Screen Recorder

Simple tool for creating screen recordings.

Designers

• JakubSteiner, AllanDay

Use Cases

• Tutorials/demos.
• Video blogging.
• User testing?

Objectives

• Be quick and straightforward.
• Create and share simple screen recordings.
• Incorporate audio/webcam capture.
• Allow removing the most obvious flaws through editing tools:
  • Remove beginning/end of video that might be misrecorded.
  • Remove sections from the middle of a video.
  • Redub audio for sections or the whole video.

Non-Goals

• Screenshots.
• Advanced editing, such as mixing different sequences or audio snippets.
• Effects, such as title screens, annotations, flyouts.

Relevant Art

Voila

Features:

• Screenshots - capture different areas of the screen.

• Upload to YouTube, Dropbox, Evernote, Tumblr, FTP/SFTP servers.

• Collections and tags to organise videos.
• Video editing and effects: crop and trim, add shapes, callouts and annotations.

http://www.globaldelight.com/voila/index.php

QuickCast

Marketed on the basis of simplicity and speed of use.

ScreenFlow

Features:

• Capture from the camera.
• Video editing and effects: add images, text, music and transitions.
• Publish directly to a range of websites.

http://www.telestream.net/screenflow/

Silverback

http://silverbackapp.com/

Other

• Byzanz - had an applet in GNOME 2.x, with the shell only available via the commandline.
• Built-in gnome-shell screen recorder - can only be activated via a key combination).

Discussion

Potential features:

• Record the entire screen
• Record a single window
• Record a rectangular area of the screen
• Record a separate external video feed that matches the time of the main stream.
• Record audio.
• Review and edit the recorded video (stream cuts, overlays).
• Sharing. Upload the video somewhere (youtube, vimeo...)

Tentative Design

Recording:

Properties sidebar:

Editing:

Original mockups:

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-grid.png

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-new.png

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-ready.png

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-started-recording.png

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-stop-recording.png

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-trimming.png

• https://github.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/raw/master/screencaps/screencaps-redubbing.png

Discussion

Comments

See Also

insight-recorder