RefTake — Animation Reference
Record Acting for Animators
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What's New in RefTake
1.3.0
October 11, 2026
What's New — RefTake 1.3.0 Recordings survive a crash, the camera keeps your project's frame rate across lens flips, and exports can be cancelled. Recordings come back after a crash If RefTake is killed mid-recording — a crash, a force-quit, the system reclaiming memory — the next launch brings the footage back. The video is written to disk as it records, and the shot, take boundaries and settings are kept alongside it, so the takes come back exactly as a clean stop would have made them: into the shot, or into the Trash if the shot was trashed. A notice tells you what happened ("Recording Recovered", "Takes Recovered", "Recording Not Saved Yet"). Lens flips keep your settings After switching lenses, recordings silently fell back to the hardware defaults — 30 fps, H.264, stabilization off — even in a 24 fps project. The project frame rate, HEVC and stabilization now follow every lens flip. Record waits for the camera Tapping Record in the first second or two on the recording screen could produce nothing: the take appeared to run, then vanished. Recording now refuses to start before the camera is ready and says so. A take that dies after starting ends at once with the reason instead of running to the end on an empty file. Cancel an export Exports can be cancelled from the progress section, and the sheet stays open so you can adjust and go again. Dismissing the sheet mid-export cancels too. Every export job is now bounded — a stalled encoder is abandoned instead of waited on — and errors say what actually went wrong: the encode timed out, the source didn't load, or the encoder was busy with a recording. The default export folder shows as a Files-style location ("iCloud Drive › …", "Dropbox › …") instead of a container path. Fixes • A kill during a take, or during "Creating Takes…", could leave a saved video with no takes under it. Takes and their video are now saved as one step, and a recovered video found without takes gets them rebuilt. • With the template overlay hidden and Auto-delete first & last on, the recording pill read "Warm-up" and the stop dropped the take. A hidden-overlay recording is one take, and is named as one. • The guide-freeze warning no longer fires on every loop wrap. • Notices and errors show from their own window above everything, so one raised under a sheet, a menu or a nested screen is never dropped. • A picked export folder could stay open for the life of the app. A full disk at export start now reports the storage error instead of one opaque failure per take. • Empty Trash crashed when the just-recorded video was still open on a screen further down the stack. • iPad opens one window only. A file shared from Files lands in the existing window instead of opening a second one.
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RefTake Pro Yearly
PNG sequences with BG removal, presets, folder export
