How to Record your Computer Screen & Webcam?

[nelsonic]

Searched for: google.com/search?q=record+desktop+with+camera+open+source

Found: https://obsproject.com + https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio

https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio#what-is-obs-studio

OBS Studio is software designed for capturing, compositing, encoding, recording, and streaming video content, efficiently.

It's distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 (or any later version) - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details.

Basic how-to video:

https://youtu.be/uL8BwstqiqE

going to test it out ...

[nelsonic]

I really wish devs would just sign their apps ... 🙄

Going to give this a miss on my main mac that has access to person and financial data ...
I will instead install it on our (ancient but still fully functional) Mac Mini to test it. ⏳

[nelsonic]

How to Record Your Screen With INTERNAL AUDIO on Mac (FREE): https://youtu.be/prUVS0HF2gU

https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole#installation-instructions

brew install blackhole-2ch

==> Downloading https://existential.audio/downloads/BlackHole2ch.v0.4.0.pkg
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Installing Cask blackhole-2ch
==> Running installer for blackhole-2ch; your password may be necessary.
Package installers may write to any location; options such as `--appdir` are ignored.
Password:
installer: Package name is BlackHole: Virtual Audio Driver 2ch v0.4.0
installer: Installing at base path /
installer: The install was successful.
🍺  blackhole-2ch was successfully installed!

[nelsonic]

Gotta revisit this soon to record my demos. 💭

[nelsonic]

Downloading this now: https://obsproject.com/download

[nelsonic]

First screen after installing:

Requires permissions to record screen: (obvs)

After granting access to the screen recording, microphone and camera,
the next screen is:

I'm not focussed on streaming right now so selected "optimise for recording":

Using 1080p even though my external monitor supports 4K ...

Summary:

Random irrelevant warning:

[nelsonic]

Create new source for screen recording:

Accept all defaults and finalise.

[nelsonic]

OBS records as .mkv by default.
These can easily be transcoded to .mp4 (or any other file format for editing).
To play .mkv we need VLC: https://www.videolan.org

Sadly the first attempt the screen recording is black/blank ...
But it was a quick fix: https://youtu.be/AyLI2tZnXpY
Just Quit the OBS App and re-open it and then it works. 👌

[nelsonic]

How To Remove Background Noises & Keyboard Clicks in OBS Studio: https://youtu.be/uWkmqePGdRw [2 mins]