Two tools for presenting: the live display puts your cameras on a TV or projector, and on-screen annotation lets you draw over anything on your screen.
Live display
The live display shows one or more cameras full screen on another monitor (a TV, a projector, a second screen) while you control it from your laptop. Use it for workshops, lab demonstrations, or a phone camera pointed at a whiteboard or an experiment.
Starting it
- Open Screen Options (the red record button) and switch to the Present tab at the bottom.
- Tick the cameras to show; a phone camera works too.
- Choose a layout:
- Grid: every camera, tiled.
- Spotlight: one large, the others small.
- One camera: just one.
- Choose the picture fit: Fill screen crops to fill the display; Show whole picture fits the full image with bars at the edges.
- Choose which display to show it on, and start.
The preview shows exactly what the room sees. Once it's live, a compact control bar stays on your screen so you can switch cameras without reopening Screen Options.
Switching while live
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 – 9 | Cut to that camera |
| Shift+1 – 9 | Add or remove a camera |
| 0 | Show all cameras |
| G, S, O | Grid, Spotlight, One camera |
| L | Next layout |
| Esc | Stop the live display (on the display itself) |
While the display is live, these also work from any app, for example while you're showing slides: Alt+Shift+1 – 9 cuts to a camera, Alt+Shift+0 shows all cameras, and Alt+Shift+L switches to the next layout.
With only one monitor connected, the live display covers your screen; press Esc to stop it.
On Windows, a camera can only be used by one app at a time, so a camera on the live display can't also be recorded. Take it off the display first, or use a different camera for the recording.
On-screen annotation
Draw on top of anything on your screen (slides, code, a website, a video) to circle, underline or point things out. It's ideal while presenting or recording.
Turning it on
- In Settings → Annotation, turn on Enable annotation tool.
- Press Ctrl+Shift+D, from any app, to start drawing. Press it again, or Esc, to stop.
While drawing, a small toolbar offers colours, ink styles, Clear all strokes and Exit draw mode. Drag it out of the way if needed.
Ink
| Style | Look |
|---|---|
| Pen | Clean solid line |
| Marker | Broad, translucent highlighter |
| Neon | Glowing line |
| Laser | Glowing pointer trail |
Strokes fade out a moment after you draw them, so the screen clears itself as you talk. In Settings → Annotation choose how fast: Quick, Normal, Slow, or Until I exit (strokes stay until you leave draw mode). You can also set the default colour, size and style, and add a drop shadow so ink stands out on any background.
Drawing without the toolbar
Turn off Show toolbar while drawing for a clean screen and use the keyboard instead:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Esc | Stop drawing |
| Backspace | Clear the screen |
| 1 – 8 | Pick a colour |
| P, M, N, L | Pen, Marker, Neon, Laser |
Annotation draws over every monitor, and appears in screen recordings, so you can mark things up live while you record.
