Bandicam 6 is one of the best programs for capturing images from the desktop and DirectX/OpenGL applications (games). With its help, you can qualitatively and conveniently record everything that happens on the screen, add an image from a webcam, and audio tracks (for example, from a mixer and microphone) can be saved separately for subsequent processing. Acceleration is supported by AMD, NVIDIA and Intel graphics chips. What is noteworthy is that the recorded files are small in size with excellent quality.

This is the perfect tool if you are a video blogger on YouTube or just want to show your friends how you play a game. Very flexible settings, you can select a specific area and the entire screen. You can select mouse clicks, this is useful if you are making a video tutorial or showing actions on the screen.

The perfect combination of quality and size of the video file when saving to your computer. In all similar programs, by default, video files are often not saved adequately. You can record only 5 minutes in time, and the file will weigh more than a gigabyte. Then you need to recode and compress it. With Bandicam, everything is just perfect, a two-hour recording will weigh no more than 600 megabytes, with acceptable quality and bitrate.

Like other screen recording programs, this solution allows you to select an “area” that you want to “capture”. The user can enable full-screen recording, capture only the active window, or specify an arbitrary area. You can select the “image” parameters in the “Video” section. There you will find selectors for selecting resolution, compression ratio, frame rate, and codec.

The new version of Bandicam also allows you to enable hardware acceleration or “special” encoding technologies like HEVC. In general, we can say that the utility provides very high image quality, but “greedily” uses system resources. Therefore, when working with it on old and weak PCs, you may experience a strong drop in performance.

In addition to recording video, the program can also take screenshots. You can independently specify a “hot key” that will be responsible for creating a “snapshot” and the folder to which it will be saved. When recording the gameplay, you can enable the FPS indicator. In principle, this function works not only in games, but also in any other applications that run on DirectX/OpenGL.

Bandicam’s main features:

• Real-time drawing
• Webcam recording overlay
• Scheduled recording
• Adding your own voice
• Adding mouse effects
• Adding real-time chroma key effect
• Long-term recording capability (24 hours)