Recording a clip

The recorder opens on a stage showing your camera and the page this clip goes with, filled in with sample answers.

Along the bottom bar you have:

Layout — how the camera and the page share the frame, plus the camera’s shape. Vertical customs get three presets; horizontal customs get a fourth, with the camera in a corner. Page opacity fades the page so you stand out. It changes only this recording, never your page design, and must be set before you start.
Camera and Microphone — pick your devices. The meter beside the microphone moves when it hears you; if it stays flat, you are warned before the take starts (you can still record anyway).
Screen — share a screen or window alongside your camera.
Notes — your script, on screen while you record. Only you see it.
Draw — a click highlight, a pen, shapes and arrows, to point at the page while you talk. Marks fade within a second, and they are recorded with the take, so the people watching see them too.
Record, then Pause, Resume and Stop.

A counter shows 5:00 as the target and turns amber in the last thirty seconds. Nothing cuts you off, but clips are meant to be short — they are moments, not a whole presentation.

Your custom’s video format decides the shape of every clip. Vertical (9:16) suits Reels and Stories, horizontal (16:9) suits YouTube. It is set once for the whole custom, in Video background.

Trimming and saving

When you stop, the take opens in the trimmer. The silent ends are already trimmed off — drag the handles to fine-tune, and watch the length readout.

You can also cut out the middle. Split at 0:42 (or the S key) cuts the take in two at the playhead; drag the new handles apart and everything between them is dropped. Each piece has its own handles and a × to remove it. Playback skips the cuts, the length shows what you are keeping, and Cuts beside it counts how many you made.

Reset puts the handles back
Re-record throws the take away and starts again
Save clip keeps it

A saved take is queued and processed, then the clip turns green with its runtime. Clips not yet filmed stay white with a dashed outline and a Record marker.

To change a saved take, open the clip again: Re-record replaces it, and the trim track under the player adjusts the one you have — Save trim keeps the change.

Going back to the original recording

Cut too much? Revert to original puts back the full take exactly as you filmed it, page changes included — always the original, never an earlier cut. Confirm with Restore, and once it has processed, trim it again if you need to.

Your live video does not change until you publish.
If the clip has a Say My Name (beta) position set, it is detected again.
The button is greyed out on clips prepared for instant video, and on a few older clips whose page changes were not saved. Hover it to see why.

Each lead sees their own page

The page in each lead’s video is their own — their score, their answers, their recommendation. That is what lets one take serve everybody. It also means the page is never frozen: redesign a page in Video background and every video made afterwards uses the new design, including videos from clips you filmed months ago. If you rework a page, watch a clip back before you rely on it — your framing may no longer sit where you left it.

With more than one page, the Pages rail down the left of the stage picks the page for this take. Choose it before you press Record, or switch while recording and the video switches with you. Once a take is filmed its pages are fixed: hover the clip to see Filmed on and the page name.