In Clipchamp, you can either record your screen or you can record both your screen and webcam together to produce training videos, react videos, presentations, gaming streams, and much more.
When you record screen and camera together, the recordings are captured simultaneously but they can be adjusted in the editing timeline separately. This means each video can be resized and placed however you like.
For the ideal outcome, recordings will align if you place them on top of each other on the timeline. The webcam recording can then be altered using freehand editing to place it over the screen recording to give a picture-in-picture appearance.
In Clipchamp's video editor for personal accounts, to take a recording, go to the Record & create tab on the left toolbar.
Next, select either the screen or screen & camera option. Audio will also get recorded through your computer's microphone, for example, if you want to talk while showing your screen (unless you turn audio recording off).
Note: The screenshots in this article show the screen recorder option. The same steps apply to screen & camera after choosing this option in the initial step.
To begin, open the "Record & create" tab
In this menu, you'll see the options Screen & camera, Camera, Screen, and Text-to-speech. Select the Screen option.
Allow camera & mic access, start the screen recording
A popup will appear at the top of your screen.
Allow Clipchamp access to use your camera & microphone. If you gave permission to access one or both devices before, the message on the popup can look different to our example screenshot.
Next, start recording your screen by selecting the big red button at the bottom left.
Another popup window will appear with screen recording options. Either record your entire screen, an application window, or a browser tab. We opted to screen record a Chrome tab for this tutorial. Select the tab of your choice, then select Share.
Important: In the Clipchamp Windows app, you will be able to select browser tabs from Microsoft Edge due to the way the Windows app works. To record a Chrome tab, open Clipchamp in Chrome and start a screen recording there.
You will be brought to the Chrome tab you have selected to screen record. Your screen is now actively recording. Your audio will automatically start recording when you select Share. Your built-in microphone will pick up on your voice, computer or mouse clicking, and any noise around you. To stop recording your screen, select Stop sharing.
TIP: If you want to record for longer than the maximum time (shown to the right of the elapsed time), try taking several shorter recordings and combining them in the editor later.
Download the raw recording, add it to the editing timeline
After you’ve selected Stop sharing, return to the editor. You can now preview your screen recording with audio. If you’re unhappy with the screen-recorded video, select Retake recording. If you want to use your video, select Save and edit.
A copy of the recording (in WebM format) will download to your computer, depending on the default settings in place, you can either select a folder to save it in or it will get stored in the Downloads folder automatically.
The clip will also get loaded into the editing project and will automatically be added to the timeline. To add more than one copy to the timeline, select the Your media tab to find the screen recording file. Note that the audio track of the recording is part of the video.
Edit your screen recording audio
You can mute your screen recording audio by clicking on the microphone icon on the clip on the timeline. You can also detach the audio track to edit it separately.
In addition, you can edit the video further, for instance by trimming unwanted parts off the start or end or splitting it to cut out segments.
If the recording doesn't fit the dimensions of your project (e.g. you see black bars on either side of it) you can crop it to fit the project's aspect ratio.
For more information on Clipchamp's editing tools, see the How to edit a video article.
Export the video
If you're finished editing and would like to save the screen recording including edits as an MP4 video to your computer, select the Export button in the top right and follow the prompts.
In Clipchamp's video editor for work accounts, to take a screen recording, go to the Record & create tab in the left toolbar of the editor. Next, select the Screen and camera option.
Audio will also be recorded through your computer's microphone. For example, you could talk while showing your screen (unless you turn audio recording off).
To begin, open the "Record & create" tab
Select Record & create on the toolbar, then select Screen and camera.
Allow camera & microphone access, start the recording
Important: When you use Clipchamp in Edge, you can select browser tabs from Microsoft Edge to record. To record a Chrome tab, open Clipchamp in Chrome and start a screen recording there.
When you start a recording for the first time, you'll see a popup next to the browser address bar asking for permission to access your camera and microphone.
Allow access, otherwise the screen and camera recording won't work.
To check the permissions you've given Clipchamp, select the Lock icon and make sure you’ve allowed Clipchamp access to use your webcam and microphone.
In the popup window, toggle your webcam on or off to either include or exclude the camera from the recording session, then click Select a screen to record.
Select a screen, window or browser tab, also decide if you'd like to include the system audio, then select Share.
You will be brought to the screen, window or browser tab you selected to record. After a countdown of beeps, your screen starts actively recording. The computer's microphone will pick up on your voice, computer sounds or mouse clicking, and any noise around you.
To stop recording your screen, select Stop sharing in the horizontal toolbar that appeared when the recording started.
TIP: If you want to record for longer than the maximum time, try taking several shorter recordings and combining them in the editor later.
Save your screen recording
After you’ve selected Stop sharing, return to the editor. You can now preview your screen recording with audio. If you’re unhappy with the screen-recorded video, select Retake recording. If you want to use your video, select Save and edit.
Note: If you recorded both screen and camera, there will be 2 files available, one for the screen recording and one for the webcam recording. If you only recorded your screen, there will be one file.
A copy of the recording (in WebM format) will download to your computer, depending on the default settings in place, you can either select a folder to save it in or it will get stored in the Downloads folder automatically.
The clip(s) will also get loaded into the editing project and will automatically be added to the timeline. The audio track of the recording is part of the video.
If there is a screen recording and a camera recording, the 2 files are added to the timeline as a group. You can ungroup them by right clicking on the media on the timeline, then selecting ungroup.
Edit the recording and audio
You can mute your screen recording audio by clicking on the microphone icon on the clip on the timeline. You can also detach the audio track to edit it separately.
In addition, you can edit the video further, for instance by trimming unwanted parts off the start or end or splitting it to cut out segments.
If the recording doesn't fit the dimensions of your project (e.g. you see black bars on either side of it) you can crop it to fit the project's aspect ratio. You can also add text and titles.
For more information on Clipchamp's editing tools, see the How to edit a video article.
Adjust the layout
If your recording includes a webcam clip that appears as a separate item on the timeline, you can edit the layout of the video by freely moving your webcam recording around the screen. To do so, drag and drop the camera clip around the preview window in the editor.
You can also use the editing features on the media's property panel. These include fit, crop, picture-in-picture, rotate, flip horizontal, and flip vertical.
Export your video
If you're finished editing and would like to save the edited project to your computer as an MP4 video, select the Export button in the top right and follow the prompts.
