Learn Kazam
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Introduction
Basic information
ICT Competency | Kazam is an Free and Open Source application and this tool can use it as both screencasting tool and for taking screenshot of your computer screen. screencasting: digital recording of computer screen output, also known as a video screen capture, often containing audio narration. |
Educational application and relevance | Creating video and image resources, combining audio, text, image, video and dubbing audio of any video. This can be used in digital story telling activities |
Version | kazam 1.4.5 |
Other similar applications | RecordMyDesktop, Simple screen recorder |
The application on mobiles and tablets | There are many similar application are available in android mobile phones. Example,. AZ screen recorder |
Development and community help |
Overview of features
Installation
- The application is part of the Ubuntu custom distribution.
- In case you do not find it on your computer, you can install by choosing “kazam” in Ubuntu Software Centre
- If you would like to install through the terminal follow these steps below:
- Open terminal by clicking (Ctrl+Alt+T),
- Once Window page is open, in front of dollar($) symbol just type below command.
- sudo apt-get install kazam
- just type your password(it will not display on your screen), press Enter.
Working with application
Getting familiar with application
When we open the Kazam we will see this main window. This main window contains the following sections.
- Screencast : This option is start the screen-casting
- screenshot : This option is start the screenshot
- Fullscreen : From selecting this option, we can able to record/screenshot of complete screen of your computer screen.
- Window : From selecting this option, we can able to record/screenshot of only current window of your computer screen.
- Area : From selecting this option, we can able to record/screenshot of only selected area of your computer screen.
- Mouse cursor : Select this feature for including cursor point into our record/screenshot output file.
- Sound from the speaker : Select this feature for adding speaker output audio with our screencasting.
- Sound from microphone : Select this feature for adding your own audio (by using microphone) with our screencasting.
- Seconds to wait before capturing :
- Capture :