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Any tips on the best software for Windows to record video? Would be nice to be able to record a part of the screen. Also, I am very wary about what I install so

Any tips on the best software for Windows to record video? Would be nice to be able to record a part of the screen. Also, I am very wary about what I install so please no obscure software.

dstaley 5y ago
OBS has a slight learning curve, but I find that it's able to do everything I need, including screen region recording, single window recording, and overlaying/switching between screen and webcam.
- euph0ria 5y ago
  Thanks!
- rofrol 5y ago
  How do you record portion of the screeb? Filters > Crop?
CDSlice 5y ago
Windows actually has screen recording software built in now with the XBox Game Bar. It’s meant for recording games but there isn’t any reason that you can’t use it for other programs.
- euph0ria 5y ago
  Tried it and it was 700mb for a few minutes of recording.. didn't find any way to tweak that
  - GordonS 5y ago
    Hmm, I just tried it for the first time yesterday, and was actually quite impressed. I made a screen recoding of a desktop app, with me talking over it the whole time. The quality of both video and audio was good, and the file size was something like 5-10MB. I can't believe I've been using Windows 10 for so long and didn't even know about this - I kind of wish they'd change the name TBH; would also make it seem more reasonable to be installed be default on Enterprise eds!
skatanski 5y ago
ShareX is pretty good for recording short clips/gifs of part of the screen
jjcm 5y ago
If you're recording the full desktop, then use ShadowPlay if you have an nvidia card (it comes with the nvidia software and utilizes the native GPU encoding). Otherwise, use the Xbox Game Bar, which is installed by default in Windows 10. If you need to record a specific portion of the screen, I'd recommend the open source tool Captura: https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ It's no longer maintained as of July 2020, but it's quite effective at what it does and is not lacking for features. I use it for recording UI interactions all the time.
- mtone 5y ago
  Xbox Game Bar is very limited. It only captures a single window not the actual desktop, so you won't see any other window, dialog or context menu. I noticed it when I tried to record a demo of a git merge flow in an IDE. Fail! I wish this was properly built-in on Windows, since the recording is otherwise excellent.
- euph0ria 5y ago
  Thanks!
forgotpwd16 5y ago
As another comment recommended, ShareX is a very good and popular (if not the most popular) tool for small recordings. Also it's open source, small in size, and it has portable versions available in its repo[0] (so technically you don't have to install anything). [0]: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/releases https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/releases
- euph0ria 5y ago
  Thanks! Didn't know this existed.
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euph0ria 5y ago
Screen2gif seems to be an option also

Any tips on the best software for Windows to record video? Would be nice to be able to record a part of the screen. Also, I am very wary about what I install so please no obscure software.

dstaley 5y ago

OBS has a slight learning curve, but I find that it's able to do everything I need, including screen region recording, single window recording, and overlaying/switching between screen and webcam.

euph0ria 5y ago
Thanks!
rofrol 5y ago
How do you record portion of the screeb? Filters > Crop?

CDSlice 5y ago

Windows actually has screen recording software built in now with the XBox Game Bar. It’s meant for recording games but there isn’t any reason that you can’t use it for other programs.

euph0ria 5y ago
Tried it and it was 700mb for a few minutes of recording.. didn't find any way to tweak that
- GordonS 5y ago
  Hmm, I just tried it for the first time yesterday, and was actually quite impressed. I made a screen recoding of a desktop app, with me talking over it the whole time. The quality of both video and audio was good, and the file size was something like 5-10MB. I can't believe I've been using Windows 10 for so long and didn't even know about this - I kind of wish they'd change the name TBH; would also make it seem more reasonable to be installed be default on Enterprise eds!

skatanski 5y ago

ShareX is pretty good for recording short clips/gifs of part of the screen

jjcm 5y ago

If you're recording the full desktop, then use ShadowPlay if you have an nvidia card (it comes with the nvidia software and utilizes the native GPU encoding). Otherwise, use the Xbox Game Bar, which is installed by default in Windows 10. If you need to record a specific portion of the screen, I'd recommend the open source tool Captura: https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ https://mathewsachin.github.io/Captura/ It's no longer maintained as of July 2020, but it's quite effective at what it does and is not lacking for features. I use it for recording UI interactions all the time.

mtone 5y ago
Xbox Game Bar is very limited. It only captures a single window not the actual desktop, so you won't see any other window, dialog or context menu. I noticed it when I tried to record a demo of a git merge flow in an IDE. Fail! I wish this was properly built-in on Windows, since the recording is otherwise excellent.
euph0ria 5y ago
Thanks!

forgotpwd16 5y ago

As another comment recommended, ShareX is a very good and popular (if not the most popular) tool for small recordings. Also it's open source, small in size, and it has portable versions available in its repo[0] (so technically you don't have to install anything). [0]: https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/releases https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX/releases

euph0ria 5y ago
Thanks! Didn't know this existed.

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euph0ria 5y ago

Screen2gif seems to be an option also