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Sessions & Session Library

Every recording take is a self-contained session. Organise, rename, retake, and reuse your takes across projects.

What Is a Session?

Every time you hit record, Cameo captures a take — and each take becomes a session. A session isn't just the screen video: it bundles everything that was recorded together into one editable unit.

🖥️Screen video
📷Webcam (picture-in-picture)
🎤Microphone & system audio
🖱️Cursor & click markers
🔍Zoom regions
Captions & text

One Recording, One Session

Record several takes into the same project and each appears as its own session on the timeline. This lets you build a full video from many short recordings — no need to nail everything in a single shot.

The Session Ribbon

Sessions live in a coloured ribbon just above the timeline tracks. Each session is a pill you can click, rename, and reorder.

Click to select a whole take

Clicking a session pill selects that entire take at once — screen, webcam, mic, captions, and zooms together — so you can move or act on the bundle as a single unit.

Stable, distinct colours

Each session gets its own colour so you can tell takes apart at a glance. A session's colour stays fixed even when you delete, reorder, or rename other sessions — and different projects start on different colours, so it never feels repetitive.

Moves as one unit

When you drag a session's video clip, its webcam, microphone, captions, and zoom regions all move with it. The recorded bundle always stays together and in sync.

Working with Sessions

Double-click a session pill to rename it, or right-click it to open the full menu of actions.

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Rename

Double-click a pill (or right-click → Rename) and type a new name. The name you enter also renames the take's folder on disk, so exports and reloads always stay in sync.

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Re-record (Retake)

Right-click a session → Re-record to shoot a fresh take. When the new recording finishes it replaces that session in place, keeping its exact position on the timeline.

Duplicate

Right-click a session → Duplicate to make an independent copy with its own files and name. Editing or re-recording the copy never affects the original.

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Reorder

Use Move Earlier / Move Later from the session menu to change the order of takes. The timeline shifts the whole bundle so everything stays aligned.

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Delete

Deleting a session removes the take and ripple-closes the gap so later sessions slide over automatically. It's fully undoable with ⌘Z.

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Export & Chapters

Right-click a session → Export Session to render just that take to its own file. With two or more sessions, use the list icon in the Sessions header to copy YouTube-style chapter timestamps.

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Session Library

The Session Library lets you save a finished take and reuse it in anyproject — an intro clip, a recurring outro, a reusable demo segment, and so on. Saved takes are kept in the app's own storage, not inside a project folder.

Survives Project Deletion

Because library takes live in the app's library rather than the project folder, they stay available even if you delete the project they came from. A real thumbnail is captured for each one so it's easy to recognise.

Saving to the Library

1

Save a take

Happy with a session? Right-click it → Save to Library. Cameo copies the take into its library and captures a thumbnail.

2

Open the library

Click the tray icon in the Sessions header to open your library of saved takes.

3

Insert it three ways

Pick how the saved take should come into your project — see the options below.

Three Ways to Reuse a Take

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Editable Session

Inserts the full bundle — screen, webcam, mic, captions, and zooms — as a brand-new editable session. Adjust everything just like a fresh recording.

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Finished Single Clip

Inserts the take as a single, already-rendered clip. Ideal for a polished intro or outro you don't want to re-edit — it drops in as one tidy piece.

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Floating Video Overlay

Inserts the take as a floating video overlay you can position and resize on top of your current recording — perfect for a webcam-style reaction or a picture-in-picture clip.

Know What Came From the Library

Inserted library takes carry a small badge on their ribbon pill so you always know their origin. Their right-click menu also hides actions that don't apply — for example, a finished clip has no Re-record.

🗄️ Tray badge

An editable copy inserted from the library.

🎞️ Film-reel badge

A finished single clip inserted from the library.

Update or Save as New

Edit an inserted library take and choose Save to Library again — Cameo asks whether to update the original library item or keep a separate new copy.

⚠️ Deleting a Library Item Is Permanent

Removing an item from the library deletes its files for good — this is the one action that isn't undoable. Everything else (deleting a session, reordering, region edits) can be undone with ⌘Z.

Pro Tips

Record in short takes

Instead of one long recording, shoot several short sessions. If one take goes wrong, just re-record that session — the rest of your timeline stays untouched.

Build a reusable intro/outro

Save your branded intro and outro to the library once, then insert them into every new project as finished clips.

Rename as you go

Give each session a meaningful name ("Intro", "Feature demo", "Wrap-up") so long projects stay easy to navigate — and your exported chapter titles read cleanly too.