Welcome to Teacher's Tech, my name is Jamie and it's great to have you here. Today I want to show you
five of the best free screen recorders so these screen recorders are going to be no watermark but
they'll range from simple to more complex options depending on what you want to do with them so
maybe you want to be able to create lessons how I do and upload them to YouTube I'll show you a good
one for that maybe you want to be able to just record your screen for gameplay and you don't have
to worry about time restrictions maybe you just want to take a simple screen record of something
you're working on to share with other people so I've picked five of the ones that I really like
five free screen recorders and those are what I want to share with you today on teachers Tech
so just to let you know I don't use one of these free screen recorders for my YouTube videos what
I use is Camtasia so this is it right here this actually has the track already that the clip of
my introduction in it so I can edit all my videos right in Camtasia then I can quickly
add these effects if I wanted to add like the cursor effect to have it highlighted wherever
I want to go or many of these other ones right through here but remember this isn't a free one
but I do have a discount code I'll put the links to it down below if you're interested in it but
let's start with some of the really good free ones if you don't need to have all these options
so let's start with number five and this is an incredibly easy screen recorder to use and it's
all online this is by a powersoft and I'll put the link to this description uh to this so you
can click on it to come right to this page so what I want to show you is this one right here
it's the start recording not the download app one so I'm going to go ahead and just select
this and you get some options right away what you want to record and notice that you can add
a extension here a Chrome extension that will place it right up top here so you can quickly
get to this page but I'll let you install that if you would like if you'd like just go ahead and add
to Chrome now what is it I want to record let's say I want to record the screen I want to record
a webcam and when you select these uh you just need to hit allow them to have access here and
system sound will say yes and we'll say microphone now I want to point out I'm going to just uh hit
start recording and use you're going to see it come up and ask me about the microphone here hit
allow and then it asked me to select what I want but the one thing that didn't happen if this is
the first time you're using it my webcam didn't pop open so I'm just going to hit cancel and I'm
going to hit refresh and hit start recording again this time when I click on the webcam what you're
going to notice is that it will pop up and here it is and it's just something I noticed in the very
first time when I use it and notice I can drag it around to where I want here I can change the size
of this as well now I can record my microphone just like this and I can go ahead if I get all
the things that I want hit start recording and then now what do I want to record you could
record a Chrome tab whatever ones are going to be open it's going to come up a window here's
my options or the entire screen so if I wanted to record my entire screen I could select this
if I wanted to make sure the system audio was in there I could select this little box I'm going to
hit share and it does the countdown notice it's saying if it's longer than 30 minutes that they
suggest downloading it and testing out that one you can go ahead but I find they're just trying
to sell you up to the pro version on it we have we're eight seconds into this video I can pause
it or stop it but usually what you'd be using is this one down here because if you went away
from this window this is still here and I can also hide it so I'm going to hit stop sharing
and just like that you can see I have my video if I click on it it is that they suggest downloading
it in testing out you can see it has my video in it it has my voice recorded and then I have
even a few more options so first of all if I want to download this because this is just online just
click these three little dots here and we have downloads so I can just go simply download and
it downloads it and I can open it up with media player of my choice so if I go ahead and select
this you can see that this will open up just downloading it and testing out that one super
easy to use we have a few more options that we can use over here I'll just show you this one if
you wanted to trim your videos it pops open and allows you to maybe you want to trim things off
the beginning or end what you can do is just drag them to where you want and then you can start your
processing so I like this one as a free one this is incredibly easy to use by a power a power soft
here if we want to start a new video just click on this I go back or install that extension then you
can quickly get back so test this out if you just want a simple one let's move on to number four now
number four is Loom so if you need to make a quick video to share with somebody and you actually want
to know if they saw it Loom is great for that so in the free version you're allowed to create five
minute videos uh if you're a teacher you can actually with your education email sign up and
then you can get up to 45 minutes but I'm gonna go ahead and sign in to mine I'm just looking at the
free one here I do have an education account as well but I'm just going to log in with Google you
can see the different ways that you can create it but once you're in it works very similar to
even the last one I showed you you can install a Chrome extension you could download the desktop
app if you'd like but I'm just going to show you how simple this is to use it saves one that I
already recorded in this one from before but if I wanted to record new here all I'm going to do
is go to new video up here and record a video you can notice I can even upload video but I'm going
to hit record a video and then the options come up here so let me click on this one more time here
and this pops up and this is where I can select what I want I have a circle you can see I have the
webcam working here and I can place this around also if I want it only screen camera only I have
those options I'm just going to leave everything as is I'm going to hit start recording this looks
very familiar to the last one it looks the same I can choose a window option again hit this one
hit share and now you get the countdown and it's going to be recording so I have a few different
places I can stop this I can stop this here or down here I'm just going to do this quick one
here stop and it's preparing the loom so now if I go back to I'm just going to go back to home here
and go back to my library again you should see two are in there this is the one that I just created
here you can see eight seconds long I could go ahead and preview this if I click on this
and I'll just hit play recording so I have a few different places I can stop them and we have the
options here you can see we have trim clips if you'd like you can go ahead and click on
that uh what I like about this one most is that ability to share so if I go ahead and copy the
link I can send this to somebody and paste that in and then when they open it up I would actually
be notified and say someone viewed this or not and you have a few different things in here so
you can see there's the different reactions and if you are paying for it or using the education
one you can have those conversations in between I use this one at work if I need that quick video to
show somebody how to do something and then I copy and send the link over and then I all have this
Library here and also in my education when I can create teams of people so this is one I like for
a quick one to be able to just show those quick how to's and send it to somebody and it doesn't
take much time to use this at all number three is share X so this is open source completely free and
this is a very powerful program and in this video I'm only talking about screen recording but this
can even do more than just screen recording so I have downloaded uh downloaded this on my computer
I'm using Windows 11 and it's on my taskbar here I just have it locked in there so I'm going to open
it up now I want to show you right away if you take a look these are the hotkeys and if we were
going to use the hotkeys to just screen record we just would need shift and print screen and that's
how we can stop start it but we can do this in other ways too but before we get into that real
quickly I just want to go to the tools because take a look at all the things this program can
do and it's completely free uh you could use this as a video converter so you can open up a video
in one file format and convert it over so again this is a free program Open Source now before
we do any screen recording I just want to show you the settings and all the different options
that you have so I'm going to go to task settings here and I'm going to make sure that I'm under
screen recorder and you can take a look at all the different things that you can change in
the settings but I'm just looking at the screen recorder so we have some options right here but
where I want to go is the screen recording options now if you take a look at this I could record from
my webcam if I wanted to but I want to record my screen here so I'm going to leave it here but if I
drop down you can see where I have some different options to record from and we have an audio source
so make sure if you're not getting audio make sure you've selected I would have to pick what mic I
want so if I'm using my line one here the mgxu one and I can also choose these other options and this
is where this program I find gets really powerful over the other ones look at all the different
video codecs that we have that we can choose from here you have lots of different options on that
one same thing with your audio and you can start adjusting all these settings through here so this
is why I like this program if we don't we don't have our audio and our sorry our webcam and screen
recording at the same time and the path you'll be able to take these videos and put them together
in a different editing program after you record it so let's do a little test here I'm just going
to gonna go make sure I have everything here and I'm going to close out of this one and I'm just
going to go close out of this one I'm going to go to capture up here and we're going to go to
our screen recording this one so we could use the shortcut as well then all you need to do is pick
the area that you want to record and when you let go it's starting to record and take a look at this
we have our stop abort and the time here and if I look at the bottom right hand corner of my screen
I can see that it's recording here where I can stop recording from this part too so I'm just
going to go ahead and hit stop recording we get a little sound there we can just test this out what
we got and so if I click on it it gives me it's starting to record and take a look at this we
have ours and we have options uh too where we can show our Mouse uh also highlight that take a look
at the different settings that you can click on this one so this one I like it's completely free
and very powerful if you're looking for a good screen recorder number two is Microsoft's clip
chat now this is more of a video editor but it has a great screen recorder built in and again
you can use this all for free you do have to make a account with this but after that you can either
use it for free installed on your Windows computer or you could just use the web version of this when
you log in and it looks exactly the same and then you could use it on whatever operating system
you're working on so in this case I'm not going to use the online version on this I'm just going
to move this out of the way I'm already opened up flip champ on my Windows computer and I just want
to point out we have record something here I like it that we can edit this afterwards in a in a good
video editor for free so I'm going to hit record something what do I want to record well in this
case let's go record screen and camera here and you'll see my my webcam gets picked up if my mic
is picked up everything looks but I want to hear I'm going to hit just record it is limited to 30
minutes in this one what do I want to record well I could go to this one hit share and then so this
is what's going to be recording right now you can see the timer is going to up to 30 minutes
here I'm just going to hit stop uh we have nine seconds and then record this is what's going to
be recorded save and exit now I could have picked a different screen so I didn't have that uh you
know that endless mirror effect inside of it but what I like about this notice that my it's
on two different layers and I can start editing now so if I go to this and just right click on
this and ungroup so I have the the bottom layer in this layer here and I can do some editing to
this very quickly I could crop the sides so you can see where the camera is larger I could crop
it down I can even add effects very quickly so if I have this selected go over to the filters
and and if I scroll down to the bottom I have all these filters I can add but there's actually
a green screen one towards the bottom here right here so if I select this one and I can change the
threshold you can see how I move this around and now I have this green screen option here so again
I can make this larger if I want move it around in the screen so this is sort of like Camtasia what I
do with mine in Camtasia it is not as powerful as that but this is one option that I like with this
free one because it comes in two different layers it doesn't combine it where you can't manipulate
that option so if I was going to you can see the timers going play you can see how it is
now and there's some other options in here I can actually quickly turn take this and caption this
but I have a different video of kind of explaining this and I'll put the link down below and I have
a different one about video editing with this one too so if this is something you want to use I'll
make sure you have the resources to learn how to use them so this is uh this is a clip champ and
if you're all done with your video you can just go ahead and Export you can see you can go up to
1080 here so this is a great option for recording your screen and my number one pick for free screen
recorder is OBS studio now this is open source cross platform and you can have a lot of different
settings for it and not only can you record your screen you can also stream but again I'm just
focused on the screen recording on this one I'm going to open it up on mine right now I already
have it open and just to give you a quick little lesson of how you set this up in any of these
scenes what you're going to do is you're going to add your sources so if I want to add my webcam
I would need to go to a video capture device and as soon as I do that I'm going to hit OK and pick
which one I want so there I am right there so I could go through and this is the right camera I'm
just going to hit OK so this can be moved around but I'm not capturing now I have to add something
else to capture so what do I want to capture I'm just going to go back and add this time I'm going
to go and add a display let's go display capture right here so it display capture I'm going to hit
OK and what is it I want to capture we'll just say the screen right here so it's going to be my one
desktop so I'm going to hit OK and I'm going to just size this and you can see as I can move it
around notice that I can't see myself but I can change the order of these so if I move the video
capture to the top there I am and really quickly I have a different video on this where I get in
more depth on this OBS tutorial and I'm going to have a new video come out and kind of explain
the streaming and the screen recording as well so watch for that but you can add effects to this too
like green screen so if I go ahead and right click on this and go filters so all I have to do is go
under the video one here so this is the video down here and add what do I need to add well I'm going
to add some chroma key here so I find the chroma key I add it and at this time I can go ahead and
start to adjust this so notice as I drag this how it changes here so I can go ahead and close this
if I needed to crop this I could because I can see a little top I could add that filter as well but
once you get things all set up all you're going to have to do is go start recording and you can
see there's a stop recording so if I go ahead and stop recording it lets me know where the video is
going to be saved but there's more settings and everything in this too so check out the
other video that I made about screen recording here where I go into a lot more depth but this
is my first pick here if you want a great free screen recorder that can do a lot more and that
is OBS studio so let me know what you think of these five picks for the best screen recorders
let me also know what you're using because I know there's lots of free screen recorders out
there and I'm also interested in trying some more just write them down below in the comments thanks
for watching this week on teachers Tech I'll see you next time with more Tech tips and tutorials