Record Your Screen With Your Webcam in the Corner

The webcam overlay settings, explained

When you tick Webcam bubble, a second row of options appears. Each one affects how the final video looks, so set them before you press Start.

• Position: bottom right, bottom left, top right or top left; bottom right is the default and suits most slides and web pages
• Size: small, medium or large; medium is the default and works for most tutorials, while small keeps dense spreadsheets readable
• Shape: a circle for a friendly, modern look or a rounded rectangle when you gesture with your hands or share the frame with someone
• Camera access: your browser asks permission once; if you block it, the recording continues without the bubble instead of failing

The overlay is composited into the video while you record. That keeps things simple, but it also means you cannot move or remove the bubble afterward, so a ten-second test clip is worth the time.

Audio, quality and format for a webcam recording

The rest of the panel controls sound and picture. For talking-head tutorials, the microphone matters more than the resolution.

• Microphone: tick it to narrate; a headset or USB mic beats a laptop mic that also picks up keyboard noise
• System or tab audio: include it when you demo video, music or app sounds; leave it off for a quiet voice-only lesson
• Quality: 1080p at 30 fps for most work, 1080p at 60 fps for fast motion such as games or scrolling, 720p when file size matters most
• Format: MP4 plays everywhere, including phones and most editors; WebM is offered where the browser supports it
• 3-second countdown: leave it on so you have a moment to look at the camera before the first word

As a rough guide, the recorder targets about 8 Mbps at 1080p 30 fps, 12 Mbps at 60 fps and 4 Mbps at 720p, which works out to very roughly 60 MB, 90 MB and 30 MB per minute before any compression afterward.

Background hum in the recording? The Audio Noise Reduction tool can clean it up afterwards.

Where to put the webcam bubble

The best corner is the one your content never uses. Spend a few seconds looking at the screen you will share before choosing.

• Slides and documents: bottom right usually sits over empty margin or page numbers
• Web apps: avoid the top right if that is where menus, account icons or save buttons live
• Code editors: bottom left can cover the file tree, so top right often works better
• Share a single tab or window instead of the full desktop so notifications and the taskbar clock stay out of the frame

Look and sound like you meant it

Most webcam overlays fail on lighting and framing, not software. A few small changes make a cheap camera look far better.

• Face a window or lamp so light falls on your face; a bright window behind you turns you into a silhouette
• Raise the camera to eye level, stacking the laptop on books if needed, so you are not filmed from below
• Look at the lens when you introduce the topic and when you wrap up, then look at the screen while demonstrating
• Use Pause during long loading screens and Resume when you are ready, so viewers never watch a spinner

When you stop, the preview shows the length, file size and format. Download it, then open it in the Video Trimmer to cut the start and end and add captions generated from your speech.

Step-by-step

Common mistakes to avoid

Pro tips

Frequently asked questions