Open the game and get to the moment
Open your project or drop a game video into Pelaa. Use the Track or the Stack to line up the clips you want to talk through, or simply play the whole game.
Record a voice-over breakdown of a game
Record your voice while you scrub, pause and draw on the video. Pelaa saves the whole session, drawings and voice-over, as one MP4 on your Mac.
The steps
Pick the microphone and camera
lists the inputs your Mac can see. (⌘⇧VCmd+Shift+V) adds a camera bubble of your face, and picks which camera. Drag the bubble where you like and resize it. Pelaa remembers the place.
Start recording
Choose , or press ⌘⇧RCmd+Shift+R. Pelaa switches the window to the player and drawing tools, then counts down 3, 2, 1 while the screen, microphone and camera warm up. Nothing is saved during the countdown, and escEsc cancels it.
Scrub, pause, draw and talk
Play, pause and scrub the video the way you always do, and talk. Pause on the moment that matters and draw on it: freehand, line, arrow, circle, highlight or text, keys 1 to 6. Your cursor is in the recording too, so you can point at a player without drawing anything.
Pause the take or throw it away
⌘⇧PCmd+Shift+P pauses the recording and resumes it, so you can set up the next clip without it ending up in the file. ⌘⇧⌫Cmd+Shift+Delete discards the take after you confirm. The same controls sit in the menu bar while you record.
Stop and find the file
Press ⌘⇧RCmd+Shift+R again or escEsc to stop. Finder opens with the new file selected. It is one H.264 MP4 with your voice as AAC audio, in , named for the day. finds it again later.
What to know before you record.
- Only the Pelaa window is recorded. Mail, chat and notifications from other apps stay out of the file.
- The voice is your Mac's microphone. The game video's own sound is not in the recording.
- macOS asks for screen recording and microphone permission the first time, and camera permission if you use the camera bubble. If microphone permission is denied, the take records with no sound.
- A drawing made on moving video clears the next time you press play. To keep a drawing on screen while you talk, pause first or draw it on a stop frame.
- Recording does not start while Second Screen is on.
- in the same menu (⌘⌥RCmd+Option+R) is a different thing: it records a game from a camera, capture box or stream into your project. Start Recording records you breaking the video down.
Questions about recording a voice-over.
Can I record a voice-over while I draw on the video?
Yes. Coaches call it a voice-over, narration or telestration. Press ⌘⇧RCmd+Shift+R, then scrub, pause and draw on the video while you talk. Pelaa saves the whole session, drawings and voice-over, as one MP4 on your Mac.
Can I control playback while I record?
Yes. Play, pause, scrub and step through clips as usual during the recording. What you see in the Pelaa window, your drawings and your cursor are in the file.
Can my face be in the video?
Yes, optionally. adds a camera bubble you can move and resize.
What file do I get?
One MP4 file, H.264 video with AAC audio, saved in Movies/Pelaa on your Mac. Players watch it in any video player, with no app and no account.
Does Pelaa upload the recording anywhere?
No. The file stays on your Mac until you send it yourself, by email, a shared folder or an upload.
Does the recording include the game's own sound?
No. It records your microphone only.
Try it on one of your own games.
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