A post on local recordings Background Since the advent of the COVID-19 situation, there has been an increase in the demand for recorded materials. Standard approaches involve Zoom, which is not only proprietary, but also quite a bit of a privacy nightmare. The last straw was the random placement of my speaker bauble head. Figure 1: Zoom webcam placement At this point, given that I was to set up a pre-recorded video for PyCon India 2020, I decided to look into alternatives.