The only real weakness of LICEcap is that it can’t access the menu bars, meaning it isn’t able to record the entire screen or menu actions.īy the way, if you do plan on recording animated GIFs for use on the web, be sure to grab ImageOptim as well to compress the file size considerably before uploading them to anywhere, it works just as well on gifs as it does on PNG and other formats. Here’s another with just a simple screen recording: How to Use LICEcap to Create Gifs (Quick Tip) Tech Tips 411 6.47K subscribers Subscribe 3.4K views 1 year ago How to use Licecap to record Gifs. ![]() So what does a sample output of a screen recording gif look like? The one at the top of this post is one, and here’s another with a title frame and elapsed time shown: Launch the app, then drag the recording window to the region of the screen you want to turn into a GIF, size the recording window appropriately, choose a frame rate (8FPS is the default and reasonable), then choose “Record” to start.Īfter you click “Record” you’ll be presented with a simple file save dialog of where to send the screen recording GIF to, which also provides some additional options for the recording, able to set an intro title frame, record mouse presses, show the elapsed time, and determine whether the GIF should repeat or not (the default is set to repeat). The simple and free tools do not have many options, so in most cases you will be able to define the frame rate and dimensions of the outputted file, and that’s all. Grab LICEcap free from the developer (Mac OS X and Windows) Here you have a variety of tools and applications that can help you to capture the defined area of your screen and instaly output it to a GIF animation file.
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