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How to record your screen with a webcam and microphone

You need three things captured at once: the page, your voice and your camera. Most people record them separately and stitch them together in an editor. ReelCap composites all three live — the camera becomes a bubble in the corner of the video, and your microphone is mixed with the page's own audio into a single track.

Doing it without an extension

  1. 1Start a meeting in a video call app, share your screen and record the meeting to get a screen-plus-camera file.
  2. 2Or run a desktop recorder for the screen and record your camera separately in another app.
  3. 3Record the demo while narrating, and stop both recordings when you're done.
  4. 4Import everything into an editor, line up the audio, and position the camera track over the screen track.

Where that falls short

  • Separate takes drift out of sync, and lining up voice with clicks by hand costs more time than the recording itself.
  • Meeting recorders stamp their own layout, participant tiles and sometimes a watermark onto the output.
  • You still get the whole window rather than just the page, so cropping is still on the to-do list.

Doing it with ReelCap

  1. 1In ReelCap's settings, grant microphone and camera access once, then pick which devices to use.
  2. 2Set the bubble's shape, corner and size — a circle in the bottom right is a safe default.
  3. 3On the tab you want to demo, open the popup and switch on Microphone and Camera bubble, plus Tab audio if the page makes sound.
  4. 4Record, stop, and download a single file that already has the page, your voice and your face in it.

Every step happens in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, and the export carries no watermark.

Questions about this

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Install the extension, open the tab you want to show, and press record. That's the whole setup.

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