Run and review Action Capture
Pause, resume, finish, recover, and reopen Action Capture work.
Updated July 14, 2026
When recording starts, Shotomatic shows the target and step count in the app and in a floating capture toolbar. The toolbar stays available while you work in another app.
Use the floating toolbar
The toolbar shows the current state, capture type, target, latest frame, and saved step count.
- Pause stops accepting new clicks without finishing the work.
- Resume starts accepting clicks again.
- Finish capture waits for pending saves, closes the run, and opens the resulting Document.
If saving a step fails, Shotomatic keeps the successfully stored steps and reports the failure instead of inventing a missing frame.
Free and Pro behavior
The Free plan stores up to 5 Action Capture steps per run. After five steps are saved, the run pauses and offers:
- Open Document to finish with the saved steps;
- Continue with Pro to activate Pro and resume the same run.
Pro removes the Action Capture step limit.
Finish and edit
Finishing a run with saved steps creates or updates a Document and opens it in the editor. Titles and visual annotations from Action Capture remain editable.
Manage Recent work
The Action Capture page lists up to 10 recent items. Open the item's menu to:
- Open in editor;
- rename the work;
- show it in Documents;
- show the source session in Capture History;
- delete the work.
Deleting Action Capture work can remove its Document and original capture. Images already copied into another Document remain in that other Document.