In the process of learning and development at ordinary times, there are always some software can improve the work or development efficiency, we hereby record, and attach a simple introductory tutorial, convenient for their search, I hope to help you programmer essential software

preface

If you are a frequent blogger, you will often need to upload an animated GIF. There are many ways to choose from.

  1. First use video recording software (such as QQ’s own recording), and then use some conversion tools (such asGIF Brewery) to convert the video file toGIFformat
  2. Or just use somethingGIFRecording toolGifCamWouldn’t it be nice

That today I want to introduce is a very lightweight but powerful GIF recording tool – LICEcap.

Those who know about this please bypass.

introduce

LICEcap can capture desktop areas and save them as.gif files, which can be viewed directly or on a web page. Simple operation, powerful function, excellent performance! That’s why I use it all the time.

The authors also open source and put it on Github. The source code

In addition to the.gif format, LICEcap also supports its own native lossless.lcf file format, which allows a higher compression ratio than.gif, higher quality (more than 256 colors per frame), and more accurate timestamps.

To show the general effect (because I don’t want to use other recording software to record the process of LICEcap, I will directly use the effect of the official website) :

Functional features

It has the following features:

  • Can be recorded as.gifOr is it.lcffile
  • Support to drag and drop screen capture boxes during recording
  • Supports pause and re-record functions
  • Supports the title function
  • During recording, the shortcut key operation pause function is supported
  • Adjustable recording frame rate to maximum limitCPUThe use of
  • Supports recording mouse button pressing
  • The recording time is displayed during recording

Configuration requirements

  • Windows. Windows XP/Vista / 7/8/8. 1/10
  • OSX. MacOS 10.4 +
  • Linux. Most of the
  • To forceCPU
  • 1 gb +RAM

The tutorial

Preview the operation

The operation is very simple, take a look at the recording preview below:

  1. The frame rate of recording. The larger the frame rate, the better the effect, and the larger the file size
  2. Size of recording area. Of course, you can also select regions by dragging and dropping
  3. start
  4. suspended

Basic configuration

After you hit Record, you need to do some basic configuration.

In addition to the file name and save path, which must be configured, there are some optional configurations.

  1. The frame rate of the title
  2. Time of recording
  3. Mouse click
  4. The title content

Start recording

I put the frame rate up to 30, which is pretty high, 7 seconds, more than 2 meters, which is pretty good.

To obtain

LICEcap V1.28 for Windows (Updated 12/2/17) (230KB)

LICEcap V1.28 for OSX (updated 12/2/17) (730KB)

The website address

The source code

The original address