![]() So what you can do is open the screen or any PDF which you want to annotate before capturing. So if you look at the hotkey settings there is one setting for the capture region which is the control print screen. You can do annotations even before you capture your screen in the Sharex screen recorder. On-Screen Annotations before Capturing the Screen: ![]() Now if you don’t want to use these hotkeys there is a “capture” tab at the top you can click on that and you have all the options available you can capture full screen a window monitor any region all these options are available in the capture tab. In this way, you can use any hotkey which you prefer. If you want to change any hotkey for example instead of control print screen if you want control+1 You can click in that field, and then you press ctrl and 1 so it will be changed to control+1. If you want to capture the entire screen the hotkey is the print screen click on the print screen button on your keyboard and it will capture the complete screen similarly there are some other hotkeys. And if you want any region you can click and drag to select any region by using this method. so if you click the control key and the print screen key together, it will show you the cursor that will be auto-capturing various regions as you move that over various areas of your screen. Now let’s talk about some of the hotkey settings on the left-hand side you have the hotkey settings tab, if you click on that these are some important hotkeys for example to capture a region of the screen, you have control+printscreen. Now, in the preset section ultra fast is the option for real-time recording because for real-time recording you want to be as fast as possible and if you select any other it will show you a warning but if you are recording some games you can try slow options as well so these are some of the important screen recording settings in Sharex Hotkey Settings in ShareX Screen Recorder so the default value would be around 30 which you can keep as it is. The term CRF is a constant rate factor if you hover over that you will see a message there saying “Higher number means bad quality but low file size and a lower number means good quality but large file size”. You can keep the default options if you like. Now let’s talk about some more screen recording options in the audio section you select mp3 you have few other options and in this video codec section you can either select h264 x264 or you can also select this h264 NEVEC. Now we have to set the path for our folder where all our screen captures will be stored so to do that you click on application settings and click on the path and by default, a path will be there when you open this and if you click on “Browse” you will see the folder where by default share x stores all the files but you want to change it! To do that, you click on browse and then you can select any folder from your computer or laptop. How to Set Path in ShareX Screen Recorder Then you are ready to record your screen and you will see your audio devices. For that, what you need to do is click on “install recording devices”. In the beginning, you may not see your external microphone and other audio devices. Now although you have installed the software, you still have to install few things to do that you click on “task settings” –>then –>”screen recorder” then –>”screen recording options” and then you click on –>”download” to download a file named ffmpeg.exe. ![]() To download and install sharex you type sharex download in google and this is the website you click on this downloads link and then simply download this executable file this is the last full version and then you simply run this file and follow the prompt and sharex will be installed on your computer once you have installed sharex you will see its logo, you click on that and you will see the sharex user interface. After learning all these you should be comfortable with using sharex so let’s get started: How to Get and Install ShareX: By using sharex you can capture your screenshots you can record your screen in the form of a video and you can annotate your screen before capturing it with arrows rectangles circles and other shapes now this annotation feature is fantastic if you create educational video tutorials or for youtube videos you can also put some borders and frames around your capture screenshots now sharex screen recorder has tons of features which cannot be covered in a single tutorial, therefore, I have listed these some important items which I am trying to cover. ![]() After reading this and watching my YouTube video which is a sharex tutorial you should be able to use sharex with confidence. ![]() In this article, I’m going to show you how to use sharex which is the best free screen recorder somewhat similar to obs. How to Use ShareX: The Best Free Screen Recorder for Making Videos ![]()
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