How Ubuntu record screencasts
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Screencast - a record of what is happening on the screen as video or animated gif. In some cases this is the most intuitive and convenient way to showcase the work programs, creating training videos and presentations. Even so, you can record the sequence of the actions that lead to any error or problem, for support calls.
Program Kazam It is the most simple and affordable way to record screencasts in Linux. Under the cut you will find a description of the installation and operation of this program.
The main advantage of Kazam - its presence in almost all popular distributions repositories, so you can install it without any problems simply from the software manager. In addition, it has a graphical interface and is so easy to use that even novice users to easily sort out with everything.
After installing and running the program, you will see a window with the basic functions. From above, you can select a recording mode - video or screenshots, located just below the selection capture area options. Here you can choose whether to capture the mouse and sound, as well as to set the delay before recording.
Kazam setting is also very concise but contain everything you need. You can select the format of your video is saved, recording speed, a place to save the file, and so on. However, the default settings should be fine in most cases, so that I've got anything not necessary.
So, in conclusion, I would like to show you an example of a video recorded using Kazam. In it you will see how easy and quick to install software from Windows to Linux c using Wine. For example, the process of downloading and installing the popular AIMP player took me about two minutes.
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