Bring your video recordings to life with our annotation tool
🧰 What You Will Need
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A Searchie account
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Google Chrome
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The Searchie Chrome Extension
Step 1 - Start a recording
Once you've installed and pinned the Searchie Extension to your Chrome browser, click on the Searchie icon in the top-right corner of your browser. After clicking the icon, from the dropdown window that appears click Start Recording.
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If recording your screen, choose the screen and/or window to record in the next step. Click Share after you have made your selection to begin the recording.

Step 2 - The Annotation menu
Once the recording begins, click the Annotation icon on the far right of the Control Panel in the bottom-right corner of your screen.

Step 3 - Draw, erase, and point to information
Now that the annotation options are visible, you can start to draw and highlight things on your recording.

From left to right...
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The circle displaying a colour will allow you to choose a colour for the annotations.
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The pencil icon will give you the ability to draw free-hand in your chosen colour anywhere on your screen.
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The eraser icon can be used to delete anything drawn with the pencil.
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The arrow icon will let you drag and drop arrows around your recording to highlight specific areas of it. Check out the GIF below for a quick walkthrough of the various features.
📚 Up Next
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Build a Playlist with your Extension recordings
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Search your internal library of recorded SOPs
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Film a tour of your Hub using the Extension and display it with a Featured section