Make a study-with-me video
Make a long-form focus video, like a 2.5-hour pomodoro session with a cozy scene, a timer, a chime at every break and calm lofi music, without recording anything. Export it ready for YouTube, chapters included.
Study-with-me and pomodoro videos are simple to watch and tedious to make: a scene that runs for hours, a countdown that has to be exact to the second, a sound at every break, music that doesn't repeat too obviously, and chapters so viewers can skip to their session. DemoTake builds all of it from one description. It's a Composition: a take made from a picture or a video loop instead of a screen recording.
File › New Study Video…, or type it into the command bar: make a 2.5-hour study-with-me video, 45/10 pomodoro, rainy cozy room, lofi music.
Choose a picture or a looping video for the room. Check the music estimate, then generate the playlist, or use your own track.
Export Video writes a 1080p or 4K MP4, a chapters file for the description, and a thumbnail.
The schedule
You give a length and a focus/break split; DemoTake rounds to whole focus sessions and ends on a focus session. "2.5 hours at 45/10" becomes three 45-minute focus sessions with two 10-minute breaks: 2:35:00 in total. Other ways to say it: "90 minutes, 25/5", "50 min focus and 10 min break", or plain "pomodoro" for the classic 25/5.
In the Composition editor you can change focus and break lengths and the number of sessions at any time. The length, the timer, the chimes and the chapters all follow.
| Part | What you get |
|---|---|
| Timer | A countdown for the current session ("44:59") with its label ("FOCUS 1/3", "BREAK") and a progress bar. Card, Minimal or Ring style, in the center or a corner. |
| Chimes | A soft sound at every change between focus and break: Soft bell, Singing bowl, Marimba or Digital. DemoTake synthesizes them itself, so they're yours to use, royalty-free. |
| Chapters | One chapter per session, written for the YouTube description. |
| Music | A crossfaded playlist of distinct tracks that loops to the end. See Background music. |
The scene
Choose any picture (JPEG, PNG, HEIC) or a short video loop (MP4, MOV). Pictures fill the frame; videos loop for the whole length. If you don't pick anything, DemoTake uses a calm gradient in colors that match your description, like dusk blue for "rainy" or warm amber for "cozy".
A still picture exports much faster than a video loop, because only the timer changes and DemoTake draws each second once. A 2.5-hour 1080p video from a picture exports in a few minutes on an Apple silicon Mac. A video loop is drawn and encoded frame by frame, which takes roughly a tenth of the video's length (a 2.5-hour video in about 15 minutes).
Export for YouTube
Export Video in the inspector renders:
…-youtube-1080p-….mp4: HEVC (or H.264) video with the mixed music and chimes.….chapters.txt: paste it into the YouTube description to get chapters:
0:00 Focus 1
45:00 Break 1
55:00 Focus 2
1:40:00 Break 2
1:50:00 Focus 3….thumbnail.jpg: a 1280 × 720 frame from the first focus session, with the timer.
Fast export (on by default for pictures) writes a new frame only when the picture changes, at least once a second, like a phone recording. Turn it off in the Export group for a constant 30 fps file if another editor needs one. 4K takes about four times the file size of 1080p.
If you use AI music in a video you monetize, read Using AI music in your videos first.
Let your agent make it
$ composition_create {request: "2.5-hour study-with-me video, 45/10 pomodoro, rainy cozy room, lofi music", background_path: "~/Pictures/rainy-room.jpg"} ✓ Created composition take_… 2:35:00: 3 × 45 min focus / 10 min break $ music_generate {take_id, style: "lofi", tracks: 10} ✓ Added a 10-track playlist, crossfaded and looped $ export_render {take_id, wait: true}
composition_create shows the music estimate first (music: "estimate", the default), so the agent can ask you before it generates ten songs.