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Find and play your recordings

The Videos window, recordings still on your Mac, and the transcript beside the player.

27 seconds, no sound. Everything in it is written out below.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Open the Videos window

    Press Command L, or use File then Videos, or the Videos button in the recorder's title bar.

  2. 2

    Read the two sections

    On this Mac lists the recordings that have not been uploaded yet. Online lists the ones that have. Each section shows a count, and the refresh button in the title bar reloads the local list.

  3. 3

    Play a recording kept on your Mac

    Click its thumbnail, or its Play button. It plays inside the app, without uploading anything.

  4. 4

    Read along with the transcript

    While a local recording plays, a Transcript panel sits to the right of the video. Click a line and the video jumps to that second.

  5. 5

    Upload, reveal or delete

    Each card on this Mac has Upload, Play, a Show in Finder button that opens the recording's folder, and a Delete button that removes it from your Mac. Delete asks for confirmation first, because the recording has not been uploaded.

  6. 6

    Work with the ones that are online

    Online cards carry a badge showing who can see them: Private, Anyone with link or Teams. They also show the number of notes left on the video. Hover a card for a copy-link button and an open-in-browser button. Clicking the card opens its page, with the player, the notes and the transcript.

Worth knowing

  • The local card's subtitle counts segments, which is how Viddy writes a recording to disk while capturing.
  • Transcription runs on your own Mac, so the audio does not leave it.