#USING LICECAP WINDOWS 7#

It does not make sense to add a text that vanishes before anyone can read it therefore, it may be worth fiddling with how long your text appears for by tweaking the ‘Duration’ field else, you may be taken on by trolls if your GIF goes online.

When LICEcap records, you can either click Stop to end your GIF recording or click Pause, and then Insert to add text frames. You click Record to save it to the folder of your choice with a number of predefined options.

#USING LICECAP WINDOWS 7#

Oh well, even for the animated GIF viewing, you will require to open it in a standard free web browser like Google Chrome or using an image viewing free program like IrfanView thanks to Microsoft’s decision (for whatever the reasons are) not to support an ‘animated’ GIF in built-in “Windows Photo Viewer” starting Windows 7 (or even Vista?).Ĭlick-n-drag of the edges of the window to make precise tunings to the slice of your display being recorded works alternatively, you may use the ‘Size’ fields. lcf files within REAPER (an advanced multi-track audio, MIDI and video production and recording environment for Windows and OS X a shareware from the same developer), and/or use it to convert to. gif, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamping. lcf file format, which allows for higher compression ratios than.

LICEcap supports its own native lossless. LICEcap can capture a defined area of your desktop, and save it directly to. This GIF recorder is such a bare-bones program that may confound you when you open the utility up as you will only find nominal information related to the area that you are going to record namely, ‘Max FPS’ ( frames per second) of the GIF output, ‘Size’ (its length and width in pixels), and needless to say, the ‘Record’ button. LICEcap is an intuitive but quite flexible user-friendly application that is designed to be lightweight and function with high performance.

Adjustable maximum recording framerate to allow throttling CPU usage.

Global hotkey ( Shift + Space) to toggle pausing while recording.

Pause and restart recording support with optional inserted text messages.

Provision of moving the screen capture frame while recording.

Recording support in the GIF or LCF format.

LICEcap is basically a free unfussy cross-platform screen recorder to capture your desktop activity in the animated GIF format. Even though there are other ways (click here or here) to create an animated GIF in different platforms depending on what you are trying to accomplish, LICEcap will let you create animated GIFs using Windows, Linux or OS X by recording anything you do on your desktop screen oh yeah, in a jiffy. Whether it is social medium like Facebook (even WhatsApp supports it) or blogs like dotTech, these are one of the most the desired forms of virtual interaction however, unless you generate GIFs on your own, your personal point of view may not be able to be expressed without sourcing the picture-perfect live graphics. Animated GIFs are known to be the informal lingo of the web.

Using licecap