Unfortunately once applied you can’t resize the zoom area using the interactive box on screen, though you can do so by editing numeric fields in a dialog box. Then you click a button to apply the effects. To do that you just draw a box on screen to indicate which bit of the screen needs to be zoomed or panned to. You can also add zooms and pans to focus in on specific parts of the recording. Here you can cut out any mistakes, then add captions and annotations such as boxes and arrows. Once you’ve saved the recording, it is loaded into the FlashBack Player editing environment. You can optionally make recordings with or without sound and you can even record from a webcam. Alternatively you can select a specific window or record from a rectangular area drawn on screen with a mouse. The BB FlashBack recorder lets you record your entire screen or (on a multi-monitor system) from one or more monitors simultaneously. If you prefer the appearance and layout of earlier versions of FlashBack (light colour scheme, timeline at top of the screen), tough luck – there is no way of customising the user interface to adopt the old look.īefore doing anything else you need to record one or more clips from which the final movie will be assembled.

Not only does this have a new carbon-grey colour scheme but it also places the timeline at the bottom of the workspace (just like most other video editing applications) rather than at the top as it did before.

If you’ve used previous versions of BB Flashback the first thing you’ll notice about this new release is the redesigned user interface. If you are a Windows user, the recently-released BB FlashBack Pro 5 could have everything you need to take you from recording to editing to rendering. Maybe you want to publish software courses on YouTube or on an eLearning site such as Udemy or FutureLearn? Maybe you need to record simple tutorials for the benefit of the people in your company or to make software demos and promotional material? For all of the above, you will need a screen recording tool and, ideally, an editing environment for putting the finishing touches to your videos. These days, it seems that just about every computer user need s to make some screencasts at one time or another.

Flashback recorder