Overview
This series explains how Recordly turns screen activity into editable, polished video: platform-aware capture preserves media and interaction evidence; timeline state carries intent into a shared scene; export renders and encodes it through capability-dependent routes. It also shows why permissions, synchronization, external media paths, hardware, and fallbacks limit what the app can faithfully promise.
Learning outcomes
- Recordly keeps capture evidence and presentation decisions editable instead of baking every effect into source pixels.
- Capture quality depends on platform permissions and backend; fallbacks can preserve video while changing cursor, audio, or timing behavior.
- Shared scene semantics improve preview and export consistency, while native routes trade broader feature coverage for speed or hardware integration.
- Reliable delivery depends on media paths, synchronization, route eligibility, bounded queues, and diagnostics—not a universal feature guarantee.
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PlansFAQ
What does Recordly do beyond recording a screen?
Recordly turns screen activity into an editable visual scene and deliverable video, not just captured pixels. Timeline decisions can control zooms, cursor presentation, overlays, timing, and export.
How do Recordly’s capture fallbacks affect a recording?
Recordly’s fallbacks can preserve a usable main video, but they may change cursor exclusion, audio availability, permissions, or timing. They preserve specific properties rather than guaranteeing native parity.
Why can Recordly’s preview and export differ?
Recordly shares scene calculations between preview and export, but their renderers, media readiness, resolutions, hardware, and encoding routes differ. A shared-renderer fallback can preserve features a native route cannot model.
What does a `.recordly` project preserve?
A `.recordly` project preserves editorial state and external media paths, including timeline, scene, audio, webcam, and export settings. It does not carry missing source files with it, so moved media must be restored or replaced.