How to record anything from a browser

Are you looking to:

1. Save content from a limited time course, for your own viewing later?
2. Save footage from a live event?
3. Make a backup of some content for yourself, locally?

Well, have I got a deal for you!

Recording content from a browser is REALLY easy in iShowU V6.  In this article I'll show you how.

What you're going to need:

1. iShowU V6 (see https://shinywhitebox.com/ishowu-v6)
2. Something you want to record

For this demo, I'm going to use a YouTube video. But the same approach will work for all non-DRM (digital rights management) content.  

First step is to tell iShowU what area you want.   

1. Open up your browser and go to the content you want to record.
2. If you have multiple displays, make sure to set iShowU to record from the correct display. Here, I'm using an external 32" panel.
3. Click the crop icon to set the recording area, and drag that around where the video is, in the browser
4. Make sure that record application audio is enabled in iShowU
5. That's it! You're now ready.

You can preview what your clip is going to look like using show preview & layout.

Here are two other tips that might come in useful:

1. If you know the duration of the content you're recording, you can set a timer in iShowU.
2. Second, if you run over time, or want to clean up the front of the clip - that's really easy. iShowU has a built in trim function. See How to Trim a recording