How to record wallet screen video that holds up

Before you start

1. 1

   Launch from the home-screen icon

   Open the installed app rather than the site in a browser tab. Launched from its icon it runs full screen with no address bar and no toolbar. A visible URL bar is the single most common giveaway in wallet footage, and it cannot be cropped out of a vertical video without losing the top of the screen.

2. 2

   Set the wallet up first

   Balances, tokens, logos, the interface you want — all of it before you start recording. Opening Manage Tokens mid-take to fix a number means starting again, and a viewer who sees the settings screen has seen the whole trick.

3. 3

   Turn on market price jitter

   Settings → Market price jitter

   In Settings, enable market price jitter and choose how it applies: On refresh moves figures once after a pull-to-refresh, Polling moves them on a timed tick, and Both does each. Polling or Both is what you want on video — a portfolio total frozen to the cent for thirty seconds reads as a screenshot with a cursor on it.

4. 4

   Clean up the status bar

   Turn on Do Not Disturb so no real notification slides over the frame. Charge above 80% — a red battery is the detail people zoom in on. Check that the signal and Wi-Fi indicators are full, and that the clock does not contradict whatever you say about when this was recorded.

5. 5

   Record short takes and let transitions finish

   Start the recorder, wait two seconds before touching anything, then move at the pace someone actually uses a wallet — a beat on each screen, not a rapid tour. Let the app's own animations play out; they were rebuilt to match the real ones, and cutting between screens throws away the part that sells it. Stop, then record the next beat separately.

6. 6

   Trim rather than speed up

   Cut the dead handle at each end and join the takes. Resist speeding footage up: sped-up wallet animations run at a cadence no real app has, and it is more noticeable than the dead air you were trying to remove.

There is an address bar at the top of my recording.

You recorded a browser tab, not the installed app. Add RPWallet to your home screen and launch it from the icon — it then runs full screen with no browser chrome at all.

The numbers do not move and it looks like a still.

Market price jitter is off, or set to On refresh, which only moves figures after a pull-to-refresh. Set it to Polling or Both so values move on a timed tick during the take.

A notification appeared mid-take.

Do Not Disturb was off. Turn it on before recording. This is the most common reason an otherwise perfect take has to be redone.

The recording is choppy when animations play.

Screen recording and animation compete for the same frames on older phones. Close background apps, keep the recording under a minute, and record at the phone's native resolution rather than a downscaled setting.

It looks right on my phone but wrong on a big screen.

Always review at full size before publishing. Placeholder token logos, a round portfolio total and every position showing green are all invisible on a phone preview and obvious on a laptop.