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Key Loom features
- Add recording backgrounds to your videos to enhance their expressive potential.
- Add a virtual background to your camera bubble while recording. You can select from ready-made images, solid colours, or use blur option. You can change the background of your camera at any point during the recording.
- React to videos using emojis and in-video comments. You can also share a comment in the form of a recorded loom. You and your students can use this feature to share feedback, add more context/ information to a specific moment in a video. All reactions appear on the video’s timeline. Simply hover over a comment to expand it.
- Use the Highlight mouse clicks feature to ‘highlight to your viewer the particular action you’re performing with your cursor’ (this feature is only available on Loom for desktop).
- Use the drawing tool to guide your viewers through your Loom recording. Drawings only last for 5 seconds. Also, this feature is only available on Loom for desktop.
- Capture and share screenshots. You can capture both full size and custom size screenshots and download them to your desktop or save them to your personal library in Loom.
- Background noise suppression is a feature that is still in beta which allows you to reduce the noise of your background in case you are recording in noisy settings such as in an office or coffee shop.
- Increase engagement with your video content using call-to-action (CTA) feature.
- Use custom size recording feature to record videos of specific sections of your screen. This feature is available for Mac or Windows users on desktop.
- Create GIF animated covers to provide a preview of your video and capture your viewers attention. The way it works is simple. Enable the Animated Thumbnail from your video settings and Loom will transform the first few seconds of your recording into animated GIF cover.
- Loom provides you with detailed engagement insights showing who has viewed your videos, video completion rates, and call-to-action conversion rates, among others.
- Use the Invite Teams feature to invite team members to easily access videos. You can invite them using email addresses or import them from Slack or Google Workspace.