Cut your retakes automatically with the clean take

Updated 9 November 2026 · Everlong s.r.o., the makers of Followline

When you stumble while recording with Followline, you don't stop. Say the sentence again from its start and carry on. After the take, Make clean take keeps only your last reading of each sentence and cuts long pauses and the silence at the start and end. It can also add captions from your script, timed to your voice. The clean take is part of Followline Pro.

How it works

While you record in voice mode, Followline notes every move of the reading line with its time in the video and the microphone level every 20 milliseconds. When the reading line goes back because you started a sentence again, it knows that the earlier attempt is a slip. After the take it keeps the last reading of each sentence, puts the cuts in quiet moments and saves the clean take next to the original, which stays untouched.

Captions from your script

• Captions use the words of your script, so names and terms are spelled the way you wrote them, timed to your voice word by word.
• Choose the size, the position (bottom, middle or top) and one of eight styles: dark box, light box, amber, outline, shadow, yellow, bold capitals or word by word, where the word being said lights up.
• Make a video with captions and nothing cut, with every reading captioned as you said it.
• Save the captions as an .srt file for YouTube, video editors or social apps.

Step by step

1. Open your script in the prompter, turn on the camera and choose Voice.
2. Record. When you stumble, say the sentence again from its start.
3. Stop the recording. The take report opens.
4. Tap Make clean take. The clean take is saved next to the original.
5. Optional: make a video with captions or save the captions file.

Where the videos go

On iPhone and iPad the clean take and the video with captions go to Photos. On a Mac and on Android they go to the Movies/Followline folder, and on Android caption files go next to them or, where that isn't possible, to Download/Followline. Everything is made on your device; we never receive your videos.

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