How to use Bandicam: detailed instructions

Unfortunately, as soon as you download a new program, the likelihood that you will immediately understand it is very small. That is why this article is intended to fully acquaint with a program such as Bandicam.

This article will detail how to use Bandicam. Video, audio settings, improving the quality of the recording, where to download the program, how to Russify it and how to configure 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 overkill, which will allow even a novice to customize the program to their needs.

Where do I need to download the program?

As mentioned above, the article will focus on the settings of the Bandicam program. But you first need to know where to download it before using it: bandicam.com - this site will allow you to download a genuine, non-pirated version of the program. But here a reasonable question arises: "What is the difference?".

And the difference is great. Immediately I want to say that downloading the program from unreliable sources, you risk catching a virus. No, not the virus that infects the human body, but the virus that infects the computer itself. If you understand this in more detail, it will become clear: since this program is very famous and very popular, attackers can easily download it and put malicious software into its code. After that, most likely, he will put Bandicam on some site, heading an article like: "Bandicam: download for free, without registration and SMS." A gullible user will easily swallow the bait and conscientiously put a virus into his operating system.

Based on this, the only conclusion can be made - you need to download Bandicam only from the official website of the developer.

What if the program is in English?

We have already figured out where to download the program from, but it is too early to move on to how to use Bandicam.

Everyone reading this article speaks Russian. And that is why the question will now be examined how to make the program be in this language.

Of course, they rarely encounter this problem, since the program was originally Russified, but due to 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 a long time ago there were innumerable numbers 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 will download an archive in which files will be located that will need to be placed in the root folder of the program. Accordingly, you will need to do this. In any case, the archive will also contain instructions that describe everything in detail.

Now that we have figured out all the little things, we can proceed to the main topic, namely: "How to use Bandicam."

How to set up audio and video?

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

First of all, let's touch on the main settings - audio and video. Although the settings are the main ones, this does not mean at all that their configuration is complicated. Following the instructions, you can easily configure everything in a couple of minutes:

1. On the main screen of the program, go to the "Video" tab.
2. Find the "Settings" button, which is located in the "Record" column.
3. By clicking on it, the "Record Settings" window will open. In it you need to put a check mark next to "Sound recording" (now the audio track will be recorded during recording).
4. In the "Primary device" field, select the name of your speakers from the drop-down list. This is necessary so that the recording of the audio fragment goes correctly.
5. Click OK.

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

1. On the "Video" 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. Codec - H264.
5. Click OK.

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

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

How to turn on the microphone?

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

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

As you can see, there is nothing complicated about this, but many have difficulties in this matter.

Meanwhile, the article is nearing completion, but not everything has been told about how to use the Bandicam program, so let's move on to the last question.

How to start shooting?

It remains quite a bit to find out how to start recording video from the monitor. As you can understand, there is nothing complicated about this, therefore, the text will be written accordingly.

What do you need to start recording:

1. On the initial screen of the program, select the recording mode (game mode, window capture or webcam recording).
2. Launch the application that you want to record (or select the area for shooting if "Window Capture" is selected).
3. Press the F12 button.
4. Once you see fit, press F12 to end recording.

As you can see, everything is very simple, therefore, following the above instructions, absolutely anyone can configure the Bandicam program for video recording.