How to Record your Computer Screen for FREE

Welcome to Teacher's Tech, my name is Jamie and it's  great to have you here. Today I want to show you   five of the best free screen recorders so these  screen recorders are going to be no watermark but   they'll range from simple to more complex options  depending on what you want to do with them so   maybe you want to be able to create lessons how I  do and upload them to YouTube I'll show you a good   one for that maybe you want to be able to just  record your screen for gameplay and you don't have   to worry about time restrictions maybe you just  want to take a simple screen record of something   you're working on to share with other people so  I've picked five of the ones that I really like   five free screen recorders and those are what  I want to share with you today on teachers Tech so just to let you know I don't use one of these  free screen recorders for my YouTube videos what   I use is Camtasia so this is it right here this  actually has the track already that the clip of   my introduction in it so I can edit all my  videos right in Camtasia then I can quickly   add these effects if I wanted to add like the  cursor effect to have it highlighted wherever   I want to go or many of these other ones right  through here but remember this isn't a free one   but I do have a discount code I'll put the links  to it down below if you're interested in it but   let's start with some of the really good free  ones if you don't need to have all these options so let's start with number five and this is an  incredibly easy screen recorder to use and it's   all online this is by a powersoft and I'll put  the link to this description uh to this so you   can click on it to come right to this page so  what I want to show you is this one right here   it's the start recording not the download app  one so I'm going to go ahead and just select   this and you get some options right away what  you want to record and notice that you can add   a extension here a Chrome extension that will  place it right up top here so you can quickly   get to this page but I'll let you install that if  you would like if you'd like just go ahead and add   to Chrome now what is it I want to record let's  say I want to record the screen I want to record   a webcam and when you select these uh you just  need to hit allow them to have access here and   system sound will say yes and we'll say microphone  now I want to point out I'm going to just uh hit   start recording and use you're going to see it  come up and ask me about the microphone here hit   allow and then it asked me to select what I want  but the one thing that didn't happen if this is   the first time you're using it my webcam didn't  pop open so I'm just going to hit cancel and I'm   going to hit refresh and hit start recording again  this time when I click on the webcam what you're   going to notice is that it will pop up and here it  is and it's just something I noticed in the very   first time when I use it and notice I can drag it  around to where I want here I can change the size   of this as well now I can record my microphone  just like this and I can go ahead if I get all   the things that I want hit start recording and  then now what do I want to record you could   record a Chrome tab whatever ones are going to  be open it's going to come up a window here's   my options or the entire screen so if I wanted  to record my entire screen I could select this   if I wanted to make sure the system audio was in  there I could select this little box I'm going to   hit share and it does the countdown notice it's  saying if it's longer than 30 minutes that they   suggest downloading it and testing out that one  you can go ahead but I find they're just trying   to sell you up to the pro version on it we have  we're eight seconds into this video I can pause   it or stop it but usually what you'd be using  is this one down here because if you went away   from this window this is still here and I can  also hide it so I'm going to hit stop sharing   and just like that you can see I have my video if  I click on it it is that they suggest downloading   it in testing out you can see it has my video  in it it has my voice recorded and then I have   even a few more options so first of all if I want  to download this because this is just online just   click these three little dots here and we have  downloads so I can just go simply download and   it downloads it and I can open it up with media  player of my choice so if I go ahead and select   this you can see that this will open up just  downloading it and testing out that one super   easy to use we have a few more options that we  can use over here I'll just show you this one if   you wanted to trim your videos it pops open and  allows you to maybe you want to trim things off   the beginning or end what you can do is just drag  them to where you want and then you can start your   processing so I like this one as a free one this  is incredibly easy to use by a power a power soft   here if we want to start a new video just click on  this I go back or install that extension then you   can quickly get back so test this out if you just  want a simple one let's move on to number four now   number four is Loom so if you need to make a quick  video to share with somebody and you actually want   to know if they saw it Loom is great for that so  in the free version you're allowed to create five   minute videos uh if you're a teacher you can  actually with your education email sign up and   then you can get up to 45 minutes but I'm gonna go  ahead and sign in to mine I'm just looking at the   free one here I do have an education account as  well but I'm just going to log in with Google you   can see the different ways that you can create  it but once you're in it works very similar to   even the last one I showed you you can install a  Chrome extension you could download the desktop   app if you'd like but I'm just going to show you  how simple this is to use it saves one that I   already recorded in this one from before but if  I wanted to record new here all I'm going to do   is go to new video up here and record a video you  can notice I can even upload video but I'm going   to hit record a video and then the options come  up here so let me click on this one more time here   and this pops up and this is where I can select  what I want I have a circle you can see I have the   webcam working here and I can place this around  also if I want it only screen camera only I have   those options I'm just going to leave everything  as is I'm going to hit start recording this looks   very familiar to the last one it looks the same  I can choose a window option again hit this one   hit share and now you get the countdown and it's  going to be recording so I have a few different   places I can stop this I can stop this here or  down here I'm just going to do this quick one   here stop and it's preparing the loom so now if I  go back to I'm just going to go back to home here   and go back to my library again you should see two  are in there this is the one that I just created   here you can see eight seconds long I could  go ahead and preview this if I click on this   and I'll just hit play recording so I have a few  different places I can stop them and we have the   options here you can see we have trim clips  if you'd like you can go ahead and click on   that uh what I like about this one most is that  ability to share so if I go ahead and copy the   link I can send this to somebody and paste that  in and then when they open it up I would actually   be notified and say someone viewed this or not  and you have a few different things in here so   you can see there's the different reactions and  if you are paying for it or using the education   one you can have those conversations in between I  use this one at work if I need that quick video to   show somebody how to do something and then I copy  and send the link over and then I all have this   Library here and also in my education when I can  create teams of people so this is one I like for   a quick one to be able to just show those quick  how to's and send it to somebody and it doesn't   take much time to use this at all number three is  share X so this is open source completely free and   this is a very powerful program and in this video  I'm only talking about screen recording but this   can even do more than just screen recording so I  have downloaded uh downloaded this on my computer   I'm using Windows 11 and it's on my taskbar here I  just have it locked in there so I'm going to open   it up now I want to show you right away if you  take a look these are the hotkeys and if we were   going to use the hotkeys to just screen record we  just would need shift and print screen and that's   how we can stop start it but we can do this in  other ways too but before we get into that real   quickly I just want to go to the tools because  take a look at all the things this program can   do and it's completely free uh you could use this  as a video converter so you can open up a video   in one file format and convert it over so again  this is a free program Open Source now before   we do any screen recording I just want to show  you the settings and all the different options   that you have so I'm going to go to task settings  here and I'm going to make sure that I'm under   screen recorder and you can take a look at all  the different things that you can change in   the settings but I'm just looking at the screen  recorder so we have some options right here but   where I want to go is the screen recording options  now if you take a look at this I could record from   my webcam if I wanted to but I want to record my  screen here so I'm going to leave it here but if I   drop down you can see where I have some different  options to record from and we have an audio source   so make sure if you're not getting audio make sure  you've selected I would have to pick what mic I   want so if I'm using my line one here the mgxu one  and I can also choose these other options and this   is where this program I find gets really powerful  over the other ones look at all the different   video codecs that we have that we can choose from  here you have lots of different options on that   one same thing with your audio and you can start  adjusting all these settings through here so this   is why I like this program if we don't we don't  have our audio and our sorry our webcam and screen   recording at the same time and the path you'll be  able to take these videos and put them together   in a different editing program after you record  it so let's do a little test here I'm just going   to gonna go make sure I have everything here and  I'm going to close out of this one and I'm just   going to go close out of this one I'm going to  go to capture up here and we're going to go to   our screen recording this one so we could use the  shortcut as well then all you need to do is pick   the area that you want to record and when you let  go it's starting to record and take a look at this   we have our stop abort and the time here and if I  look at the bottom right hand corner of my screen   I can see that it's recording here where I can  stop recording from this part too so I'm just   going to go ahead and hit stop recording we get a  little sound there we can just test this out what   we got and so if I click on it it gives me it's  starting to record and take a look at this we   have ours and we have options uh too where we can  show our Mouse uh also highlight that take a look   at the different settings that you can click on  this one so this one I like it's completely free   and very powerful if you're looking for a good  screen recorder number two is Microsoft's clip   chat now this is more of a video editor but it  has a great screen recorder built in and again   you can use this all for free you do have to make  a account with this but after that you can either   use it for free installed on your Windows computer  or you could just use the web version of this when   you log in and it looks exactly the same and then  you could use it on whatever operating system   you're working on so in this case I'm not going  to use the online version on this I'm just going   to move this out of the way I'm already opened up  flip champ on my Windows computer and I just want   to point out we have record something here I like  it that we can edit this afterwards in a in a good   video editor for free so I'm going to hit record  something what do I want to record well in this   case let's go record screen and camera here and  you'll see my my webcam gets picked up if my mic   is picked up everything looks but I want to hear  I'm going to hit just record it is limited to 30   minutes in this one what do I want to record well  I could go to this one hit share and then so this   is what's going to be recording right now you  can see the timer is going to up to 30 minutes   here I'm just going to hit stop uh we have nine  seconds and then record this is what's going to   be recorded save and exit now I could have picked  a different screen so I didn't have that uh you   know that endless mirror effect inside of it  but what I like about this notice that my it's   on two different layers and I can start editing  now so if I go to this and just right click on   this and ungroup so I have the the bottom layer  in this layer here and I can do some editing to   this very quickly I could crop the sides so you  can see where the camera is larger I could crop   it down I can even add effects very quickly so  if I have this selected go over to the filters   and and if I scroll down to the bottom I have  all these filters I can add but there's actually   a green screen one towards the bottom here right  here so if I select this one and I can change the   threshold you can see how I move this around and  now I have this green screen option here so again   I can make this larger if I want move it around in  the screen so this is sort of like Camtasia what I   do with mine in Camtasia it is not as powerful as  that but this is one option that I like with this   free one because it comes in two different layers  it doesn't combine it where you can't manipulate   that option so if I was going to you can see  the timers going play you can see how it is   now and there's some other options in here I can  actually quickly turn take this and caption this   but I have a different video of kind of explaining  this and I'll put the link down below and I have   a different one about video editing with this one  too so if this is something you want to use I'll   make sure you have the resources to learn how to  use them so this is uh this is a clip champ and   if you're all done with your video you can just  go ahead and Export you can see you can go up to   1080 here so this is a great option for recording  your screen and my number one pick for free screen   recorder is OBS studio now this is open source  cross platform and you can have a lot of different   settings for it and not only can you record your  screen you can also stream but again I'm just   focused on the screen recording on this one I'm  going to open it up on mine right now I already   have it open and just to give you a quick little  lesson of how you set this up in any of these   scenes what you're going to do is you're going  to add your sources so if I want to add my webcam   I would need to go to a video capture device and  as soon as I do that I'm going to hit OK and pick   which one I want so there I am right there so I  could go through and this is the right camera I'm   just going to hit OK so this can be moved around  but I'm not capturing now I have to add something   else to capture so what do I want to capture I'm  just going to go back and add this time I'm going   to go and add a display let's go display capture  right here so it display capture I'm going to hit   OK and what is it I want to capture we'll just say  the screen right here so it's going to be my one   desktop so I'm going to hit OK and I'm going to  just size this and you can see as I can move it   around notice that I can't see myself but I can  change the order of these so if I move the video   capture to the top there I am and really quickly  I have a different video on this where I get in   more depth on this OBS tutorial and I'm going  to have a new video come out and kind of explain   the streaming and the screen recording as well so  watch for that but you can add effects to this too   like green screen so if I go ahead and right click  on this and go filters so all I have to do is go   under the video one here so this is the video down  here and add what do I need to add well I'm going   to add some chroma key here so I find the chroma  key I add it and at this time I can go ahead and   start to adjust this so notice as I drag this how  it changes here so I can go ahead and close this   if I needed to crop this I could because I can see  a little top I could add that filter as well but   once you get things all set up all you're going  to have to do is go start recording and you can   see there's a stop recording so if I go ahead and  stop recording it lets me know where the video is   going to be saved but there's more settings  and everything in this too so check out the   other video that I made about screen recording  here where I go into a lot more depth but this   is my first pick here if you want a great free  screen recorder that can do a lot more and that   is OBS studio so let me know what you think of  these five picks for the best screen recorders   let me also know what you're using because I  know there's lots of free screen recorders out   there and I'm also interested in trying some more  just write them down below in the comments thanks   for watching this week on teachers Tech I'll see  you next time with more 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Length: 17min 51sec (1071 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2023