Screen recording (FFmpeg): Users can record a selected area on their screen or the entire screen. FFmpeg allows user to record screen including sound and compress it in real time using x264, VP8, Xvid etc.
Screen recording (GIF): User can record a selected area on their screen or the entire screen in animated GIF.
Auto capture: Allows the user to automatically capture a screen area with the specific time interval.
In the Main window -> Choose Task settings -> In the Task Setting Window Choose Capture -> Screen recorder. Choose FFmpeg as the output format from the output drop down menu.
Fixed duration will stop recording after that duration. While using a hotkey, duration is not required because you can stop recording any time you want. It is mainly useful for make animated GIF, so , it is suggested to disable it.
Start delay option sets when the recording will start. So, 0.5 seconds will give you enough time to move your cursor to the recording area before the recording starts.
The sources section only loads if the FFmpeg file exists.
None - Does not record audio.
GDI grab - Records the screen with built-in FFmpeg methods.
Camera - If you have a camera, it will show up in the video sources list. This allows you to record from it.
screen-capture-recorder - Records the screen using the open source DirectShow filter. It will be installed as part of ShareX. If you are planning to record audio with the Virtual Audio Capturer, then use this instead of GDI grab.
Note: Having good quality/compression can cause frame drops while recording, because compression happens in real time, and it uses the CPU heavily. Therefore we suggest the Fast preset. If the frames still drop a lot, try increasing the preset to Very fast (or higher) until you get better results. Increasing CRF helps with performance too, at the cost of video quality.
Once you choose the recording region, the screen will start recording automatically.
You can view the recording time in the bottom right corner of the screen.
Red color Dotted Circle [1] indicates the screen recording, You can view the screen recording time [2] , once you have finished your recording click the Stop [3] button to stop recording.
Click Abort [4] button while you recording the screen to abort the recording process.
Note: the button "Install recorder devices" adds "screen-capture-recorder" and "virtual-audio-capturer" to the "Video Source" and "Audio source" fields respectively, in case you can't see them as available options.
I've also been looking to record my desktop with audio. I want the simplest "capture the entire desktop with audio into a file" program, and various articles pointed to ShareX. I have installed what appears to be the newest version, 15.0 . Maybe it's me but I have been through every menu I can find for this program, and I cannot find anything that looks even remotelly like your screenshot for "Screen recording options". Could you please elaborate on what version of ScreanX you are using, where you got it, and how to get to this settings page?
I would like to capture a gif of a specific region but ShareX only seems to support recording to gif when recording the entire screen which is a bit too much for what I need. Ideally I'd also be able to record to separate regions of different screens to one gif at the same time, but I know this is asking a little much. But since you guys know a lot its probably better to just ask if what I want to do is possible and how before spending too much time trying to get it to work.
Now, you can record screens with audio using ShareX. If you think the steps above is a little difficult for you to find the correct path, I have a better choice for you: EaseUS RecExperts, a professional screen recorder for recording screens and sounds at the same time.
This EaseUS screen recorder supports both Windows and Mac, so you don't need to worry about compatibility. It provides multiple recording modes, including recording the full screen, a part of the screen, or a specific window you choose. The button below can help you download and install the software. Click on it and try the tool yourself.
Been using ShareX (available on steam) as my preferred screenshot utility. It gives me exactly what I want for a picture capture software. For the first time yesterday I choose to use it's gif recording feature. Recorded a 10.5 second clip at 1017x1920 resolution, 25 FPS, and according to the log file, it first records either a .mp4 or .mov file (I forget which one), and then uses FFmpeg to convert it to a .gif file, and then wipes the .mp4 file. Clearly it is running FFmpeg on either just a few threads or on low priority, or the video to .gif process is slow AF, because it took nearly a minute. My previous use cases of FFmpeg, on an old mobile i7 with 2/3 the threads was doing various FFmpeg operations much more quickly.
To make it worse, I use FastStone Image Viewer as my primary image organizer and basic editor, and I learned the hard way yesterday that the program is barely multi-threaded because it attempted to re-render the entire GIF before displaying it to me, and the program froze due to a hardware/programming bottleneck (I used the word correctly this time) for at least 30 seconds. Attempting to do anything, like resizing the window, made it freeze again. The entire time thread #7 was pegged at 100% Attempting to open the file in a video editor created severe artifacting with color swapping, and other neat artifacts that made the video illegible, but I bet that was just a bad decoder/encoder. (I need to remove the first 1.2 seconds of the GIF because it recorded chrome before I switched applications, and there was PII on screen.)
ShareX is a free and open source program that lets you capture or record any area of your screen and share it with a single press of a key. It also allows uploading images, text or other types of files to many supported destinations you can choose...
If you are only using Zoom to record yourself, and not an actual multi-person Zoom session, I would advise you to use OBS Studio instead. It is a little overwhelming when you first look at it, but after a very short while you will wonder why you never used it in the first place.
If you need to record your Zoom with no lag, you can try some other good screen recording tool such as OBS. It is free and powerful. But for me, it is a little complex. You can try it and check if it meet your need. And some paid screen recorder are more easy-to-use, such as Bandicam, Camtasia, FlashBack, RecMaster and so on. If you want a free one, just ignore the second half of my answer.
I have 2 monitors, I use the ultrawide for handling both windows of OBS, and the normal for zoom.
Then on the first window, I set up a scene to just record a app window (i.e. zoom), and no audio.
And then I use the second window of OBS for just recording the audio, no video. And by this way, it encodes my video and audio seperately, remaining more quality.
Using screenshots and short videos you can better communicate the issue to us and it is much easier for us to understand the issue in this manner.
You can take screenshots and record videos using ShareX and then send it to us via email
Download link: ShareX
Choose screen-recording
You have to choose the region that you want to record. Once you choose the region, the recording will be started. You can abort and stop the recording from the button that will appear below the screen-recording region
Once you stop the screen-recording. it will start showing in to the ShareX control panel. Right click on the video to access the folder of the video
From here you can add the video into the email and send it to us
Note: If its larger than 25mb, you can upload it to something like Google drive/dropbox/weshare, and share the link in an email
In this manner you can take the screenshots and record short videos of the issues that you are facing and send it to us for diagnostic and resolution
Feel free to contact us if you need any help Here
To record audio in ShareX, go to Task settings>Screen Recorder>Screen recording options and choose your audio source, such as a microphone. Next, start a recording with the shortcut Shift+Print Screen.
By default, ShareX is setup to record video without any audio. What we do is that we simply select a device for ShareX to capture audio together with the video capture that is already setup when we installed the application.
When we start the recording, you might get a warning that tells you that FFmpeg isn't installed and prompts you to install it before the first recording. Simply follow the instructions on the screen to install FFmpeg for ShareX.
When recording audio with ShareX we can choose from multiple audio codecs. By default, it is setup to use AAC with a bit rate of 128k. If you are not familiar with encoders or how they work, this is good from most use cases.
Unfortunately, there is no easy way to record both a microphone and system audio at the same time. For this we need another application to mix together the sound and output the mix to another audio source that we can then use directly in ShareX as the audio source.
The result will be an m4a file stored in your screenshots folder. This is an audio file that does not contain any video even if we had to choose an area to record for the video. The video portion simply doesn't get recorded or saved.
There is a problem with this method though, what if we sometimes want to record audio only and sometimes both video and audio. Then we would need to change the video source every time we want to change from recording both video and audio to only audio or only video for that matter.
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