#Record Movie

A movie of your scene, recorded one frame at a time — up to 4K at 60 frames a second, saved as an MP4.

Record Movie turns the scene in front of you into a movie file you can send to a client or drop into a deck. The camera follows your Viewpoint Tour, the video on your screens plays in step, and every frame gets the same care as a still Capture. It is not a screen recording: EVT3D draws one frame, however long that frame takes, then moves to the next. A heavy scene records as cleanly as a light one — it just takes longer, and the dialog tells you how long before you start.

Record Movie is part of the Pro plan.

#What it does

#The camcorder button in the Capture panel

Open the Capture Rendering panel from the toolbar. The camcorder button beside the Camera Roll button (its tooltip reads Record Movie) opens the Record Movie dialog.

The button is only there where a movie can be recorded. It is hidden on a viewer link (Share Mode gives no downloads), on phones and tablets, in a very narrow browser window (720 pixels or less), and in a browser that has no video encoder.

A movie is recorded from the 3D view. Open the dialog from a plan view and it reads "A movie is recorded from the 3D view. Leave the plan view, then record." and Record stays off.

#Size, frame rate, samples and length

The dialog has four choices:

• Size — 720p, 1080p, 1440p or 4K (3840 × 2160 pixels).
• Frame rate — 24, 30 or 60 fps.
• Samples — 1, 4, 8, 16, 32 or 64: how many times each frame is drawn and averaged. More samples give cleaner edges and quieter reflections, and the movie takes that many times longer to record.
• Length — in seconds, from 1 second up to 10 minutes. When the scene has a Viewpoint Tour, a One Tour button beside it sets the length to one pass of the Tour.

The first time, the dialog opens on 1080p, 60 fps and 16 samples. Size, frame rate and samples are remembered in your browser for the next movie. Length is not: it opens on one pass of the Tour, or on 10 seconds when the scene has no Tour.

#The estimate before you start

Under the choices, one line tells you what they cost — for example "About 7 minutes to record · 45 MB". The time comes from drawing your scene and timing it when the dialog opens; the file size comes from the size, frame rate and length you picked. Change a choice and the line changes with it. It is an "about": once the movie is recording, the progress card shows the real time left.

#What the camera does

A scene with two or more Viewpoints has a Viewpoint Tour, and the movie follows it. The movie starts at the first Viewpoint, holds there for its linger, glides to the next one, and carries on in Tour order — the same holds and glides as the Tour itself. If Loop the tour is on, a movie longer than one pass goes round again; if it is off, the movie holds on the last Viewpoint.

A scene with no Tour still moves: the camera turns slowly around the point you are looking at, starting from your view. A full turn takes one minute.

When the recording ends, your view is put back where it was.

#Video on screens stays frame-exact

Each uploaded video on a screen shows the frame that belongs to that moment of the movie, however long the frame took to draw, so the video stays in step from the first frame to the last. Loops are drawn on the movie's own clock, so they move at the right speed too. A video you paused stays on the frame you paused it on.

See Video on screens and Video Channels for putting video on a screen.

#Sound

When the scene makes sound, the dialog shows a Sound switch, on each time the dialog opens. Left on, the movie records what you are hearing: each video's sound at the volume you set for it, plus the ambient sound. A live stream and a video you paused stay silent. Switch it off for a silent movie.

If your browser cannot record the sound, the movie is still saved and the result reads "No sound could be recorded, so this movie is silent."

#Where the file is saved

Click Record and Chrome and Edge ask where to save the movie, then write straight to that file as the movie is made. That is what makes a long 4K movie possible: the file never has to fit in the browser's memory.

Other browsers build the whole movie in memory and download it when it is finished. That has a ceiling of about 1.5 GB. Past it, the dialog reads "This movie is too big to record in this browser. Use Chrome or Edge, or choose a smaller size or a shorter length." and Record stays off.

The file is named for the project and the day, for example Annual_Gala_movie_2026-10-12.mp4.

#Progress, minimizing and stopping

While it records, a Recording Movie card covers the app with a progress line — for example "42% · about 3 minutes left" — and a Stop button. The percentage also shows in the browser tab's title.

• You can minimize the window. The movie keeps recording while you do other things. A short chime plays when it finishes.
• Keep the tab open. Closing or reloading the tab loses the movie, so the browser asks before it lets you.
• One movie at a time. A second recording, in this tab or another, is refused until the first one ends.
• Stop saves nothing. Click Stop and the result reads Recording stopped — "No movie was saved." If you had picked an existing movie file to overwrite, that file is left as it was.

When it finishes, the dialog reads Movie saved with the file's name, its size and how long it took, and plays the movie right there so you can check it without leaving the app.

#How you use it

1. Set the camera path (optional). Click + (Add) in the toolbar and, under Add Camera, pick Viewpoint. Place two or more and put them in order — that order is the Tour the movie follows. Skip this and the camera turns slowly around your view instead.
2. Frame the opening view. Use the 3D view, not a plan view. With no Tour, the movie starts from exactly what you see.
3. Open the dialog. Open the Capture Rendering panel and click the camcorder button.
4. Pick the size and frame rate. 1080p at 60 fps suits most uses; pick 4K when the movie will be shown large.
5. Pick the samples. Start at 16. Go lower for a quick test, higher for a final.
6. Set the length. Click One Tour for one pass of the Tour, or type the seconds.
7. Read the estimate and any warning. If the time is too long, lower the samples or the size. If the dialog warns that a screen will appear frozen, swap that source first (see below).
8. Click Record. In Chrome or Edge, choose where to save the file.
9. Let it run. Minimize the window if you like, and keep the tab open.
10. Watch it. The finished movie plays in the dialog. Click Close when you are done.

#Not recorded yet

• MP4 only. There is no other file type and no image sequence.
• A live stream appears frozen. A live stream cannot be stepped one frame at a time, so its screen holds a single frame for the whole movie. The dialog warns you first: "This project contains live streams that will appear frozen during the capture. Upload an MP4 or use a video Loop instead." Do what it says — use an uploaded video or a Loop on that screen.
• A video the recorder cannot read appears frozen too. The dialog reads "Some videos on your screens can't be read for capture and will appear frozen. Upload them as an MP4 instead."
• IMAG holds one frame. A screen showing an IMAG feed keeps its last picture for the whole movie.
• A Look tied to a Viewpoint does not switch. The movie follows the Tour's camera only; the scene stays in the Look it had when you clicked Record.
• No motion blur. Samples clean up each frame; they do not blur movement.
• Moving lights, people and animated props are not checked yet. Their motion in a movie may not match what you see live. Record a few seconds as a test before a long movie.
• The movie is not added to the Camera Roll. It is saved to your computer. The Camera Roll holds stills.

#Why it matters

A still shows a client one view. A movie shows them the walk from the doors to the stage with the video wall playing, and it arrives as one MP4 file they can play without opening the project.

Recording one frame at a time is what makes the movie dependable. The picture does not depend on how fast your computer is: the video on the screens is the right frame every time, the edges are clean, and a 4K movie of a heavy ballroom comes out as smooth as one of a small breakout room. You set it going, minimize the window, and come back to a finished file.