Aurelius Tjin 5 min read
How To Film Yourself and Your Screen At The Same Time
Do you want to learn how to record yourself and your screen at the same time
just like what i'm doing right now in the video.
Well in this step-by-step video i'm going to show you exactly how to do it so they
can create professional video tutorials to post up on youtube to create
presentations or to even create your own e-learning products and courses so keep
on reading and watching.
Hi my name is aurelius and I'm going to show you now how to film yourself
and your screen at the same time the first thing you're going to need is a
screen recording tool and
that very tool is called loom now
they do have a free version and that can be downloaded but of course with anything that's free
there are certain restrictions so just to go through it quickly
You can record up to and store 25 videos and you must leave the loom branding as you
can see custom branding you can't remove the loom branding as well as its recording
tools and settings
Such as the ability to be able to draw on your screen at the same time
and set a custom recording dimension but if you do want to get serious about
recording screen tutorials and presentations using loom
their plans do start from eight dollars per month build annually
With that said to get loom all you need to do is click on the get loom for free
button sign up and from there you'll be given instructions
on what to do next
Whether to install the chrome extension or your browser
extension for loom and the ability to also download a
desktop version
In this tutorial we'll be showing you how to do it using the desktop app
on mac but the steps are very similar for windows systems too after you've
installed loom
All you need to do is load it so on my mac i've got applications
and then going to loom from the top menu you'll see loom and
this is where you can now set the settings whether to record your screen and your
cam or your screen only or just your camera
but of course what you do want to do is record the screen and yourself at the same time so
we're going to choose screen plus cam
now choose whether to record your whole screen or a particular window
before you go ahead and start recording
what you're going to want to do is configure your hardware so for
camera you want to select your webcam
I've got my logitech 922 pro selected here if you use a macbook pro you can just
select the macbook pro webcam
next choose your microphone in my case i've got my scarlet solo usb which is
connected up with my rode pro caster here
next up after you've configured everything and you're ready to start
recording open up your presentation or whatever window you want to record
and then head over to loom selecting the options whether you want to record the
full screen or window or custom size but in this case i'll just select
window and then choosing the selected window
i'll just choose the google chrome for this demo and i've got my little
bubble here now you do have some other options
on the left which you'll be able to use later but
let's now go ahead and start recording so on my mac here on
the screen you can see it the shortcut to start recording is
shift command l or command shift l so
i'll just hit those keys and then that'll start the recording in three seconds
so three two one
and now it's recording
and this is a tutorial on how to film yourself and your screen at the same time now if
you do wanna pause it i'll just hit the pause button that will pause the
recording
and if you want to redo it or delete it just click the trash can icon now let's say you've
finished recording all you need to do is hit that stop button and that will upload it to looms
server
from here i can play it back if you do plan on uploading this on places such as
youtube then you can download a copy and that will download an mp4 version
there are some basic editing options here
So let's say we want to trim parts of this video so click on trim and
we can go and start trimming wherever we want so let's say the end of it and click on remove once
you're done
with the editing we can click on publish changes and that's all
good to go
if you want to revert those changes go back to trim and then click on revert to
original that'll then pop up and say are you sure you'd like to delete
all of your edits click on ok and now we've got the original back there
If you don't have anywhere to host your videos then all you need to do is use
the link sharing option and click on the copy link now that's copied to my clipboard
and that's the very link that you want to share to your team members
or your customers or whoever else so there you have it that's how you quickly
and easily record yourself and your screen all at the same time
Okay now you are sharing your screen now its time to make sure you have sensitive information hidden
while you do so.
You can hide it with BlurWeb.App which can hide anything on web pages
with click or you can draw a rectangle to blur anywhere.
If using loom for desktop you can checkout Blurscreen App
which can blur your screen.