camera icon that shows up in the menu bar when you’re sharing your screen. It puts your face in a bubble overlayed on top of whatever you’re sharing, as you said. You’re right it doesn’t have upload though.

[DaiPlusPlus]

> You’re right it doesn’t have upload though.

That's surprising considering how Apple pushes iCloud integration...

[brailsafe]

It may not have upload, but in any worthwhile collaboration solution you can literally just drag your screen recording into the rich text area of a comment and have it show up, maybe after converting it to a neutral codec. I did this in my last job with Jira, GitHub, and Slack, ez

[dcow]

Of course you can do this. Loom does the conversion and compression for you automatically so you have an instantly sharable video. Saves me time. That’s the point.

[brailsafe]

Yep, that's obviously where the value would be, but the basics have been default for quite some time unless you're using a linux or windows workstation

[dcow]

the system video capture on macOS outputs a .mov not an mp4.

[stephenr]

Apple also pushes privacy and on-device processing;

But as for the feature itself: why on earth would you want a video uploaded somewhere else before you've even had a chance to watch it back at least once?

[zztop44]

Because you’re showing a colleague how to use a simple inventory tracker that you’ve created in Google Sheets. Or how the new multilingual Figma templates work. Or how to batch rename a folder full of files using the command line. Or whatever, really. You already know what’s in the video because you literally just recorded it. And it doesn’t need to be polished because it’s probably just going to one coworker, who will only view it once.

[dcow]

You can also watch the video before sending the link…

[nopcode]

That works for FaceTime calls, but not for video recordings with QuickTime.

[nozzlegear]

Oh interesting, I just looked into it and apparently it requires the app to support it. Apps like Keynote, Zoom, Slack, Facetime and Teams Classic (but not "new Teams") all support it. That's really strange imo, you'd think the OS would just add the overlay to the video signal and pass it through to the app. I wonder why it's implemented this way. The other OS-level video features like portrait mode, studio lighting, reactions and center stage don't require support from the app at all.