• 🎥 Video tour: Recording your sessions
• How to record a session
• Record sessions automatically
• Create multiple recordings per session
• What’s included in a recording?
• What’s not included in a recording?
• Access & download your recordings
• Watch your recordings
• Workspace recording pool
• How to check how much recording hours you’ve used
• Activate pay-as-you-go recording
• Recording FAQs
• What is the recording quality?
• Who can record a session?
• If I record multiple times in one session, will all my recordings be saved?
• When do my recordings become available?
• Can recordings be deleted?
• Who can access my recordings?
• Who can change recording sharing permissions?
• Can participants download recordings?
• Are breakouts recorded?
• Are Miro boards recorded?
• Are MURAL boards recorded?

🎥 Video tour: Recording your sessions

Here’s how to record your sessions!

How to record a session

To start recording your session, press the ‘Record’ button at the bottom of the left-hand panel.

It takes about 5 seconds for the recording to start.

Only facilitators have access to this option.

Once you start recording, your participants will see this notification.

To stop the recording, just hit the ‘Record’ button again.

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Hot tip: Going to miss the start of your session and need someone else to hit ‘Record’? Make them a co-facilitator! To learn more, see Co-facilitators.

Record sessions automatically

If you want to record every session automatically in a room, select the ‘Record sessions automatically’ toggle from the Room Overview before your session.

You can also select to ‘Record only when Agenda starts’.

Create multiple recordings per session

You might want to record multiple bits and pieces of your session—but not the whole thing.

You can start and stop recording at any time with the ‘Record’ button and each recording will be saved separately.

After your session, each individual clip will be available for re-watch or download.

What’s included in a recording?

Recordings show a pared-down version of the main participant view. This includes:

• The participant video gallery - including Spotlight Mode
• All audio - including sound effects, music playlists, and YouTube videos
• Reactions
• All tools (except MURAL - see below)

Recording Miro boards: When recording a Miro board, it will NOT automatically follow the presenter view. To record your Miro sessions for later re-watch, use the ‘Bring everyone to me’ function in Miro. This feature is not available with free Miro accounts.

What’s not included in a recording?

The following are not included in your recordings:

• Navigation items - such as menus, side panels, or buttons (we prefer to keep things clean!)
• Chats - chat logs can be accessed from the Recaps dashboard
• Breakouts - a “Breakouts in session” screen will be shown instead
• Notifications
• MURALs - At present, MURAL does not make it possible to record murals through their API. See Mural in Butter for possible workarounds.

Access & download your recordings

To watch your session recordings, head to the Recaps tab from the main Butter dashboard and expand the relevant session. The session’s recording(s) are available from the ‘Recordings’ button.

You can copy the link to share, or download it if needed!

Your recordings will also be emailed to you after your session. It may be a few minutes after your session before your recordings become available.

Watch your recordings

To watch your recordings, just hit ‘Watch’ to load the video player. You can watch your recordings at 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, or 2x speed.

You can also see the total views of your recordings, including who watched the recording (if they are logged in to their Butter account).

Workspace recording pool

Only paid workspaces can record sessions on Butter. The amount of recording hours available in the workspace pool is tied to the type of workspace you have:

• Free workspaces get 1 hour/month
• Starter workspaces get 10 hours/month
• Unlimited workspaces have unlimited recording

How to check how much recording hours you’ve used

Workspace owners and admins can head to the Settings > Workspace > Plan & billing tab to check how much hours have been used from the recording pool.

They will also get notified on the dashboard and via email if the workspace is close to the limit.

Activate pay-as-you-go recording

Extra recording (pay-as-you-go recording) lets workspaces continue recording even if the monthly recording pool has been consumed.

Extra recording hours are billed monthly and costs $3/hour started. It’s turned off by default, but can be turned on by workspace owners and admins.

If you want to activate it for your workspace, just turn it on under ‘Extra recording hours’ on Settings > Workspace > Plan & billing tab.

Recording FAQs

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