Export to Video
You can record a video of the functions of the 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 frames of a specified area of the screen at a specified frame rate. The captured frames are saved in a temporary folder in the user folder of the Vertex program. When the recording is finished, a video is created from the saved frames, after which the frames and the temporary folder are deleted.
In case the program is closed before finishing the recording, the frames are kept in the temporary folder. The next time the program is started, you can choose to create a video from the frames in the temporary folder. This way you can save the video even if the program stops responding in the middle of video recording.
Define the recording settings and record a video as follows:
- Select .
- Edit the settings in the Screen Recording dialog box.
- Select .
- Press Shift+F11 to stop recording, or reselect the function.
- Select one of the following:
- Play video - Play the video with the default program selected for the MP4 file in the operating system.
- Open file location - Open the video file's storage folder in the Windows file explorer.
- Copy to clipboard - Copy the video file to the clipboard.
- Click Exit to close the dialog box and quit the function.
Dialog Box Options
- Displays to be recorded
- If more than one display is used, select the displays to be recorded:
- All displays
- Only the active display
- Windows to be recorded
- Select the windows the be recorded:
- The entire screen - The video is recorded from the entire screen area, so the video will record, for example, the taskbar of the operating system. If the Vertex program window is not full-screen, everything else that is displayed on the screen will be recorded on the video in addition to the program.
- Only the Vertex window - The video is recorded from the area where the Vertex program window is located. Everything that appears on the computer screen in that area is recorded on the video.
- Only the working window - The video is recorded from the area where the active working window (drawing or model window) is located. Everything that appears on the computer screen in that area is recorded on the video.
- Video quality
- Select the quality of the video. The higher the quality, the more storage capacity the video will require. The quality of the video does not affect the performance or the use of disk space during video recording, but only the video created as a final product. Select one of the following:
- Best quality, largest file
- High quality, larger file
- Default
- Lower quality, smaller file
- Video file finishing
- Select the level of compression for the finishing step of the video file. When more time is used in finishing the video, the resulting video will require less storage capacity. Finishing the video does not affect the performance or the use of disk space during the video recording, but only the video created as a final product.
- Frame rate (fps)
- Select the frame rate of the video, or how many frames per second are taken in the video. You can select 4, 6, 12 or 24 frames per second.
- Recording length
- Select the length of the final video:
- Indefinitely - The final video is created from the beginning of the recording to the end.
- Time window - The recording is on from the start to the end, but the final video is made only from the last clip, the length of which you can set in Save the last. Enter the length in minutes and seconds in the text fields.
- Video file name
- Select the video file name and storage location by typing the file path in the text field or by clicking Browse. The file type is MP4 video.
Create the Video After Interruption
In case the program is closed before finishing the recording, the frames are kept in the temporary folder ../user/buffer. The next time the program is started, you can choose to create a video from the frames in the temporary folder. This way you can save the video even if the program stops responding in the middle of video recording.
- Select Create the video with full length. The length of the video to be created is the Maximum video length.
- Clear Create the video with full length, and enter Video length (from the end) in minutes and seconds in the text fields.