Record your screen, a window, or a game
The Screen recording section records a display, a window, an area, a game, or only the camera or the sound, and finishes the file in the Queue.
01Pick what to record
Open Screen recording, the last section in the sidebar. DISPLAY records a whole screen, WINDOW one window (choose it first), AREA a part of the screen, also in 16:9, 9:16, or 1:1, and GAME records through the system's own capture of the game. CAMERA records the camera as the whole picture, and SOUND ONLY records the computer's sound, your microphone, or both without a picture: a call, a webinar, a radio show.
02Sound, microphone, and camera
Record the computer's sound and Record a microphone are separate switches, and Only one app's sound takes the sound of a single program. VOICE CLEAN-UP works on the microphone as you record: Reduce or Reduce strongly for background noise, Remove 50 Hz or 60 Hz for electrical hum, Even out the loudness, Silence between words (a noise gate), and Soften sharp S sounds. The microphone can start muted or be push-to-talk, live only while you hold a key. The camera goes into a corner, as a circle or a rectangle, mirrored as you see yourself, and Remove the background behind me takes out a green or blue cloth. It is recorded apart and laid over the picture when the recording is saved.
03Each sound on its own track
For mixing in an audio or video editor later, TRACKS & SYNC has Each sound on its own track: the computer's sound and your microphone go into two tracks of one MP4, MKV, or MOV file instead of one mix. A player plays only the first track (the computer's sound), and ClipHearth's own Editor and AI Subtitles use that first track too, so leave it off when you finish the recording in ClipHearth. MICROPHONE TIMING moves your voice up to half a second earlier or later when your lips and your voice drift apart. To keep the usual mix and still have your voice apart, switch on Keep the microphone and the camera as separate files too under Save: your voice, without the clean-up, and the camera land next to the recording as files of their own (.microphone.m4a and .camera.mp4).
04Test 5 s before a long recording
Test 5 s records five seconds and tells you what is missing: the picture, a sound, a permission, or disk space. It is not counted as a recording, so use it before you record for an hour. Record a test next to the microphone plays the five seconds back, so you hear yourself as the recording will.
05Countdown, shortcuts, instant replay, schedule
The recording can start after a countdown or at a set time, stop by itself after a recording time or before the disk is full, and split into a new file every few minutes. The shortcuts for Pause / Resume, Mark a moment, and Save instant replay work in any program. Instant replay keeps the last 30 seconds to 5 minutes ready to save until you press the key. An indicator with a red dot shows that recording runs; only you see it, unless you burn it into the video.
06Marks and chapters
Mark a moment while recording and the Editor shows the marks; with Save the marks as chapters in the file, players that know chapters jump between them in MP4, MKV, and MOV.
07Where the file goes
The recording is finished in the Queue like an export: the format (MP4, MKV, MOV, WebM, GIF, or MP3, M4A, FLAC, WAV for sound only), the quality, the resolution, and the frames per second are set under Save, and When it is done can open it in the Editor or make subtitles with AI. It lands in Completed as Recorded. In the free trial, one saved recording counts as one task, counted only after it is saved. A recording ClipHearth could not save (a crash, the power) is offered again at the next start.
08Permissions and platforms
macOS asks for Screen & System Audio Recording, the microphone, and the camera the first time you switch each on; allow them under System Settings › Privacy & Security. Windows and Linux record through the bundled FFmpeg. Linux on Wayland records the computer's sound only for now; the screen needs an Xorg session. Keep ClipHearth out of the recording hides the app's own window from the recording on Windows and macOS. Nothing of the recording leaves your computer.
Didn't solve it? Write to us - attach a diagnostics log if you have one. Missing a feature? Tell us what you would use it for; several of the recent ones started as a suggestion.