Action! allows real-time recording / capture of Windows Aero desktop in a superb HD video quality. You can record web player videos, gameplay, display game fps, add live audio commentary to create tutorials, recordmusic, capture screenshots and more!
Version: 3.4.0Action! allows real-time recording / capture of Windows Aero desktop in a superb HD video quality.
License: Free To Try $29.95
Operating System: Windows
Homepage: mirillis.com
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With Action! you can record web player videos, your gameplay, display game framerates, add live audio commentary to create high quality tutorials, record music, capture screenshots... and more!
Main Action! features:
- LIVE Streaming to Twitch.tv, YouTube, Facebook and more!
- Direct gameplay and desktop recording to MP4 (H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC) with Intel Quick Sync Video, NVIDIA NVENC and AMD APP!
- Recording fullscreen Windows desktop
- Recording selected region of Windows desktop
- Recording Windows Vista/7/8/8.1/10
- Recording web player videos
- Webcam recording with background removal option (Chroma Key or Intel RealSense)
- Perfectly smooth web player video recordings with Perfect Video Match Mode
- Recording gameplay of DirectX 8/9/10/11/12 and OpenGL games and applications
- Display FPS and average FPS for games and desktop
- Free Remote Control app for Android
- Save benchmark results to HTML file
- Recordings pause/resume option
- Adding custom logo/overlay graphics
- Logitech G13/G15/G19 keyboards LCD display support
- Live audio commentary with microphone
- Recording audio only
- Fullscreen games and desktop screenshots to JPG, PNG or BMP
- Capturing selected region desktop screenshots
- Exporting video recordings to popular formats, devices, YouTube and Facebook
- NVIDIA NVENC, AMD APP and Quick Sync Video acceleration for video exporting
- Upload to YouTube and Facebook
- User friendly and stylish interface
- Smooth and easy recording playback with built in Action! player
- Ultimate performance, low CPU usage and high FPS video recording
- Mouse clicks visualizations
- Displaying detected 3D engine for games and applications
- Multicore CPU Support
Technical specification:
- Video recording to AVI 2.0 (FICV) or directly to MP4 (H.264/AVC or H.265) format
- Exporting video recordings to MP4 format(H.264/AVC)
- Video recording framerates
Version 3.4.0: - Large improvements in video recording performance (with vsync disabled), - Fixed problems with recording on systems that have virtual surround software installed (like Nahimic), - Improved high bitrate AVI recording on systems with hybrid hard disks (SSD + HDD). We still recommend normal HDD or SSD for high bitrate video recording, - Browser overlays now accept keyboard input (for example you can logon to YouTube to allow YouTube chat overlay), - Fixed Action! not working properly from certain disk locations, - Audio/Video desynchronization when streaming during high CPU usage has been fixed, - Fixed frame stuttering when recording video from Elgato/Hauppauge and other devices that capture MPEG-2 transport stream, - Fixed AVI freezing during high CPU usage, - Fixed webcam stuttering during high CPU usage
Version 3.3.0: - Added advanced Time-Shift settings (maximum swap-file size and location - this allows to offload SSD disk from continuous storage of time-shifted video data), - Time-Shift saving is now done in the background (not blocking), - Added recording webcam to a separate AVI video file (for video editing purposes). Available via Webcam Settings - Capture Mode, - Added Nvidia GPU selection that will be used to perform hardware acceleration (available via Hardware Acceleration Settings in main screen), - Fixed webcam/microphone showing/recording on button button down (in the On/Off mode), - Added automatic stretching of 1440x1080 video content to 1920x1080 (to remove black vertical bars), - Fixed Vulkan error message on some systems, - Fixed free disk space calculation
Version 3.2.0: - Added Vulkan support, - Added HDR recording in SDR format (64bit to 32bit conversion), - Added benchmarking file format selection (HTML or CSV formats are available), - Important stability fixes (on Action! startup, memory leaks etc.), - Fixed Time-Shift crashing in 4K, - Fixed low-disk space information on HUD in 4K, - Fixed memory leak on x64 systems with recent Windows 10 updates installed
Version 3.1.6: - Added browser source cropping, - Added browser source preview in overlay source settings, - Added ability to navigate browser source (click, scroll etc.), - Fixed saving last desktop screenshot monitor selection, - Fixed recording pausing with multiple audio tracks stored to separate files, - Enabled graphics overlay changing during recording/streaming, - When recorded application/game crashes recording/streaming is not stopped and can be continued after relaunching game/application (in Mp4 mode), - Stability fixes, - GUI improvements
Version 3.1.4: - 4K/UHD (150% size) HUD for resolutions above 2560x1440, - Moved browser/URL sources setup to live streaming tab, - Moved selected (private) application recording setup from video settings to main video tab, - GUI improvements (duration editing with editbox etc.)
Version 3.1.2: - Updated RTMP servers for Twitch and Smashcast services (please make sure that you have the correct streaming server set after the update), - Fixed Action! long startup time, - Fixed push to talk mouse hotkey assignment, - Added Webcam size/position controls in Webcam Settings window (like in Action! version 2.x), - Improved webcam cropping, - Disabled changing video composition during recording (to not allow accidental overlay layout change), - Fixed problem with dissapearing preview when recorded game/application does not refresh, - AVI recording preformance improvements, - Fixed problem of not locking Action! to selected 3D application (if more then one is running), - Fixed conflict of Action! HUD with Uplay and Steam overlays, - Added disabling of fast OpenGL recording path on Intel GPUs (where problems occur which pixelated video), - to enable this workaround please place an empty slowintel.txt file in Action! installation folder
Version 3.0.0: Live preview of video composition, Accounts manager (YouTube, Facebook etc.), Drawing Panel (draw shapes and texts over any borderless windowed games in real time!), Lots of performance improvements and fixes, Support for web browser overlays, New advanced multi-layer HUD, Support for 4K webcams
Version 2.8.2: Fixed compatibility between Edge browser and Action! Improved latest Nvidia drivers interoperability with Action! Stability improvements
Version 2.8.1: Important fix for Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 screen recording
Version 2.8.0: Added possibility to record selected audio device (ie. microphone) to a separate audio file, Improved Elgato capturing devices support