Record your screen

Choose what to record

On Home, under What to record, pick one:

• Screen: the whole display. Each display has a live thumbnail; the main one is tagged Main and picked by default.
• Window: one app window, picked from a list with search. Clicks outside the window (or on another window covering it) don't make zooms. If you move or resize the window mid-take, the video keeps its size and the window is scaled in, centered. If you close it, Kamo stops and saves what it recorded.
• Select: click Select an area and a frame appears. Move it, resize it or type a size in pixels; Sizes has presets for 16:9, 1:1 and 9:16. The minimum is 320 × 240. While recording, a thin line stays around the area on screen but stays out of the video.

Kamo remembers your choice for next time. The Record button names the target, for example Record · Display 1.

Sound and camera

Each one is a single toggle, and each is optional:

• Microphone: pick a device under Microphone to record. A level meter shows that it's hearing you.
• Computer sound: records what your PC plays, with its own level meter. No Stereo Mix or virtual cable is needed, and it works with headphones. It records the whole system mix, notifications included, so silence them first.
• Camera: pick a device under Camera to record and check the preview. If another app is using the camera (Teams, Zoom, a browser tab), Kamo says so and records without it.

Each source is saved as its own track, so you can mute it or change its volume later in the editor.

Record at 60 fps

Turn on Record at 60 fps for smoother scrolling and animation. Files come out about 1.5 times larger. It's off by default (30 fps). Zooms and the cursor always move at 60 fps in the export either way.

Start, pause and stop

1. Click Record. A 3-2-1 countdown plays on the recorded display. Esc cancels it, and nothing is saved.
2. Kamo's window hides and a small floating bar appears with REC and a timer. The bar never shows up in the video.
3. Pause and Resume from the bar or from the tray icon. The paused stretch is left out of the video.
4. To stop, press Ctrl+Shift+2 from any app, or click Stop on the bar or in the tray menu. You can change the shortcut in Settings → Shortcuts.

Kamo records the mouse (movement, clicks and scrolls) to make the zooms. It never records the keyboard.

After you stop

Kamo comes back to Home and the new recording is at the top of Recent projects. Click Open to edit it. The zooms are generated the first time you open it.

In v0.1.0 the success message still says “The editor arrives in the next version.” That message is out of date: the editor is there, one click away.

A take shorter than one second isn't saved.

Limits

• No time limit. Long recordings are written to disk as they go.
• Kamo won't start with less than 1 GB free on the projects drive. If the disk fills up during a take, Kamo stops and saves what it has.
• If a display is disconnected or the recorded window closes, Kamo stops and saves.

If Kamo or Windows crashes mid-take

The next time you open Kamo, Home shows “We found an interrupted recording” with Recover and Discard. Recovering keeps the video, the mouse events, the microphone, the computer sound and the camera, up to the last moment that was safely written. Discard moves it to the Recycle Bin.

Next

• Edit a recording
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Something isn't working