Video Recorder For Facebook Videos

Two different jobs get searched with almost the same words, so it's worth separating them first.

If you want to save a video that's already on Facebook, that's screen recording — your device captures the playback. There's a step-by-step for that on our Facebook screen recorder page, including how to do it on each device and what to know before you re-post someone else's video.

If you want to make a video to post to Facebook, keep reading. That's what this page covers.

Facebook's in-app camera and your phone are fine for a quick clip, and for a lot of posts that's the right tool.

They get awkward when you're explaining something. A long take is hard to redo, you're stuck with your phone's microphone and whatever light is in the room, and there's no real way to show a screen. If you've recorded the same 40-second explanation six times because you fluffed the last line, that's the gap.

Recording on a computer gets you a proper microphone and webcam, screen capture, and an editor where a mistake costs you a trim rather than a whole retake. You still post from Facebook — you just arrive with a finished file.

Tella is a screen and camera recorder that runs in your browser, with Facebook's canvas shapes built into the editor.

1. Open Tella and click record. The web app and the Chrome extension capture through the browser and pick up tab audio. For native 4K capture with full system audio, use Tella for Mac or Windows.

2. Choose your camera and microphone. Use the dropdown arrows next to each icon to pick the device — this is the main reason to record on a computer rather than a phone. Camera only gives you a talking head; add your screen for a demo.

3. Check your framing before you record. The camera preview fills its frame by default, which crops the edges. Turn on Show full camera in the camera settings to see everything your webcam actually captures, so you don't discover the crop after the take.

4. Record in clips. Each clip can run up to six hours, and you can record as many as you like and combine them into one video. Record the intro, stop, then record the next section.

5. Set the canvas to match the placement. Open Layout, click the canvas size control, then Social media: Facebook story is 9:16 (1080 × 1920), Meta ad is 4:5 (1080 × 1350) — the shape that occupies the most feed space — and 16:9 suits a standard landscape post. Pick this before you edit; switching later repositions your layouts.

6. Export the MP4 and upload it to Facebook.

• Subtitles, generated automatically. Facebook autoplays video muted in the feed, so this is the highest-leverage item on the list. Tella transcribes each clip once it finishes uploading and processing, then you style the captions and burn them into the export.

• Silence removal. Tella can cut the pauses out automatically, which tightens a rambling take without scrubbing a timeline.

• Zooms. Zoom into the part of the screen that matters instead of shrinking everything to fit — especially useful in a vertical frame, which has almost no horizontal room to spare.

• Background music. Add a track from the built-in library or upload your own. It's mixed under your voice and fades in and out rather than replacing your audio.

• Speed changes on export. Download a sped-up or slowed-down version, or turn a long recording into a fixed-length timelapse, without editing the video itself. Both need a paid plan.

• No Facebook publishing integration. Tella doesn't post to Facebook and there's no account to connect or authorize. You export an MP4 and upload it yourself. (Tella integrates with Slack, Notion, Linear, Intercom, Zapier, and the API — not Meta.)

• No face filters or AR effects. Those live in Facebook's own camera. Tella does zooms, layouts, backgrounds, borders, text and media overlays, subtitles, sound effects, music, and silence removal — plus stickers, including GIFs, memes, company logos, and animated ones you can generate with AI.

• No Facebook safe-zone preview. Tella's social safe zones — which show where platform UI will cover a vertical video — cover Instagram Reels, TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and LinkedIn. For a Facebook Story, use Instagram Reels as the closest approximation.

• There's no Tella mobile app. You can record a quick camera video from a mobile browser, but it uses a simplified quick mode with no editor, no clips, and no canvas controls. Everything above happens on a computer.

• Uploads from your computer are capped at 5GB. Recordings made in Tella aren't affected — this only applies to files you bring in from elsewhere.