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52 52  \\Click on OK, and ffmpeg will be available for use on the command line. 
53 53  [[image:image-20220127232109-14.png]]
54 54  \\Click on OK to close the Environment Variables settings, and then click on OK to close the System Properties.
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58 -In newer
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56 +1. Start a command line window by typing cmd.exe into the search bar and open the Command Prompt
57 +[[image:image-20220127232411-15.png]]
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59 +1. in that command prompt, type in "ffmpeg" and you should see this:
60 +[[image:image-20220127232635-16.png]]
61 +\\If you get an error like this, either you typed in the command incorrectly (as I did in the following example) or you did not configured your user path correctly and you have to go back and correct it
62 +[[image:image-20220127232731-17.png]]
63 +\\You are now ready to capture video
59 59  )))
60 60  
61 61  (% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
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67 67  )))
68 68  )))
69 69  
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70 70  
71 71  == Video Capture ==
72 72  
73 73  ----
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83 +(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" style="border-right:black solid 1px;" %)
84 +(((
85 +=== Windows Video Capture ===
86 +
87 +Open a command window, and run the following commands:
88 +
89 +>(% style="font-size:14px" %)cd Desktop
90 +>(% style="font-size:14px" %)ffmpeg -f gdigrab -t 6 -draw_mouse 1 -framerate 60 -i desktop -c:v libx264rgb -crf 0 -preset ultrafast screenCapture.mkv
91 +
92 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)This will create a video file called "screenCapture.mkv" on your desktop that you can replay using VLC Media Player.
93 +
94 +(% style="font-size:14px" %)The parameters to the ffmpeg command have the following meaning
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96 +(% class="min" %)
97 +|-f gdigrab|gdigrab is the windows framebuffer, where the screen is stored
98 +|-t 6|capture 6 seconds of video and exit.  3600 = 1 hour, 14400 = 4 hours
99 +|-draw_mouse 1|capture the mouse pointer
100 +|-i desktop|capture the entire desktop -  remember to maximize your window
101 +|-c:v libx264rgb|this video encoder will preserve the rgb color values losslessly
102 +|-crf 0|lossless compression
103 +|-preset ultrafast|save the data as quickly as possible, don't waste too much time compressing the data
104 +
105 +If you want to save the for long term storage, you can losslessly compress the file even further with the following command
106 +
107 +>(% style="font-size:14px" %)fmpeg -i screenCapture.mkv -c:v libx264rgb -crf 0 -preset veryslow screenCaptureS.mkv
108 +
109 +It'll take a while, but it will create a video file that should be less than half the size of the original.
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112 +(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
113 +(((
114 +=== Mac Video Capture ===
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