Bandicama settings: detailed instructions

Nowadays, computer games are more than entertainment, many people have begun to make money by renting videos and posting on the Internet. It was in order to facilitate the shooting, the program Bandicam was created. Its main purpose is to record video from a computer monitor. However, inexperienced users have problems with properly tuning the program, which reduces the quality of their creations.

In this article, the optimal tuning of "Bandicam" will be presented so that even a beginner in the video shooting case could show himself in the best possible way. All aspects of flexible program settings will be touched upon in detail and tips will be given for proper recording of the video stream.

Shooting Games

Before the story of how the "Bandicama" tuning occurs, it is worth mentioning the topic of how the process of recording itself is going on between the software and the operating system.

The bottom line is that once you install the program, it is implemented in the registry of the operating system itself. There she is only interested in the video stream, which is transferred from the video card to the monitor. In addition, the program is able to simultaneously record the sound of both systems and from external devices: a microphone, headphones or a web camera.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that the software directly interacts with the computer's registry, it is sometimes recognized by the anti-virus as malicious software, which, of course, radically complicates the recording of the video.

Therefore, it is recommended only one - to disable anti-virus software while recording video, but this may cause some indignation for some users. Check if the video recording is normal, then you can refrain from this recommendation.

How to set up Bandicam

Now you can directly talk about how the "Bandicama" setting is going on. In general, nothing complicated in this, using our instructions, you will be able to establish sound and video.

Shooting objects in a frame

Before shooting games, enter the program settings and change all the parameters to your requirements. Now we'll talk about setting up for those cases when you decided to shoot objects that are framed.

So:

1. Enter the program and in the upper left corner find the button "Purpose".
2. Clicking on it, select "Screen Area" from the list that appears.
3. The capture window appears. Now you can change its height and width.
4. Place the capture window so that it meets your needs.

Now you just need to click on the "Snapshot" or "Record" icon. That is, if you want to take a snapshot of the selected area, then, respectively, click "Snapshot", otherwise start recording.

Once you decide to interrupt the shooting, click on the black square. After that, the video will be saved on your hard drive. To not search for it for a long time, you can directly click the "Open" button in the program opposite the "Output folder" option.

So, it was presented the "Bandicama" setting for recording video with the frame, now let's talk about windowed mode.

Shooting in Window Mode

To shoot in the window, it must first be captured. For this:

1. Open the Bandicam.
2. Click on the "Target" button.
3. Select "Direct / OpenGL Window".
4. Point the cursor to the desired window for shooting.
5. Press the left mouse button.

After you do this, the name of the captured window appears in the "Bandicam" window, if it matches your choice, it means that you did it right. Now it only remains to press the "Record" button and start shooting.

Shooting video games

As for shooting video games, then everything is the same as with the shooting of the selected window. The only difference is that after selecting the shooting mode, open the game and press the F12 key instead of specifying the subject. You can stop recording by pressing the same key.

By the way, if the video when the game lags or not sound in the bandits, click on the "Settings" button and in the "Shooting mode" field select MPEG-1, also check the "Audio recording" box. After that, everything should improve.