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Selecting What To Record
Recording Your Screen
To record your screen, the Screen option must be enabled. You can then choose to either record the fullscreen, just a region of the screen or a specific window that is shown on your screen.
Recording the full screen
To record the whole screen, click the arrow next to Screen and click Fullscreen in the menu that appears.
If you have have multiple screens connected, whe
n you hover over Fullscreen, another menu will appear with the available combinations of screens that you can choose from. Click the combination you want to record.
When Fullscreen is selected, the red frame will appear around the edge of the screen(s) to indicate what will be recorded.
Click Start Recording to start recording from the selected screen(s).
Recording a region
To record just a certain region of your screen, click the arrow next to Screen and click Region in the menu that appears.
When Region is selected, the mouse cursor will change to the region selection cursor. Click and drag to mark the region you want to record.
As you drag, a dashed frame will appear to indicate the region that is being selected. In the top left corner of the frame, the region control bar displays the current height and width of the frame.
Move the frame by clicking and dragging the handle in the centre of the frame.
Resize the frame by clicking the resize boxes in the corners and along the edges of the frame. While dragging to resize the frame, a magnifying glass will appear to help you accurately drag the frame into position.
Or set the frame to a pre-defined size by clicking the arrow on the region control bar and selecting from the options that appear. For convenience, you can also switch to fullscreen or wIndow recording from here as well
If you are struggling to accurately resize the region frame around something that is not a Window (such as a video embedded in a webpage), open the Settings, go to the General tab and enable the Snap recording frame to edges which will allow the region frame to look for and snap to edges that are not necessarily on the outside of a window.
WHen you have selected what you want to record, click Start Recording to start recording the selected region.
Recording a window
You can set also set a region to match any window on your screen. Click the arrow next to Screen and click Window in the menu that appears.
As you move the mouse cursor around the screen, it will highlight windows that can be selected. When the window that you want to recorded is highlighted in red, click the left mouse button.
A dashed frame will appear around the border of the selected window. The region is not fixed to the window so you can resize and move the frame just like if you had used the Resize option. If you move the selected window, the frame will not move with it.
Click Start Recording to start recording from the selected window.
Recording a Webcam
Enable the Webcam option on the Recorder window to capture video from a webcam connected to your PC.
If the Screen option is also enabled, the webcam video will appear in front of the image of the screen. If the Screen option is disabled, only the webcam will be recorded.
Sizing and positioning the webcam
When the Webcam option is enabled, the webcam preview window will appear to show where it will appear in your saved recording.
Reposition the webcam preview by clicking and dragging it.
Resize the webcam preview by moving the mouse cursor over the window and then clicking the small, medium or large icons that appear. (The large option will always set the webcam to fill the whole screen)
To close the webcam window, click the 
button that appears in the top right corner of the webcam preview when the mouse is hovered over it. Closing the webcam window will also disable the Webcam option.
Additional webcam settings
Open the Setting to access advanced webcam settings on the Webcam & Audio tab of the Settings Window.
Select which webcam to capture from by selecting it in the Camera drop down menu. If more than one webcam option is available, Flashback Express 7 will default to the Windows default webcam.
The Choose background effect options allow you to blur the background behind you, replace it with an image of your choosing or remove it altogether:
- When No effect is selected, the standard webcam video will be used.
- Select Blur to apply a blur to anything that appears behind you.
- Select Remove to completely remove the background.
- Click
to import an image file from your computer and then select the image to use it to replace the background in your webcam video. Remove imported images by clicking the 
button in the top right corner of the image thumbnail corner.
To flip the webcam video so that it faces in the opposite direction, enable the Mirror my video option.
If the webcam image is set to the the small or medium size, SD quality is normally sufficient so will be used to maximise performance. However, if you are only recording from the webcam, HD quality can be used instead by enabling the Enable HD option.
Recording Sound
While recording your screen, Flashback Express 7 can also record what you say via a microphone attached to your PC and/or the sounds that you hear from your speakers, headphones,etc.
Recording Computer Audio
Enable the PC audio option on the Recorder window to capture the sounds that you hear.
The sound will be captured from the currently selected Output device in your Windows Sound settings.
The Master Volume setting in the Windows Sound settings will be used to set the volume of the computer audio in the saved recording.
Recording a Microphone
Enable the Microphone option on the Recorder window to capture what you are saying while recording.
Click the arrow next to the Microphone option to see a list of possible microphone sources to capture from. Click the one you want to use.
To change the volume of the selected microphone, open the Settings, scroll down on the Webcam & Audio tab and adjust the Microphone volume slider.
If the selected microphone is picking up noise when recording, open the Settings and enable the Noise cancellation option on the Webcam & Audio tab to activate noise reduction while recording.
See Recorder Settings for more details of the advanced microphone options.
