How to Fix Eye Contact in Clipchamp
Clipchamp doesn't include an eye contact correction effect. It does have a teleprompter in its webcam recorder, which helps you read a script while you record — but the text still sits on your screen, away from the lens, so your gaze is still a little off. Microsoft's own eye contact technology lives elsewhere, in Windows Studio Effects.
That gives you two ways to fix it: correct your gaze live while you record, if your PC supports it, or correct the recording afterwards. This guide covers both, including the screen-and-camera recordings Clipchamp is often used for, and what it costs for a team that records training or update videos every week.
What Clipchamp gives you: a teleprompter, not correction
In Clipchamp's webcam recorder, open the three-dot menu and choose Teleprompter, and your script appears on screen while you record. Its PowerPoint recording feature shows your speaker notes in a similar way. Webcam recordings can run up to 30 minutes at up to 1080p.
A teleprompter reduces how far your eyes travel, which is genuinely useful. It doesn't eliminate the offset, because the text is still below or beside the camera rather than on the lens. Drag the teleprompter as close to the webcam as it will go, keep the text narrow, and sit a little further back — then decide whether you still need correction.
Option 1: correct it live with Windows Studio Effects
On Windows PCs with a compatible NPU, Windows Studio Effects includes an eye contact effect that works at the camera level, so it applies to whatever is using the camera — including Clipchamp's webcam recorder. The standard effect corrects the downward gaze of reading a screen below the camera; a stronger Teleprompter mode is available on Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs. You'll find it in Settings under Bluetooth & devices, Cameras, then your camera, or in Quick Settings.
It's the easiest option if your hardware has it. The limits are that most PCs and every Mac don't, the standard mode doesn't correct sideways glances, the correction is baked into the recording with no way to undo it, and it can't fix anything you've already recorded.
Option 2: correct the recording afterwards
If live correction isn't available, or the video already exists, correct the file. Clipchamp has no eye contact effect, so this happens outside it, in three steps:
- Export the talking-head clip on its own: put just that recording on a timeline and export it as a 1080p MP4, with its audio.
- Upload it to a correction tool such as GazeFix and download the corrected MP4.
- Import the corrected file into Clipchamp and edit with it in place of the original. Correcting before you cut means nothing needs re-syncing later.
Screen-and-camera recordings
Clipchamp is often used to record a screen and a webcam together for tutorials and updates. Correction needs your face at a reasonable size, and a small webcam bubble in the corner of a screen recording gives it too few pixels to work with — besides, viewers watching a demo are looking at the screen, not your eyes.
The parts worth correcting are the ones where your face fills the frame: the introduction, the wrap-up, any section where you talk straight to camera. Record those with the webcam recorder on its own, correct them, and keep the screen recording for the demo itself.
Settings that keep the correction clean
- Export an MP4 at 1080p. Clipchamp's webcam recordings top out at 1080p anyway, which is also the resolution GazeFix returns.
- Keep your audio in the export; it makes it easy to check lip sync after correction.
- Keep the file under 500 MB, the upload limit — several minutes of 1080p webcam footage fits comfortably. Split longer recordings.
- Light your face from the front. A window behind your monitor leaves your eyes in shadow, and the correction needs to see your pupils.
- Angle lights so they don't reflect in glasses.
For teams using Clipchamp for work
Clipchamp's work version is included with several Microsoft 365 business and education licences, which is why so many internal training, onboarding and update videos are made in it — usually by the same few people, every week or month. That's where gaze drift adds up: the same presenter reading from notes across dozens of videos.
GazeFix charges one credit per minute of video, rounded up per upload, with credits that never expire. A team publishing eight videos a month with four minutes of on-camera footage each uses 32 credits a month, or 384 a year — covered by the Studio pack (600 credits for $199, about $0.33 a minute). Before uploading internal recordings to any third-party service, check your organisation's policy on where video can be processed.
Record so there's less to fix
Whatever you choose, correction works best when your gaze starts close to the lens. Move the teleprompter window right up under the webcam, use bullet points rather than full sentences, and look into the lens at the start and end of each section. Our guide to reading a script on camera covers the setup in detail.
Then test on a recording you know is bad. GazeFix gives you one free credit when you sign up, with no card required — enough for a full minute. Export the minute where you were clearly reading, correct it, and compare.