Sequence settings in take recorder get lost

Hello everybody. I am a first timer in UE5 and am trying to figure out animations. My problem: I am currently using the Metahuman Lighting project and have placed a custom metahuman in it. I want to record a scene, so I open the take recorder, put in my character from actor, animate face and body, add cameras to the scene. Now my problem: How do I save this arrangement? Everytime I close the project and reopen, all these settings are lost. The only thing I was able to kinda recover were the half broken takes from the cinematics folder, thats it

kindest regards
Habib