All GIFs are silent too, which means your viewers will not have to worry about unwanted noise disturbing their quiet surroundings when they watch your screencast. GIFs have the added advantage of being much smaller files than videos so they’re easier and cheaper to host. So stick with me and try not to think about creepy crawlies in your hair.įunny GIFs are all the rage, but a quick GIF in your tutorial can show your readers where to click their mouse or just provide some visual interest to your page. Virus checking through VirusTotal Human moderators who give final review and sign off. save as link embed in your website make a GIF using LICEcap.
LICEcap is GPL free software, each download package includes the source. LOOPY (v1.0) a tool for thinking in systems see examples how to credits. In this folder, create an empty text file by opening a Notepad window, and clicking Save As licecap.ini (change.
But screenshot software tends to specialize in static screenshots.
The same people behind the legendary WinAmp audio player. LCF files within REAPER (and/or use it to convert to. If you want to run it from a removable USB device without installation (i.e., portable stealth is yes), download the installer, and extract licecap.exe to a folder of your choice. I use screenshots a lot and the software landscape for them is pretty much overdone. However, it’s from the makers of Reaper digital audio workstation, an excellent pro-level audio app. I know I know– I don’t know what’s going on with the name. Let me introduce you to LICEcap, an open source tool for taking short screen recordings and saving them as web-friendly live motion GIF screencast images.Īnd with a name like LICEcap, it must be good! Sometimes when a picture isn’t enough but a video is too much, you can take an animated GIF recording of your screen. Quick demo of how I use LICEcap to record animated Gifs. Ive been using it to record software updates as animated gifs and its. If you make a lot of screencasts, tutorials, or documentation, you probably keep a keen eye out for any tool that can make your documentation better. Image capture of the liceCAP window: Screen Shot at 2 02 33 pm.