Screencastify allows you to easily embed your webcam into a tab or desktop recording of your entire screen. 🥳 This enables you to add a personal touch to your recordings by showing your audience the "face behind the screen" ⭐️ In this article you will learn how to:
Embed your webcam
Note: Application window recordings and website that are not 'live' are currently unable to support embedded webcam recordings. Please choose "Your Entire Screen" in order to use an embedded webcam with your desktop recordings and/or ensure that you are on a 'Live' site to embed your webcam.
- Click on the Screencastify extension icon (
) to open the Recording Control Panel - Select either the Browser Tab
or Desktop
recording option - Enable Embed Webcam
and select your camera (Not seeing your webcam? Click here for troubleshooting help) - Click 'Record' to begin your recording.
You'll then see your webcam appear on the screen.
TIP: Once you start a recording with your webcam embedded, you can drag it anywhere in your tab during the recording or resize it by dragging the corner of the webcam preview.
Toggle your webcam on and off
You can turn your webcam on and off throughout your recording as much as you like 🥳
To do so, simply click the 
or 
icons in your annotation toolbar to toggle your webcam on and off during your recording. Please note that your recording must begin with the embedded webcam and/or microphone turned on for this icon to appear in the annotation toolbar.
TIP: Once you start a recording with your webcam embedded, you can drag it anywhere in your tab during the recording or resize it by dragging the corner of the webcam preview.
Here's a quick demonstration of that process:
Prefer to see this all in a video with best practices? We're partial to video, too! 😊 Check out the whole process on the Screencastify Help YouTube page