Screen recording vcvrack on linux

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is anyone recording their screen and audio on linux? I’m using camtasia on windows and macos with great results, but I am looking at system 76 laptops for fun and wondering what is used to do the same on linux

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OBS works pretty well altho I find I have to put the video through kdenlive afterwards to fix the colour.

you can also record using ffmpeg directly, there’s a couple of command line options around that work well.

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I don’t seem to have this problem :thinking:

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no I’ve been trying to track it down. OBS is often reported to record with dark colours but no good explanation is given.

the weird thing is that all I have to do is drag the dark OBS video into kdenlive and render the video and it comes out perfectly. I have no idea.

I should add it’s not just OBS, it’s every screen recorder I’ve tried including ffmpeg at the command line, software or hardware encoding, different colour spaces, bitrates etc.

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That does seem like a prime suspect. I remember the occasional pains with Natron and Blender regarding making sure the color spaces and profiles were set correctly during playback.

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check the settings of obs. also, there are filters to do color correction.

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I use OBS as well , but I eared SimpleScreenRecorder is great

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A plus one here for SimpleScreenRecorder - it’s never been a problem.

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SimpleScreenRecorder is very lightweight so perfect for bigger patches, but I still can’t get it to record the audio of VCV Rack at the same time.
If set to Monitor … sound is very silent … other setting just put out loud distortion :frowning:
But this might be a Pulseaudio Problem. Will test again with Jack.

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Finally got it working on Mint with VCV 1.1.4, Skrylar’s Jack Modules and SimpleScreenRecorder. :star_struck: :nerd_face:
VCV’s Audio our crashed with Jack :frowning:

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If recording VCV Rack’s screen only, use
https://vcvrack.com/plugins.html#Recorder

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Hi @AlasdairMoons, Pulseaudio and Jack together is a tricky thing. Please have a read here at Jack Audio and Walkthrough.

I use Cadence myself under openSUSE Leap 15.1 without issues.

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OMG, so cool, exactly what I need
tested it and it works nicely on my Windows 10 … will test it later on my Mint … :smiley:

Thanks @Vortico for this wonderfull piece of Software

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The update makes a huge difference now for me regarding performance when recording, thank you.

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Tested it on my Linux Mint 19.2 Mate this evening … works like a charm and uses very little recources.
Standard Pulseaudio, no Jack required. Perfect.