Recording voice and TTS

You don't have to import a file to fill a video out: the studio records from your microphone, captures your webcam, and can even turn text you've typed into a spoken voice. All three land on the timeline as finished clips — after that they're ordinary media, no different from anything else.

All three buttons live in the “Files” tab of the media panel on the left, next to the import button.

Recording from the microphone

A voiceover is the cheapest way to make a video make sense. You don't need a separate program to record one.

1. 1

   Park the playhead where you want it

   The recording is dropped in at exactly the moment the playhead is sitting on. Usually the easiest way is to watch the video and stop where the words should start.

2. 2

   Press “Record”

   The browser asks for microphone permission — allow it the first time. Recording starts immediately.

3. 3

   Speak, then press “Stop”

   The moment you stop, the audio is added to an audio track at the playhead. From then on you can move it, cut it, trim it — it's a normal audio clip.

A recording is just an audio clip: fades, audio effects and speed all apply to it, and the “Remove silence” and “Auto-ducking” tools in the “Auto” menu work on it too. So you talk, then trim the silences with one button and let the music duck under your voice by itself.

Recording from the camera

The “Camera” button records video straight from your webcam — with sound. The dialog shows a live preview, so you can see how you're framed: the light, the background, where your face sits in the shot.

1. 1

   “Camera” → allow access

   The browser asks for camera and microphone access. It needs both — the video isn't recorded silently.

2. 2

   Get your framing right

   You can see yourself in the live preview. Fix the light BEFORE you record: it should fall on your face, and there shouldn't be a window behind you.

3. 3

   Record, then stop

   When you're done, the video is added to a video track at the playhead. It cuts, takes effects and exports exactly like any other footage.

Turning text into speech (TTS)

Don't like your voice, haven't got a microphone, or can't record at midnight? Type the words and let the computer read them. That's what the “Voice” button in the media panel does: you choose the text, the voice and the speed, and the result lands on the timeline as an audio clip — and goes into the export with everything else.

1. 1

   Type the text

   Write the lines that should be read out. It's worth breaking a long script into pieces — you'll want to place them separately on the timeline anyway.

2. 2

   Pick a voice and a speed

   The voices in the list are the ones installed on YOUR system (they come from the operating system and the browser). Speed runs from 0.5× to 2×; 1× sounds natural, 1.1–1.2× a little more energetic.

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   Press “Speak and record”

   The browser opens a share dialog. That step is REQUIRED — the next section explains why.

Why such an odd hoop to jump through? A browser gives you no way to capture synthesised speech directly: the system voice goes out to the speakers, and no API hands it back. The one legitimate route is to record the tab's own audio — what you can hear — and for that the browser must ask your explicit permission. The alternative would be shipping your text off to a cloud server, and the studio doesn't send anything anywhere.

• Chrome or Edge required. Safari won't share tab audio, so the “Voice” button simply doesn't appear there — better a missing button than one that can't work.
• Keep the tab quiet while it records. It captures the tab's audio — so if the timeline is playing, that goes into the recording too. Pause playback first.
• The voice list can come up empty. The voices come from your system: if the list is bare, or your language is missing, you need to install that language's voice in the operating system.

Common questions