are you looking at maybe recording your screen for some gameplay or maybe you want to create
a tutorial of some app you have on your computer well the windows 11 has a built-in screen recorder
that you can use for free and today on teachers tech i want to show you how you would use this
and maybe why you wouldn't want to use this and use a different one let's get started
so first of all where are you going to find this screen recorder on windows 11. if you just go to
the search down here you can search for i have it right here but just the xbox game bar so if
you type that in you can see this is what we're looking for you do not need to have an xbox to use
this so i'm going to go ahead and click on this and then i'm just going to toggle some of these
things so you can see captures right here and it wasn't on because all these if the blue line
isn't under these then it won't show so here's just to point out some other things when you
first turn it on you might have everything turned on like this that shows things from
audio to resources to performance on it so right now for this tutorial all i want to have on
at the moment is just the uh just the capture here so the capture works quite easily uh just pointing
out a few different things here so we have our take a screenshot so the screenshot just takes a
picture of the screen you can see the shortcuts as i hover over them the other thing i want to point
out and this might be kind of why you might not want to use this depending on what you
how you're going to use it notice right now i cannot record that's because i don't have an
app open you need to have an app open in order to have this record so i'm going to open something
in a moment and then you're going to be able to see it also i just want to point out you can turn
mic on uh while recording just by toggling this on and off like so now the other way you can get
to this and using the shortcut if you don't want to go to the xbox game bar just simply hold the
window sign down and the g at the same time the g stands for game so if uh if i wanted to record an
app i'm just going to go ahead and open up an app now i have this app open here now i'm just going
to use the shortcut for the windows and the g and you can see when this comes up i have the record
and all i have to do is simply click this right now and it's capturing i'm going to just move this
down so it shows how much it's captured the status i can stop it right here and you can see turn the
microphone on also in this case with the tutorial i don't have it on but i can turn it on and then
it's going to start recording the voice in this so it's going to go simply until i hit stop and
you can see game clip was recorded even though i have the whole screen it doesn't take a little
screen the only thing that's being recorded is the window so now show all captures if i go to show
all captures i if i look at this right here i have this being recorded you can see how it's recorded
the gameplay in there these are all my previous ones you might want to open up the file where
everything's being stored you could delete this if you want to you can see how i could edit the
names of this so you'd get a series of different recordings on this so even if i opened up another
app if i closed down this one right here and let's say if i was doing a tutorial on uh we'll just
open up microsoft word as soon as i have microsoft word open on this on this computer and i'm hitting
the shortcut again on it like so i have this here so i can go ahead and click this and let's say i'm
doing a tutorial here on microsoft word as i go through and i'll just click on a few things
and i'll just draw and i'm going to go ahead and stop it and game clip recorded so now i'm just
going to go to i'll click on that blue and i can see right here i'm going to go ahead and hit play
and you can see the recording and at this point uh there's going to be a little bit of audio you
might not be able to hear when playing back but you can see what's happening right there so that's
just a little bit about the recording something i want to point out now if you're doing a series of
different uh different clips you might want to have them edited also so if i just go ahead and
open uh up i'm just going to open up the local file so these are being stored in the file so
that's the clip right here if i go ahead double click on it you can see this is the recording
that was just captured i could hear it a little bit i'll just open this back up again but what
you can do with these you could upload these straight to wherever to share them you could
upload them to youtube but maybe you want to do some editing and i just want to point out here
there is a video editing app on windows 11 2 and i have a different tutorial on that if you go ahead
and search for video editor and open up this app you can actually trim or add music to these clips
or put them all together in one longer one but take a look at that tutorial that i have that
will help you do that so what i want to do now though is look at some of the settings inside this
capture screen for windows 11. where you're going to find some of the settings are right up here
in this right so i'm going to go ahead and click on this and i just want to point out a few things
i'm not going to go through everything you might want to change your shortcuts here so
you can create your own shortcuts you can see right now it's the windows plus g but if you
wanted something else you could change that so any of these you could go through and change them
as i go through i just want to look at the capturing here you can see re record in the
background while i'm playing a game if you want to enable that i go take a look at the game features
if you are using this for recording games the other settings i want to show you are
in the windows setting for windows 11. to find these other settings just go to your
search here and we're going to just type in capture settings i have it coming up here
i just want to point out a few things you might want to customize to get it how you want you can
save to a different folder through here too you can open the folder record what's happening so
you can see the shortcut through here by pressing window logo key plus alt plus g to capture the
moment on or off what's the maximum length are you going to be doing some longer than two hours here
you can see where you can move it to four hours or go less capture audio and recording games we
can change our frame rate do we want it on 30 or 60 here video quality you can improve that by
going to high remember that would be a larger file and then capture mouse cursor when recording a
game you could turn that off if you don't want your mouse to be there so i hope you like this
little tutorial of how to use the windows screen recorder it's very very easy to use but as i said
it has to have that window open or that app open in order for it to work so if you want to capture
the whole screen this wouldn't be a great one for you but i hope you liked this little tutorial
tutorial today on it thanks for watching i'll see you next time with more tech tips and tutorials