Cold Cave Studios Screen Recorder

Install

Download the offline or online installer and run it(double click or run through command prompt).  The support files will be copied onto your system and the "CCS - Screen Recorder.exe" file will be copied to the directory where you ran the installer.

All of the program's files live in the following directory:

    %appdata%\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Screen Recorder

If for any reason the installer fails you can download the "files.zip" archive and extract all of the files to:

    %appdata%\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Screen Recorder\ffmpeg\bin

You may have to create the directories manually if the installer failed to create them.

The ffmpeg_wrap.exe program allows for a clean way to shut down ffmpeg in Windows, so the output files do not end up corrupted.  The original ffmpeg_wrap.exe depends on python DLLs and had issues locating/loading python DLLs, so I removed that dependency entirely and fell back to windows API calls to handle everything.  You can look at the source code and compile the wrapper yourself if you'd like ( https://github.com/RattleyCooper/ffmpeg_wrapper/tree/master )

The ffmpeg.exe file is about 80MB of additional data that is copied to your hard drive.  Everything else is small.  All of the data is compressed inside of the installer.

Recording your screen

Launch the main app; resize the app  window (handle in the lower right-hand corner), and move it by clicking within the window and dragging. Encapsulate the region of the screen you want to record and hit the "Record" button.  The application will be minimized while the recording takes place.  To stop the recording, open up the app window and click the "Stop" button.