Output folder, file names, parallel jobs, and speed limit
Where your files are saved, how edited and converted files are named, how many jobs run at once, and how much of your connection downloads may use.
01Open Settings › Downloads
Click Settings at the bottom of the sidebar. The sections sit in a menu on the left, and Settings opens on Downloads. General, above it since 1.7.5, holds the language of ClipHearth. Search settings above the menu finds any setting by name. Everything on this page is on cards in the Downloads section, each setting with a short explanation under it, and nothing changes until you press Save. Cancel or Esc closes the window without changes.
02Choose the output folder
On the WHERE FILES GO card, Output folder is where downloads, recordings, conversions, and Studio exports are saved. Out of the box it is a ClipHearth folder inside Videos in your home folder, or inside Movies on a Mac. Browse picks another one. Files you already have stay where they are. The FORMATS card below sets the Video format a download is saved in and the Sound only format for audio.
03Name edited and converted files your way
On the same card, Name of an edited file and Name of a converted file set how the Studio's exports and the Converter's files are named. {name} is the original name, {n} the file's number in a batch, and {date} the day it is made, such as 2026-10-27; anything else is kept as you type it, so {date} {name} or Lesson {n} both work. Out of the box they are {name}-edited and {name}_converted. A video made of several clips in the Studio is named after its first clip, and when a name is taken a number is added, so nothing is overwritten. Up to 1.7.7 the Studio was called the Editor, and a joined file ended in -joined.
04Set how many jobs run at once
On the SPEED card, Downloads at the same time takes a number from 1 to 8, and the default is 2. Anything above it waits in the Queue under Waiting and starts on its own when a slot frees up. The Queue item in the sidebar shows how many jobs are at work. Conversions and Studio exports run at most two at a time, because they keep the processor busy.
05Count your live recordings
A live stream or a radio station you record takes one of those slots for as long as it runs, because it only ends when you click Stop and save. With the default of 2 and one station recording, one slot is left for everything else, so raise the number if you record often.
06Limit the speed
Total speed limit, on the same card, caps how fast downloads may pull data in KB/s, shared across all of them and whatever site they come from, so everyone else on your connection keeps a usable share. 1000 KB/s is roughly 8 Mbit/s, and an empty field means No limit. Live recordings are not limited: they arrive as fast as the broadcast plays, and slower would lose parts of it.
07Open the folder or get a notification
On the WHEN SOMETHING HAPPENS card, tick Open the output folder when a download finishes and the folder opens as soon as a download is done. Show a system notification when a download or conversion finishes is on by default. The same card has Offer to download a video link I copy and Start ClipHearth with the computer. To find one file later, use the folder button in its row in Completed (Open the output folder).
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