Record video

  1. Open Screen Recorder.
  2. Select Video mode using the camera/video switch.
  3. Choose Rectangle, Window, or Entire Screen.
  4. Click New and select the capture area.
  5. Use the microphone button to enable or disable microphone capture.
  6. Use the speaker button to enable or disable Windows system-audio capture.
  7. Click Start. The countdown appears before recording begins.
  8. Click Pause to pause capture, then click Resume to continue.
  9. Click Stop to finish and encode the MP4.

The recording includes the mouse cursor when Windows makes the cursor image available. Paused time is excluded from the recording timestamps and elapsed time. Video dimensions are adjusted to even values for the configured encoder.

Output

Recordings are written as timestamped MP4 files in the configured SAVE_LOCATION, currently the desktop path defined in AppConstant. When processing completes, the video opens in the built-in JavaFX media player.

See Recording Controls for the complete control behavior and Record voice for microphone capture.

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