Scrolling Window Screenshot

To capture a scrolling window, please take the steps as below:

Step 1: Click Scrolling Window.

Step 2: Click the blue Screenshot icon.

Step 3: Click on the region you are going to capture and then slide the mouse scroll to select and capture the scrolling window.

Step 4: Click Save to save the scrolling window.

You can pin the screenshot on the desktop, share the screenshot to Facebook, Twitter, and Imgur, or search similar images on Google.

Mini Window: Click Mini Window under the Screenshot button to create a mini window on your desktop to take screenshots more easily.

Video files

Click Files on the left panel of the main screen, then you can see Video, Audio, and Screenshot.

At the top right corner, you can see the following 3 icons: Open File Location, Refresh, and Order by (which can order your recording files by their recording time, duration, name, and file size.)

When you move your mouse to each recorded video, you can see the following icons:

: click to play the video.

: click to edit your video by Quick Editor or Advanced Editor directly.

: click to delete the recorded video directly.

: click to preview, edit, compress, denoise, upload, rename, delete, and open file location.

Audio files

Click Audio under Files, then you can see all your recorded audio files here. It also has similar options to your Video files.

Screenshot files

Click Screenshot under Files, then you can see all your screenshot files here. You can preview, delete, rename, or share your screenshot here.

Quick Editor

iTop Screen Recorder provides 2 video editor tools (Quick Editor and Advanced Editor) to meet different users' needs. Quick Editor allows you to edit videos quickly and easily with basic features.

Step 1: Click Tools in the main screen and click Quick Editor icon to open the quick editor.

Step 2: Click the Add icon to add videos or drag and drop your videos here.

Step 3: Drag the red sliding bar to trim your video and add filters, stickers, BGM, subtitles, etc.

Step 4: Click Export to export the edited video.

Advanced Editor

To make your video more attractive, Advanced Editor adds more professional editing features. After clicking Advanced Editor under Tools tab, you can see options: Start a new creation to edit a new media, or Open an existing one to continue your previous unfinished editing. Let's take "Start a new creation" for example to get familiar with how the Video Editor works.

Step 1: Click Start a new creation to enter the edit screen as below.

Step 2: Add media to the library.

You can click the add icon to add the media (hover your mouse on the plus icon to get the adding window when you already added one or more videos) or drag & drop the media here for editing.

After adding media, your video editor should look like below.

Step3: Add media to your timeline to start editing.

You can click (Add to timeline) at the right corner of the video or drag and drop the video to the timeline.

After adding media to the timeline, your video editor should look like below.

Step 4: Edit your videos by adding Stickers, Text, Effects, Transitions, Filters, music, etc.

How to add stickers to your videos?

1. Click the Stickers icon on the left panel.

2. Scroll the sliding bar to choose the stickers you want to add and click (Add to timeline)or drag and drop the stickers to add it to the video.

Note: You can adjust the size, position, duration, etc. of the added sticker as below:

How to add text to your videos?

1. Click the Text icon on the left panel.

2. Choose the text style you like and click (Add to timeline) to add it.

3. Edit the words and set their font, style, color, size, position, etc.

How to add effects to your videos?

1. Click the Effects icon on the left panel.

2. Choose the effects you like and click (Add to timeline) to add it.

Note: You can use the similar ways to add Transitions and Filters to your videos.

How to split the video and delete the unwanted parts?

To split a video, you need to select the clip in the timeline, and then move the scrubber to the position where you want to split, then click the scissor icon to split.

To delete the unwanted parts, please split them with other parts first and then click the unwanted parts and click the Delete button to remove them.

Step 5: Save or Export your edited videos.

You can click Save to save the edited video. Then you can see it in My Creations of the editor and edit it again if needed. Or you can click Export to export the edited video. Before export, you can set the Aspect Ratio, Video Resolution, and Video Format.

Compressor

The tool Compressor helps compress video files to a smaller size without losing quality.

Step 1: Click Tools in the main screen and click Compressor to open it.

Step 2: Click the Add icon or drag & drop the videos you want to compress.

Step 3: Select the compress level as per your needs and click the Compress button to compress the video to smaller size.

Denoiser

To bring you the best audio quality than ever, the Denoiser tool eliminates any noise including background noise and current noise in your video and audio.

Step 1: Click Tools in the main screen and click Denoiser.

Step 2: Click Browse or drag & drop the files you want to denoise.

Step 3: Click Denoise Now to denoise and improve the audio quality.

General Settings

Click the top left options icon on the main screen and select Settings to open the settings for this program. You can configure each function as per your needs, and never forget to click Save to save the changes. Clicking Recommended can restore to default settings.

Record

Here you can configure several recording-related settings, including whether recording with watermark, countdown, floating toolbar, etc., whether to show or hide the toolbar, taskbar, and desktop icons, and some other record settings. Countdown and Floating Toolbar will be introduced with more details later.

With the option "Save an extra copy of the recording file in real time for recovery in case of damages" ticked, you can restore files in case of damages including system crashes, insufficient space, or power failure.

Countdown

By default, there is a countdown timer of 3 seconds before the recording to notify you to be prepared for the recording. If you do not want the countdown, you can untick "Countdown before recording" under Record in Settings.

Floating Toolbar

A floating toolbar as below will appear on the screen when the recording starts if you have "Show floating toolbar" enabled under Record in Settings. It provids you with various options including Doodle, Pause, Done, Take a screenshot, Mute Microphone, Magnifier, Spotlight, and Teleprompter to meet your requirements. If you do not want to see this floating toolbar, please tick "Remove floating toolbar in the recorded video" in the Settings.

Webcam

iTop Screen Recorder also supports recording webcam overlay to your video, which brings you a better recording experience especially for recording gameplay or video conferences.

Mouse

Here you can set whether to record with mouse actions. You can also choose whether to add highlight effects & click animation and set the colors for them. You can also record sound effect of the mouse as per your needs.

Hotkeys

For easier operations, iTop Screen Recorder provides hotkeys to operate the most frequently used functions. Although the program has already set default hotkeys, you can still change them according to your own preferences.

Note: Do not forget to click the Save button to save your changes.

Format

Multiple output video formats (MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, FLV, TS, GIF, etc.) and audio formats (MP3, AAC, AC3, FLAC, WMAV2, etc.) are available to you.

For video, it offers options for you to set Size, Format, Frame Rate, Bitrate, and Quality. For Audio, you can also set its Format, Bitrate, Frequency, and Channels here.

Storage

Here you can check the directory where you save your videos, audios, screenshots, and the edited videos (for Advanced Editor).

Proxy

Here you can check and customize your proxy. You can also set preferred update method for this program here.

Technical Support

Every feedback from you is valued. To ensure you can reach us in time, we provide several feedback channels:

It's recommended to read our FAQs before looking in the other sections for help. Because sometimes, the questions have already been answered before you ask them here!

Online Feedback

If you can't find the answers on our FAQs page, please don't hesitate to contact us for email support. We will reply to you ASAP.

Thank You

Thanks to all iTop Screen Recorder users and beta testers who help us to make this product better and better.

Thanks to the following volunteer translators who greatly help improve iTop Screen Recorder user experience and introduce it to more users worldwide:

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