How to quickly make a video screen capture of your PC screen

Are you interested in creating video content for small businesses? Do you want to find a way to make these videos quickly and with minimal resources?

Well, we must say you came to the right place! In this article, we will show you how you can use screencast software to create absolutely smashing video content of all kinds for your social media and blog. Also, we will help you to choose the right tool and explain how you can record your screen and create awesome content. Interested? Then keep reading!

What a screen recorder actually is?

In essence, a screen recorder is just a desktop or online program that allows you to record your screen, while you are working on it, using a webcam, participating in a webinar, etc.

With screen recorders, you can create explainer videos and how-tos, capture any online sessions, and create quick and easy content for your blog. The most important thing you need to understand is that these programs should be used only for professional or personal reasons, and all the parties involved should be informed about recording. We really value personal privacy, and screen recorders should be the tools that bring you joy, not trouble.

How you can choose a nice screen recorder for your PC

Choosing the best screen recorder is not as easy as you may think. Every person has their own needs, and if we don’t mind having a watermark on our records, it doesn’t mean that you can’t be absolutely against it.

However, there are main rules that help to choose a great screen recorder:

The menu should be intuitive
It should give you an option to choose whether you need to record a whole screen or just a part of it
The tool needs to have an annotation feature
The software allows you to record both audios from your computer and from a microphone
All the finished records are very easy to export

The lifelong debate: online screen recorder vs. a desktop software

So you simply need to know what is better: to record your screen with a desktop app or use a good old (preferably free)?

So, if you have a not-so-powerful laptop and think that it possibly can’t handle another program on it, choose an online screen recorder. Desktop versions offer you more advanced features, and some of them can even perform other tasks, like basic video editing, and that’s why they will need more resources than online ones.

So, we want to say that we believe that if you are going to use a screen recorder only once, choose an online one. However, if you know that you will need to record your screen multiple times, it is much easier to have an app on your desktop and just click on it whenever you need it.

Our top picks for video recorders

We think that it really doesn’t matter whether a screen recording app is free or paid: if it is good, we will gladly invest our hard-earned money in this software. However, not everyone has this privilege, we get it, and that’s why here we want to present to you different screen recorders, both paid and free ones, for you to choose the right one.

Snagit

This paid tool is a nice app that can work as a Windows or Mac screen recorder, depending on the device you are using it on.

Snagit can capture everything that happens on your screen and create videos, images, and even GIFs using the given records. It has tons of advanced features, but it is still a very easy-to-use tool, and that’s why we really love Snagit

Apowersoft

Want a ? Here you have it! Apowersoft is an excellent screen recording software with tons of positive feedback and happy users. Recording with this tool is absolutely marvelous, and you can customize your recording features in a matter of seconds online!

But stop! Apowersoft has another surprise for you! If you love this tool but still prefer to use it in an app form, it is your lucky day. This amazing program has a downloadable app, and you can use it on your PC just like you use an online version.

Screencastify

Our next favorite is a beautiful program called Screencastify. This amazing tool makes creating a screencast process just divine.

And this tool is more than just easy to use: it is a Chrome extension that can be installed in a matter of seconds and used whenever you need it on any page you want. However, Screencastify has limited features in a free version, and if you want something more advanced, you need to pay.

But we do love this tool anyway, so do not hesitate and add this application to your Chrome right now and try it!

OBS Studio

OBS Studio is an amazing open-source screen recorder that is absolutely free but has everything you can possibly need from a tool like that. It works on Mac, Windows, and even Linux, it’s easy to use, and you have unlimited time for recording and no ads at all with OBS Studio.

OBS Studio should be a pass for you if you also need to perform slight editing in your videos because it can only capture videos. Sorry!

And at last: recording time!

Basically, to start recording, you need to click on a button start in your app, and the recording process will probably be started.

But before it, you need to choose what part of the screen you want to record (whole screen or some part), whether you want to record audio (from your mic or from PC), and tune other important features in your screen recorder. Now you are ready!

And boom-ba-da-boom, you have your webinar or explainer video recorded, and all you have to do is to edit it and show it to the world. Good luck!