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# Record a video using the Chrome extension
> How to record your screen and camera with the Tella Chrome extension, from any tab.
With [**Tella for Chrome**](https://www.tella.com/chrome "https://www.tella.com/chrome"), you can record amazing videos from wherever you are inside Chrome.
You can combine multiple clips together, customize styles and layouts, and everything you say is automatically transcribed.
The result is better, more engaging videos for teaching people things, selling products, or just sharing your ideas.
## Here's how it works
**Install** the extension from the Chrome Store.
Make sure to **pin** it for easy access.
Now you can open Tella wherever you work or browse inside Chrome and start recording.
## Recording a video
To start recording, open the **extension**, then click the **Screen off** button to open Chrome's screen picker. Pick a tab, a window, or your entire screen and click **Share**. The button then shows what you're capturing (for example **Browser** or **Entire screen**).
Once you start recording, you can change your screen selection by either stopping or cancelling the recording and pressing the "Share screen" button again
Now click the **red button** to start the recording.
To start over, click **Restart** in the extension popup or floating recording controls. Tella asks you to confirm before permanently discarding the current take. Keep recording to continue, or confirm the restart to discard it and start again.
To cancel a recording, click **Cancel** in the extension popup or floating recording controls. Choose **Keep recording** to continue your take, or **Discard** to permanently delete it.
When you're done, hover over the **toolbar** and click **Stop**.
Tella uploads and saves your recording in the background so that it's ready to watch and share instantly.
You can **edit** your videos, **share** them as a link on the web, or **download** them as an MP4 file.
## Use the floating recording controls
Open the **…** menu, choose **Settings**, and turn on **Picture-in-picture** to get a small always-on-top window with your camera preview, timer, and the record, **Cancel**, and **Restart** controls. It follows you across tabs and apps, and never shows up in the recording itself.
Picture-in-picture is in beta and only works in Google Chrome. While it's on, **Entire screen** is removed from the screen picker. The floating window would otherwise be captured in a full-screen recording.
## Use Auto Zoom with tab recordings
When you share a Chrome tab, Tella records your cursor movement and clicks. You can use this cursor data to [generate zooms automatically](/docs/help/editing/add-a-zoom) or make a zoom follow your cursor in the editor.
Cursor data is not available when you record a window or your entire screen.
## Choose your recording resolution
The camera and screen previews each have a **resolution pill** in the corner. Click the pill to pick the resolution you want to capture at, up to **1080p** for the camera and up to **4K** for the screen.
All camera resolutions remain available in the picker. If your webcam can't capture at the exact resolution you choose, Chrome uses the nearest resolution the camera supports and the picker updates to show what's being captured.
## Switch between quick mode and multiple clips
Recording settings live in the extension's **Settings** panel. Click the **…** menu in the top-right corner of the popup and choose **Settings**, then under **Recording mode** pick:
* **Quick:** stop recording and you're taken straight to the view page with the share link already copied. Each recording becomes its own standalone video.
* **Multi-clip:** record several clips back-to-back and combine them into a single video before sharing.
See [record faster with quick mode](/docs/help/recording/record-faster-with-quick-mode) and [use clips](/docs/help/recording/use-clips) for the full walkthroughs.
## Turn the countdown on or off
By default, Tella shows a three-second countdown before recording starts. To skip it, open the **…** menu, choose **Settings**, and turn off **Countdown**. Tella remembers your choice for future recordings.
## See yourself while you record
Turn on **Picture-in-picture** in the same **Settings** panel to get a floating window with your camera preview, timer, and recording controls that stays on top while you record. See [see yourself while recording with picture-in-picture](/docs/help/recording/see-yourself-while-recording-with-picture-in-picture) for details, including why it isn't available for entire-screen recordings.
## Advanced recording
This time, instead of just recording a presentation, you'll record an introduction clip before the presentation.
For that, switch to **multiple clips** and then record an intro clip of just your camera.
Here's where you would record your introduction clip where you can explain what's about to be presented in the recording.
Click **Stop** to save the first clip in your video.
You can see that indicated by the **one icon** on your screen.
Now click **Share screen** and record your second clip, this time the **presentation**.
Once done recording with the second clip, you can see that it's indicated by the **two icon**.
**Tella on Chrome** lets you record as many clips as you like in a row that will all be combined together in a single video.
When you're ready to edit your clips, click **Preview** (the round check button with your clip count on it) to open all the clips you recorded in the **Tella editor**.
Once you're done editing, click **Share** in the top right to get your video's link, or click the link icon next to it to copy the link straight to your clipboard.
## Related topics
- [Record a video using the Mac app](/docs/help/recording/record-a-video-using-the-mac-app.md)
- [Record a video using the web app](/docs/help/recording/record-a-video-using-the-web-app.md)
- [Permissions for camera, mic & screen on the web app and Chrome extension](/docs/help/recording/grant-permissions-for-camera-mic-screen-on-the-web-app-and-chrome-extension.md)
- [iPhone demos using QuickTime](/docs/help/tips/i-phone-demos-using-quicktime.md)
- [Record an iPhone demo in Tella](/docs/help/tips/i-phone-demos-using-screen-mirroring.md)