You can capture videos and screenshot with your Magic Leap 2 using your controller, or ADB.

Capture with the Controller

To capture a screenshot on the device, Press the Home button, then immediately tap the Bumper.

To record a video, press the Home button, then immediately hold the Bumper for about 2 seconds. To stop recording a video, repeat the above step hold the Home button and tap the Bumper. Make sure you release both buttons after about one and a half seconds. This is the same method for taking a screenshot.

When recording video, or taking a screenshot, a UI overlay similar to a camera frame will appear showing what content is actually being captured by the device. A 3-second countdown timer will also appear, content will not be captured until after this countdown ends.

Capture Settings

From the camera icon on the home menu, or by going to "Settings > System > Capture and Device Stream > Capture App", you can adjust different settings for how both videos and still screenshots appear.

A horizontal bar with settings at the bottom of the capture frame will appear. Below is a list of what each icon means and what options are available under each. The numbers in the graphic above correspond to each numbered item below.

1 - Resolution

Set the resolution of the captured content. The following options are available:

• 720p
• 1080p
• 4K

2 - Aspect Ratio

Set the aspect ratio of the captured content.

• 9:10
• 4:3

3 - Adjust

• Opacity Adjustment Slider: Adjust the opacity of digital content against the real world
• Exposure Compensation Slider: Compensate for how much light is being let in
• Tint: Adjust the color temperature of the captured content, making it cooler or warmer
  • Cooler settings create more of a blue color grade, decrease the tint to make a capture cooler
  • Warmer settings create more of an orange color grade, increase the tin to make a capture warmer
• White Balance Options:
  
  
  
  Adjust the white balance of the captured content. White balance helps ensure that an object that is white in real life still appears white in digital content like an image or video.
  
  The current white balance option is highlighted in purple, and the name of it is shown where to the left of the icon grid (the white number 1 in the graphic above) The following white balance options are available, with the numbers below corresponding to the numbers in the graphic above:
  
  
  • 2 Auto-white
  • 3 Daylight
  • 4 Cloudy
  • 5 Twilight
  • 6 Shade
  • 7 Incandescent
  • 8 Fluorescent
  • 9 Off

4 - Content and Audio

• Content: Determines if both real and virtual content are capture, only digital content, or only real content
  • Real & Virtual
  • Real World
  • Virtual
• Audio: Determines what audio is captured.
  • Virtual: Capture audio from the device.
  • Voice: Capture audio from someone speaking.
  • World Ambient: Capture all ambient noise picked up.

5 - Options

• Show Floating Thumbnail: Toggle whether or not a preview thumbnail of the content you just captured is shown after completing capture. 
• Timer: Select whether or not a countdown timer is set before content is captured.
  • Off
  • 3 Seconds

 

Capture Using ADB Commands

You can also capture screenshots and videos from the ADB console while your device is connected to your computer. Learn more at our Developer Portal.

Retrieving Captured Content in Magic Leap Hub

Captured video and screenshots can be downloaded to your computer using Magic Leap Hub. From the "Files" screen in Device Bridge, navigate to "Storage > Self > DCIM" in the file tree. Navigate to the "video" folders for recordings, and "photos" for screenshots.

Select the file(s) you wish to download in the folder, and click the "Download" button on the left. This will download the captured content to a "downloads" folder in your "MagicLeap" folder. The Magic Leap 2 folder is usually found under your computer's user folder.

Examples for a user named John Doe on Mac and Windows are below:

MacOS

/Users/John Doe/MagicLeap/downloads

Windows

C:\Users\John Doe\MagicLeap\downloads

 

Retrieving Captured Content in Magic Leap Hub 3

To retrieve captured content in Magic Leap Hub 3:

• From the "Device" screen, select "Files" on the left-hand side menu
• Depending on the content you wish, select either the "Photos" or "Videos" folder
• Find the content you captured, select it, and click the Down Arrow icon to save it your device
  • A MacOS finder or Windows explorer window will open, allowing you to choose where to save the content

The below GIF shows the process of saving content captured on-device to your computer. While this example shows an image being saved, the process is the similar for videos, simply navigate to the "Videos" folder instead of the "Photos" folder.