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Turn on Picture-in-picture (Beta) in the Tella Chrome extension’s Settings to get a small floating window with your camera preview, a timer, and the recording controls while you record. It stays on top of whatever you’re doing and follows you across tabs and apps, so you can see yourself and pause, stop, restart, or cancel without hunting for the extension. Because it’s a separate window and not part of the page, it never shows up in your recording.

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Turn on picture-in-picture in the Chrome extension

  1. Open the Tella Chrome extension.
  2. Click the … menu in the top-right corner of the popup and choose Settings.
  3. Turn on Picture-in-picture.
Tella remembers your choice for future recordings. Turn it off from the same place.
Picture-in-picture is only available in Google Chrome. The setting is hidden in other Chromium browsers such as Arc, Brave, Edge, and Opera.

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What does the picture-in-picture window show?

The floating window opens when you start a recording that includes your screen (a tab or a window):
  • Screen + camera: your camera preview with the timer and stop button on top of it.
  • Screen only: a compact window with just the timer and controls.
Below the preview you’ll find Cancel, Pause, and Restart. Click Pause to freeze the timer and leave the paused section out of your video, then click Resume to continue the same clip. Cancel and restart both ask you to confirm before discarding the current take. Camera-only recordings don’t use the floating window. The extension popup stays as your recording UI.

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Why can’t I record my entire screen with picture-in-picture on?

Picture-in-picture is not available for Entire screen recordings, since the floating window would end up in the video. While the setting is on, the share picker only offers tabs and windows. To record your entire screen, turn picture-in-picture off first.

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Picture-in-picture with multiple clips

In Multi-clip mode, the window stays open between clips. When you stop a clip it shows a Preview button with your clip count, and you can start the next clip straight from the window.

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Close or bring back the picture-in-picture window

  • Close it with the X in its title bar. It stays closed for the rest of that recording, and the recording keeps going. Open the extension from its toolbar icon to stop or cancel.
  • Reloading or navigating the tab you’re recording closes the window (Chrome requires a click to reopen it). Click anywhere on the page and it comes back.
If the window can’t open at all, Tella falls back to the usual on-screen recording toolbar.
Last modified on September 28, 2026