Export to Video
You can record a video of the functionality of a Vertex program. By recording a video you can, for example, create an installation or usage guide or communicate easily with Vertex Helpdesk.
When recording, the program takes pictures of a specified area of the screen at a specified frame rate. The pictures are saved in a temporary folder inside the folder where Vertex is running (user folder). When the recording is finished, a video is created from the saved pictures, after which the pictures and the temporary folder are deleted. In case the program is closed before finishing the recording, the pictures are kept in the temporary folder. The next time the recording function is started, you can choose to create a video from the pictures in the temporary folder. This ensures that a video can be recorded even if the program crashes while recording.
Customize recording settings and record a video as follows:
- Select .
- Edit the settings in the Screen Recording dialog box.
- Select .
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When you want to stop recording, press Shift+F11.
- (OR) Select again.
Dialog Box Options
- Displays to be recorded
- You can record either only the primary display or all displays.Note: Recording several displays requires more performance from the computer and may slow down Vertex.
- Windows to be recorded
- You can record either the whole screen or only the region where the Vertex main window is located. If you record the whole screen, the operating system's task bar is also included in the video, for example, and if the Vertex program's window is not the size of the full screen, everything else displayed on the screen is recorded too. If you only record the region where the Vertex main window is located, everything displayed on that region is recorded.Note: The video's area limits are only set at the beginning of recording, which means that the area does not change if you move the Vertex program's window.
- Video quality
- You can choose the quality of the video. The higher the quality, the more storage capacity the video will require. The quality does not affect performance or storage use while recording, but only the end result of the created video. Select one of the following:
- Best quality, largest file
- High quality, larger file
- Default
- Lower quality, smaller file
- Video file finishing
- You can choose the level of encoding for the finishing of the video file. When more time is used in finishing the video, the resulting video will require less storage capacity. The finishing does not affect performance or storage use while recording, but only the end result of the created video.
- Frame rate (fps)
- You can choose the video's frame rate, or how many pictures are saved in the video in a second. You can choose 4, 12 or 24 pictures per second.
- Video file name
- You can choose the path and the name of the video file. You can also choose whether to save the video in .mp4 or .avi video file format.
- Play video after recording
- If is selected, the video will be played automatically using the operating system’s default program for the video file format in question after the video is saved.