Screen Recording question

terence-park wrote on 8/30/2023, 5:33 PM

I have been recording videos as well as audio for a number of years - having run products such as Pinnacle Studio 8, Ulead Video Studio 9 and Debut Video Capture... and having seen Magix Movie Edit Pro (2021) as a bargain price, I went and bought it. Having gone through the installation process I decided to trial screen recording using one of my dual monitors which are at 1080 x 1920 - I run Windows 10 Pro-64 bit on 16 Gb RAM with DirectX12 with both monitors NVIDIA GeForce GT 710 (I'm not a tech head - these are just what DXDiag spat out). So anyhow not a great system but adequate for Photoshop, Excel, Word, some gaming, Crunchyroll etc.
Having got the help file up I determined that screen recording comes in the popup title 'Please select the recording method'. This popup has seven options of which it should be the third - unfortunately my 'Please select the the recording method' has only six options and the missing option is 'Screen'.
I know this sounds inane but I just expected it to - well work. Could I have, by any chance, missed something obvious... eg configuring the screen?

Note - I haven't rebooted the PC since installation as I'm in the middle of a project - could it be as simple as that?

If anyone has any input on this it would be gratefully received. I can provide screenshots

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Former user wrote on 8/31/2023, 7:02 PM

@CubeAce 😂😂 I think I need to go to bed, I didn't see that box & it has other options, I now have no idea what was there before & if any of them might have worked 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️😂 It's a strange place to put an audio option, most are below the video options,

Former user wrote on 8/31/2023, 7:19 PM

@CubeAce

I'm sure it was in Mixer earlier 🤔 & there was a window in settings I can't find at the moment,

Former user wrote on 8/31/2023, 7:30 PM

Got it now, I had to change Settings

It recorded once, the sound was crap, now all i get is this, the file is far from full or protected, I give up for tonight,

CubeAce wrote on 8/31/2023, 11:58 PM

@Former user

The System Sounds slider can be left at the off position but the other three must be brought up to show a decent level in the application being used. This often means turning down the volume of any external source plugged in to the speaker output. My amplifier volume control seldom gets to go above 2. If you are using your headphones, the volume would have to be turned down by the controls on the headphones. Look at where my Windows mixer slider levels are set to get the correct level in screen recorder. Sometimes it can be less depending on the sound source, but rarely less than half way.

Ray.

Former user wrote on 9/1/2023, 2:53 PM

@CubeAce 👍 Apart from having to open MMS to record I think that is another reason I stopped using it's capture option, My Amps are 'over there', I'd have to get out of my seat, so I don't touch them. 😁 I tend to be a bit of a night-owl, I don't use my headphones & the volume of the amps/Windows, speakers below the desk is loud enough to hear clearly even at 3am when I'm conscious of not disturbing the neighbours. Geforce Alt+F9 is all I need to do & records at the level I'm listening at. It's good to get the Studio Mix thing finally working tho. Thanks 👍

CubeAce wrote on 9/1/2023, 5:48 PM

@Former user

Hi Gid.

If you are not listening in surround sound.

You could set the RealTek mixer to quad sound and plug the stereo sound output to the rear channels. You will then have a slider to control the volume to your amps again without it effecting the volume of the recording. Just plug the amp line inputs into the rear speakers socket and use the surround sliders to set a lower level on the rear speaker channel. Set that to the maximum listening level you want when the recording is full volume in the screen recorder and then from there whenever the recorder is in use you can adjust the sound mixer as usual to control the volume as before without effecting your screen recording.

In general it not a good idea to have an amp turned up full while giving an input a low level of volume. You get a much cleaner sound and tighter bass with a higher input volume and lower output volume. This is just a suggestion, not a recommendation.

Glad you at least got Stereo mix working. If there are any other drivers for your motherboard on the website such as for the Chipset or Lan, it might be a good idea to install those as well as they don't normally come in the normal Windows update notifications. There may even be a newer versions of your Bios, memory or disc controllers.

The Eazy Update program that ASUS provides (assuming that was installed) doesn't work as it should in my experience. Not once has it informed me of available motherboard updates.

Ray.