On my Dell laptop, I opened the Nvidia control panel / 3d settings, selected OBS Studio and set that app to run on Integrated Graphics (which is the Windows Desktop adapter). The problem is that modern laptops have two graphics adapters, one for Windows and one for gaming, so you have to specify which one OBS Studio should record from. I found the solution in a How To posting on the OBS Studio site. When I first tried OBS Studio to capture a FreeCAD session, I found the drop-down menus weren’t recorded. The open source audio editor, Audacity Getting screen capture to work at all I’ve used this audio editor for years, and it’s been perfect for me. To post-process the audio a little, I use my long-term friend, Audacity.

Fifine USB microphone with cardioid (directional) pickup Its maximum volume is lower than I’d like (a good sign, that it was designed by an audio engineer), but its signal-to-noise ratio, at 78 dB, is far better than any laptop mic I’ve used. It’s a good tradeoff between cost and quality, at about $36 USD. It was time to buy a decent laptop mic.Īfter a little hunting, I found a highly-rated Fifine USB mic with a cardiod (directional) pickup pattern. So I hauled out a couple of PC microphones I had lying around from literally decades ago. Meanwhile, for video screen capture, I found my laptop microphone was terrible: noisy, low-volume, and not very directional. I’ll need to revisit that choice someday, but for now it’s working for me. The open source screen recorder, OBS Studioįor my other videos, I’ve been doing audio on the cheap, recording audio directly from my phone’s internal microphone.

Technically OBS Studio is for streaming your screen (gaming), but It’s also perfect for screen recordings for tutorials. When it came to video screen capture tools, I chose OBS Studio. I’ve been happy with ShotCut ver since: it works perfectly, and has all the features I need for my modest How To videos. I’m a big fan of open source software, so when I looked for a video editor a while ago, I chose ShotCut. In the making, I learned several handy tips for improving the quality of my screen capture videos. I recently made two FreeCAD tutorial videos.

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