# Allow the Recorder docker to capture the canvas instead of the entire image

**URL:** <https://krita-artists.org/t/allow-the-recorder-docker-to-capture-the-canvas-instead-of-the-entire-image/188140>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** for-ui-ux\
**Created:** [August 3, 2026, 5:48pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/allow-the-recorder-docker-to-capture-the-canvas-instead-of-the-entire-image/188140 "2026-08-03T17:48:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ciubix](https://krita-artists.org/user_avatar/krita-artists.org/ciubix/32/202546_2.png) [@Ciubix](https://krita-artists.org/u/Ciubix)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2026, 3:41pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/allow-the-recorder-docker-to-capture-the-canvas-instead-of-the-entire-image/188140/28 "2026-08-13T15:41:33Z")

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Finally finished the new version. It now smoothly animates canvas movement, but only after an action, so no pointless canvas movement anymore.

I highly recommend using more than 1 thread for recording timelapses with this build, it now needs to to a lot more work from time to time which occupies threads for a while.

The animation durations/curves may still need to be tweaked, the current numbers are basically just something i chose at random.

@tysontan can you please test it, again on the smaller tablet, so that there’s more canvas movement.

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