Capture video and audio of your screen using Freez Screen Video Capture

Posted on December 9, 2008 at 5:32 am

Have you encountered a time when you wished you could capture a live video and audio on your computer?  This will give you a lot of use like being able to record a program’s screen animation or if you want to have a Tivo-like capability to capture any video and audio. 

Earlier I wrote about two similar programs: Debut, a free video and screen capture program and ScreenToaster, another free software to create video tutorials. Here is another one that you can use. 

With Freez Screen Video Capture, you can capture a designated area of your screen along with any audio coming out of your soundcard.

To get the software, go to http://www.smallvideosoft.com/ then download the installer.  Install it on your Windows PC.  Below are the steps on how to capture a part of your screen:

Step 1: Click the Record button

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Step 2: Position the capture border to any part of your screen. Drag the mouse to adjust the width and height:

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Step 3: It will begin recording as soon as you choose the screen area on step 2.  Only the chosen area will be recorded on the video.  To stop the recording, click the Stop button:

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Step 4: Identify the path and filename of the AVI movie file where you want your generated AVI to be created:

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That should get you going with the basic audio and video capturing process of this software.  To adjust the quality of the captured audio and video, use the options window:

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The options window will give you a lot of possibilities from choosing a video compressor type (i.e. Windows video, Divx, etc) to audio format (i.e. MP3, OGG Vorbis, etc).  If you want to get more definition, choose a higher quality video by adjusting the quality bar to the highest and using an audio format of 44 Khz and above.  Just remember that the higher your quality settings, the larger your movie file. 

Freez Screen Video Capture does not have any unnecessary bells and whistles and it gets the job done very well.  It is so easy to use that it has only a few buttons on it’s main window.  It also doesn’t have a user’s manual so it speaks of how much it could easily be picked up by beginning users at a short amount of time.

Ben Carigtan shows you how it’s done. 

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9 Responses to “Capture video and audio of your screen using Freez Screen Video Capture”

  1. yakoo said on : June 9th, 2009 at 2:26 am

    how do you caputre sound from your sound card…I have this application of which I want to record both video and sound…but I’m only able to capture the video of it…how do I capture the sound?


  2. Diego said on : December 24th, 2009 at 6:19 am

    Hello friend,

    I had already downloaded this program and recorded video that was on my PC screen, but it didn’t record any sound.

    I tried several other programs, can record video but not audio.

    Can you help?


  3. IL Fiume said on : January 9th, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    I have tried this software and it works well for screen capture, however, after 30 days it says it has expired and that I must upgrade to the PRO version!


  4. Lester said on : March 8th, 2010 at 10:19 am

    To record your sound, you need to open Options, click Volumn and select “Wave Out Mix”. If its not on the panel have a look if it is selectable in the Recording control properties.

    Also to reset the capture counter which stops working after 20 captures, go here:

    forum.restofthe.net/software-f19/freez-screen-video-capture-reset-counter-t23.html


  5. Juan Carlos said on : March 13th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    Estuve capturando unos videos de mi pc y resulta que se escuchan bien bajo . Presumo que se debe a que el micrófono esta conectado por que cada vez que hacía un movimiento se escuchaba tambien ese movimiento grabado. Como debo configurar para caturar el video y audio nítido a lavez ..De antemano te agradezco la respuesta.

    English:

    I captured some videos of my pc and the audio is very low. I presume that is because the microphone is connected and that every time I moved, the the noise I made was also recorded. How should I set future captures for crisp video and audio? .. Thank you in advance.


  6. Tony said on : March 13th, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    It’s recording just the video, not the audio. How can I capture the audio too?


  7. cillo said on : April 2nd, 2010 at 6:34 am

    on Mac I like Macvide ScreenCap …


  8. Eric said on : April 10th, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    Hello, I wanted to know if this program captures the audio from your computer (along with a video of course) because that is what I need, thanks. If not please, could anyone recommend me one?


  9. pedro said on : June 14th, 2010 at 8:20 am

    but this program does not record sound! At least not for me!


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