Record Your Screen and Edit It: With Camera and Voice-Over

Screen recording is the quickest way to make tutorials, app demos and gameplay clips. The video editor records your screen and camera directly; when you stop, the recording lands on the timeline ready to edit. The recording stays on your device.

Recording the screen

1. Press Record screen in the Media panel.
2. In the browser's dialog, choose the entire screen, a window or a tab.
3. While recording, the preview shows the live picture and the time. Press Stop to finish.

With Add the camera to screen recordings turned on, the camera is recorded at the same time and placed as a round layer in the corner of the screen recording. Change its position and size in the layer settings.

Recording the camera

Record camera records only the camera and microphone, which suits talking videos. Afterwards, Cut silences removes the pauses.

Adding a voice-over later

If you recorded the picture without sound, add narration later with Audio → Record a voice-over. Recording starts at the playhead while the video plays; use headphones to avoid echo. Lower music during speech turns the background music down automatically while you talk.

Browser permissions

The browser asks for permission to use the screen, camera and microphone. Without permission recording does not start; the rest of the editor keeps working. Screen recording is supported in desktop browsers.

More in the video editor guide.