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To install, just double click on the prefpane. The trick’s only major downfall is that it’s a constant battle to get the cursor out of the way.

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I use it all the time to make things like embedded web videos full screen. The inspiration for this tool is one of my favorite and most utilized macOS features: the control-scrollwheel zoom trick. It can also autohide an idle cursor and bring it back as soon as you move the mouse. Thanks again for the purely digital suggestions.Cursorcerer is a little tool I hacked together which allows you to hide the cursor at any time by use of a global hotkey. I haven't fully tested yet, but it looks like a goer for achieving brushstrokes that retain the natural rhythm of handwriting. For brush strokes other than white, use the Tint effect and set Map White to whatever colour is desired.Import the video into Premiere and apply the Luma Key effect with suitable settings for Threshold and Cutoff so that only the white brush strokes are visible.

Prepare Quicktime for recording a selection on the screen.Replace the background image with black (or another colour to be keyed out in Premiere).Record the brush strokes as an Action ( Allow Tool Recording Playback Options set to Step by Step).Choose a white PS brush and practice the brush strokes few times over the image that will be used in the final video.

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Install Cursorcerer, software I only discovered recently, to hide the cursor – not possible otherwise with my version of PS and the Wacom, although the cursor problem may not matter with a recorded Action (see below).

These notes are for my future reference and for anyone else who might want to do this sort of thing:

So the technique I’m going to experiment with is basically an analogue version: recording from a Wacom tablet.

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I was hoping for a Mac version to try out, but no luck.

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A few years ago a friend did a signature for me on his iPad using Procreate, then exported to mp4 for use in Premiere. The mention of Procreate jogged my memory.The Abrams tutorial was most interesting and showed me how complicated it can be (hours of time) to try and digitally mimic a real-life 2-second signature.I went through the ones most suitable, and this is what I’ve decided: Any suggestions as to other software, or other approaches in AE or Premiere, for obtaining a digital version of real-life strokes? Doesn't have to be a direct screen recording, but the end result after processing by AE, is a free-form brush movement.

I select a brush, apply all the brush settings, and start my squiggle. Is there any method in AE of screen recording? i.e. Given that I have a real-time path on my screen courtesy of Puppet Tools, can AE apply a brush to that path? The path may have to be copied and pasted somewhere else in AE, or undergo some other process, but once I have the path, can it be brushed with all the normal brush variables (style of brush, diameter, colour, roundness, hardness)? I cannot use Motion Sketch because there is a bug with CS6 running under OSX 10.9 (my setup), but a suggested workaround is to use Puppet Tool to record the keyframes.

The alternative is to use AE (or Premiere) to record my pen movements as keyframes, and then I attach whatever brush I desire to the path and presto – I have a signature, a track on a map, a squiggle, a cross-out, whatever. For various reasons I can't just do the drawing in Photoshop and record the screen (my first preference). I want to be able to generate free-form brush strokes by drawing on my Wacom tablet with its pen. I don't know much about AE, so before I look into this in detail, I simply want to know if what I want to do is possible.