![]() ![]() Interior: How to use Silentcast to only record the drawingĮntirety: How to use Silentcast to record 1 window Transparent: How to use Silentcast to record 2 windows Fullscreen: How to use Silentcast to record Gimp Silentcast 1 keeps going after I stop Silentcast 2. That's because I already had Silentcast running to make these animated gifs of how to use Silentcast. Notice there's a stop icon in the Notificaton Area before I even start Silentcast, then a 2nd stop icon appears when recording begins. If anything doesn't work for you, please file a bug at Silentcast Issues I wasn't happy with either of these answers so I wrote my own: Silentcast. That's it! Nothing will be copied into your system files and deleting the extracted folder will completely remove it from your system. With other desktops, run from the terminal from within the extracted folder. With Xfce, just open the extracted folder and double-click bash silentcast. Follow the Any Linux Distro instructions, but don't run the install script. Also, you can run it without installing it. Please have a look at the installation instructions below which I've updated today. Update : Runs in Unity, no problem, and there's now a PPA for installation - Thanks to Seth for his Unity Indicator patch and PPA. Added a script to do a full install without root privileges. ![]() Added options to create webm or mp4 videos instead of just animated gifs. Leave a link to your new Animate GIF in the comments below.Update : Seth Johnson has improved the Ubuntu PPA so that only the Silentcast PPA is required. How do you plan to use GIF Screencasts in your content. This is also a great way to grab people’s attention on social networks like Google+ where everybody loves a good animate GIF. So if a picture is worth a thousand words, then animated images should be worth an easy 10K or more.Įspecially, in the case of how-to articles, this technique can be a lot more effective than including a series of still image screenshots. We all know that in content marketing, images are super important. Do whatever actions you want to record, then click Stop.Ħ) That’s it! Your animated GIF screencast image will now be saved in the location that you selected in step 4 above.Īs you can see, this is a super easy process and only take a few minutes. It also provides the options to select certain features such as if you want your recording to track your mouse clicks.ĥ) Time to record – After you click Record, you will now be recording your screen. However, after a few minutes, the problems seemed to sort themselves out and everything worked great.)Ģ) Open LICEcap and size the screen capture window over the part of your screen that you want to record in your GIF.ģ) Click on the Record button in the lower corner of the window.Ĥ) After you click Record, the software will ask you to name your file and pick a location where you want it to be saved. (Comment – The software was a little buggy at first when I installed it on my MacBook Pro and all my recordings came out black. (Yes, I realize the irony that I don’t include any animated GIFs in my tutorial below, but I couldn’t figure out how to record the software itself in action.)ġ) Download the LICEcap softwareand install it on your computer. OK, let’s get started with the tutorial… Step-by-step guide for creating animated GIF Screencasts… There reality is that most people don’t have patience to watch even a short video, but they will pay attention long enough to watch your 5-10 second animations. These kinds of animated images can be a super powerful addition to any how-to or tutorial articles that you write because they provide a really fast and simple way to show your steps without creating a full video. ![]() I’ve gotta say that I was more than a little impressed with the software and how easy it was to use. (It only took me 15 minutes from my first Google search for LICEcap until I had my first image completed.) I’m sure this is going to quickly become one of my favorite new tools. I soon noticed that a few other commenters were also curious about this feature, so I decided to try out the software and create this little demo to show how easy it is to create GIF screenshots. Nate later revealed to me in the comments on that he made these GIFs of his screen movements using a Free, open-source software called LICEcap. Aside from the awesome ideas that he was sharing, I was also really impressed by his use of animated GIF images that showed exactly what he was doing on his screen (here’s an example). Yesterday, I read a great article by Nate Desmond on where he showed some pretty ninja tricks for analyzing website data using Import.io and Excel. ![]()
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