How to Record your Screen on Ubuntu (GTK Record)

[DrGSouth]

thanks



[VoldeCraft]

Hey i try to record minecraft with this but i get lag often any way to help?

[gamealogic]

@VoldeCraft If you still need help tell me. I know the fix.

[VoldeCraft]

@gamealogic yea still getting lag.....maybe my mods but idk what it is so i still need help

[gamealogic]

@VoldeCraft Ok ill pm you.

[ninjaguy0912]

i dont even think my dell inspiron mini 1012 has a graphics card, just a crap processer

[thedevfiles]

In ubuntu 11.04 and up you use desktop recorder. THumbs up so people no

[dudzter12]

what video editor do you use ?

[71GA]

This screen recorder aint working good. II get distorted image. I use ATI mobility radeon 4200...

[interventiun]

hey great tutorial, but when i try to upload to youtube it turns to green video

BTW its aud[A]city with an A =]

[ROFLMAOPC]

Will this work on xubuntu?

[xXPCPRO7Xx]

mine doesn't have add/replace ? ;(

[Jontheking100]

Nice tutorial. I just have two questions....

I don't know how to stop recording it, the red button at the top of the panel does it, but I don't have that button when I record (The red circle at the top bar when your recoding) And how do you zoom in and out?

[MicroHelper]

@Jontheking100 Okay. To record. You have to open up the program and click record. To stop, simply click on the "STOP" button, by clicking on it (Square Icon at the top right).

To zoom in and out. You must have "EXTRA" Effects enabled in "Change Desktop Background".

Press Command/Start Button Keyboard Key and Scroll in with the mouse Scroll Button.

=)

[Jontheking100]

@MicroHelper Cool, thank you much. But I don't have the square box at the top right to stop it. Is that a problem, did I change anything on the panel options for it to do that?

[Jontheking100]

@MicroHelper Nevermind, I know how to get the Stop button to appear at the top now, you have to add "Notification Area" to your panel for it to show up...I don't know why I had that off. Thanks for your help with this, i really appreciate it.

[mkextremerTV]

At first it was pretty good but than gtk-RecordmyScreen started lagging like hell

[MicroHelper]

@mkextremerTV Dude, Seriously haha. It actually depends on your Graphics Card. What's your Specifications of it? 

[mkextremerTV]

@MicroHelper nvm i just fixed it

[Jumbomasters]

@MicroHelper

ive got the same problem as mkextremerTV, that shit lags my entire desktop and i can barley move the mouse around.

my setup:

recording at 1920 x 1080

Amd Phenom 940 BE

2 hd4870 in crossfire

same setup is able to record smooth videos in windows using camstudio :/

[MicroHelper]

@Jumbomasters I am very sorry it is not working for you. Is your graphics card ATI or Nvidia?. Cause Ubuntu has a lot of bugs.

[HGRJoshEdition]

wow...how are you using camtasia on linux?...i had window xp and had camtasia but isnt it windows only?

[MicroHelper]

@HGRJoshEdition Yeah, I used GTK Recorder on Ubuntu and brought the ".ogg" file to my hard drive. Converted it in Any Video Converter to ".avi" Then edited it in Camtasia Studio 7, render it and I have the video. The quality may reduce a little bit :/

[BayaneyLasBayas]

good job

[ghhgtd]

what version of ubuntu you use

[MicroHelper]

@ghhgtd I'm always updated with the newest version now. I'm with Ubuntu 9.10. I say wait for 10.04 . It's coming out this month (April)

[jnoort]

@2:26... What kind of studio? (Sorry, I'm new to this :))

[MicroHelper]

@jnoort It's all right bro. It's Camtasia Studio 6

You could get it at the site (The name is Camtasia(dot)com

[NosGuide]

I would just like to say that Xvidscreencap(pretty sure thats the excact name) is the best desktop recording program for linux. GTKrecordmydesktop and Istanbul are nice alternatives but are more problematic(throught my experiences at least :\

[darthorpheus]

gtk-recordmydesktop At least get the name of the application right.

[CompTechExpert]

i am guessing that u used this app to record this vid

great tutorial i subbed just cos this vid was so good

[mattboy1152]

Something is wrong here. Every time I click record a window immediately pops up saying the video has finished recording. Of course the video most certainly has not finished recording! Well, it has but spontaneously! I did not cause it! There was another Ubuntu screen capture program I tried using that did the same thing! What's wrong?!?

[salvadorm001]

wat progam did you use to put the video and sound together i have gtkrecord and audacity but i dont no how to put it together.....and how did you get the bottom thing...

[50557733]

Good on you kid!! Excellent tut, thanks!!

[justbloomit]

fantastic vid!

[VistaX1111]

k, thanks

[VistaX1111]

i have camtasia on my windows partition (im dual booting) could i run it on ubuntu?

[MicroHelper]

Can't. I tried it and it don't work. What I do is record the video with GTK and save it onto my Hard Drive and get a video converter program (Any Video Converter) and convert the "ogg." format into a AVI format. And edit it in Camtasia Studio 6 :)

[gustavohuink]

Just use WINE!

[MicroHelper]

Don't work with Wine .

[Bro0kLyNz]

So i need to boot my windows so i can edit and render the video?, because i've tried with kdenlive.. but i just can't get good quality when rendering..

[MicroHelper]

YEP>

[Bro0kLyNz]

Actually i finally understand kdenlive, i'm now able to record with gtk-recordmydesktop convert the .ogv to .avi with DeVeDe turning it to 1280x720 / 16:9 aspect ratio. Then i use kdenlive to edit the video, it's not so difficult once you get it ^_^.

I don't have a widescreen monitor, so being able to do what i did with sony vegas 8 pro, without having to bootup windows it's awesome :D.

I can now proudly say "I don't need to use windows, I'm a Ubuntu user." i only used it for sony vegas 8 :P

[50557733]

Thanks Bro0kLyNz, good info!

[Bro0kLyNz]

No problem :D

[t2491tom]

how do u stop recording

[MicroHelper]

There's an icon on the top left that shows a big Square. Click on it and it'll stop the video and render to the specific location you chose.

[gillesdhuyvetter]

omg thanks i subscribe!

5 stars thank you so much!

[Dnab55]

This is a great tourtorial! thanks so much dude!

[XVSProductions]

Great quality video tutorial. 5 stars!

[dragon5876]

u got audacity? recording songs?? lol

just like me

[MicroHelper]

nahhh... I use it for my videos on Linux only lol