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24 24  1. Run the VLC installer
25 25  1. Install 7-zip
26 -1. Extract the contents of the FFmpeg zip file into a suitable directory.  I going to use C:\Local\ffmpeg\ as my FFmpeg installation location for this example.  You should see something similar to this:[[image:image-20220127221835-1.png]](((
26 +1. Extract the contents of the FFmpeg zip file into a suitable directory.  I going to use C:\Local\ffmpeg\ as my FFmpeg installation location for this example.  You should see something similar to this:
27 +[[image:image-20220127221835-1.png]](((
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27 27  The contents of the ffmpeg filder should look like this:
28 28  [[image:image-20220127225738-2.png]]
29 29  \\Select all the files and move them into the installation directory.  That is C:\Local\ffmpeg\ in this example.
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50 50  \\Click on OK, and ffmpeg will be available for use on the command line. 
51 51  [[image:image-20220127232109-14.png]]
52 52  \\Click on OK to close the Environment Variables settings, and then click on OK to close the System Properties.
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54 -1. Start a command line window by typing cmd.exe into the search bar and open the Command Prompt
55 -[[image:image-20220127232411-15.png]]
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57 -1. in that command prompt, type in "ffmpeg" and you should see this:
58 -[[image:image-20220127232635-16.png]]
59 -\\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
60 -[[image:image-20220127232731-17.png]]
61 -\\You are now ready to capture video
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64 64  (% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
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70 70  )))
71 71  )))
72 72  
73 -(% class="row" %)
74 -(((
75 -(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" style="border-right:black solid 1px;" %)
76 -(((
77 -== Windows Video Capture ==
78 78  
79 -Open a command window, and run the following commands:
71 +== Video Capture ==
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81 ->(% style="font-size:14px" %)cd Desktop
82 ->(% 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
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84 -(% style="font-size:14px" %)This will create a video file called "screenCapture.mkv" on your desktop that you can replay using VLC Media Player.
85 -
86 -(% style="font-size:14px" %)The parameters to the ffmpeg command have the following meaning
87 -
88 -(% class="min" %)
89 -|-f gdigrab|gdigrab is the windows framebuffer, where the screen is stored
90 -|-t 6|capture 6 seconds of video and exit.  3600 = 1 hour, 14400 = 4 hours
91 -|-draw_mouse 1|capture the mouse pointer
92 -|-i desktop|capture the entire desktop -  remember to maximize your window
93 -|-c:v libx264rgb|this video encoder will preserve the rgb color values losslessly
94 -|-crf 0|lossless compression
95 -|-preset ultrafast|save the data as quickly as possible, don't waste too much time compressing the data
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98 -(% class="col-xs-12 col-xs-6" %)
99 -(((
100 -== Mac Video Capture ==
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