How to Screen Record in Windows 10 or Windows 11

admin October 14, 2022

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If a picture is worth a thousand words, a video is worth a million. Whether you’re showing someone how to perform a task in an important application or just want to show off your game process, Windows screen recording is a great way to do it.

Both Windows 10 and Windows 11 have screen recording functionality built in as part of the Xbox Game Bar tools, making it very easy to use even if you want to capture activity in non-game apps. However, Game Bar has some limitations, including the fact that you can only screen record one app at a time, not the entire screen. So if you want to do something more complicated than just capturing, use another method like OBS for screen recording. application at once.

Here’s how to record your screen on Windows 10 or Windows 11 using both Xbox Game Bar and OBS. If you just want a static image, see our article on how to take a screenshot in Windows 11.

Record your Windows screen with Xbox Game Bar

Xbox Game Bar, built into both Windows 11 and Windows 10, has many features including CPU and GPU monitoring. However, its most useful feature is the ability to output to MP4 format and screen recordings in Windows.

XBox Gme Bar works the same in other applications like Chrome as it does in games, but it only works within one application at a time and cannot capture the Windows desktop or File Explorer. So if you want to show someone how to do something that involves multiple programs (for example programming his web page in a code editor and viewing it in a browser), you have to get multiple videos. I have. And if you want to show them how to do something with the Windows 11 or 10 UI, like using the Start Menu, you can’t. These activities require the use of another tool such as OBS. We will discuss how to screen recordings using this tool later in this article.

1. click the app I want to record

2. Press Windows key + Alt + R Start screen recording. A small recording widget will appear somewhere on the screen showing the recording time. Most often it appears in the corner. You can also launch the Xbox Gamebar (Windows key + G), find the capture widget and get there, but keyboard shortcuts are much easier.

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3. perform the required action Record audio using a microphone. You can also mute your microphone if you don’t want to capture sound.

Four. Press Windows key + Alt + R again Stop screen recording. You can also press the stop button on the widget. “A game clip has been recorded. Clicking it will take you to the Gallery section of the Gamebar app where you can preview the captured video. You can also find his recorded MP4 file under the Videos/Captures folder .

Game clip recorded

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Configure screen recording for Xbox Gamebar

In most cases the default settings are fine, but there are some options that you can change.

1.[設定]->[ゲーム]->[キャプチャ]Go to.

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2. Change any of the following settings: Note that even though we use the word “game”, the settings apply to any app you record, whether it’s a game or not.

Record what happened (Win 11) / Background recording (Win 10): This creates a 30 second (or longer if you change the settings) buffer of automatically recorded content. So if you’re playing a game and get an epic kill, you can press Windows key + G to launch Game Bar and save the 30 seconds that have passed even if you’re not actively screen recording. Note that this setting has a different name in Windows 11 and 10, but the functionality is the same.

record what just happened

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Maximum recording length: Time before screen recording automatically stops. We recommend leaving this at his default of 2 hours.
Capture audio when recording games. By default, this records sounds from the microphone and the game itself, but excludes background sounds from Windows or other apps. You can disable audio recording completely, or enable system sound recording or balance changes.

capture audio

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Video frame rate: The default is 30 fps, but you can change it to 60 fps.
video quality: Select standard or high.
Capture mouse cursor when recording game: We recommend keeping this enabled, especially if you are recording an app that is not a game.

Record the entire screen with OBS Studio

The biggest drawback of using Xbox Gamebar to record your Windows screen is that you can only work with one app at a time and you won’t see your desktop or file explorer. To capture the entire desktop and all its windows you need a third party app. There are many third party apps, but for this purpose he prefers OBS Studio.

OBS Studio is free and great for delivering games to Twitch and other sites, making it very popular in the game streaming community. However, you can also use OBS to record your entire Windows 11 screen and save it as his MP4 file without streaming.

1. Download, install, launch OBS StudioWhen OBS first launches, it will ask if you want to optimize for streaming or recording only if you haven’t done so already. If you don’t plan to stream[録画専用に最適化]Choose.

Optimize OBS for Recording

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It also asks for a base resolution (aka canvas resolution) and frame rate. We recommend that you select the resolution of the screen you plan to capture (it may default to 1080p). If you capture using a screen resolution higher than the canvas size, the full screen will not be captured.

If, like me, you have a multi-monitor setup with different screens with different resolutions, you can always resize the canvas later.

OBS Studio base resolution

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2. Click the plus icon under Sources Add new sources.

Add source under OBS

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3. Select display capture.

Select display capture

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Four. [OK]Click. in a dialog box that pops up. You can name the source something other than Display Capture if you prefer.

[OK]Click.

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Five. choose a display When [OK]ClickIf you have multiple monitors, this allows you to use OBS on one screen while recording activity on another. If you only have one monitor, you have only one choice.

display selection

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If the display exceeds the bounds of the OBS canvas (for example, if you are capturing a 4K display and the base resolution is 1920 x 1080), the capture will be interrupted. Fix the problem. Go to File -> Settings -> Video When Change base resolution there. You can also set the output resolution here. If the base resolution is higher than the output (1080p output on a 4K screen), OBS scales down the output but keeps everything in the frame.

OBS change-based resolution

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6. Mute desktop and/or microphone audio If you don’t want to capture either or both of these sounds. By default, OBS captures audio from all applications running on your computer and from your default audio input device. To silence them, just click the speaker icon in the audio mixer.

Mute an audio source

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7. Click the start recording button It’s in the bottom right corner of the screen. Note that any noise you or your computer make will be recorded unless you have muted your microphone or desktop audio.

[記録開始]Click

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8. Minimize OBS If you are recording the screen from the same monitor that OBS is on.

9. [記録を停止]Click OBS when you’re done.

[記録を停止]Click

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By default, screen recording videos are located in the Windows 11 (or 10) Videos folder. By default, it is saved in .mkv file format.However, OBS[設定]->[出力]You can change the output to MP4 or MOV file by going to the menu.