 Okay, this is a video about Kazam for recording screencasts such as this one right here right now And hopefully this is recording. Okay to record Kazam in action using Kazam I don't think you can normally do that. So I'm actually recording in a virtual machine here So let's hope that this works so Kazam Install it using whatever pack manager use aptitude apt get apt Or you know your gooey package manager and once it's installed just you know find Kazam and open it up And it has this simple window. It's very simple to use. It's very straightforward There's a few things I want to go over so you don't make one or two mistakes that I've made first Well, I can do video recording. That's what the screencast is and it can also do still shots Which I actually haven't used it for yet But I'm sure that's it. I'm sure it works great. I mean there's it's easy to take screen shots Now screen casting you have options you have full screen all screens window and area And so the difference is full screen will record the entire screen of whatever window the entire screen that The window of Kazam is on and when you start capturing it minimizes it hides itself All screens if you have multiple monitors that will be on great and you can Record all your monitors window will record a specific window that you choose an area will record a area that you choose you can crop and so I'll get into a minute on on Important things you need to think about while choosing those options next you can choose whether you want to record the mouse cursor or not So depending on whether you want the mouse cursor show up So while you're recording if you have that unchecked you'll still see your mouse cursor But the video won't show the mouse cursor someone like me who's doing tutorials on how to do stuff on a computer I usually have that checked Next you can choose to record sound from speakers and or sound from the microphone And this is great, you know You might not want to have the audio from your computer being recorded But at the same time you might if you're recording a program such as a music application And you want to show it how it works you would want to record that and Then next is your number for your countdown. So these options before we go We're gonna get more into that let's go up to file preferences to look at more of that So here you have your options on what speakers and microphones you want to use and this is important Get this set up and do a test run before you start recording your videos. So For me, I have multiple audio devices. I have HDMI video card, which also supports audio even though my monitors don't have speakers So and I also have my analog speakers and then I have a USB headphone Set and then even my USB microphone shows up as an output I'm in a virtual machine right here. So you don't see all those options but if you have a program playing audio and You're playing it to your headset while you're recording But you have this set to your your speakers you in here So you have to make sure you choose the proper output for the program So wherever if it's going to your headphones make sure you choose your headphones in the speaker option Same with microphone my headset has a microphone on it But I also have a analog and a USB microphone I have to choose the proper one when recording And again do a test run a few seconds of recording before you do a long video to make sure you have the right settings So it's up to record a 20-minute video and not have the proper audio recording Which I have done in the past with other applications And then you can turn the screen countdown on this for the splash screen, which I'll show you here in a second Screencast has your options on frames per second. What video format you want to choose from there's a few here You can choose from and then whether you want to automatically save the file or not I'll leave that off and so when I'm done recording it asks where I want to save and what I want to call the file But if you want to automatically all your videos go to one file with a prefix You can do that here and similar options under the screenshots whether you want to auto save Guess shutter. I haven't again haven't taken a screenshot with that, but those are the options there So let me get into actually doing a recording here I'm gonna open up a file browser here And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna choose window and I'm gonna come over here and click on that window Now when I start recording I'll click capture and you can see it does a countdown again We had that option to turn the countdown on and off and then you also have a choose how many seconds till it starts recording I usually leave mine on but I set it two seconds because that's usually all I need But if for some reason you need to start recording and then get things positioned real quick for some reason You can turn that number up so right now I'm recording in here and I can go in and out of folders and I can click on all this stuff And it's recording this window and the mouse cursor But since I chose a specific window, this is how one thing that varies from what I've done in the past So for the last couple of years, I've been using ffmpeg to record videos I did a tutorial on it years ago I have specific little script that I used But if I wanted to change my audio inputs and outputs, I would have to go and modify my little script That's one of the things that's nice about Kazam here. I don't have to do that And I also had set so I could record a certain window But when I chose that window basically I'm really doing an area record not specifically to that window So watch here. I'm going to open up a shell here and you can see the shell is in front of this program But the screen capture program Kazam is actually not recording this at all It's still recording this window as if that window is not in front of it So in fact, I'm going to stop my recording here. So I can you can choose pause recording And then later on start recording again Or I can just finish and since I chose not to auto save it's going to ask if I want to open it up in an editor If you have one set up or save for later If you decided you didn't like the video, you can always hit cancel I'm going to hit continue and I'm just going to save this as temp My temp folder one two three dot mp4 So let me actually go to that file And I'll open it up in my player here And I'll jump ahead a little bit so you can see me actually doing stuff in this video So you can see the mouse cursor. I'm clicking on folders And it's recording that window, but if I go ahead a little bit Maybe to like here Uh, so at one point here I This shell window is actually supposed to be right there right now. I'm pretty sure Yeah, you can see that the cursor hand is a hand instead of an arrow I'm actually dragging the shell in front of it, but you don't see it This is a good and bad thing depending on your situation And this is important because I messed up the other day using this functionality So what's good and bad about this so any of the other options whether you select an area a full window or all your screens Um, it's going to record anything in the area that you're recording whether it's that full screen or a selected area So it'll record multiple windows Selecting the window as I just showed you only records that window This is great for when I'm recording something. Sometimes I forget to turn off a chat program such as I have google hangouts running all the time And since I use google fi and google voice All my texts and phone calls all come to my computer and they pop up on the window So if I forget to to mute that And someone sends me a text or someone calls A window will pop up on my screen saying, you know, you got a call from and it shows their name and their phone number Maybe their picture and if they sent me a text what it says and that really sucks when you're recording A screencast to put up on youtube because now I got to stop my recording And cut out that part of the video and start recording again Otherwise everyone's going to get someone's phone number and I shouldn't be giving out people's phone numbers So that's the good thing about doing the window recording Bad thing about the radio recording is again, it's only recording that window So if you want to show more than one window, let's say you're showing you're doing a video on something And then you want to show an example and you you know, let's say I'm working in gimp Which may or may not have multiple windows depending on how you're recording. So that's one issue there But let's say I'm in any photo editing program I go, oh, let's get a video a photo offline and I open up chrome or firefox And I go let's search for this you're not going to see any of that or another example is a mistake I made the other day when I was doing a motion tracking video for blender You some of you may have watched this and I'm recording it in a window mode So I'm already recording the blender window and I wasn't thinking and I opened up the preference window to show people something Well, that preference window never showed up on the screen So there's like 30 seconds of me talking about stuff That isn't there because I'm seeing it on my while I'm recording it But it's not actually being recorded So that's something you need to think about when you're recording if you're going to do anything outside of the main Window of a program even if it's a preference or sub window using this window option. It won't show up