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Selecting a Video Compressor
A video compressor (or video codec) affects the size and quality of video in screen
recordings. Some (older) video compressors like Microsoft Video 1, Microsoft
RLE and Cinepak Codec by Radius come with Windows. These compressors produce
good quality screen recordings and have decent compressions. The latest compressors
like Microsoft MPEG 4 Versions 1, 2, 3 produce good quality screen recording and
have very high compressions. These compressors must be installed separately.
Some compressors are customized for screen recordings. These compressors take
advantage of window properties and produce highly optimized screen recordings.
To select a video compressor from the ones available on your PC:
- On the Tools menu, click Settings.
- Select the AVI Video tab if not already selected.
- From the (Video) Compressor box, select an appropriate video compressor.
- Click About to know more about the selected compressor.
- Click Configure to change the selected compressor's properties. This
configuration is compressor dependent and varies from compressor to compressor.
- Change Video Quality if required. The recording's file size can be
significantly reduced by decreasing the quality of the video.
- Click OK.
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