Create screen videos - so it'll work

Whether small Let's Play videos from games or helpful tutorials - with the right tool you can quickly create your own screen recording. We'll show you how it works and which software is the easiest to use.

How to make gaming videos and other screen recordings

1. First download the free "Screen Recorder" and install the tool.
2. Open the "Screen Recorder" and enter a destination path for finished recordings in the address bar.
3. Before you start the screen recording, you should check the settings for sound and image.
4. With the button "Audio input" you can either use the system sounds, a connected microphone or both as a source.
5. Under "Start" you can make the image settings and thus only record a selected area in full screen mode or with "Region".
6. Click on the red button "Start" or alternatively on [F6] to start the recording. You end it with [F7]. Breaks are possible with [F10].
7. All videos are recorded as WMV files, but can be converted into more than 20 formats with two clicks - including the video formats MP4, AVI, MOV, MPG, and FLV as well as audio files in MP3 and WAV.

To add the finishing touch to the videos, you can use film software. Here we present the top 3. Please note that you must own the copyrights to all the filmed content in order to upload the videos.