How to Record your Computer Screen & Webcam

hi everyone my name is Kevin and today I want to show you how you can record your computer screen and a webcam at the exact same time it's completely free it works across Windows Mac and Linux whatever your OS is this will work ok well let's jump to it Here I am on my desktop and what you're going to do first is you're going to open up a browser so I'm just going to open up a new browser and we're gonna go to the website OBS project comm now you have lots of different screen recording software out there you have things like ezvid you have Camtasia many of them cost money some of them have ads some of them even have malware ob8 OBS this is something that when you read on different forums and you ask about what is the best screen recording software this is one that always bubbles up to the top and this is one that people tend to universally recommend first up is you're gonna choose the operating system that you're on I happen to be on a Windows computer so I'm gonna click on Windows and then the download will kick off so here in the bottom left hand corner you see that the install is going on so I'm just gonna let that complete if I had a gigabyte internet connection this would be done already my Internet's not that fast so we just gonna sit here and wait a little bit I feel like we need to play the jeopardy music or something like that and um um I think it's done now all right here you want to allow this app to make changes to your device yes I do so I'm going to minimize my browser and I'm just gonna go through the install steps here I get a license agreement looks good let's go with it and it's just telling me where it's installing it's gonna be about two hundred thirty four megabytes it's gonna be OBS studio sure let's go ahead and install and that's extracting the package and installing the app and as soon as it's done what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna say that I want to launch it as soon as this finishes installing I hope all of you are going to be recording fun things like hopefully hopefully we're gonna be playing games with a webcam on there or maybe you're doing tutorials like this one so here it looks like it finished installing I'm going to go ahead and lot this will bring up OBS studio so this is the default screen that you get when you first launch it it might look a little complex but stick with it I'll walk you through how to set it up so you record your screen and webcam at the same time so the first thing that we're gonna do is you'll see that a scene is set up you also see that you have sources so what we want to do first is we're gonna click on the plus button because we want to add a source so let me click on plus and what we want to do is first we want to capture the desktop here so I'm gonna go down and this is called display capture this option here this is my display that's what we're capturing so I'm gonna click on display capture I'll look sure I'll leave the default name that we have and then here it pulls in my display into there and it looks like it's shows me the resolution that it's recording it and I'm gonna click on OK so there you can see what the screen recording is gonna capture so I have my display there but I don't yet have my webcam so how do we get the webcam on there and what we're gonna do is click on the plus button again for sources this time I'm gonna go down to video capture device that's what's referred to as my webcam it's a video capture device I'm gonna click on that I'll just leave the default name there and what's nice is it detects that I have this Microsoft LifeCam HD 5000 connected to my computer so I'll just go ahead with that one I could also go through I could configure the video I could adjust the different settings but all of that looks great so I'm gonna click on OK now you can see my desktop here and it shows my desktop image in the back then I have this webcam image what's kind of neat is I could drag this around so I could make it really big so you get lots of Kevin hey guys or I can make it smaller so here I'm gonna make it smaller a lot of times what gamers do is they'll kind of create like a little square and then you put it down in the bottom right-hand corner and then you know I just have this little square down there a few of the other things that I wanted to walk through let's click on file and I'm gonna go up to settings a few other things that you should know is I'll click on output one of the things you'll see here is by default you have these different recording formats by default it goes to FLV I like your recording to mp4 because my video editing software that I use accepts mp4 files I'm going to go ahead and select that and then you can also see where it puts your video files so here it's sending it to my C Drive to users Kevin and then videos here I can also browse it and see where the videos go but that all looks good to me but what we're also going to take a look at is you'll see in this mixer area you have a few different options I have my desktop this is if I'm playing a game or if I'm running a program that's the basically the system audio or the machine the sound from the computer I also have this mic auxilary down here and you'll see that this is this you eat this color bar is going up and down this is my microphone for my webcam so I could I could adjust the volume by moving this scroll bar down here but I'll just leave it on high so I get both the camera audio and then I also get the system audio on there and then over on the right hand side I can click on start recording so I'm gonna go ahead and hit start recording and oops I'm gonna click on start recording and now it's recording my screen so if I minimize it I won't see the webcam down there but the webcam is very much recording so since we're since this is a video we're gonna record my screen and capture video I'm gonna load up a game here this is the game that I recently picked up called Park attacked it's a similar to rollercoaster tycoon but you build a an amusement park so here we are you should hear the audio from the game you should also hear me talking as well I'm gonna go and load a part that I worked on before mystic oasis this is a theme park in the desert and I feel like since I'm doing one of these screen recording videos with my webcam I should I should add some interesting commentary as I'm playing my game but here we are on my big map you can see my amusement park let's say I'm gonna turn off my speakers so that sound doesn't mess with my voice recording but here you can see the this theme park I've built here's a winged coaster look at that thing flying around and you should see my picture down there and oh boy look at that freefall tower man that thing would be scary to go on I wonder how am i how much are we charging people to go on this charging them six dollars to go on this ride that's it's kind of pricey but hopefully it's fun and then oh here's a free fall coaster so there's a little section that just goes straight down so that's that's pretty intense but yeah so this is this is my muse my Park hope you guys like it ok so enough of the enough of the playing we're gonna go back to the desktop maybe one of these days I'll do some game playing we'll see and put up videos so I'm gonna go ahead and quit this and go back to the desktop so I'm going to open up the OBS software again here you can see I'm back on my desktop and I'm gonna click on the stop recording and that that now successfully recorded that game that segment that I was playing but this will work in any type of application if you're in a full-screen game it'll work if you're in an application and work if you're in the browser so any type of software it'll be able to capture so I stopped the recording what I could do is if I click on the file menu I'm gonna click on show recordings and here's my recording I'm gonna pull that up real quick yeah so there you see I'll turn the speakers back on so there you I can hear myself talking but here I could go through it I could see the game and so there you see my video on top of the screen capture and so it kind of worked just as expected and probably not really the best game video person right now but we could work on that but yeah so that's as simple as it is OBS studio it's a OBS studio great piece of software like I said before it's free it's open source no ads it's very powerful even beyond just video recording you could also do things like streaming onto twitch or Facebook YouTube it also doesn't live streaming it's extremely powerful but this is just some of the simple functionality that you could use to capture your computer screen and also get a webcam on there at the same time so kind of a cool combination anyway I hope you found this video useful if you did love it if you could share a video that you make using this feel free to post it in the comments if you want to see more videos like this hit that subscribe button that way you'll get a notification anytime new videos like this come out and if you enjoyed this please give it a like I'd really appreciate that it really makes my day when I see it like come in but that's it also just want to call out I do read all the comments that come in I also reply to a lot of the comments that comment one of the funny ones that I've seen recently is a lot of people think I look like Connor Murphy I think I probably do I've looked at pictures and we do have resemblance unfortunately I need to work on my body a little more before I could say I'm the complete package but right now I'm probably a skinny version of Connor Murphy anyway I hope you enjoyed this video I will see you next time bye

Channel: Kevin Stratvert

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Id: uL8BwstqiqE

Length: 8min 32sec (512 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 03 2019