Your recordings
The library sidebar is where every take lives — browse, preview, rename, and delete your recordings.
Every take you capture lands in the Library — the sidebar down the left of the editor. It’s grouped by date, newest first, and when you open Playback it automatically loads your most recent recording so you’re never staring at an empty editor.
Toggle the sidebar with the Show/Hide sidebar button in the header if you want more room for the stage.
Browsing your takes
Each recording shows a small thumbnail, its name, and its length. Hover over one and the row springs open into a living card — a muted, looping preview of that take, so you can find the clip you’re after without opening each one.
Click a recording — once — to open it in the editor. The take you’re currently editing stays highlighted in the list.
Naming a recording
New takes are named for when you captured them — like “Recording Jul 6, 2026 at 12.34.” To give one a memorable name, right-click it and choose Rename…, type a new name, and press Rename.
Managing a recording
Right-click any take for its actions:
| Action | What it does |
|---|---|
| Open | Loads the take into the editor (same as clicking it). |
| Rename… | Give the recording a name of your own. |
| Reveal in Finder | Shows the recording’s file on disk. |
| Delete… | Permanently removes the recording (see below). |
Where recordings are stored
Your takes live in ~/Library/Application Support/Playback/Recordings/, one package
per recording. Inside each, the original capture is kept untouched — every zoom,
trim, and caption is stored separately as an edit, and your finished video is
rebuilt from the original on export. That’s what makes every
edit reversible and lossless.
Tips
- Hover to hunt. Let the living-card previews do the work when you’re looking for a particular moment across several takes.
- Rename the keepers. A quick, descriptive name beats a wall of timestamped “Recording…” entries once your library grows.
- Reveal in Finder to back up. Since deletion is permanent, copy a package out to another folder before removing it if you might want it later.