How to Record Yourself and Your Screen at the Same Time

if you're looking for a way to record yourself and your screen at the exact same time stay tuned we're going to cover it here in this youtube video now i have done a ton of youtube tutorials screencasts even live streams over on facebook in my facebook groups and one of the things that i get asked about all the time is how do you actually record your screen and have your face in the screen as well it looks a little bit complicated i assure you it's a lot simpler than you might think and there's about four or five different tools that i'm going to introduce use you to get the job done including my all-time favorite ecamp if you're new here my name is meredith marsh and this channel is dedicated to helping your side hustle thrive with video so that you can become the boss of your own future and it really just comes down to taking the right steps in the right direction so make sure you hit that subscribe button now and we'll get started now whether you're recording a screencast video for your youtube channel or going live and having a live stream with your screencast both of those ways are excellent pieces of content first of all they're easier ish to create because generally recording your screen you can you're walking people through something you know how to do it and so it's one of the easiest ways to communicate how to do something but it's also one of the most helpful ways for the viewer to actually learn what you're trying to teach them and a lot of people make the mistake of thinking that you have to have some complicated software to get this done and yes you have to have a couple of tools like a camera and a computer and some software but it's not complicated so we're gonna head over to my computer i'm gonna show you a couple different ways to record your face and your screen at the same time and walk you through my favorite software for getting this done so to keep things super duper simple for you first of all the easiest and most simple thing that you could do is use any of these recording screen recording software that i'm going to show you and then also just have your camera set up in front of you so that you can talk to your camera and also be recording your screen that's what i'm going to do here for this video in order to show you all of the other ways to do it so to start right off here one of the tools that you could use for this is called camtasia it's from a company called techsmith and i linked to it down in the description below this video now what's great about camtasia is that you can use this on your mac or your pc you can also record your screen and then edit your screen recordings right within the same app which is fantastic so let me show you how easy this actually is so all you have to do is just make sure that your webcam is on i'm using a logitech 1080p webcam again i'll put a link to this down in the description below so make sure your webcam is on and then you obviously want to have your microphone on we're just using the built-in microphone here and then you can decide whether you want to have camtasia record your system audio or not and then you select your region so you can see i have a rectangular green square here on my screen so you can select however you need this to be so we're just going to stick with what we have and then you're going to hit ok and then start recording and this is going to record my screen and then it's also going to actually record my face and then we'll be able to edit this when we are done so as you can see here we have a timeline we have track one track two so we have what's happening on our actual screen and then we have what's happening in the webcam right here and it's they're both totally aligned with each other you can change the size change the position all of that stuff you can even have it on the screen for just some of the video but not for other parts of the video so that's how camtasia works now if you're on a mac one of my favorite tools is called screenflow now screenflow is only available for mac and again like camtasia you can not only record your screen and your camera but you can also edit after you are done so just make sure that you're recording your screen make sure you're recording your camera make sure your webcam microphone is on or whatever microphone you happen to be using and then you can select your screen size so i generally will like to get it to be 1920 by 1080 and this is the area of the screen that i will record so it's going to give me a countdown like most screen recordings do and then i know that i can start recording so right now we're recording my screen we're also recording from my webcam and then let's see what this looks like when we are done so it looks a little bit different than camtasia but it's still very similar we have both of our tracks here and then we have my what happened here in my webcam we can move this around we can change the size and the location and all of that good stuff and then you can even add more to your screen recording as you go just make sure you hit save here in screenflow then when you're done you can edit the screen recording and then export it as an mp4 video now zoom is probably something you're familiar with at this point it's really gained popularity this year and a lot of people may not realize you can actually use zoom to simply record your screen and yourself so we're going to hit new meeting it's going to open us up with a video meeting where we're basically just talking to ourselves so i'm just going to open up a regular google page here so we have something to share so you're going to come down to share screen i'm going to select this google chrome window here to share so that's the part of the screen that's going to be recorded so if you have a slide presentation or something you would want to pull that up so you can share that on the screen or whatever it is that you're going to be recording so i'm going to hit share down here and right now i'm recording my screen and also sharing my screen um i'm the only participant here but one of the things that we need to do let me make sure you can see this come down under more and then record on this computer so now we are recording this zoom presentation that is a screen share and my camera is obviously on so that you can see my camera so if i hit um let's see we're going to go to stop recording we're going to hit stop share and then we're going to end this end meeting for all so it's going to convert the zoom call into a video that you can save to your computer and this is what it will look like so you have your screen where you're recording and then you have your camera over here so you've recorded your screen and your face at the same time now my all-time favorite app to do this with is called ecamm and it's actually ecamm live this is a live streaming broadcasting software it is only available for mac so you can go live on youtube and facebook or wherever you want to and one of the really great benefits of ecam live is you can actually record your screen only you don't even have to broadcast you can record your screen and your face at the same time let me show you okay so we can see that my face is on the camera right now on the screen and then if i do a screen share i'm going to hit this little button up here i'm going to select i don't want it to show my whole entire screen i just want it to show google chrome so now it's going to show google chrome but also i'm here on the screen so i can decide where i want this to be while i am recording i can make it smaller i can make it bigger i can mute myself unmute myself i can switch that's pretty cool so instead of going live to a destination like facebook periscope twitch or youtube you can select record only and it's going to record your screen just hit record and now we are recording our screen and then we're also recording our webcam right here when we're done we just hit finish and end recording and then we'll hit show file and then i can show you exactly what this file actually looks like let's take a look so it looks exactly like we had it set up when we were actually recording so now you know how to record yourself and your screen at the very same time for your youtube videos your screencast tutorials and all that good stuff so if you are new to actually editing those videos i have a fantastic video editing for beginners playlist right over here i think you should check it out because you may find some tips and tricks for editing your videos faster so you can get more videos out to more people sooner thanks for watching

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Length: 9min 36sec (576 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 03 2020