Optiminal Screen Recording Settings

Hi, Ellana -- Thanks for reaching out here! While I will defer to your fellow community members to share their specific advice and recommendations, you may want to check out the following posts on a similar topic:

Tips For Using The Storyline Screen Recorder Like a Pro

Software Screen Recording Best Practices

Screen Capture Best Practices

Hope that helps! :)

Hi,

Thank you for those topics. I read though each one and still cant find a specific answer to my question. 

What is the best player settings in order to get the best resolution? I have included a picture of these settings. 

Is it best to make the recording screen size as big as possible or not for resolution? 

Thank you

Ellana

Hi, Ellana -- Thanks for your reply and in addition to this how-to on Changing the Browser Settings and Player Size, perhaps this blog post from Tom Kuhlmann will share some advice you can use: Here’s a Simple Screencasting Tip That Will Save Time & Frustration. 

Thanks again but this just tells me what these fields do.

I'm looking for a recommendation of what would be best to help my screen resolution. 

Hi, Ellana -- Thanks for your reply! Here is some additional information for your review, Increasing quality of screen recording, and the following are recommendations from our Director of Technical Support, Justin Grenier:

"For high-content screen recordings, my recommendation is to (a) determine, based on your audience, the average/target screen resolution of your learners (http://tcrn.ch/11oYLIW), (b) set your Story Size to something slightly less than that (http://bit.ly/11oYUMn) to allow for browser toolbars, status bars, and so on, (c) set the Player Size to "Lock player at optimal size" (http://bit.ly/11oZ1HK) to prevent scaling, and (d) perform Screen recording on a machine whose screen resolution is set to something slightly less than the Story Size selected above, to allow for the Storyline Player. 

For example, if I needed to show screens containing lots of content at high resolution, and I knew that my learners would be using a Screen Resolution of 1920x1080, I might do the following: 

1. Set my Story Size to 1600 x 900. 
2. Disable scaling. 
3. Set my Screen Resolution to 1366 x 768 before recording. 

It's possible that the target audience is using a screen resolution so low that it is not practical to perform screen recording at a significantly lower resolution, or is unknown. However, with very busy screencasts, the goals should be to (a) avoid performing screen recording at a resolution that is significantly higher than that of your learners or your story size and (b) avoid scaling small/shrunken screencasts to higher resolution."