diff --git a/bin/omarchy-cmd-screenrecord b/bin/omarchy-cmd-screenrecord
index 1e45d4ab..e6538ad7 100755
--- a/bin/omarchy-cmd-screenrecord
+++ b/bin/omarchy-cmd-screenrecord
@@ -164,12 +164,11 @@ finalize_recording() {
   latest=$(cat "$RECORDING_FILE" 2>/dev/null)
   [[ -f $latest ]] || return
 
-  # Trim the first frame, and normalize audio to -14 LUFS if present, in a single pass
-  local args=(-y -ss 0.1 -i "$latest")
+  # Re-encode to drop scrambled encoder-warmup frames (stream copy can't — it rewinds to the keyframe)
+  # and normalize audio to -14 LUFS if present, in a single pass
+  local args=(-y -ss 0.1 -i "$latest" -c:v libx264 -preset veryfast -crf 20)
   if ffprobe -v error -select_streams a -show_entries stream=codec_type -of csv=p=0 "$latest" 2>/dev/null | grep -q audio; then
-    args+=(-af loudnorm=I=-14:TP=-1.5:LRA=11 -c:v copy)
-  else
-    args+=(-c copy)
+    args+=(-af loudnorm=I=-14:TP=-1.5:LRA=11)
   fi
 
   local processed="${latest%.mp4}-processed.mp4"