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Practice your lines
Import your sides or a scene and practice it at any hour. Roll when you're off-book.
For actors on a deadline
Your best take,
ready to send.
Take7 finds every take, cleans up the audio and fixes the framing, so your self-tape is ready to send in minutes. You can also import your sides and practice the scene before you tape.
The 30-second test
Fix the three things that get your tape skipped.
Casting may only watch the first 30 seconds. If the audio echoes, the framing is loose or your best take is buried in one long file, they can skip the tape before your acting lands. Take7 fixes all three in one pass.
One 9-minute file
5 takes · keeper picked
Room echo · hiss
Clean · natural
Wide · off-center
Chest-up · centered
SCENE 7 · INT. APARTMENT · NIGHT
SIDES
Your line
On your line, it waits for you
Before you tape
Run your lines whenever you want.
You don't have to find a scene partner or ask a friend for a favor. Import your sides and run the scene as many times as you need.
That's a wrap
Hit send with confidence.
Casting gets your keeper take with clean sound and the right framing. Send it off and get back to work.
How Take7 works
The whole finish, in minutes.
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Upload your tape
Upload the whole recording straight off your phone. You don't need to trim anything first.
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Pick your keeper
Take7 splits the recording into numbered takes. Watch them back and choose the one.
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Polish and export
Take7 cleans the audio, lightly touches up the picture and reframes you chest-up. Then you export in 1080p, with a vertical cut too.
From the other side of the table
Casting has been saying it for years.
“At this point in my career, I've seen hundreds of thousands of self-tapes, and I can usually tell in the first few seconds whether an actor has learned the basics of self-taping.”
“Ultimately, we need to see and hear you. If we can't, this could immediately take you out of the mix.”
“If the sound on your self-tape isn't up-to-par, it's easy to become annoyed and stop watching.”
“In TV and film, a lot of times we watch the first 10 seconds of your tape and then decide whether it's a 'yes' or a 'no'…and that's not personal!”
“Place the lens at eye level to you. We want to catch everything you're listening to and reacting to during your read.”
“Unless otherwise directed, your frame should be from your chest up to the top of your head.”
“Before I even hit play, I've already learned something about you from your file name, your slate, your frame, your lighting.”
“Your reader is 20x louder than you. This is the MOST common sound problem we see in self-tapes.”
“As a casting director, we need to see you so you need to have good lighting and you need to have good sound.”
Quotes from published casting-director interviews and advice (Backstage, Casting Networks, Acting Studio Chicago, and more).
Questions
Asked and answered.
One file: the whole recording session off your phone, mistakes included. Take7 finds each take inside it, so you don't need to trim anything first.
It splits your session into numbered takes, cleans the room out of your audio (echo, hiss, levels), reframes you chest-up, lightly touches up the picture and exports a 1080p cut plus a vertical version.
No. If the room is dark, reshoot with more light. Take7 makes small color adjustments, but you need decent light to start with.
Yes. Import your sides or a scene and practice it as many times as you like. Record when you're ready.
No. The audio is cleaned up to a clear, even level and the picture changes stay small. It should look like you taped in a good room.
Free while we're in early access. At launch: $7.99 a week (cancel anytime) or $19.99 a month, same features on both.
Yes. Your tapes are yours; they're never shared or published. You decide who sees them when you send them.
A few minutes. Upload the session, and when it finishes you can pick your keeper and send it.
Free early access
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