If you're creating video content for your online business or you're creating
an online course, you might be wondering how do I record myself and my screen at
the same time? In this video I'm showing you the two simplest and the best ways
to record your video and your screen. One paid and one free. But before we get
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My name is Brie Kirbyson, I'm the founder at Course Boss and I teach entrepreneurs
and business owners how they can scale their business and create an income by
teaching what they love in a profitable online course. Method number one so if
you are creating your own digital courses you probably have heard of a
program called Camtasia, and if you already have it this will come at no
extra charge. But if you don't have Camtasia and you want a free method,
skip on to method number two. Now I personally use Camtasia in my business
to record all of my course videos and a lot of my marketing content. Not only
does it allow you to record your face and your screen at the same time, but it
has really simple and easy to use editing tools so you can make your
videos look amazing. Now I'm not an expert,
I'm not tech-y at all, and I am able to do this to create my own course videos with
no problem at all. So you can go ahead and open up Camtasia and select Record
Screen. In the Camtasia recorder toggle the webcam to ON and be sure to select
the correct webcam if you have an external one like mine. Otherwise you can
use the one that that is built right into your laptop. You also want to select
which mic you're using to record from, and choose whether you want to record the
full screen or a custom sized area. You can play around with it if you just want
to record a small section of the screen or share everything.
Now, I'm also using an outside microphone, so I want to make sure I select that
correctly. So when you're ready you can hit Record and record your video.
Camtasia will automatically record separate tracks for your screen and for
your webcam.
Once you're done that, you can click Save & Edit and you'll bring the video
files into the main Camtasia editor. Here you can see, as I said before, that your
screen and webcam video have been added separately. So feel free to resize your
recording of your face, of yourself, and resize and position that wherever you
want it on the screen. So if you just want it to be a small square in the
corner over some slides or something like that, then you can do that. And you
can edit your video to switch back and forth from your screen capture
to your webcam video. But once you're happy with it, click on Produce and Share
from the top menu in order to create a video that is ready to upload to the web...
You can select what quality you want, whether you just need a small video
that's only 420p or all the way up to high def with 1080p. I like to use
Camtasia for this since I'm already using it to edit all of my videos and it
makes the process super simple. So that's how you do it! Comment below:
Camtasia - Yay? Nay? Have you used it before? Do you like it? Tell me in the comments!
But Camtasia is a paid tool, so if it's not your jam or you'd rather get started
for free head on over to Loom.com. Now Loom is a free video and screen
recording software so you can use this to film your screen and yourself at the
same time. Head to Loom.com and click Get Loom For Free. You'll need to sign up
for an account but it won't cost you anything... just enter your email and your
information and you can get started right away. You'll end up installing a
browser plug-in into Chrome or whatever browser you happen to be using, and
you'll click the Loom logo to access the menu on any page that you want to record.
So up here under Record, you can select Screen + Cam to record both at the
same time. Make sure you select them both, otherwise you can select to just record
your screen or just your cam. It's a great free tool for doing either of
those things separately as well, so make sure you have the page or the slide deck
or whatever it is you want to record on your screen.
Have it open and ready to go. You can select to record your whole screen or
just the tab that you have open, and you can also adjust the placement and size of
your talking head recording, now and as you record. So if you are doing some
tutorial online and your head is suddenly blocking something that you
need to show, you can take it and drag it over to another corner where it's out of
the way. Once you are done you can hit done and Loom will host your video
and give you a link to share it. But you can also download it so you can upload
it and use it wherever you need to in your business. There are very basic
editing tools available in Loom, so if you need to trim your videos you can do
that. But if you need to get any more in-depth than that you'll need a different
software such as Camtasia, Premiere Pro, or iMovie if you have a Mac. Have you got
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