10-20-2015, 06:53 PM | #1 |
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Screen capture video program
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This is my first post here. I am a long time Reaper user (since 2008), commercial license. I am looking for screen capturing video software, so I can record a Reaper project, video and audio simultaneously. Is licecap good for that? Just looking for a simple program that can make an accurate recording of what I see on my computer monitors, so I can send it to my film making collaborators. Thanks! |
10-20-2015, 08:00 PM | #2 |
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Well ... I downloaded and installed Licecap, and I recorded my project.
Disillusion ... none of the audio was captured. I uninstalled licecap from my computer. Any recommendations as to software that can get a good screen grab, both audio and video, high definition? |
10-20-2015, 08:31 PM | #3 |
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http://camstudio.org/
You might have to route the audio from a hardware out back into your motherboard line in. |
10-21-2015, 05:26 AM | #4 |
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I watched the website of Camstudio and it looks guite interesting also because it is free software!
But when I wanted to download the program, my Eset antivirus suite blocked the download website as being malicious. I scanned the setup-program at virustotal.com and there were a lot of well known anti-virus software manufactures warning for potential risc: https://www.virustotal.com/nl/file/a...is/1445423269/ I know sometimes a scanner returns a generic code because the program is rather unknown to the scanner or the program makes changes in the registry. In this case no results are generic codes. Maybe some more experienced users can chime in on this? |
10-21-2015, 05:58 AM | #5 |
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BB FlashBack Express is free & lightweight,it can export to AVI,the paid version has more editing options
http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashB...eEditions.aspx |
10-21-2015, 05:59 AM | #6 |
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I grabbed bandicam a few years ago, been great ever since. I use lice cap for short animated GIF videos, when I want audio or more fancy features I use bandicam.
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Thanks for the feedback guys!
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10-21-2015, 04:35 PM | #9 |
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Hi Peter, I would recommend you to use Open Broadcaster Software.
It can be used to stream the video live or just save it as a file in your hard drive instead. You can define to capture all monitors or just one region, or program window, and your webcam at the same time if needed etc... It's free open source and great https://obsproject.com/ |
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Im also looking for a decent (small) video/sound capture tool.
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Unsure what else that it installed, but, I wouldn't go near it again. I'm currently using Rylstim Screen Recorder. but I dont think it records sound. http://www.sketchman-studio.com/ryls...reen-recorder/
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Cool. Thanks for the tip BBFlashBack works for me.
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10-21-2015, 09:01 PM | #12 |
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My bad on suggesting CamStudio. I used to use it a lot years ago. I forgot that it was on Sourceforge and Sourceforge is basically all malware now.
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10-22-2015, 06:55 AM | #13 |
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Sourceforge & Download.Cnet proudly infesting your computer since 200(?)
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10-22-2015, 08:56 AM | #14 | |
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OBS-ervation
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10-26-2015, 07:36 PM | #15 |
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Hmm.... no love from OBS.
What am I doing wrong? Last edited by peter5992; 02-28-2016 at 12:01 PM. |
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I'm also trying to use OBS. Anyone have specifics on the 'difficult' setup part?
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08-31-2016, 03:29 PM | #17 |
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Same here on OBS. I think it's a no-go. I tried it with voicemeeter as well and it simply doesn't work. Maybe Reaper will add a screen capture option one day...
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09-19-2016, 09:23 PM | #18 |
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Heda, how can you get OBS to capture a VST window?
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09-20-2016, 06:37 AM | #19 |
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I think you would have to not move the VST window, and then crop a display capture or window capture to just capture this part of the screen. You can crop by SHIFT+ALT+drag the red circles handles when you select a source.
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09-22-2016, 08:59 AM | #20 |
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Windows 10 Xbox app
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On windows 10 I can use the xbox app and use WINkey +G fto open the game bar. Here I can chose to record the app; if it's not a known game, xbox app requires you to check the mark 'yes this is a game'.... Maybe that can work for reaper too? HTH Si
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I just did a quick test using OBS to record a REAPER editing session where I called up REAFir and it seemed to work fine.
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I needed this to send videos to a developer today.
Worked perfectly.
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11-12-2018, 08:29 PM | #23 |
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screen capturing video software to record a reaper project
If you want a screen capturing video software to record a reaper project, you can try FoneLab screen recorder.
It enables you to record audio, video, and webcam contents without lag. So you can record sound, game screen, online meetings and more as you want. |
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I tried several tools to create easy screencaps of all kinds and oCam was just the best. You draw a green frame around the object you want to record. Hit your hotkeys and that's it. You can directly render to gif or any video format. You can make still images. Absolutely no problems.
Start the application! Adjust the frame. Hit F2 once to record. Hit F2 a second time to stop. Hit shift+F2 to pause etc. There is no better way. Check it out! http://ohsoft.net/eng/ocam/tutorial/....php?cate=1002 |
03-24-2019, 01:43 PM | #27 |
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I'd like to mention another method to easily create screen videos. This method makes use ot ffmpeg's command line capabilities. I've been using plenty of screen capturing software (BandiCam, OBS, CamStudio, Easy Screencast Recorder, VirtualDub, etc.). Unfortunetely, all of them had their quirks (payed, adds/watermarks, time limit, a/v sync issues, hassle to set up, etc.). I finaly settled on using either OBS (several audio tracks recorded simultaneously with the video, like Reaper output plus my voice on a separate audio stream to be able to mix them as desired later) or VirtualDub and video quality is fine. Both don't have a time limit.
I then read about ffmpeg and its command line capabilities. Generally, I don't like using command line apps. I prefer to have a gui. However, I found some example command lines suitable for screen capturing and I managed to hack together a few batch files that allow me to capture my entire screen or parts of it by simply double-clicking shortcuts to those batch files. I'm sharing the batch files here. The advantages I'm seeing are:
Here's how to set it up on Windows:
The following command line captures a user-defined area (834x466 pixels starting at screen location 420,293): "D:\Programme\ffmpeg x64\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -n -rtbufsize 2000M -f gdigrab -r 25 -show_region 1 -offset_x 420 -offset_y 293 -video_size 834x466 -draw_mouse 0 -i desktop -f dshow -i audio="SPDIF/ADAT (1+2) (RME Babyface)" -c:v libx264 -r 25 -preset faster -crf 24 -pix_fmt yuv420p -c:a aac -ar 48K -ac 1 -b:a 128k "G:\Screen-Videos\abcdefg.mkv" Explanation of the most common command line parameters:
To determin which video capturing device and what audio devices can be used on your system and what their exact system name is, run the following batch command after adapting the path to ffmpeg.exe to the one on your system: Code:
"D:\Programme\ffmpeg x64\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy Only minor drawback of the batch file method is the inability to easily define a custom capture region. You have to edit the batch file for this. To at least facilitate this process, I'm using the free Fast Stone Capture utility to find out the coordinates of a particular screen area by triggering a screen area capture and then copy the values shown into the offset command of the batch file. Have fun! EDIT (2019-04-02): Meanwhile I've found the command line to capture 2 stereo sources simultaneously into the same video file: Code:
"D:\Programme\ffmpeg x64\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -n -rtbufsize 2000M -f gdigrab -r 25 -video_size 1920x1080 -draw_mouse 1 -i desktop -f dshow -i audio="SPDIF/ADAT (1+2) (RME Babyface)" -f dshow -i audio="ADAT (5+6) (RME Babyface)" -map 0:v -map 1:a -map 2:a -c:v libx264 -r 25 -preset faster -x264-params keyint=25 -tune zerolatency -crf 12 -pix_fmt yuv420p -ac 2 -c:a:1 pcm_s16le -c:a:2 pcm_s16le -ar 44.1K "G:\Screen-Videos\Screenvideo_.mkv" .
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Thanks SonicAxiom! That works really nice! I made an interface in VB.Net years ago to capture with ffmpeg with some basic settings, but I must of been using the wrong params because my captures would always playback at ~2x normal speed LOL!
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ha, ha! How could that be?? Wrong sample rate? Frame rate?
I literally avoided messing around with ffmpeg and basically any command line tool until I recently came across a simple screen video capturing batch file which caught my attention and made me wanna dive into it and add the missing commands to make it complete for my needs which is being able to change video dimension, frame rate, capture area, selection of prefered video and audio codec and their bit rates, include mouse or not. Glad it's working for you, too .
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Thanks, I tried to use OBS but ran in different issues, so I'll try ffmpeg now!
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You can use ShareX to easily define the region. It uses ffmpeg to capture screen to make videos or gifs. You can also set a custom command for ffmpeg in Screen recording options window. You can even have different commands for each keyboard shortcut with different regions predefined.
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Thanks a lot for sharing! I'll use your method for sure! It's super easy and powerful.
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I was originally using ShareX but ran into problems with it recording audio. In end I switched to OBS Studio, which is really easy to use and you can define regions should you wish. Only thin you may need to do in Reaper is change the Audio System from ASIO to WaveOut - If using a Windows PC.
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Basically, I'm actually not saying that this method is better than anything else. I'm pretty familiar with common screen capturing software solutions and I'm actually using some regularly. The batch file method is just so much simpler and doesn't require messing with bigger apps once you have your favourite batch file configured let's say for simple full HD capturing. I'm now searching for command line parameters to make it capture two separate stereo (= 4 track) audio sources simultaneously without merging them into a single stereo stream to mimic what OBS is doing (like Reaper output on stereo stream 1 and voice commentary on stereo stream 2). ffmpeg should be capable of doing this. It's just not easy to find working command line templates for this and hence, requires some time-consuming research. Anyone having an idea of what commands are needed? .
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found it
here's the command line allowing to capture 2x stereo audio from two audio sources into the same video: Code:
"D:\Programme\ffmpeg x64\bin\ffmpeg.exe" -n -rtbufsize 2000M -f gdigrab -r 25 -video_size 1920x1080 -draw_mouse 1 -i desktop -f dshow -i audio="SPDIF/ADAT (1+2) (RME Babyface)" -f dshow -i audio="ADAT (5+6) (RME Babyface)" -map 0:v -map 1:a -map 2:a -c:v libx264 -r 25 -preset faster -x264-params keyint=25 -tune zerolatency -crf 12 -pix_fmt yuv420p -ac 2 -c:a:1 aac -b:a:1 320k -c:a:2 aac -b:a:2 192k -ar 48K "G:\Screen-Videos\Screenvideo_.mkv" additional notes:
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Now it makes more sense, because usually videos need mic input + machine's output.
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it wasn't easy to find a working command. Hours of tial and error. A lot of folks will be happy capturing just a single stereo stream along with the screen video where everything gets mixed together (due to audio interface restrictions/simplicity). However, it's nice to have the option to capture both sources separately if necessary.
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