TUTORIAL · PRO FEATURE
Record a live camera
Save the moment as a clip, record twenty cameras at once — or let a snapshot camera timelapse the whole day. Tiers named at every step.
A live camera is easy to watch and easy to lose — the moment passes, the light changes, the storm rolls through. WorldEye's viewer can keep it: the REC button records the live stream into a clips library on your device, and snapshot cameras can be run as timelapses that compress hours of weather into seconds.
The tier split is stated before anything else, because it decides what your buttons do. Recording clips is a Pro feature (Weekly Pass or Monthly). Timelapse is a VIP Pro extra (Annual or Enterprise). This guide walks both, and quotes the exact messages the locked buttons show, so there are no surprises mid-storm. This tutorial is text-only by design: the recording studio sits behind those plans, so there is no public screenshot of it to show you — we would rather describe it accurately than illustrate it with something staged.
Step by step
- 1Find a camera on the globe or through the directories and open it in the viewer. The recording controls live in a strip inside the camera viewer — no separate app, no export step.
- 2Recording is a Pro feature. The Weekly Pass and Monthly plan are Pro; the Annual plan and Enterprise are VIP Pro. If you are not on a recording plan, the button is honest about it up front: it shows a PRO lock and the words “Recording is a Pro feature” instead of pretending to work.
- 3On Pro or VIP Pro, press the REC button. Its promise is literal: “Record this live stream — saved to your clips library on this device.” The clip is captured from the live stream while you watch and lands in your clips library on the device you are using.
- 4One camera is rarely the whole story — a storm front, a ski day, a harbour. Pro can record up to 20 cameras at once; VIP Pro raises the cap to 40.
- 5Snapshot cameras in the viewer also carry a TIMELAPSE strip. Timelapse is a VIP Pro extra: the Annual plan and Enterprise include it. If you are on Pro, the panel says so in plain words — “Your Pro plan doesn't include timelapse — it's a VIP Pro extra” — and if you have no plan at all it reads “TIMELAPSE IS A VIP PRO FEATURE”.
- 6The Recording overview page gathers your recording studio in one place. If you visit it signed out, it asks first: “Sign in to use the recording studio” — your library is tied to you, not floating on the device for anyone who picks it up.