The recording bar

While you record, a small bar floats on the screen. It shows the time and your microphone level, and has buttons to pause, restart, add a marker, discard and stop. It's never in your video.

The buttons

Button	What it does	Shortcut
Pause	Pauses the recording. Click Resume to carry on. Nothing is recorded while paused.	`⌥⇧⌘P`
Restart this take	Throws away what you just recorded and counts down again.	`⌥⇧⌘R`
Add marker	Drops a flag on the timeline, so you can find this moment when editing.	`⌥⇧⌘M`
Discard	Throws the whole recording away. It asks first.	`⌥⇧⌘⌫`
Stop	Stops and opens the editor.	`⌥⇧⌘2`

These shortcuts work in any app while you record. Change them in Settings › Shortcuts.

The recording bar while paused, with the time in amber and a Resume button.

Move the bar

Drag the bar by its left edge. It snaps to the edges of the screen and stays where you left it next time.

Throw a recording away

Click Discard, then Discard again to confirm. Click Keep if you changed your mind. A discarded recording can't be brought back.

The recording bar asking Discard this recording? It can't be undone, with Keep and Discard buttons.

After you stop

Cinemac shows Finishing recording while it saves the video and sound and creates the project. Then the editor opens.

Good to know

If your Mac restarts or Cinemac quits during a recording, you lose at most the last second. Cinemac finishes the recording the next time it opens. See Recover a recording.