Edit a recording

Open a project

On Home, find the recording under Recent projects and click Open. Every change is saved automatically; there's no Save button. The original video is never modified: your edits live next to it and are applied when you export. Projects takes you back to Home.

The preview is drawn by the same code as the export, so what you see is what you get. Space plays and pauses, ← / → step one frame and Shift + ← / → one second.

At the top, Format switches the preview between Landscape (16:9), Square (1:1) and Vertical (9:16). In square and vertical, the crop follows your clicks and the cursor.

The timeline

The timeline has one track per thing you recorded: Video, Zoom, Webcam (if you recorded the camera), Captions (if there's a transcript), Microphone and Computer sound. Click or drag the ruler to move the playhead. Each audio track has its own mute button and volume, applied when you export.

Zoom blocks

Each pink block on the Zoom track is one zoom. Kamo makes them from your left clicks:

• Move a block by dragging its middle; stretch it by dragging an edge.
• Change the scale: click the block (or press Enter) and pick from 1.0× to 4.0×, in steps of 0.25. A block at 1.0× holds the camera still, which is handy too.
• Delete it with Delete or Backspace.
• Add one: double-click an empty spot on the Zoom track (you get a 2-second zoom at 2.0×, centered where the cursor was), or press the + button, Add zoom at playhead.
• Nudge a selected block with the arrow keys (one frame; with Shift, one second).

Blocks never overlap, and each lasts at least 0.6 seconds.

Any block you touch becomes yours. In the Zooms panel, Regenerate zooms redoes only the automatic ones and never overwrites yours. Auto-zoom hides the automatic zooms without deleting them.

How Kamo decides: right and middle clicks never zoom, and clicks close together in time and space share one shot, so filling a form doesn't shake the camera. The details are on our blog.

The cursor

Kamo records the screen without the Windows cursor and draws its own from the mouse path, so it can make it bigger and smoother. In the Cursor panel:

• Size: 1.0× to 3.0× (1.5× by default).
• Click ripple: a small ring on each click (on by default).
• Hide cursor: for the whole video.

Smoothing is always on, and the cursor lands exactly on every click. It fades out after 3 seconds without moving. In v0.1.0 it's always the arrow shape, even where Windows would show a hand or a text cursor.

Background and frame

• Background: 8 wallpapers, a Solid color, or Your image (PNG, JPG or WebP up to 25 MB). Your image is copied into the project, so the project keeps working even if you delete the original.
• Frame: Padding (0–20%), Corners (0–32 px) and Shadow.

The last style you used becomes the default for your next recordings.

The webcam

If you recorded the camera, the Webcam panel has:

• Show webcam.
• Layout: Bubble, or Split (screen over camera, in 9:16 only; drag the divider to resize; Camera on top flips them).
• Position: a corner, or drag the bubble anywhere in the preview.
• Shape: Round, Rounded square, Landscape 16:9 or Portrait 9:16. Size: Small, Medium or Large.
• Shrink while zoomed.

To hide the camera for a stretch, use Hide webcam at playhead on the webcam track (or double-click the track), then drag the hidden block's edges.

Trim

Drag the handles at the start and end of the Video track. At least one second must remain. If the end of the video is just you clicking Stop, Kamo offers Trim the last 2 seconds? once.

Cutting out a piece in the middle and changing the speed aren't available in v0.1.0.

Undo

Ctrl+Z undoes, Ctrl+Shift+Z or Ctrl+Y redoes, up to 100 steps.

Next

• Export your video
• Captions and transcription