How Can You Screen-record App Windows 10 with the Game Bar [MiniTool Tips]

Do You Want to Screen-record App Windows 10

In fact, Windows 10 doesn’t contain a special application which can be applied to record or capture the screen. However, the Game bar experience offers an option for you capture gameplay. And of course, it can be used to record apps.

Of course, there is more than one solution with some additional features that you can use to do this job. However, if you want to do make a video tutorial, create a presentation or record a problem which you can send to tech support easily and quickly, the Game bar experience should be a good enough choice for you.

Now, in this post, we will show you how to the Game bar experience to record a video of an app. Besides, we also show you the steps to edit the screen capture using tools built into the Windows.

If you prefer to use a third-party video maker, you can choose MiniTool MovieMaker which is also easy-to-use.

How to Enable Game Bar on Windows 10

Before using screen-recorder feature in the Game bar experience, you have to enable the option in the Settings app. To do this job, please follow these steps:

Step 1: Go to Settings > Gaming > Game Bar.

Step 2: Then, you need to turn the Record game clips, screenshots, and broadcast using Game bar to On.

After completing these two steps, you should be able to use the Game bar experience to screen-record apps on Windows 10.

Then, in the following part, we will show you how to screen-record app Windows 10.

How to Screen-record an App Using Game Bar

Here is another matter you need to pay attention to: you are not allowed to use the Game bar experience to record the desktop or File Explorer.

Firstly, you need to open the app you want to record. Then, do these steps:

Step 1: Open Start and search for Game bar. Then, you need to choose the top result to open the experience. Next, click the Record button to continue.

Step 2: Then, you can click anywhere to dismiss the Game bar interface. Next, you can continue with the screen capture work.

Additionally, you can click the microphone button by using the available controllers to narrate when you record the video.

If you find that it can’t record the sound, it is because the privacy settings are blocking the app. To fix this issue, you can go to Settings > Privacy > Microphone, and allow the Game bar to access to your microphone.

Step 3: When you need to terminate the session, you can click the Stop button or minimize the app to do that job.

At last, the video will be automatically saved in the Captures folder, which is in your Videos library.

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How to Edit a Video Recording Using Photos

Although there are some functional limitations in the Game Bar, you can still use it to edit some aspects of the screen recording with the Photos app for Windows 10.

Step 1: Open File Explorer. Then, type the following path into the address and then press Enter.

%HOMEPATH%\Videos\Captures

Step 2: Then, you need to right-click the .mp4 capture file, choose Open with, and click the Photos option.

Step 3: You need to click the Edit & Create menu to access the available editing options. Here, set the Trim option as an example.

Step 4: You can use the pins in the track to choose the beginning and end of the recording. After that, you need to click Save as to choose a folder to save the edited videos.

Finally, you can upload this video to YouTube or share it with your friends.

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