How to make a screen recording
Applies ToClipchamp for personal accounts Clipchamp for work accounts

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.

How to screen record in Clipchamp

Step 1. Locate the screen recorder

In Clipchamp for personal accounts, to take a recording, go to the record & createtab on the toolbar.

Next, click on the screen tool or screen & camera tool. 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.

An image of a user clicking on the screen button.

Step 2. Allow camera and mic access

A popup will appear at the top of your screen if you have never used the screen recorder before. Allow Clipchamp access to use your camera and microphone.

If you gave permission to access one or both devices before, the message on the popup can look different to our example screenshot.

An image of a user allowing access.

Step 3. Record your screen

Before recording, select your microphone source and turn on or off speaker coach. Next, click on the red button to start screen recording.

An image of a user clicking on the record button.

A smaller popup window will appear with screen recording options. Select to record your browser tab, window, or entire screen. If you would like to use audio, select browser tab only. Make sure to turn on the audio sharing toggle to allow audio access. Once selected, click on the share button.

Note: Audio recording only works with screen recording a browser tab.

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.

An image of a user sharing the chrome tab.

You will be brought to the Chrome tab you have selected to screen record. Your screen is now actively recording. Your built-in microphone will also pick up on your voice, computer, or mouse clicking, and any noise around you.

An image of a user sharing their chrome tab.

Once you are happy with your screen recording tutorial, click on stop sharing button.

Note: If you would like 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.

An image of a user clicking on the stop sharing button.

To preview your screen recording with audio, click on the play button. Make sure the audio button isn't on mute so you can hear your audio recording as well. Click on the retake recording button if you would like to redo your video, or click save and edit to return back to the editor.

An image of a user saving their screen recording.

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.

Step 4. 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.

An image of a user muting the screen recording.

In addition, you can edit the video further, for instance by trimmingunwanted 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 the editing tools in Clipchamp, see the how to edit a video article.

Step 5. Export your screen recording 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.

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