How to record your screen with a webcam overlay

Short answer: turn the camera toggle on before recording, keep the overlay in a corner at 20–25% of frame height, and put it where it never covers the thing you're demonstrating. A face on screen measurably lifts watch-time for tutorials and sales videos, people follow people.

Why add a face at all

A webcam bubble converts a screen capture into a presentation. Viewers get facial cues about what matters ("watch this part"), sales prospects see there's a human behind the demo, and students stay longer when someone is visibly teaching. The only videos that don't benefit: bug repros and compliance walkthroughs, where the face is noise.

The setup in Girato

1. On the record screen, switch Camera · On (and usually Microphone · On, a silent face is odd).
2. Record normally. The camera is captured as its own track alongside the screen.
3. In the editor's Webcam panel, pick the shape (circle or rounded), the corner, and the size.
4. Export, the overlay stays pinned to the frame corner, even while the auto-zoom moves.

That last detail matters. In naive setups the face bubble gets zoomed along with the screen and slides around. A proper overlay lives on the frame, not the footage, steady in its corner while the camera works.

Five rules for a professional PiP

• Bottom-right by default. Western reading flow ends there; it's the least destructive corner. Move it only when it covers UI.
• 20–25% of frame height. Bigger reads as vlog; smaller loses the facial cues that justify it.
• Circle for social, rounded for tutorials. Circles feel personal; rounded rectangles preserve more of your framing for longer content.
• Light your face, not your wall. A window or lamp in front of you beats any camera setting.
• Look at the screen, not the lens. You're demonstrating, not newsreading, eyes following the cursor feel natural.

Privacy note

Your face track deserves the same care as your screen: in Girato both are recorded and rendered entirely on your device. Tools that pipe your camera through their cloud are asking for more trust than a screen recorder needs.

Try it in the browser version, camera toggle, twenty-second recording, and you'll have a corner-perfect PiP without touching a video editor.