Record your screens

On the Record tab you choose which monitors and windows to capture, star the ones you use every day, and start recording.

Open Record.
Under Monitors and Windows, check the sources you want. Each monitor row starts with a numbered badge; windows are matched by the app they belong to, so a title change won’t lose your selection. Use Refresh sources if something isn’t listed (the list also auto‑refreshes every few seconds).
- Can’t tell identical monitors apart? Click Identify next to the Monitors heading — each physical screen flashes its number (matching the row badges) for a couple of seconds. The flash never steals focus or blocks clicks, so it’s safe to use mid‑trade, even while recording (if a recording is running, the number will briefly appear in the footage).
(Optional) Arrange your feeds. Everything you’ve ticked appears in the Armed strip at the top of the tab, labelled Feed 1, Feed 2, and so on — that’s the order your feeds play back in. Drag a feed by its ⠿ grip and drop it where you want. Monitors and captured windows share one list, so a DOM window can be Feed 1 if that’s how you think about your desk. Click Automatic order in the strip to go back to the default, which reads your monitors left to right, top row first, then your windows.

The order applies everywhere — Review and the Timeline’s coverage tracks follow it too, including trades you recorded before you rearranged anything, and including footage whose trading platform isn’t running right now. A monitor is remembered by its physical panel and a window by the app it belongs to, so your arrangement survives a restart and survives Windows renumbering your screens.

You can also rearrange feeds while watching a trade — see Reviewing a trade. It’s the same single order either way.
(Optional) Click the ★ star on a monitor or window to make it a favorite — a durable bookmark used by auto‑start. A monitor favorite remembers the physical screen itself, not its number: Windows sometimes renumbers monitors after a reboot or sleep, and the favorite follows the panel to its new number instead of silently pointing at whichever screen inherited the old one. If the exact screen a favorite points to isn’t connected, Recap skips it and reports it — it never guesses. (Favorites starred before this behavior existed pick it up automatically the first time you start a recording that includes them.)
(Optional) Give a source a nickname — click name this… next to any monitor or window and type something meaningful (“DOM”, “Main charts”). The nickname follows the source everywhere: the Timeline’s coverage tracks and the feed labels when you replay a trade. Monitor nicknames stick to the physical screen the same way favorites do, so “Main charts” stays glued to the right panel even when Windows shuffles the numbers.
(Optional) Under Audio, check Record desktop audio to capture whole‑system sound (your platform’s alerts, notification dings) and/or Record microphone to narrate your session. Both are off by default. Enabling the microphone reveals a Microphone device picker — leave it on Default microphone or pin a specific mic. Your choices persist and apply to every future recording (including auto‑resume) until you change them.
Click Start recording (enabled once at least one source is armed). The REC indicator turns red and an elapsed timer starts. If the microphone is enabled, the indicator also shows a small red mic glyph on every tab — a live mic is never hidden.
You can now switch tabs, or close the window — Recap minimizes to the system tray and keeps recording. Reopen it from the tray (“Open Recap”); quit from the tray menu.
Click ■ Stop when finished.

Starting and stopping from any tab

The nav bar carries its own record button next to the REC indicator, so you never have to hunt for it mid‑session. It changes with what’s armed:

● Record — nothing is selected yet. Clicking it takes you to the Record tab to pick sources.
● Start — at least one source is armed. Starts recording from wherever you are, using the sources you checked on the Record tab (your selection is remembered when you switch tabs).
■ Stop — a recording is running. Stops it immediately, on a single click, with no confirmation. The REC indicator sits right beside it so the live state is always visible before you click.

While a start or stop is being carried out the button reads Starting… or Stopping… and is greyed out. Starting can take a few seconds while the video encoder spins up; the button is deliberately unclickable during that window so an impatient second click can’t fire a duplicate command.

The same Start recording / Stop recording buttons remain at the bottom of the Record tab, where they stay pinned to the bottom of the panel even when your monitor and window lists are long.

Audio tracks

Desktop audio and the microphone record as two separate tracks alongside your video, so you can mute or balance them independently when replaying a trade.

Desktop audio captures everything the system plays through your default output device — and follows it: switch Windows from speakers to a headset mid‑session and the recording follows within a couple of seconds.
A quiet session records silence, not a gap — the track always covers the same timeline as your video.
Audio never blocks video. If a track can’t start (the selected mic is unplugged) or dies mid‑session (mic yanked), recording continues without it and a warning names the track. Plug the mic back in and the track resumes on its own.

The yellow capture border on Windows 10

On Windows 10, Windows draws a yellow border around anything being captured — it’s the operating system’s screen‑recording indicator, and Windows 10 offers no way for an app to turn it off. It appears on your screen only; it is not in the recorded footage. On Windows 11 Recap suppresses the border, so you won’t see one there.

Minimized windows are not recorded

Windows cannot capture a window that is minimized — a minimized window isn’t drawn, so there are no pixels for Recap (or any recorder) to save. If you minimize a window you’re recording, that source records nothing until you restore it, and Recap shows an amber Window minimized warning naming the window. Restore it and recording resumes on its own; the warning clears itself.

The gap is left as a true gap: Recap never claims footage it didn’t capture, so a trade that happened while the window was minimized reports no clip rather than playing back empty video.

Two things this does not apply to:

Minimizing Recap itself is fine — it keeps recording from the tray (see the tray step above).
Monitor sources are unaffected. A minimized window simply disappears from the monitor you’re recording, and everything still on that screen keeps recording normally. If you routinely minimize your charts, record the monitor instead of the window.

Reliability while recording

Auto‑resume (on by default): after a crash or restart, Recap re‑arms the sources from your last session as soon as they’re present again.
Window re‑hook (on by default): if a recorded window closes or crashes mid‑session, Recap watches for a matching replacement window (same process + title) and reconnects, continuing the same recording. If it can’t within ~2 minutes, it gives up and tells you.
Sleep/wake & monitor changes are handled by leaving true gaps rather than corrupting the session. If a recorded monitor is unplugged and comes back — or Windows renumbers the monitors after a wake — recording reconnects to the same physical screen at whatever number it now holds.
Shutdown-safe: if Windows shuts down or you log off mid‑recording (or an app update restarts Recap), the recording is finalized first — footage up to that moment is kept.
Disk‑full guard: recording self‑stops if free space falls below ~200 MB.
Recap automatically detects if recording silently stops and updates the REC indicator to reflect it.

Tray icon & alerts

Recap’s system tray icon shows recording health at a glance, even when the window is closed:

Plain icon — idle, nothing recording.
Red badge — recording normally. Hover the icon for a tooltip naming how many sources are active (“Recording · 2 sources”).
Amber badge — something needs your attention. Hover for a tooltip naming the problem (“ALERT: …”).

Alongside the badge, Recap raises a native Windows notification for three conditions:

A trade closed with no recording running — the footage for that trade was not captured.
Recording stopped unexpectedly (not by clicking Stop) — restart it from the nav bar or the Record tab.
Low disk on the recording drive — Recap prunes old footage automatically, but this is an early warning before the disk‑full guard above kicks in.

Stopping recording yourself with Stop never raises a notification — only unexpected loss does.

The amber badge and its tooltip are sticky: they stay up until you bring the Recap window into focus, at which point they clear (recording continues uninterrupted). Starting a new recording also clears a stale alert.

These notifications use your operating system’s standard notification style — Recap doesn’t play any sound of its own. If you don’t see them, confirm Windows notifications are enabled for Recap under Settings → System → Notifications.

Can Recap record automatically during market hours? No — there’s no market‑hours or calendar scheduler. Auto‑start is triggered by your screens, not the clock: when your favorite or last‑session windows appear while the app is open, Recap can start recording once per launch. See Known limitations.

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