How to record activities on your pc screen.
Have you ever thought about record what you are doing on you pc screen for one reason or the other. Today we are going to take you through how you can record your activity on pc and output it for reference purpose or sharing it with someone. Although their are a lot of screen recorder application out there but OBS Studio is the exception. It’s a powerful open source recorder for Windows, Mac and Linux, and is ideal for simple screen captures or more.You can even use it to stream live video to Twitch or YouTube. Here's how to do it.
1. Get open broadcaster(OBS) Studio To record your screen
To start with you have to download obs studio and running the installer
There’s no ad ware or other unwanted software, but you might be prompted to download some run time components. If so, download the file from the page that opens in your browser and run it. Once the components are installed, re-launch the OBS Studio installer.
In the installation menu Leave the Browser Source plugin box checked (this will make sure web pages are displayed correctly in recordings), but skip the other plugin unless you want to record from a Real Sense camera.
2. Running the OBS Studio configuration wizard
After the successful installation launch the OBS Studio, run the automatic configuration wizard ,
which will determine the best settings for recording your screen. Check the option ‘Optimize just for recording’ if you don’t intend to stream video; otherwise, leave the first option selected and click ‘Next’.
OBS Studio can record up to 60 frames per second, and the default settings will use this option when possible, but you can choose to prioritize image quality instead. This might result in less smooth video, so we advice you should stick with the first option. The installer will test the recording encoder using various settings and provide its recommendations. To accept these, click on the ‘Apply settings’.
3. Setting your sources for recording
This is the stage you are going to setup obs studio for recording
You’ll need these if you’re planning to broadcast a stream from different sources (such as your desktop, your webcam, and some still images), you can create a new Scene for each one, making it easy to switch between them. If you just want to record what’s happening on your display, you can ignore this.
From the Sources’ panel at the bottom you will choose where video will be recorded from. The options you’ll be interested in are Display Capture and Game Capture
Display Capture let you record anything you are doing on your screen from the moment you click on start recording while the Game Capture will start recording when you launch a full-screen application.
4. Settings up your audio preference
Click the Settings icon beside either Desktop Audio or Microphone Audio to apply filters to the sound before it’s encoded. Also the noise suppression option is very useful when you are recording your own narration for a better output
By default, OBS Studio will record from both your PC or Mac’s sound card, and any attached microphones. You can adjust the relative volume of these, or disable either one using the Mixer panel.
5. Setting up the output
At this stage you are going to setup what happens when you stop recording, to set this click on file followed by Settings If you want to stream content from your screen, click Stream and select a service from the drop-down list. Current options include Twitch, Facebook, YouTube and many more.save the recording from your screen as a video file or any output you want, click Output and take a look at the settings. Most of the defaults here will be fine, but you might want to change the recording format from FLV (MP4 is more widely supported) and change the path for the exported files to you favorite path.
6. Setting up hot keys and start
streaming or recording your screen
Depending on the source settings you’ve chosen, you can begin recording by either clicking ‘Start record’ on the right-hand side of OBS Studio, or launching a full-screen game.
If you choose Display Capture , you’ll have to use a video editor to trim away the start of the video, which will show you minimizing OBS Studio and firing up the program you want to demonstrate. To avoid this, return to Settings, select Hotkeys, and set keyboard shortcuts that will start and stop recording, after this you are good to go and start recording your output Will be found in the path you set.
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