Add a camera bubble to your recording

Toggle the camera from OneTake’s Home page, the overlay’s Camera control, or Ctrl+Alt+K — every switch goes through the same setting, so they can never disagree. Pick your webcam device once; it persists.

Drag the bubble anywhere on screen and resize it from the corner grip. Its tray — Shape, Pin, Fill, Close — works even while you record, and Ctrl+Alt+C cycles the shape: rounded card, square, circle, fill. Position, size and shape all persist across sessions. In Settings → Recording, Mirror my cameradecides which way round you appear: on is a mirror, like every self-view; off is the camera’s own orientation, so text reads right.

With a region armed, switching the bubble on lands it inside the region’s corner, and it moves with the region — Pin to region, on by default. Fill region makes the bubble the region itself: your camera in the exact shape you chose, and you can switch it on or off mid-take — a talking-head Reel, then back to the screen, no editing.

Capturing a full screen records the bubble right where you placed it. Capturing a region draws the bubble into the recording itself, so it sits perfectly still even while the region moves. Capturing a single windowdoes not include it — the source picker says so before you commit. That rule is the platform’s, and OneTake surfaces it instead of surprising you at export.

When a take ends and the cut-aware preview opens — and again while an export runs — the bubble parks itself out of the way, then comes back when you're done. It looks like the camera switched itself off; it didn't, and nothing about your camera setting changed.

Turning the camera off during a take parks the bubble — hidden instantly, stream kept warm — so switching it back on is instant instead of a 2-second blank bubble. The trade-off: while parked, the webcam stays acquired and your camera LED stays lit. Outside a take, off means off — the window closes and the LED goes out.

The bubble respects Ghost Mode’s hide-from-capture the same way the overlay does, and closing it any way — its own ✕, the overlay control, even Alt+F4 — flips the one shared setting, so OneTake’s Home page always shows the truth. Record standalone with it via standalone mode.