Appending takes

Fluffed a line? Don’t restart the project. Record another take into the same project: the new recording lands on the timeline after your existing content and you cut between takes like any other edit.

How

With a project open, start a new recording from the recorder window or the menu bar. When it stops, the take appears at the end of the timeline — its picture on its own lane, its camera on another, its narration under them.

What a take is, underneath

A take is an import, not a second recording. Its picture is an ordinary video clip pointing at its own file: crop it, trim it, move it between lanes, change its speed, give it an entrance and an exit — everything you can do to a video you dragged in from Finder, with no effect on the original recording whatsoever.

Its camera is still a camera. Open the Camera tab and every bubble style — shape, size, position, border, shadow, shrink on zoom — applies to it, and the microphone recorded with it stays tied to it, so cutting the take’s screen leaves the face talking.

This is why the two never collide. Kapture used to fold a second recording into the first as though they were one long take, and a crop meant for one picture landed on the other.

Captions know about takes too: transcribing a take tags its cues to that take’s audio, so the right words appear over the right footage even after you rearrange everything.

Current limitations, honestly

Effects driven by the first recording’s event log stay off while a take is on screen: automatic zooms, blur masks, the drawn cursor and the keystroke overlay. A take records its own event log, but wiring per-take logs through those systems hasn’t shipped yet — until it does, Kapture prefers showing nothing over showing another recording’s clicks on your take.

The take’s picture, audio, captions, camera bubble, and every timeline edit work exactly as they do for the original.