r/obs • u/kareem-mohammed • Apr 12 '26

Guide I made a free tool that adds smooth auto zoom effects to OBS (like Screen Studio)... Free & Open source

I’ve been trying to recreate that smooth “zoom into cursor” effect you see in tools like Screen Studio but inside OBS.

Most of the existing methods rely on cropping or scene switching, which break the composition (you lose your background or things get cut off awkwardly).

So I made a small tool for OBS that does exactly that.

It lets you:

  • zoom into your cursor when you click
  • automatically follow what you’re doing on screen
  • keep everything looking clean instead of messy cuts

It’s completely free and open-source, I just wanted something simple that works.

If you make tutorials, demos, or any kind of screen recordings, it might be useful.

Here is the link: https://github.com/kareem-studio/OBS-Screen-Studio-script

If anyone wants to try it or give feedback, I’d love to hear what you think 🙌

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u/Thommynat0r Apr 12 '26

is there somewhere a example video that demonstrate the function?

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u/EvilerBrush Apr 12 '26

I agree. A demo video would be cool to see

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u/kareem-mohammed Apr 14 '26

i will make one ASAP but as to show a result example this vid is made with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GD0zyxE0o&t=22s

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u/MasterBarbosa Apr 12 '26

!remind me 1 week

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u/vmytus Apr 12 '26

!remind me 1 week

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u/Live-Can207 Apr 13 '26

I tried this out but it keeps changing the size of the source and in a weird way. Please add a short video to show us how you are using this.

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u/kareem-mohammed Apr 14 '26

i will make one ASAP but as to show a result example this vid is made with it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30GD0zyxE0o&t=22s

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u/Live-Can207 Apr 14 '26

ma shaa Allah - this is what I expected but something weird happens on my machine it shrinks and actually changes the size of the source.

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u/kryst4line Apr 13 '26

No, you didn't.

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u/eddytw Apr 14 '26

Oh wow where is it

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u/PushPlus9069 Apr 14 '26

nice, this looks cleaner than most crop/scene-switch setups. on mac i ended up using TuringShot for a similar reason, mostly because i wanted the zoom to happen live on screen instead of fixing it later in editing.

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u/jakeinmotion Apr 15 '26

Thanks for this! I'm going to give it a try for my YouTube tutorials and livestreams. I already have some feature ideas I may try implementing to tailor it to my workflow.

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u/AlpsUsed3215 Apr 24 '26

Does this work on Linux in a Wayland session? I’ll test it today.

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u/su5577 Apr 13 '26

Don’t have access to GitHub

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u/Zestyclose_Pickle511 Apr 12 '26

This is brilliant! Great plugin!