Eye Contact AI

If you recorded yourself reading notes or watching your own screen, your eyes point away from the camera. Eye Contact AI (powered by NVIDIA's Maxine technology) redirects your gaze so you appear to look straight at the viewer — a subtle change that makes talking-head content feel far more direct.

Using it

Open a video and click Edit to open the editor.
Click Eye Contact AI in the footer's enhancement row.
Processing runs in the background — typically a few minutes.
When it's ready, a toggle appears on the video page letting you (and viewers) switch between the original and the enhanced version. The original is always kept.

The MP4 requirement

Eye Contact AI only accepts MP4 video — that's a hard requirement of the underlying NVIDIA service, not a Dockable choice. The button is disabled with an "MP4 Required" note on other formats.

Note: Recordings made with the Dockable Recorder are WebM, so they can't use Eye Contact AI today. Uploaded MP4 files (from your phone, QuickTime, or most cameras) work.

Cost

Gaze correction runs on GPU infrastructure and is billed per minute of video — roughly $0.10–0.30 per minute. The button's tooltip shows this before you commit.

FAQ

Does it change anything besides the eyes?

No. It operates on a small region around the eyes and blends it back into the frame — face, voice, and everything on screen are untouched.

Can I undo it?

You never lose the original. The enhanced version is stored alongside it, and the toggle on the video page switches between the two at any time.