What is picture in picture?
Also called: webcam overlay, facecam, camera bubble, PiP
Definition
Picture in picture places a small video, usually the presenter’s webcam, over a corner of the main video.
In screen recordings it is the camera bubble: a circle or rounded card showing the speaker’s face over the screen. It adds a person to the video without taking the screen away.
If the camera is recorded as a separate layer, the bubble can be moved, resized, reshaped or hidden after recording. If it is burned into the picture, it stays where it was.
In Sceed
Sceed records the webcam as its own layer. The bubble can dodge the cursor, hide during zooms, and change look from one part of the video to the next.
How to record your screen and webcam together →
Related terms
- Lower third
- A lower third is a graphic in the lower part of the frame that shows a name, a title or a topic.
- Screen recording
- A screen recording is a video of what a computer screen shows over time, usually with sound from a microphone, the computer, or both.
- Async video
- Async video is a recorded message, usually screen plus camera, sent in place of a live meeting so people can watch when it suits them.