Question / Help Please Help Newbie record screen to video with cursor capture and a camera overlay

[silvanet]

I want to record what I'm doing on my computer screen with a small frame showing my camera output with me speaking (like I see so many doing for tutorials or presentations). I followed the guides and tried setting up one scene with two sources - one is my camera as a video capture device, and the other is window capture. I can see my camera output in a small box and the window capture shows my active browser window. I also found some instructions on setting up multiple audio tracks. Right now I think I have too many. I wanted to be able to record desktop sound as well as my own voice instructions and comments, so maybe two are enough.

When I recorded a test video it seemed to work OK. I hear my voice on the microphone and there is desktop sound available when I want it.

Is it normal to not be able to see the insert with me on the camera while I'm on the browser? Is it possible to zoom my camera shot?

Is there some way I can record where I'm navigating other than just in a browser? How about if I wanted to show my desktop, or show how I'm changing settings?

How about maybe being able to do some drawing or highlighting or pointing or circling?

I'd appreciate any tips.

Thanks

 

[koala]

If you just want to show the whole desktop and not only one single window, use display capture instead of window capture.

Unless you intend to mix multiple audio sources in a postprocessing step, don't record your audio sources to multiple audio tracks. Instead, record your mic and desktop audio to the same (and single) track as the default suggests. OBS will mix them for you. Recording to multiple audio tracks only makes sense, if you want to load your recorded video into a video or audio editor and mix them afterwards.

The other things you are asking are kind of basic OBS handling know how. Very basic. You probably already found out about all this when you are reading this post. If not: play with OBS and its basic features to manipulate sources. Placing, resizing, rescaling, cropping. Trial and error is how you get all this in the fastest possible way. As with all of us, your first recordings will be awfully bad, and you will improve with time, as you gradually learn how to operate OBS by using it.