Guides
How to get a good recording out of Cheap Recorder, one job at a time. Each guide walks through the real buttons in the recorder, says what you need before you start, and covers the problems people run into most.
Calls and sound
- Record a Google Meet call with both sides' voicesYour microphone and everyone else on the call, in one file.
- Record a Microsoft Teams call in the browserTeams in a Chrome tab, recorded with its sound.
- Record a podcast with every voice on its own trackA separate file for every source, ready for your editor.
- No sound in your screen recording? What to checkThe usual reasons a recording comes out silent, and the fix for each.
Screen and camera
- Record your screen with your webcam in the cornerThe preview is the recording: place your camera where you want it.
- Green screen, blur and background picturesChange what is behind you on camera.
- Record a course or tutorial: a checklistSetting up screen, voice and camera for lessons people finish.
- Record a client demo and hand over a page fileOne file with the video and its transcript, to send to a client.
Files and text
- Where your recordings are savedStraight to a folder on your own computer, not uploaded unless you use Convert.
- Get a live transcript and captionsText of everything said, written as you record.
- Cut filler words using the transcriptFind the ums and ahs, and cut words by deleting text.
- Convert a recording to MP4, MOV, WebM, GIF, MP3, M4A or WAVTurn one recording into the format you need.