Best practices for recording in Loom
10 min
Beginner
By the end of this lesson, you'll be able to:
- Adjust your appearance and sound
- Blur parts of your screen to hide sensitive data
- Hide your recording controls
- Capture a screenshot using Loom
- Produce an effective video following recording best practices
Enhance your camera and audio recording
Customize your camera bubble. Recording your face is recommended to make your video feel more personal. Loom puts your camera into a circle shape on the screen, called a cam bubble. The cam bubble can be moved around, resized, and customized to fit your personality and the needs of your video.
If desired, you can add a background to your cam bubble in the desktop and Chrome extension recorders. The desktop recorder also has fun cam bubble frames.
👇Watch this video to see how you can use and customize the cam bubble.
Improve your lighting, sound, and appearance
In the desktop app, there are a few helpful recording settings that you can turn on before you start recording to automatically improve the look and sound of your recording.
- Auto lighting: Automatically adjusts for low-light recording environments.
- Noise filter: Automatically filter out unwanted background noise. This is great if you need to record in a noisy environment, such as a coffee shop or shared office space.
- Touch up my appearance: An adjustable setting to soften the camera focus to help you feel “red carpet” ready.
👇Watch this video to see how to touch up your appearance in the desktop app.
Automatic lighting adjustments, noise filtering, and touch up your appearance features are only available in the desktop recorder.
Hide unwanted items from your screen recording
You can blur out parts of your screen in your recording to hide sensitive or private information, such as internal data or customer information. These areas must be set before you start recording; the blur effect cannot be added after recording is complete.
👇Watch this video to see how to blur parts of your screen using the Chrome extension.
The blur feature is only available with the Chrome extension recorder.
Hide your recording controls
If you want your video to look a little more polished, you can hide the recording controls (the floating panel with buttons for start, stop, etc.) from your video.
👇Watch this video to see how to hide your recording controls.
You can hide your recording controls in both the desktop and Chrome extension recorders.
Capture and share a screenshot
Take your screenshots right from Loom! Using the Loom desktop app, you can capture a quick screenshot right from the pre-recording menu. No need to use another screenshotting program.
To take a screenshot:
- Open the pre-recording menu and click the screen capture mode options.
- Select Screenshot. Drag and select the part of your screen you want to capture.
After you capture your screenshot, Loom will automatically open the screenshot in a new tab with a shareable link. You can share or download your screenshot just like you could a video, and your screenshots will be stored in the Screenshot tab within My Library.
👇 Select Screenshot from the capture mode options in the desktop app.
Best practices for recording videos
Create great videos with these top tips to help you create engaging, effective videos!
👇 Click the boxes below to view the recording tips.
Try it yourself
If you haven't already, download the Loom desktop app and Chrome extension from loom.com/download(opens in a new tab). Then open the Loom desktop app to practice.
👇 Click the boxes below for instructions to practice what you've learned in this lesson.
- First, select your screen, camera, and microphone inputs in the capture mode options window.
- In the recording options window, click Effects.
- Customize your cam bubble by adding a background or frame.
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