Overview of CapturePlus Screen Capture Features
It offers a variety of capture methods, from easily capturing an entire scrollable screen that does not fit on one page by using Window Scroll, to letting users manually select an area to capture.
Each capture is added to a new tab, and options such as automatically saving each capture to the clipboard or automatically saving it as a file to a desired location can be changed in Preferences.
Each capture feature also has a default hotkey assigned, and these hotkeys can also be changed in Preferences to suit your needs.
Each function provides powerful capture options for different situations, so if you try them out yourself, you should be able to get familiar with them without much difficulty.
-Select Area (Shift+Ctrl+R): Lets the user manually select the area to capture.
-Window (Shift+Ctrl+W): Helps the user select by window.
-Window Scroll (Shift+Ctrl+C): Easily captures the entire scrollable screen in browsers and Microsoft Office products.
-Object (Shift+Ctrl+Z): Unlike Window Capture, this allows more detailed selection.
-Full Screen (Shift+Ctrl+S): Captures the entire screen.
-Active Window (Shift+Ctrl+A): Captures the currently active program window.
-Active Window Work Area (Shift+Ctrl+T): Captures only the content area of the active program window, with the frame removed.
-Capture Inside a Fixed Rectangle Area (Shift+Ctrl+F): Lets you select a capture area based on the fixed size set in Preferences.
-Window Icon (Shift+Ctrl+I): Lets you select a program area and automatically extracts the icon when selected.
-Color Capture (Color Picker) (Shift+Ctrl+O): This tool, commonly called a color picker, lets you extract the color at the current mouse position on the screen.
-Set Window Size (Shift+Ctrl+E): Lets you select a window, resize it, and then capture it.
-Menu (Shift+Ctrl+M): When a program menu or a shell extension menu opened by right-clicking is displayed, pressing the menu capture hotkey captures only that exact area.
-Last Capture Area (Shift+Ctrl+L): Captures the same area that was used most recently.
-Mouse Cursor Capture: Captures the current mouse cursor.
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How to Use the x264vfw External Codec
oCam supports external codecs (VFW), and here we will look at how to use the x264 codec.
You can download the x264 codec from the site below.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/x264vfw/
Go to the site and click the Download button.
The download will start automatically.
On the installation screens, just keep clicking Next.
Accept the license agreement.
Specify the installation path.
The installation is complete.
Click Finish.
After installing the codec, you must restart oCam before it will appear in the external codec list.
After restarting oCam, click the Codec button in the oCam main window, then click the External Codec menu.
Select the Use External Codec checkbox.
From the list, select x264vfw - H264/MPEG-4 AVC codec.
Then click the Settings button to view the detailed codec settings.
The codec settings window will appear as shown below. Since we need to record the screen in real time rather than perform normal video encoding, select Ultrafast in Preset and check the Zero Latency checkbox so that encoding is performed as quickly as possible, then click the OK button.
( This setting method is useful for real-time recording, and you can adjust it as needed depending on your situation. )
After configuring it this way, your recording will use the x264 codec.
* For game recording, if the game you want to record is 64-bit, you must also install the 64-bit version when installing x264vfw ( by default, it is installed automatically unless you change the installation options ). Then run x264vfw - Configure x264vfw64 from the Start menu and configure it the same way as described above.
* The x264vfw settings Keep/Accept only YUV 4:2:0, Keep/Accept only YUV 4:2:2, and Keep/Accept only YUV 4:4:4 are not supported, and recording will fail if you use those settings.