NC #1115 Studio Mode in CleanShot 5, Keyboard Maestro for Screencasting, Steve Sheridan on Recording Eclipses
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 14 segments
Sep 17, 2026 · 1 hr 20 min · 14 segments
Allison SheridanHost
Steve SheridanGuest
One of the most powerful tools that I sometimes take for granted on my Mac is Keyboard Maestro.
I have a lot of cool little automations running that sometimes I forget they aren't even part of the operating system because I've been using them for so long.
I would not call myself a power user of the tool compared to some other folks, but I know my way around it well enough.
This week, I solved a peculiar problem that had been bugging me for years, and I did it with Keyboard Maestro.
We were just talking about CleanShop 5.0, and in that article, I explained to you that like ScreenFlow, it can record keystrokes and display them in the video recording.
This is an important feature of screencasting that helps keep your audience, allow them to follow along better with what you're demonstrating.
Now, if you don't create screencasts, but you do, say, demos to live audiences, you can use a tool like Keyscreen or Keycaster to display your keystrokes on screen to help the audience follow along.
Both ScreenFlow and CleanShot allow you to choose to display either all keystrokes or just modifier keys, such as Command, Control, and Option in combination with regular keys.
For example, if you hold down Option-Control-V to paste without formatting, it shows the keys Option, Control, and a capital V, and it shows it on screen.
There's one set of keys that the screencasting tools I've tested cannot seem to capture, and that's the function keys.
Now, you might be wondering why I would care to show these particular keys.
Well, in my most recent Screencast Online tutorial, I was teaching a bunch of my tiny Mac tips.
One of them was how if you hold down Option F1 or Option F2, the brightness keys, you can jump directly into System Settings right to the Display Settings pane.
No faffing about launching System Settings, finding displays, and then selecting it.
That's built-in functionality that really speeds up getting to the right place in the labyrinth that is System Settings.
You can also hold down option any one of the three volume keys, F10, F11, or F12, and that'll jump you right to sound settings in system settings.
Well, I was on a roll with modifier keys added to function keys, so I also wanted to demonstrate how you can make teeny adjustments to brightness and volume if you add option and shift to their respective function keys.
If the function keys didn't show in this video, the tutorial would be much harder to follow.
It would even look wrong because the option key would show and the shift key would show, but not the function key.
So as I said, hold down option F1, all the audience would see would be the option key.
One of the most powerful tools that I sometimes take for granted on my Mac is Keyboard Maestro.
I have a lot of cool little automations running that sometimes I forget they aren't even part of the operating system because I've been using them for so long.
I would not call myself a power user of the tool compared to some other folks, but I know my way around it well enough.
This week, I solved a peculiar problem that had been bugging me for years, and I did it with Keyboard Maestro.
We were just talking about CleanShop 5.0, and in that article, I explained to you that like ScreenFlow, it can record keystrokes and display them in the video recording.
This is an important feature of screencasting that helps keep your audience, allow them to follow along better with what you're demonstrating.
Now, if you don't create screencasts, but you do, say, demos to live audiences, you can use a tool like Keyscreen or Keycaster to display your keystrokes on screen to help the audience follow along.
Both ScreenFlow and CleanShot allow you to choose to display either all keystrokes or just modifier keys, such as Command, Control, and Option in combination with regular keys.
For example, if you hold down Option-Control-V to paste without formatting, it shows the keys Option, Control, and a capital V, and it shows it on screen.
There's one set of keys that the screencasting tools I've tested cannot seem to capture, and that's the function keys.
Now, you might be wondering why I would care to show these particular keys.
Well, in my most recent Screencast Online tutorial, I was teaching a bunch of my tiny Mac tips.
One of them was how if you hold down Option F1 or Option F2, the brightness keys, you can jump directly into System Settings right to the Display Settings pane.
No faffing about launching System Settings, finding displays, and then selecting it.
That's built-in functionality that really speeds up getting to the right place in the labyrinth that is System Settings.
You can also hold down option any one of the three volume keys, F10, F11, or F12, and that'll jump you right to sound settings in system settings.
Well, I was on a roll with modifier keys added to function keys, so I also wanted to demonstrate how you can make teeny adjustments to brightness and volume if you add option and shift to their respective function keys.
If the function keys didn't show in this video, the tutorial would be much harder to follow.
It would even look wrong because the option key would show and the shift key would show, but not the function key.
So as I said, hold down option F1, all the audience would see would be the option key.
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