How to use Bandicam: detailed instructions

Unfortunately, as soon as you download a new program, the chances that you will understand it right away are very small. That is why this article is intended to familiarize with such a program as Bandicam in full.

This article will detail how to use Bandicam. Video, audio, recording quality, where to download the program, how to Russify it and how to set up the microphone, absolutely everything will be affected in this material. Moreover, the article is aimed at inexperienced users, and this, in turn, means that the text will be accessible and understandable to everyone. Terminology will be superfluous, which will allow even a novice to customize the program to fit his needs.

Where should I download the program?

As mentioned above, the article will focus on the settings of the Bandicam program. But you must first know where to download it, before you use: bandicam.com - this site will allow you to download a genuine, non-pirated version of the program. But here there is a reasonable question: "And what's the difference?".

And the difference is great. Immediately I want to say that downloading the program from unreliable sources, you run the risk of catching a virus. No, not the virus that infects the human body, but the virus that affects the computer itself. If you understand this in more detail, it becomes clear: since this program is very well known and very popular, attackers can easily download it and bring malicious software into its code. After that, most likely, he will lay out Bandicam on some site, titled article on the type: "Bandicam: download for free, without registration and SMS." A trusted user easily swallows the bait and conscientiously launches a virus into its operating system.

Proceeding from this, it is possible to make a unique conclusion - it is necessary to download Bandicam only from the official site of the developer.

What if the program is in English?

We already figured out where to download the program, but it's still early to go on how to use Bandicam.

Everyone reading this article speaks Russian. And that's why the question of how to make the program in this language will be discussed right now.

Of course, this problem is rarely encountered, since the program was initially Russified, but by some coincidence, it may happen that the downloaded version of the program will not support the Russian language. In this case, do not despair, on the Internet has long been an innumerable number of crackers. All you need to do is find the one you like and download it.

The process of Russification is very simple. Most likely, from the Internet you download the archive, in which the files will be located, which will need to be placed in the root folder of the program. Accordingly, you need to do this. In any case, the archive will also contain an instruction in which everything is described in detail.

Now that we have figured out all the details, we can move on to the main topic, namely: "How to use Bandicam."

How to set up audio and video?

Once you download the program, do not rush to start shooting right away. Before using Bandicam, you must first configure it.

First of all, we touch the main settings - audio and video. Although the settings are main, but this does not mean that their configuration is complicated. Following the instructions, you can easily set up everything in a couple of minutes:

1. On the main screen of the program, go to the "Videos" tab.
2. Find the "Settings" button, which is located in the "Record" column.
3. Clicking on it will open the "Record settings" window. In it, you need to put a mark next to "Record sound" (now during recording will record an audio track).
4. In the field "Main Device" from the drop-down list, select the name of your speakers. This is necessary so that the recording of the audio fragment is correct.
5. Click "OK."

After the done manipulations, you'll adjust the sound, but that's not all, we need to work with the video, so do the following:

1. On the "Videos" tab, enter the "Format" settings.
2. In the window, select the file format - AVI.
3. In the FPS field, specify 30 frames per second.
4. The codec is H264.
5. Click "OK."

By the way, in the same window you can improve the quality of shooting by setting the "Quality", "Bit rate" and "Frequency" to the maximum mark.

So you learned how to set up audio and video, but in order to learn how to use Bandicam this is not enough.

How do I turn on the microphone?

Now we will touch on a small topic "How to turn on the microphone". This item can be skipped by the user of the program who does not want to record his voice in parallel with the recording of the video, and the rest follow the instructions:

1. Enter the recording settings.
2. In the "Additional device" field, select the name of the sound recording device, that is, the microphone.
3. Click "OK."

As you can see, there is nothing difficult in this, but many are experiencing difficulties in this matter.

Meanwhile, the article is coming to its end, but not all has been told about how to use the Bandicam program, so we move on to the last question.

How to start shooting?

It remains very small, to learn how to start recording video from the monitor. As you can understand, there is nothing complicated in this, therefore the text will be written accordingly.

What you need to start recording:

1. On the initial screen of the program, select the recording mode (game, capture a window or record from a webcam).
2. Start the application that you want to record (or select an area for shooting if "Capture window" is selected).
3. Press the F12 button.
4. After you find it necessary, press F12 to end the recording.

Apparently, everything is very simple, therefore, following the above instructions, you can set up Bandicam to record video absolutely any.