this video is sponsored by Hostinger
Hey what's up you guys and welcome back to Gal so in a lot of the videos that I
do for this channel I use a screen recorder to show you what I'm doing on
my computer when I'm doing a particular tutorial or effect and a lot of you guys
have reached out to me asking what screen recording software I use to
produce high-quality screen recording and some editing tips to make it smooth
so that's what I'm gonna do in this video I'm gonna break down a free
options as well as paid for options for both Mac and PC and then dive into
Premiere Pro to give you some tips that I use to make those screen recording feel
very smooth as if there's no edits done at all so for the first option for mac
for free is QuickTime Player which comes built-in on a Mac computer so the first
step is to open up the QuickTime Player then from the file menu select new
screen recording and here this will bring you a little widget from which you
can choose which type of microphone that you want to use I'm using the RODE NT-USB
mic and if you want to show the mouse clicks and I want the mouse clicks to be
shown especially for instructional style screen recordings and then here
you can see a reading of how much audio is getting picked up now another way to
see how sensitive your microphone is if you go up to the sound settings and you
open up sound preferences on your computer you can go to input and then
you can select your microphone and then you can choose your input volume so as
you see if I bring it all the way up it's super loud so the center is good
because you can always add some a sound correction inside of your editing
application in Premiere Pro the essential sound panel does just that so
once that's ready to go you're just going to click the record button and
then you can click to record the full screen or you can drag to record part of
this screen so I'm just going to click and then I'll just record a few seconds
here of just my background desktop screensaver here and then I'm going to
go up and just hit the stop button to stop the recording and then it will show
you a preview of what the screen-recording looked like so you can
see it's just the background here what you can do from here is go to file and
you can export as 4k 1080p 720p 480p or even audio only I would recommend doing 4k because
then you can have more resolution to work with so I'll just save this as test
and I we'll hit save and it's going to export this test dot MOV to my
desktop now I've use QuickTime for a lot of screen recordings when I first
started on my channel but as I started doing more longer screen recordings I
noticed sometimes QuickTime Player would freeze if I was doing the screen
recording longer than 25 to 30 minutes and so that would just be more work for
me and sometimes it would cut off my audio at random part so it's definitely
a great screen recorder considering it's completely free and built-in so to get
started I would highly recommend using a QuickTime Player and then the paid for
option for Mac is Capto so I have Capto it open right here you can see I
have a ton of screen recordings here because I use this for basically every
video on my channel and to create a new screen recording all you do is click up
here on record and you can record the entire screen or you can select an area
so after you select screen what happens is it gives you these different options
now my favorite option here is the record computer audio now if you have
this check this is super great if you are demonstrating something and you want
this screen recorder to actually record what your computer is playing back so if
you're playing back something in Premiere Pro or you're playing a YouTube
video or something and you want to record the audio just make sure that is
checked now you're also going to want to make sure that you have your sound
settings also set to Capto for Mac to make sure that it's going to point to
Capto and if you're inside of any type of software you want to make sure you go
to that software's audio settings and make sure it's the output of that is
being set to Capto as well and just like QuickTime Player you can record the
microphone here I'm going to use the Rode NT-USB and I'm going to show
the cursor during the recording and also highlight the mouse clicks since
this video is sponsored by Hostinger I'm going to screen record their website
to start just hit record now I can go into Google Chrome and I'll just type in
Hostinger.com and make it full screen so my voice is now recording and
so is the screen and later in this tutorial I'm going to show you how to
zoom in and out to different areas of the screen to highlight certain areas
but for now here's a little bit about Hostinger it's a great web hosting
platform with more than just hosting there's also a domain checker and a
website builder so if I click on domain checker and I type in video production
it'll show all the domains available that include that variation of the
keywords so I think video production dot space is a pretty cool domain if you run
a studio and it's only $0.99 per year you can also use Hostinger to build
your website using templates and it comes with a free domain and hosting so
if you're interested in Hostinger you can get 15% off with my code GAL using
the link in my description and now once we're done with the recording you'll
just go up here to this little Capto recording red button and just hit stop
and save recording and one thing I wanted to tell you about before we go
into editing tips in Premiere Pro is there's this pretty cool feature inside
of Capto that I haven't seen on any different type of screen recording is if
you select open current URL in Capto what this will do is it'll open up the
current URL that you have open in chrome and you can actually download it as a
PDF so you know how if you want to print out something from a website well what
you can do is just click this button PDF saver and then you can call this
whatever you like I'm just going to save it to the desktop so I saved it to the
desktop and look at this it's a full-on high-quality PDF and if I double click
to open this up or if I right click and open it up with preview you can see the
high quality PDF quality of this and all I had to do was click one button so I
think that is a pretty cool tool and I would highly recommend trying this out
especially if you're doing education stuff so I'm just going to exit this web bit
and then my favorite aspect of it all is if you select the screen recording you
can right click and you can send it to Adobe Premiere Pro which ever version
that you're using and to add Adobe Premiere you would just hit configure
and you can add any app that you'd like so I'm just going to select Adobe
Premiere Pro CC 2019 and this should launch open Adobe Premiere Pro so as
this is opening up 2 apps I want to recommend for PC users if you guys are
using a PC and you want a free option I would recommend using OBS I actually use
OBS here on my Mac computer and it provides a free option if you want to
record a window so here you can see I have the Hostinger Google Chrome open
and you would just start your recording and it's a pretty cool tool to use I
haven't used it on a PC because I don't have a PC but I've heard great things
another paid option for PC users is Movavi and this is a great tool I
haven't used it personally but I've read about it and it seems like a great tool
to use so definitely check out Movavi and I'll put the links to the PC options
in the description box below alright so now Premiere Pro is open and
you can see here that this is the screen recording of Hostinger that I just
recorded and I'm going to create a new sequence by going down here selecting
new item new sequence and I'm going to make a 1080p 30 frames per second
sequence hit OK and now we have sequence 1 open here now I'm just going to drag
and drop the screen recording down here into the sequence and I'm going to keep
existing settings and you will see that it's actually quite big and if you go
into the settings here which is pretty cool if you go to ListView so if you go
to the ListView and then we scroll over to look at the video capture resolution
you can see was actually captured in Ultra HD 4k which is 3840 pixels by 2160
so that's great because that means we can scale and zoom
in our 1080p HD timeline without losing resolution so what I like to do first is
right-click on the clip in the sequence and scale it to frame size so now it's
perfectly inside of the frame if you want to you can select this and you go
to and you can go to effect controls and you can scale it up even more just to
get rid of that top bar at the top and you can move it over like so just so
it's more clean now another tip that I want to give you guys is if you want to
zoom into a particular portion to highlight something that's going on in
the program monitor here so as I scrub through and I go to domain checker as I
start to type something in maybe I wanted to zoom in on this moment so what
I'm going to do is hit C for the razor tool and I'm going to cut there and I'm
going to scrub forward to the moment I want it to cut so I'm going to zoom in
here and then I'm going to scrub back to the moment where I want it to zoom back
out so now with this portion of the clip selected I'm going to select this and
I'm going to scale it in so we just see this bit here and you can see there's a
lot of resolution to work with so it doesn't look super pixelated now rather
than keyframing to animate from this point to this point I'm going to use
this transition and it's called motion tween and I love motion tween I've done
an entire tutorial on it it's by film impact and it's super cool and it saves
me so much time all I need to do is drag impact motion tween right here at this
edit point and you will see that it looks kind of funky right now but that's
because we need to select it then go to effect controls and change the render
option to composite now if I just set an end point in an out point and hit return
on my keyboard to render out just that little bit there it'll render it out and
now if I play it back you can see that it zooms in really nicely so that's like
a really cool tip to zoom in without having to worry about key framing or
anything like that it's just a drag and drop and then I can copy this I can take
this effect and select it and then command C to copy it then over here at
this Atem point command V to paste it and what that will do if I render this
out now and now at this point after it's done typing it zooms back out so that's
a really cool tip that I definitely highly recommend using when you're doing
screen recordings another cool thing is that you can actually use the essential
graphics panel what I like to call the EGP to create like little call-outs or
circles or rectangles to call attention to certain things so for example if I
right click here and I clear the in-and-out and then let's say I wanted
to highlight the domain checker here I can go over here to the toolbar and I
can select the rectangle tool and here I can actually draw a rectangle around
this area to highlight it and then going over to the central graphics panel here
the EGP you're going to uncheck fill and then select stroke and you can increase
the stroke to like 15 or so and then change this color to something that'll
stand out like a bright yellow color and now you have a call-out here now I also
use an impact plug-in cause what's really cool is as you're playing this
back while it appears here you can actually have the rectangle animate on
the screen and I use this really cool plugin called an impact pop which is
part of one of their transition packs now I know that these are paid for
plugins but trust me I use them in almost every video and it's well worth
it it's only a one-time fee and it's it's amazing so let me just type an
impact pop and all I do is just drag and drop this on here and it just pops up on
screen just like that it's pretty cool and then I'll just drag and drop it at
the end too so you can easily create just quick little animations like that
and an animation to pop off it just gives it more of like a pro
effect which is definitely useful so another tip is how to create a
freeze-frame if you need to hold on the screen a bit longer while you're talking
that's easily achievable so this is a great example of doing a web screen
recording sometimes you're talking and the website actually takes a second to
load so you can see it's like a white screen here and we just want to speed it
up because we don't want to wait while this white screen is here for several
seconds as it's loading so what I can do is I can use the arrow keys to go
forward and tell that white screen is there and then hit C on my keyboard to
cut and then you'll the scrub through until the white goes away and the page
is loaded so here you're just going to hit C again to cut and then hit V on
your keyboard to go to the selection tool and then delete that bit there now
what we're going to do is extend this shot here while I'm continuing to talk
so rather than doing a frame hold I actually prefer to use this feature
which is called export frame so I select that and then I import into project and
I'll just call it still number one and hit OK then I go to the project panel
and here is still number one and I just drag and drop it down here to fill in
this gap so that way as I continue to talk you know there's something on the
screen and there's not like that white background happening and you'll notice
here that I actually am NOT talking here I probably said 'am' there so what I can
do is hit C and just cut out this bit here just just speed it up cause with
screen recording it's really about making it as precise as possible so you
can get to the good stuff as quickly as possible so that's it the
freeze-frame cutting out excess bits the call-outs here plus the little
animations and the motion tween zoom are pro tips to making your screen recording
look awesome so I hope that all of you guys found these screen recording and
editing tips useful if you guys have any questions be sure to leave a comment
below and now a question for you guys what screen recording software have you
used that you might recommend and if you guys need
any further help or free templates please join my patreon community at
patreon.com/PremiereGal and i look forward to seeing you guys there so
that's it for this video and I'll see you guys next time bye