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How to utilize an external microphone or webcam

Recording with an external mic or camera in Clipchamp

Written by Soeren
Updated over a week agone

The Clipchamp gratis online webcam recorder tool allows you to utilise external webcams and microphones for your recordings. When yous plug an external webcam or microphone into your computer, it will automatically become recognized by your operating system and appear as an input selection on the recording screen.

All you have to do is click the drop-down arrow next to the default microphone and camera options.

Select from the external microphones or cameras in the options. If your external webcam has a microphone built-in, it will besides appear in the microphone options.

Now you can record a video using your external devices and edit and consign it direct in the video editor.

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Try information technology out

Ready to first recording? Head straight to the editor to try it out for yourself:

CHROMEBOOK USERS: Please see the below for an explanation of how external microphones work with Chromebooks , which is slightly unlike to how they work when using Clipchamp on a Mac or Windows PC.

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Recording with external devices on Chromebooks

Unlike on Mac or Windows, on Chromebooks, an external microphone won't necessarily appear equally a dissever microphone option to select in the Recorder. Instead, the Default option will be your external mic – as long as it was selected by Chrome OS in the audio settings.

Any external microphone you plug into a Chromebook is likely to get automatically selected as the default mic. Even so, you lot can test that past following these steps:

Click on the Clock/Wifi/Bombardment indicator on the right side of the taskbar, and then go to audio settings by clicking on the arrow next to the volume slider.

Make sure that your external mic is selected as the default microphone (i.e. has a tick next to it)

If information technology is, that ways that Clipchamp volition record sound through it even though it does not appear in the dropdown on our webcam recording screen. The "default microphone" on that screen is your external mic.

Please annotation that Chromebooks don't seem to be able to record video and sound from the Lifecam (and its inbuilt mic) at the same fourth dimension. This works on other computers (Mac, Windows) but not on Chromebooks, at to the lowest degree not during our testing.

During the testing, ChromeOS was either able to record sound OR video from an external USB source (such as the Lifecam) but not both at the aforementioned time from the aforementioned source.

What nosotros ended up doing was selecting the Chromebook's inbuilt mic as the sound source in the ChromeOS settings, after which we could pick the Lifecam as the video source in the webcam recorder.

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