Several recordings in one project

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Most real videos are not one take. You record the first half, realise you forgot something, record it again, and now you have two files.

Append Recording on the top bar puts a second take on the end of the current project.

What comes with it

The second take arrives with everything that was recorded with it: its own clicks, so its own automatic zooms, its own pointer path with the right shapes, its own microphone and system sound, and its own camera file if the camera was on.

That last one matters. Each recording keeps its own camera, so a project where you had the webcam on for the introduction and off for the demonstration works exactly as you would expect, and a project recorded on two different days with two different cameras keeps both straight.

What they share

The look is the project's, not the take's. One background, one canvas shape, one set of framing and shadow settings, one caption style. Change the background and both takes change, which is what you want: two halves of one video should not have two different backgrounds.

The camera's position, size and layout are shared in the same way. What belongs to each recording individually is the crop, the flips and the audio sync offset, because those are properties of that camera on that day.

Joining them

A join between two takes is a cut like any other. Drag either clip to reorder them, trim the overlap out, and put a transition on the boundary if the jump is jarring. The sound crosses the join with the picture.