Record your screen and your camera together

Your face makes a walkthrough easier to follow. OwnClip records the camera to its own track alongside the screen, so where it sits and how big it is stay editable after the take.

Free to use. Recordings are capped at three minutes and export at 720p with a watermark.

The OwnClip camera settings showing background options and effects applied to a live webcam preview — Camera effects run on-device while you record

On the timeline

The camera is a track.

Because it records separately, the camera arrives in the editor as its own clip — which is why its size, position and layout are things you set afterwards rather than decisions you had to get right before recording.

Own track
Five layouts
Switch mid-recording

The OwnClip video editor: a recording on the timeline with its filmstrip, the microphone and system audio waveforms on separate tracks below, and the tool panel open on the right — The editor the recording opens into — clips, both audio tracks, and the tools down the side

What you can change afterwards

Five layouts

A bubble, side by side, full frame, screen only, or floating — and you can switch partway through.

Background effects

Blur at three strengths, or a solid, gradient or image background. Segmentation runs on your Mac.

Smart framing

The frame follows your face when you move, so you stay centred without sitting rigidly still.

Eye Contact

Corrects your gaze towards the lens when you were reading the screen instead. Applied at export.

A presenter with a lapel microphone talking to camera, lit by a ring light — Recording an update at your desk

It is one take, at your desk

No studio, no second device, no crew. A lapel microphone and whatever light you already have is enough, because the parts that usually need fixing get fixed after the take rather than during it.

In the editor

Layout is an edit.

Because the camera is a separate track, moving it, resizing it or changing the layout is something you do on the timeline — not a setting you had to get right before you pressed record.

The OwnClip video editor with a recording on the timeline, a filmstrip of clips and the text and style controls open — The editor that opens on the recording you just made

The whole flow

Record, edit, send.

Screen and camera captured together, edited in the same window, and shared as a link from your own Drive.

A raw screen recording being auto-edited in OwnClip, then opened in the video editor timeline — A raw take, auto-edited, then opened in the editor — recorded and exported with OwnClip

What people record this way

Product demos

A face at the start builds enough trust to carry the rest of the walkthrough.

Async updates

Tone survives on camera in a way it does not survive in a written status update.

Teaching and onboarding

Switching to full-frame camera for the explanation, then back to the screen for the demonstration.

Feedback on work

Reacting to a design or a document while the viewer watches you look at it.

Questions people ask

No. The camera always accompanies a screen capture — it is an additional track, not a separate recording mode. You can hide the screen in the final composition by using the full-frame camera layout.

Yes. Position, size and layout are edits, not capture settings, because the camera is stored as its own video track. You can also change the layout partway through a recording.

No. Background blur, virtual backgrounds, smart framing and auto-light all run on your Mac using its GPU and Neural Engine. No video is sent anywhere.

No, it is available on every tier including free. It runs at export rather than in the live preview, and downloads a model once the first time you use it.

Yes, along with all the camera effects. Free recordings are limited to three minutes and export at 720p with a watermark.

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