Sync between Mac and DemoTake Web
Send a take from your Mac to DemoTake Web to edit, export and share it in the browser, and bring web edits back to your Mac. Sync runs when you ask, skips what hasn't changed, and never silently overwrites edits made in two places.
Your library lives on your Mac. DemoTake Web keeps a cloud library in your browser. Sync connects the two, one take at a time: record on the Mac, polish or share in the browser from any computer, and pull the changes back.
Sync needs a subscription (Director, Team or Enterprise), because cloud takes beyond DemoTake Web's one free take come with a subscription. Sign in under Settings › Account first. Takes sync to your active workspace.
- Take on your Mac
- Sync to DemoTake Webuploads what changed
- DemoTake Webedit, export, share
- Open from Web…brings web edits back
- Same take on your Mac
Send a take to DemoTake Web
In the editor, click Sync to DemoTake Web in the toolbar. In the library, right-click a take and choose Sync to DemoTake Web, or Sync Changes to DemoTake Web once it has been synced before. Finish recording first: DemoTake won't sync a take while it is recording.
The Sync sheet shows the progress. "Your take stays on this Mac. Unchanged files are skipped, and you can keep working while it syncs." Click Continue in Background to close the sheet, or Stop Syncing to stop. Files already uploaded are kept, and the next sync continues from there. When it is done, the sheet says when the take was synced: "Edit, export and share it in DemoTake Web. Sync again after you change it here." Later, the toolbar button's tooltip shows when the take was last synced.
What is uploaded
| Uploaded | Not uploaded |
|---|---|
| The take and all its edits | Your exports. Each place renders its own, and DemoTake Web exports in the browser |
| The recordings of every scene | Anything outside the take's package |
| Pointer tracks, snapshots and the thumbnail |
Mac recordings that not every browser can play get a browser-friendly H.264 copy when they sync. DemoTake Web plays that copy and exports from the original whenever the browser can decode it.
Bring web edits back to your Mac
Choose Open from Web… in the Cloud section of the sidebar. The Open from DemoTake Web sheet lists your cloud takes, and takes other people shared with you under Shared with You.
Takes recorded or edited in your browser. Downloading adds one to this Mac's library.
- Checkout redesign — Edited in DemoTake Web · On this MacUpdate
- Pricing page tour — Recorded on the web · Updated 2 hours agoDownload
- Onboarding v2 — On this MacOpen
- Invoice flow — From Ana RuizDownload
Only the files your Mac is missing are downloaded. Browser copies and exports stay in the cloud.
When the web version changed too
DemoTake remembers what it last synced, so it can tell a change on your Mac from a change in DemoTake Web. If the web version changed since your last sync, the Sync sheet stops and asks you what to do.
- Get Web Changes brings them to this Mac
- Replace Web Version uploads this Mac's take over them
- Keep Both downloads the web version as a separate copy
- Replace Web Version uploads this Mac's take over it
With Keep Both, the web version opens on your Mac as its own take, named so you can tell the two apart, and your Mac's take stays exactly as it was.
In the browser, the DemoTake Web editor saves as you work. If someone else saved a newer version in the meantime, in another tab, on a teammate's machine or from DemoTake for Mac, it shows This take changed somewhere else and offers:
- Merge My Edits replays your unsaved edits on top of the newer version. Recommended.
- Keep Mine saves your version over the newer one.
- Discard Mine loads the newer version and drops your unsaved edits.
Take packages
Every take is a portable .take package in ~/Movies/DemoTake, and sync moves that same package. You can also move a take without the cloud: zip it with take_export_package or demotake export <take_id> --format package, and bring it into another Mac's library with take_import_package or demotake import. See the CLI reference.
If sync doesn't work
| Message | What it means |
|---|---|
| DemoTake Web is included with Director and Team. | Your plan doesn't include cloud takes. Everything on this Mac keeps working. See Plans shows your options |
| "DemoTake Cloud isn't reachable. Your take is safe on this Mac." | You're offline or the service can't be reached. Try again when you're online |
| "Sign in to DemoTake Cloud to use DemoTake Web." | Sign in under Settings › Account |
| "This take was deleted in DemoTake Web." | Your copy on this Mac is unchanged. Sync it to upload it again |
| Couldn't sync this take. | The sheet shows the reason and Try Again |
Deleting a take in DemoTake Web removes only the cloud copy. Your take on this Mac stays as it is, and you can sync it again.