How to Record a Presentation With Your Webcam and Screen
Add a personal touch to any walkthrough by recording your screen and webcam together. Here is how to use a camera bubble to present slides, demos, and tutorials.
There’s a reason the best tutorial creators put their face on screen. A small webcam view turns a faceless screen recording into something that feels like a person talking to you. It builds trust, holds attention, and makes even a dry walkthrough feel human.
The good news: you don’t need a video studio to do it. You just need your screen, your webcam, and a way to combine them.
What is a camera bubble?
A camera bubble is a small, usually circular webcam view that floats on top of your screen recording. You’ve seen it in countless product demos and course videos — a talking head in the corner while the presenter walks through something on screen.
A good camera bubble is:
- Draggable — move it out of the way of whatever you’re showing.
- Resizable — make it bigger for intros, smaller during dense screen work.
- Always on top — it stays visible over any app or tab.
How to record your screen and webcam together
With ScreenKit, you don’t need to composite two videos in an editor — the bubble is baked into the recording:
- Click the extension icon and choose your screen source (tab, window, or desktop).
- Enable the camera bubble and pick your webcam.
- Turn on your microphone so your narration is captured too.
- Position and size the bubble where you want it.
- Hit record and present.
When you stop, your screen and webcam are already combined into a single video — no post-production stitching required.
Presenting well on camera
The setup is the easy part. A few presentation habits make the result far more watchable:
- Look at the camera, not the screen, during intros and key moments. It feels like eye contact.
- Light your face from the front — sit facing a window or a lamp, not with one behind you.
- Put the bubble where it won’t block content. Bottom corners are usually safe.
- Bring energy. A little more enthusiasm than feels natural on camera reads as “normal” to viewers.
Great uses for a webcam + screen recording
- Slide presentations — narrate a deck with your face in the corner instead of a lifeless voiceover.
- Product demos — introduce yourself, then walk through the app while staying on screen.
- Course and tutorial content — the personal connection keeps learners engaged.
- Team updates — a warmer alternative to a wall of text (see our async communication playbook).
Keep it private by default
Webcam footage is personal, and many recorders upload it to the cloud automatically. ScreenKit keeps everything local to your device — your face and your screen never touch a third-party server, and it works offline.
Export and share
Finish up and export your presentation as WebM, then drop it into an email, a course platform, Slack, or a shared drive. No watermark, no account, no upload wait.
Put a face to your walkthroughs. Add ScreenKit to Chrome and record your screen and webcam together in one click.