# Switch between your camera and screen automatically

> In the Tella editor, open Layout and click Generate next to Auto Layouts. The Tella Agent reads the clip's transcript and video, picks an editing style for your content, and adds layout changes: a camera bubble, screen only, camera cutaways, side-by-side splits or a TV-presenter framing. It works on one clip at a time, and you can move, delete or regenerate any layout afterwards.

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## How do I automatically switch between my camera and screen recording in a video?

In the Tella editor, open Layout and click Generate next to Auto Layouts. The [Tella Agent](https://www.tella.com/agent) reads the clip's transcript and video, picks an editing style for your content, and adds layout changes: a camera bubble, screen only, camera cutaways, side-by-side splits or a TV-presenter framing. It works on one clip at a time, and you can move, delete or regenerate any layout afterwards.

## Prompt to start from

```text
Run Auto Layouts on this clip. Start on my camera, switch to my screen when I open the app, and come back to my camera for the wrap-up.
```

## More prompts

### Software tutorial

```text
Auto layouts for my Tallyfern invoicing tutorial: stay on screen only while I click through the setup steps, and show my camera bubble when I explain why each step matters.
```

### Board update

```text
This clip is a quarterly update for the Quillhaven board. Lay it out like a presentation: open with me framed like a TV presenter, then put me side by side with the slides while I go through the numbers.
```

## How to do it in Tella

1. Open your video in the Tella editor, select a clip and click Layout.
2. At the bottom of the panel, next to Auto Layouts, click Generate.
3. The Tella Agent chat opens, adds the layouts and lists what it changed.
4. Drag a layout's edges to change its timing, delete one, or tell the agent what to change.

## Good to know

- Needs a paid plan or the 7-day trial. Messages use your workspace's credits.
- Crop your screen before you generate. Cropping afterwards affects every layout.
- Auto Layouts doesn't add image B-roll. To cut away to an image or video, add media to a layout afterwards.

## Questions people ask

### Can Tella switch between two cameras?

No. Tella records one camera at a time, alongside your screen, and Auto Layouts switches between that camera and your screen. For two angles, combine them in an app like OBS and pick its virtual camera in Tella.

### Can every new recording get auto layouts?

Yes. In Settings → Preferences, under Recording, set Automated editing to Auto edit. The Tella Agent then runs its auto cut and auto layouts skills on each new recording.

### Can Claude or ChatGPT switch layouts in my Tella video?

Yes. Connected to Tella's [MCP server](https://www.tella.com/mcp), they can add timed layout changes with Tella's layout tools. For the same result as Auto Layouts, an agent that uses skills, like [Claude Code](https://www.tella.tv/settings/connections), can add the tella-auto-layouts skill with npx skills add tellahq/skills.

## Related

- [Split your webcam and screen for just the demo](https://www.tella.com/agent/split-screen-webcam-and-screen.md): Camera on one side, screen on the other.
- [Pop out of your camera frame for a 3D presenter look](https://www.tella.com/agent/pop-out-camera-effect.md): Rise out of your camera bubble for a 3D look.
- [Add automatic zooms to a screen recording](https://www.tella.com/agent/auto-zoom-screen-recording.md): Zooms on your clicks, or wherever you ask
- [Generate auto layouts](https://www.tella.com/help/editing/use-auto-layouts)
- [Change the layout for part of a clip](https://www.tella.com/help/editing/use-multi-layouts#hide-your-camera-or-change-the-layout-for-part-of-a-clip)
- [Edit new recordings automatically](https://www.tella.com/help/account/automated-editing#edit-with-the-agent)
- [All of Tella's AI features](https://www.tella.com/ai.md)