How to Record Video on Windows 10 Desktop

Every time it's being more usual that the operating systems themselves have a tool for recording screen or whatever happens on the Windows desktop. This happens with Android that offers APIs so that the terminal screen can be recorded and thus make tutorials or record video game games and then upload them to YouTube or other channels.

In Windows 10 We have this interesting option as one of the details that we will have when July 29 is launched globally. In this way we can record game matches and upload them to YouTube, apart from creating tutorials, courses or anything else that may be of help to other users. Let's see how this feature works in Windows 10.

This functionality appears from the game bar that has especially Windows 10 for gamers or gaming. As you can see this time Microsoft has not forgotten anything and wants to pay special attention to certain types of users.

Remember also that this functionality is available when you have an application or video game open. If not, the keyboard shortcut will not work.

How to Record Desktop Video in Windows 10

• The first thing is to press the Windows + G keys so that the Game Bar or game bar appears before us.

• From this bar we can access Xbox functions, take captures or record video, which is what interests us in this tutorial.
• Now we just have to click on the red REC button, or use the shortcut keys Windows + Alt + R to start or stop recording.

We can configure videos to select an appropriate size for the video and so we can share it on YouTube without having to worry about the size. The default video format of the recorded videos is MP4, which is appreciated due to the popularity of this format and that in this way Microsoft completely passes from WMV.

This video recording functionality is part of the Xbox app on Windows 10, so you can access the videos from it to edit, rename or share it.