Record video and make GIFs#
- Press Ctrl+Shift+Print Screen or use the tray recording command to choose a window or a region on one monitor.
- The countdown reaches zero and disappears. A tiny timer stays in a corner; click it to pause/resume, mute audio, or stop.
- Stop with the shortcut or choose Stop and save from the timer. Hotshot saves an MP4.
Turn both audio options off under Screen recording for a silent video. Closing the recorded target ends the recording, even while paused. Recording regions cannot span monitors.
Under Screen recording > Recording timer, choose Mini or Small and any corner. The default is Mini, top right on the screen being recorded.
Select a video in the workspace to play it, extract a frame, or trim it to a separate MP4 using the start/end sliders. If recording was interrupted, the recovery action can recover a finalized, playable MP4; unreadable or unfinalized data is preserved and reported rather than claimed recovered.
For a GIF, select an MP4 and choose Convert to GIF, enable automatic GIF creation, or assign the Record as GIF shortcut. Conversion runs in the background and keeps the MP4. GIFs have no audio and use at most 256 colors per palette, so complex gradients and photographs lose detail. MP4/GIF clipboard copies are files, not static images.