# OSX -Matinee Recording, Window can't be closed

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**Category:** Platform & Builds\
**Tags:** osx, recording, video, unreal-engine, question\
**Created:** [August 18, 2015, 10:51pm UTC](https://forums.unrealengine.com/t/osx-matinee-recording-window-cant-be-closed/329152 "2015-08-18T22:51:57Z")\
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Andrew, thank you, force start position is useful.  
I still consider “Window can’t be closed” as a bug. On my Mac the tilde is alt-n and does not close the window.  
“Simply bring up the console command window (~) and type ‘Quit.’” might be fine from a programmer’s perspective, but not for a user who plays with the Unreal Engine and suddenly has a blocking window and can’t move the mouse outside this window. The window close buttons are not reachable in this mode.

There is a great turorial for Matinee:

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The track defaults to 5 seconds. I would recommend that Create Movie only records this actual length and does not record forever.  
Hope this makes sense. From a user experience those things are ‘expected behaviour’.  
Thank you for your time, I also invest mine to make this amazing engine even better.

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