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hey guys so today I'm here with a tutorial showing you how to record your desktop screen for free so I'm sure a lot of you guys have seen my screencast you know I cover all kinds of different programs browsers etc etc he'll ron wyden share with you how I do it and with what program so the name of the program is camstudio I'm sure a lot of you have heard of it it's a really simple free program it's what I use I do know that there are better things such as Camtasia however I just like the simplicity and the freeness if that's a word I guess the cheapness whatever I like the fact that scam studio is free and it works just fine for me so I figure I'm going to share with you guys so this first thing is you're going to go ahead and need to download it so the link will be a camstudio org I of course will have it in the description another two things you're going to need to download now the first one is going to be the camstudio 2.0 you can do the beta but I use the you know just the standard 2.0 it's just fine for me so you can go ahead and download this you're also going to need to download the loss looks lossless codec and I would be right here at the Exe file basically a lot of people have camstudio but when you download and install a lossless codec that's hard to say it gives you much much crisper and much more higher quality video so this one just open up camstudio and show you how it works i'm sitting to your very very simple interface and like i said it's no frills there's no no there's no anything like that however it does have the basics it's got good quality and that's pretty much all you need so why just give you guys a little quick tour here and the file menu you can go ahead and record pause and the region you can go ahead and pick you know like how you want to do it so like right now I'm recording full screen I can go ahead and do fixed region where you know maybe I want to record you know this corner of my desktop or I can go ahead and just pick a region and just drag and grab whatever I like so there's a lot more options I don't go through everything you can have it auto pan you can record from your speakers if I'm going to go ahead and show you the important thing which is video options now ordinarily you might see now of course depending on your computer you might see more or less here normally it'll be on Microsoft video 1 that'll be okay the quote if your computer is not that powerful this is going to be the way you want to go I want to go however what you want to do which one I'm going to do is select the gloss list codec that we just downloaded now that's definitely give you much higher quality now not all editors take it just right so I knew no at least Windows Movie Maker several others do so you might have to experiment around but this will get you the best quality and the smallest file size okay so that's it for my tutorial showing you how to record your desktop screen for free like I said it's very simple and works just fine so that's like go ahead and take a look at it if you maybe want interested in doing some screencasts for YouTube or maybe you just want to go ahead and show a friend of yours or family member a problem you're having there are a lot of different reasons why you might need it so go ahead and take a look