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I've gotten so much from this great Blender community, I'd like to give back. Before I start I'd like to ask how to do this best.

Questions:

  • How do you record a Blender tutorial in Windows?
  • What do you have to set to see the keystrokes and mouse presses (or anything else that is worth showing)?
  • Which recording software do you use to record the Blender window? Or can Blender do the recording itself?
  • Can you record the Blender window alone or do you have to let it run in fullscreen to hide other elements like a taskbar?
  • Any additional suggestions?
Roland
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  • Depends on your OS. – Doyousketch2 Mar 21 '17 at 07:01
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    This is a quite good question, but regrettably most of it is out of scope for this site, on the one hand, an too much opinion based, on the other. I'm voting to close this question as off-topic. – brasshat Mar 21 '17 at 07:36
  • @brasshat maybe better move it to: http://video.stackexchange.com/ – cgslav Mar 21 '17 at 07:37
  • @brasshat I thought so too. But then again it's Blender related. I've seen there's some screencast plugin for Blender, so I guess you could do it all in Blender alone. But I don't know if that's the proper way. After all versions change, methods improve, etc. The tutorial I've seen creates a gazillion of pngs. I rather prefer to have a movie and not have to convert pngs to a movie. – Roland Mar 21 '17 at 07:38
  • LukeD, I wouldn't object to moving it there, but I'm not graced with the authority to move it myself. – brasshat Mar 21 '17 at 07:39
  • Roland, I agree that there is some Blender association, and if the question were edited so as to deal with the aspects specificly, I'd withdraw my close vote, but as written, I think it is out of scope here. – brasshat Mar 21 '17 at 07:43
  • This could be Blender related if you use its built-in functionality to capture; thus ScreenCast addon for keystrokes and Capture tool for animation itself. You can find some of tips on meta however you'll want to choose another file format. – Mr Zak Mar 21 '17 at 08:47
  • http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/15830/how-to-create-a-video-with-audio-comment/15838#15838 and http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/23059/how-do-i-display-what-keys-i-use/23060#23060 and http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/555/screen-recording-with-blender/73923#73923 and http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/41911/what-does-the-make-screencast-button-do/41912#41912 –  Mar 21 '17 at 09:07
  • @cegaton Thank you very much, I'll check out the links. – Roland Mar 21 '17 at 16:07
  • @Mr Zak Thank you, that's very helpful. I always wanted to know how people create these animated gifs here on the blender site. – Roland Mar 21 '17 at 16:08
  • "Bandicam" records all or any part of the screen you zoom into. It can be paused etc. It's also free but I did pay for it. Not sure if I got any extra for that but the "Bandicam" imprint disappears from your outputs. I agree with the BSE site sentiments. Have learned a lot from other people's difficulties. – Edgel3D Mar 22 '17 at 03:30
  • I figured you can record a video all inside Blender itself. Only problem is the showing of the keys and mouse movement. It got removed for a reason. But without adding an alternative. – Roland Mar 22 '17 at 05:21

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