When recording a tutorial for example it is nice to have the option to create scenes and switch between the scenes during the recording.

To start of a few common scenes can be hard-coded and would cover 80% of all the typical cases:

• Full Webcam view
• Full Webcam view + the Desktop as a window.
• Collection of scenes, where Webcam porthole and Desktop are preset to:
  • Center,
  • top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right,
  • In size S, M, L

Assign shortcuts to the above scenes so the user who is recording can quickly switch between the scenes while recording.

Here is explainer for OBS, so you know what I am talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfPRUElyZKI

Hi
First I appreciate your efforts.
I am trying to record my desktop ( Mac ), i clicked on it in the desktop option then share, but it doesn't work, in the Tab option, it works fine.

Best regards

Adam

1. I'm on Windows 10, and I'm not seeing a recorded camera circle if I choose the Desktop - Application Window option (that is not a browser application window). Guessing this is a limitation? If so, I wouldn't allow the camera to be recorded for the Desktop - Application Window option.

2. I also can't use the annotations tool, if I start a Desktop recording, on an application window that's not the browser. Again, maybe a limitation of a browser extension? If so, don't offer the option for Desktop recording.

Awesome start, and really looking forward to using it more for work! 😄

I use this api in background.js like this :
navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia({video: false,audio: true}).then(stream=>{}).catch(err=>{console.log(err)})

But it always console log error If I want to get stream, do I need to do anything special?

Thanks Looking forward to your reply

The webcam seems to be moving behind the presentation when I click on the record button and make the presentation full screen.

Add Option for Custom Recordable Area, instead of fullscreen only

after starting the recording the grey circle appears where the camera should be ... but it disappears immediately!
watch the 4 frame attached
In the "Camera only" recording all works well !

it is always showed lick the photo above, it can not get the microphone and camera 's permission, and can not start to work ,my pc is a mac pro

Hi @alyssaxuu,
What a great work you have accomplished! Many thanks for making it an opensource.
I would like to know if its possible to convert Screenity into a traditional web application that can be integrated with a website and do recording from within the website? Thanks in advance for any guidance.

Super easy to use, just wondering if there is a way to hide the controls from being seen in the final recording? The highlighting and other tools are really useful, but i don't really want end users seeing me selecting these while i'm recording.

thanks for putting work into this extension, when I try to record desktop video I don't have any of the drawing tools available for me, only within a browser, maybe it would be impossible to have a tool outside of the browser window. The second issue is when I try to record a live share session from the visual studio website, the whole website becomes blank, maybe the way DOM gets manipulated is conflicting the way vscode live is working

Hi!
First, congratulations! I love this extension! And second i want to ask if it possible use this tools without necessarily having to record the screen, just only highlight mouse or similar :)

Thank you!

Awesome extension! This would be awesome to be able to upload on Youtube too!

Accessible transcriptions / captions is one more column for your feature matrix. I don't think that any screen recording tools have this! It would be nice to be able to share a screen recording with sync'ed transcript, and add headings to have an outline to skip around the recording, reply inline... Accessible UX to help everybody = inclusive design.

https://voice.mozilla.org/stt might be a starting place.

I'd love to contribute, is anybody else interested?

Hi Alyssa,
Thank you for the amazing project. I'm using it in Ubuntu 16.04 and Chrome browser. I'm able to record tabs properly but when I try recording desktop, it starts and stops within seconds. When I enabled error collection, I found the following error

Uncaught (in promise) InvalidStateError: Failed to execute 'createMediaStreamSource' on 'AudioContext': MediaStream has no audio track

Would you know what likely would have caused this issue?

If there is an option to select the particular area inside the tab and record it. It'll be more awesome.

The exported mp4 is not compatible with macOS, it is opus instead of h264 I think.

Does the mic icon confuse anyone as well? What if we change the "mic off" icon to red crossed? Just like the google meet has

Because the blue icon makes me think the mic is on and working and the white is off.

Congrats on this release @alyssaxuu! This could become an extension that I use daily..
This is a small visual improvement, I just got started testing it :)

Since the clear button is highly usable. Making it possible to add shortcut key for clearing all the annotation with the press of key combinations would be useful

I'm on Chrome Version 86.0.4240.111 (Official Build) (64-bit).
I'm using screenity to record my work primarily between 2 windows (Chrome @ localhost:3000 and Visual Studio Code Editor).

There are multiple problems that I face, here's the list:

1. If I have 3 tabs open, the webcam feed will only be visible in 2 tabs. Sometimes it does show on all 3. Sometimes it doesn't.

2. The moment you hit Start Recording button on the extension, a window pops up asking you to select what is it that you want to record, Entire Screen or a specific application or a chrome tab. After doing 2-3 recordings, this option stops coming up and it defaults to recording only my current chrome tab. I tried restarting chrome, but that window doesn't reappear.

3. When recording long videos (more than 10 minutes), the page that opens up when you hit Stop Recording button on the extension has a video player in it. The video player only plays the last part of the screen recording (about 1-2 minutes) and that's all you can see. When I leave the page open for a couple of minutes it then shows me the entire recorded video.

BTW you have created an amazing tool! I love using it! 👍🏼

Extension looks great, would love to see this ported to Firefox as well.

What:
Current key binding for push-to-talk is ctrl + m, is it possible to change this to something like option + m?

Why
When I am trying to record some html form interaction like toggling a checkbox while using push-to-talk, the checkbox will not check/uncheck because I am holding the ctrl key.

Hi Alyssa,

I'm using Screenity (and by the way, it's a really nice app!) and I would like to use the Google Drive button to save the record but nothing happens.
What can I do ?

Thanks and have a nice day,

Virginia

Hello, I have a very strange issue. It happens both in a W7 and in a W10 laptop. Most of the times, when I try to use the extension in Chrome, it doesn't appear the option to enable the microphone or the webcam and therefore I cannot use it. Sometimes it appears but most of the times not.

First, congrats on blowing every other recorder out of the water :)
I seem to have a problem with recordings (tried mp4, webm) from screenity. They don't work on any linux editor shotcut, Davinci, kdenlive and lightworks. Some like shotcut can play them, but dragging them to a track produces a freeze.

Maybe the problem is on my system (drivers?). This is a manjaro install with nvidia 455. Maybe its the variable encoding? I know nothing about video :)

Hello

I just tried your extension and it works magnificent.
But I noticed some problems with the playback of mp4 and webm after saving it to disk.
For some reason I can not rewind, fast forward or use the default "skip" buttons from windows media player like +10 or +30 seconds. Also I can't drag the handle to a specific location where I want the playback to start.

I haven't modified the video in anyway.
Just simple recording and then save as MP4 and WEBM as I wasn't sure if it was something with the file format specific, but it happens to both of them.

Not the biggest problem I would say, but I can imagine it's frustrating if you need to quickly rewatch a small piece/few seconds from a video that is 10 minutes long.
Nope, can't do that. It jumps back all the way to start and you have to force watch the entire part again.

I tried on different devices as well. Shared on my mobile phone, ipad, etc... same problem everywhere.
Seems like there is something disabled/permissions that does not allow to use regular media controls.

This is pretty important to separate from Chrome if one needs to build a great high performance app. The issue with chrome tends to be it eats up a lot of bandwidth and slows everything down.

Also this will allow you to optimize screen recording by using native codebase vs webrtc/browser. E.g - Check this project and its underlying software.

And then there is react native for windows,mac, android, ios - no linux though. So without electron and that bulkiness will be better than loom.

Do you have bandwidth to pick that up?

Hi,

I want to use the extension, but get the following error in every screen I have open on my computer.
'Can't record in this page'.
This happens when I want to use Tab Only, Desktop and Camera Only.

The extension cannot find my camera and microphone.

I am using a Windows 10 laptop and have installed Chrome version 88.0.4324.104

Hopefully you can help me out.

Cheers, Jeffrey

I'd found that when selecting an option on an HTML select input the opened dropdown is not visible, only the default value remains visible until the new value has been selected.

Thanks for this amazing plugin :-)

Hi,

Please fix the title if the word is wrongly used.

I'm seeing the following in chrome Version 89.0.4333.0 (Official Build) canary (64-bit)
It appears at the top of the page during recording, and is recorded as well.

Any way to fix it?

Hello,

Thank you for creating the extension. The descriptions sounds great, but I face the following challenges:

1. I start to record and then share the application to be shared. The symbol for the extension turns from blue into red, but nothing else happens. I am also not able to "stop the recording" (in case that it even started). The symbol remains red until I disable or remove the extension and enable it again. Alt+S doesn't work either. How can I check that screenity is really recording and how can I stop the recording please?
2. Consequently, I also can't find any recordings nowhere. How shall I find the recorded files please? Where should the files be located or how can I access the recordings please?

Thank you & best regards,

Rico

Rare issue...?

Website gets compressed when using Screenity.

Website (Google webapp) contains split.js. Other recording tools (ex: Loom / ScreenCastify) work. Pen function still appears to work.

Love the extension!

Would be awesome if the annotations worked with my touchscreen as well as my mouse.

Thanks for this great and simple to use software and it looks promising,I tried it out on windows but once the recording was stopped I couldn't see the recording being saved anywhere on the system.I would request a feature where in user can customize the location where the recording is stored also there should be a standard location where it is stored and should also be mentioned somewhere inside the application so that user is aware about it.

Getting below issues while recording

browser : Chrome
browser version: 88.0.4324.150 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Os : Windows 10

1. Cursor settings, Annonation tools and recording settings are not working
2. Color picker is adding below the webpage with some white space above it and page is getting scrolled
3. Camera is in square shape not in circular shape
   
   

Thanks & Regards,
Pavani Sahukari

No thing happen when I click "Save to Drive". but "Download" is working good.

Hello, first off thank you for making this.

I tried it on Version 86.0.4240.183 (Official Build) (64-bit) on elementary OS 5.1.7

Behaviour:
Both Tab Only and Desktop recordings, disabled webcam and mic recording still produces a recording that recorded audio from the mic.

I've uploaded a sample of this showing the behaviour
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QBboe3LqJZnmfz5IG4kOufgbey4DhvOQ/view?usp=sharing

When I finish recoding it opens this page but the video doesn't play and there's an error you can see above. Tried in both Edge and Chrome, still no luck.

There seems to be a small bug with how the video circle crops. See the screenshots attached.

Currently, scrolling keeps the annotations at the fixed position. It should move with the scrolling page.

Awesome product!

Noticed that when the pen is selected, the resizing tool disappears when rolling off of the pen button and on to the resizing tool.

. My original video es 14 seconds long
. Then I set "Start" at 00:02 and "End" at 00:14 (I asume this is the part of the video I want to keep)
. I press "Apply" (I should get a 12:00 seconds video)
. But I get 02:00 second video! (Ok, I understand i must indicate part of the video to cut, not to keep)

I press "Reset changes" and I try again:

. I set "Start" at 00:00 and "End" at 00:02
. I press "Apply"
. I get a black video and play button do not play anything

Please check!

Is there any way to improve the video quality and the recording screen dimension

Hi Alyssa,

is there a way to support you financially?

In a time where every tiny software or service is a SAAS nowadays, I really love to support independent developers who create quality products in the open-source space. You provide huge value here!

If you have something like buymeacoffee.com or so please let me know. I'd love to support you so you stick around and have an incentive to keep working on this and your other projects.

Thank you!

I love this addon! There is only one problem with it, recoding camera only.
Steps to reproduce the problem:

• I record camera only
• I pause the recording and want to save it (clicking green check)
• Google Chrome (88.0.4324.104 (Official Build) (64-bit)) crashes and the recording is gone

When recording the screen with camera, everything works great!

Hey, @alyssaxuu I tried Trim Video 2-3 times but when I click Apply after reducing time, nothing happens.

Also, the video starts being unresponsive & displays the old time.

For example, I recorded a video until 1:00 & trimmed it from 0:55 to 1:00. And then clicked Apply. The timing in Start & End changed perfectly but the video got hanged (if I try to Play, nothing happens.. the Play button remains as is)

Even after downloading the video, it doesn't show anything. It gets corrupted I think.

Dear developers, please upload the video to YouTube. This is going to be great.
I recorded a video-clicked on the button and it immediately flooded YouTube and copied the link to the clipboard.

can you add Chinese Language support？Thanks