How are people recording their screens?

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Sorry, stupid question, but I see multiple postings where people are showing very brief screen recordings to illustrate their points. I would love to do this but am not sure how. Is there a built-in screen recording app in Coda? What is everyone using to do these?

Matt

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Dear Matthew,

There are no stupid questions.
There are many tools for screen recording, my personal favorite is “ScreenToGif” at https://www.screentogif.com/downloads.html

Obviously there are many more options available when you ask Google for a screen recorder.

Enjoy Coda,
Jean Pierre

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Hi Matt,

I use CloudApp: https://www.getcloudapp.com/

I love the customisation options, simplicity and shortcuts :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Sisko

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I’m currently using recordIt (http://recordit.co/) and I’m very happy with it because it is fast and easy, but the free version does not allow many frames.

I’ll check out the other suggestions. Cool post :+1:t4:

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If you’re a Mac user, the new OS, Mojave, has built in screen recording (and screenshots). It’s pretty dreamy.

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If you have Windows 10, you can press Win + G to open the default screen recorder. If you want a desktop recorder, maybe you can give Joyoshare VidiKit a shot. It’s my favorite. I often use it to record streaming movies in 1080p. No latency and no watermark.

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I record with OBS (https://obsproject.com/) and then cut/convert to gif online with https://ezgif.com/

There are simpler workflows but I stick with OBS because I use it for more things, e.g. recording Coda screencasts and livestreams, and not just recording screen snippets. It’s a geeky application, so some basic knowledge about encoders would be helpful. Both are free though.

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Once you have that screen recording downloaded, you can convert it to a gif with this script (if you’re into that sort of thing). Not sure it works on Windows. Requires that you’ve downloaded ffmpeg and imagemagick, which I downloaded with homebrew.

Script is:

 makeGif () {
	if [ -z $1 ]
	then
		echo "makeGif inputVideo [outputGif]"
		return 244
	fi
	vid="$1" 
	if [ -z $2 ]
	then
		outputVideo=$(echo "$vid" | sed -E 's+\.[^.]*$++g').gif 
	else
		outputVideo="$2" 
	fi
	ffmpeg -i "$vid" -vf scale=720:-1 -r 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert -delay 10 -loop 0 - gif:- | convert -layers Optimize - "$outputVideo"
}

Usage:

makeGif ScreenRecording.mov ScreenRecording.gif

It will take a while, but the advantage is that you don’t run into the size limitations you find on free sites (though ezgif.com looks nice!)

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If using Windows, I use https://getsharex.com/ [free]

After installing, here are the things I customized:

  1. set keyboard shortcut (Shift + Alt + S) & pick a file drop location (%Desktop%)

    2019-06-25 at 10.26AM
    2019-06-25 at 10.26AM1605Ă—893 2.03 MB

  2. review the Frames Per Second (FPS = 8)

    2019-06-25 at 10.32AM
    2019-06-25 at 10.32AM1167Ă—564 21.8 KB

  3. change the automatic file naming (%y-%mo-%d at %h.%mi%pm )

    2019-06-25 at 10.34AM
    2019-06-25 at 10.34AM1656Ă—853 1.49 MB

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I use Snagit (paid) by TechSmith, makers of Camtasia. It allows for adding text, shapes and other markup to screen captures or recording, which is very handy for team presentations or sending out images or gifs to help people do something.

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