Where your videos live

A recording is in one of three places. Until it is uploaded, it is in the browser it was recorded in. After the upload it is on Capme video hosting, or, on Business and Enterprise, in a bucket your company owns. Every workspace starts on Capme video hosting.

A recording made at capme.app/studio stays in your browser until you upload it, and on Free it can't be uploaded. Record and save with Capme Screen Recorder explains how to find one again. A take for a meeting topic uploads as soon as you stop, and nobody sees it until you send it.

Capme video hosting stores recordings in Germany and converts each one after the upload, so the player adjusts the quality to the viewer's connection.

Recordings on Capme hosting are deleted when their retention window ends, unless someone keeps them. How long recordings are kept, and deleting them explains how that works.

On Business and Enterprise, and during a Business trial, the workspace owner can connect an S3-compatible bucket your company owns. New recordings then go from the browser straight into the bucket and play from there. Capme doesn't convert them and sets no retention window. Connect your own bucket walks through the setup.

Only the workspace owner can switch, in Workspace → Data, in the Storage section. A switch only affects new recordings, and a workspace whose plan no longer includes a bucket records to Capme hosting by itself. Every recording keeps playing from where it was stored, and nothing is copied or moved.

Capme offers no download of a video on Capme hosting. To keep your own copy of a take, press Save to device on the review screen (under More when you record for a meeting) before you send or upload it. For recordings already on Capme hosting, write to hello@capme.app: Capme exports them as MP4 files, free of charge.

Recordings in your own bucket are files in your bucket, so you can copy them with your provider's tools.