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Thursday, September 21, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
Adding custom frames and shadows to webcam videos
With Mirillis Action! Screen Recorder overlay graphics option you are able to make your videos even more entertaining! Add logo or use overlay graphic option to make your webcam video more outstanding.
First, before we start to create overlay graphics with custom frames or shadows, we need to setup webcam size and position. To setup webcam recording settings please open Action! Webcam Settings.
1. Select Webcam device in main Video recording tab. Then open Webcam settings again and use Position and Video size options to adjust webcam video size and position. Use webcam preview to see how webcam video will be placed in your final desktop or gameplay recordings.
2. Use your favorite graphics editor and create a PNG file with frame, shadow or any other graphics you would like to add around your webcam picture. Please note that webcam picture will be added over overlay graphics.
3. Go to Action! settings and click on Overlay graphics settings. Make sure to enable Use overlay graphics option, select your PNG file as Input file and set correct overlay graphics Position.
4. Make a test desktop or gameplay recording to check if your overlay graphic is placed correctly.
TIP: Use your webcam recording test video to make sure that overlay graphics will perfectly match webcam picture. Play test video with 100% video size (press "1" in Action! Screen Recorder's player), make a screenshot and use it as a reference to create your PNG graphics.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Action! 2.1.0 is now available - check what the new version offers!
Action! 2.1.0 is now available.
What's new in Action! 2.1.0?
- NEW FEATURE: Full live streaming/login API integration with Facebook, YouTube, Twitch and Hitbox
- NEW FEATURE: Real-time live streaming viewers counter statistics displayed on HUD
- Live streaming start button added
- Live streaming privacy selection for Facebook and YouTube
- Recording performance fixed on specific Win10 systems
- Fixed Facebook video uploading
- Fixed Action! startup with Elgato device installed
- Fixed Action! AVI recording when very large cursors are visible (ex. Photoshop)
- Fixed OpenGL recording (Intel GPU ex. Minecraft)
- Fixed OpenGL recording (Exanima game)
- Stability fixes
- GUI improvements
Active desktop region recording mode [Screen Recording 101 by Mirillis]
Active desktop region recording mode is dedicated for recording only selected screen area of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 & 8.1 and Windows 10 desktop. The ultimate performance of Action! Screen Recorder makes it a perfect tool for recording videos, web videos, games, and any other screen activity.
Examples of what you can use Action! desktop region recording for:
- recording selected desktop area of Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 & 8.1 and Windows 10
- recording selected area of Windows 8 and 8.1 Modern UI applications and games
- recording online games in a web browser or windowed mode
- capturing all web videos
- creating video tutorials
- recording videos played in media players in windowed mode
- recording all applications, games, and websites
- capture screenshots of selected desktop area
1. Select "Active desktop region" recording mode.
The main window of Action! will hide and Action! will switch to the desktop region recording mode. Use mouse to select your region size and position. You can precisely control region size and position with the keyboard: use arrows to move a region, use SHIFT + arrows to resize a region.
The green frame indicates that region is accepted and Action! is ready to start recording. Gray frame indicates that current region cannot be recorded.
The region cannot be recorded when it includes the area of 2 different desktops.
The Action! HUD should be visible in the top right (the default position) corner of your screen showing that Action! is connected to your Windows desktop and ready to start recording the region of desktop you have previously selected.
2. Active desktop region recording
Press "Start/stop recording" button or F9 hotkey to start Windows desktop recording.
HUD status also changes showing that Windows desktop region recording is in progress.
Press "Start/stop recording" button or F9 hotkey to stop recording. The region frame color and HUD status will change showing that Windows desktop region recording has finished.
3. Desktop region recordings playback
Open main window of Action! Screen Recorder and check the list video recordings. The video recordings list shows all your desktop recordings, gameplay recordings and any other screen recordings available in selected output folder.
Action! features internal fast player dedicated for the playback video recordings. Select your new desktop recording and use mouse double click on a thumbnail to start video recording playback.
To play Action! video recordings you can use Splash 2.0 media player.
Splash 2.0 provide you with additional features like SmartSeek, Audio boost, Screen capture and more. All Splash products are available for download at Mirillis website:
Friday, January 13, 2017
Monflo – new remote gaming and access software by Mirillis
Monflo – new remote gaming and access software by Mirillis
As some of you may already be aware of, Remote Action! is gone. The project of Remote Action! has been expanded and we have created Monflo – a universal remote access software for gaming and personal and business use.
Our brand new remote access software will let you use any application from your server Windows computer on your Android mobile device or another Windows computer, as well as access any files that you need and play all the games installed on your PC!
When developing Monflo we have taken into account any features and functionalities that can, and will, make your life easier. Access to some of them is different, according to the subscription plan you have chosen. But, let’s make it clear – Monflo in its basic version is FREE, what is enough to remotely play your favourite games on your mobile devices.
If you need Ultra HD quality of streaming or HEVC video streaming, possibility to record your sessions, file transfer, benefit from Connect Anywhere feature, or use it commercially, then you have to choose one of the paid subscription plans.
Interface – the beginning of journey
Monflo’s interface is clean and intuitive – it can be seen from the very beginning.
You can log into Monflo either through your login and password (account is required) or Connection ID (for more details on what Connection ID is check https://monflo.mirillis.com/remote-pc-access/tutorials/connection-id-tutorial#tutorial).
The best features
Favourite applications and games lists
With Monflo you can create and manage your own personalized favourite applications and games list on your PC to access all the apps and games later with your Android mobile device. This allows you to run your Windows applications on Android easily just with a single tap.The applications list and the games list are separate.
Connect Anywhere
Connect Anywhere is a feature that lets you to connect your Client device to your server wherever you are.There is no restriction in using Monflo to get remote access over your Server computer from your Android device or another PC computer.
Connect Anywhere is only available in Premium Plus, Corporate and Enterprise subscription plans. In Free and Premium subscription plans the access to the service may be restricted or unavailable.
For more see https://monflo.mirillis.com/remote-pc-access/tutorials/connect-anywhere.
There is really many of Monflo features to discover.
If this have made you curious you should definitely download Monflo Remote PC Access Software and see by yourself for what it can useful and how much fun it can give you!Visit Monflo website
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Time-Shift Feature [Screen Recording 101 by Mirillis]
Time-Shift - the life-saving feature of Action! Screen Recorder
Have you ever lost a chance to record a perfect in-game action because you forgot to turn on the recording?
Well, you can say “goodbye” to all the lost opportunities – Time-Shift feature is here for you.Save your last gameplay actions by pushing just a single hotkey, which you define by yourself. Time-Shift option keeps recording all your current gameplay action in a short loop buffer.
How to enable Time-Shift function?
Time-Shift feature is available only for Games and applications recording mode. Run Action! Screen Recorder and make sure that Games and applications recording mode is selected.
Find Time-Shift option and make sure it is enabled.
Adjust your Time-Shift duration, video recording settings (video size, framerate etc.) and run a game. Working Time-Shift option is indicated on Action! HUD:
To save your Time-Shift recording to a file just press a hotkey. Default hotkey to save Time-Shift to a file is: Left Alt + F9
How to save Time-Shift to a file?
To save Action! Time-Shift to a file you have to use a hotkey. Default hotkey is: Left ALT + F9
What are Time-Shift requirements? All you need is an active "Games and applications" recording mode and a free disk space! It's really easy. Hardware acceleration for video encoding is also recommended, but not necessary.
Time-Shift feature has only a few limitations:
- The feature is available in "Games and applications" recording mode only
- Minimum Time-Shift buffer duration is 10s.
- Maximum Time-Shift buffer duration is 10 minutes.
- Time-Shift recordings are available in MP4 file format only
- Maximum recording resolution is 1920x1080
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