Getting started

Point Circle Take at a shoot folder. You get a synced timeline and transcripts, and with a script, your selects.

The speech model

Circle Take reads what's said on camera with a speech model. It's about 3.1 GB and you download it once, with the Download button on the Home screen.

• It runs on your Mac. Your footage, audio and scripts aren't uploaded.
• Your Mac stays awake while it downloads. You can Cancel, but quitting stops it and the next download starts over.
• You can open a project while it downloads. Runs start once the model is in.
• You need an Apple silicon Mac with macOS 14 or later, and about 4 GB free for the model.

Open a project

• Choose Open Folder… (⌘O), or click Open Folder… on the Home screen or at the bottom of the sidebar.
• Or drag a folder onto the window.
• Local disks, external drives, NAS and synced folders all work.
• Projects you open show up under Recents in the sidebar. Click the star next to a project's name to keep it under Favorites. Click one to reopen it without choosing the folder again.

What Circle Take looks for

It searches every folder inside the project for three things:

• Camera clips: .mov, .mp4, .mxf, .m4v, .mts and .avi video files.
• Recorder audio: .wav, .bwf, .aif and .aiff files.
• Scripts: .docx, .doc, .rtf, .odt, .pdf and .fdx files.

It guesses which folders are which and checks them for you. You can change any of it before you run.