EaseUS RecExperts Review

In this section I will be looking at the usability aspects of the RecExperts screen recording software, this includes assessing how easy it is to install and set-up the software followed by a a look at some of the many included screen and video capture features found within it.

This process begins in the next section of this review where I will be installing RecExperts for myself, note that EaseUS offer both a limited free trial version of the software as well as a 30-day money back guarantee should you wish to try out the full version for yourself.

Installing RecExperts

At just 1.32MB in size, the free trial version of RecExperts can quickly and easily be downloaded form the EaseUS website and the installer set running straight away afterwards.

In my instance the installer did appear to download a small amount of additional data during the install, this was, however, very brief and just a few seconds later the software was installed on my PC and ready to run!

With the, admittedly, very quick and easy installation now complete, we can start making use of the RecExperts software and making some screen recordings as I do in the next section of this review.

NB – Note that no registration nor personal details are require to make use of the free trial version of RecExperts and that a 30 day money back guarantee is available with the full version should you want to make a full test of the software for yourself!

Making Recordings

With the software now installed, opened up and ready to use, we initially be greeted by the main application window which is where we can access the majority of the recording tools which are included (this can be seen below). From this main application window we have easy access to all of the main functions of the software as well as the main settings menu for adjusting, amongst other things, the default file formats being used (this is found under the main (top right) application menu).

As can be seen above, when opening the RecExperts software up, the first function which is pre-selected for us is the one required for recording the entire default computer display. At this point, assuming we are happy to make use of the default settings, simply clicking on the orange “REC” button is all that is needed to start the recording working, the main app windows will disappear at this point and be replaced by a smaller control window as can be seen below:

NB – The recording control window (the recording toolbar) shown above (or any interactions with it) will be visible on the final recording by default! These settings can be altered so it is hidden during the recording process, something I will look at later on in this review.

Once the screen recording is complete (which will, by default, include any sound outputted by the device during this process) we can click on the red “stop” button to end the recording. Once the recording work is complete and the stop button pressed, the RecExperts software will then open up the newly recorded clip in the RecExperts editing suite, from here we can then work with the recorded material further:

As can be seen above, the editing window will open up automatically after a new clip has been recorded, the clip itself will already have been automatically saved at this point so we can safely close this window down if we don’t want to review or perform any basic editing on the clip. If we do want to perform some basic editing work on the clip then this can begin via the editing toolbar found towards the bottom of this new window, from here we can perform tasks such as timing (cutting) the video, extracting screenshots or audio extracts and adding title or ending credits when applicable to do so.

As can be seen above, when making use of the “trimming” tool we can easily cut out a specified section within the full clip by simply adjusting the sliders to the correct point or entering the beginning and ending times of the portion to be cut. Once a section of the clip has been selected, we can then save this section as a new file using the pop-up window which appears after clicking on save.

NB – The extracted clip will at this point be saved as the default file format specified in the settings area of the application. I will look at the available file format options and how to change then a little later on in this review.

With the export of the cut section now complete, the new video file which has just been created will also appear in the editing screen on the right hand side (as can be seen below). This means (of course) we can then further edit this new clip should we need to (up to and including further cutting out of sections within this already cut clip).

NB – The trimming tool is a fairly basic tool which will be fine for the majority of basic trimming tasks (e.g. simply cutting the beginning and or end of a clip). Anything more advanced than this basic cutting might be better performed in professional editing software.

Moving on from the trimming tool and we also see the editing windows allows other modifications to the video to be made in the form of adding credits and the extraction of both screen-shots and audio samples. Starting off with the extraction of audio samples and we see a tool which allows us to extract the entire audio track and save it to a format of our choosing, simply select “Extract audio” from the editing toolbar, specify a file name and then choose the desired auto file format as can be seen below:

The screenshot function here simply takes a screenshot of the video being edited at the point in time when the screenshot button is pressed (this will also show up in the list of files on the right side of the window). Finally, the last major editing tool is the “Opening Title / Closing Credits” tool which, as the name suggest, makes easy work of adding opening and closing credits to any video clip being edited by its own special interface (as can be seen below):

Other Recording Functions

With an initial screen recording now complete and having been edited using the built-in editing tools, we can begin looking at some of the other functionality found within RecExperts. This starts off with the “Region” recording tool as can be seen highlighted below:

In the previous section I used the full screen recording tool which captures all areas of a screen, there might, however, be times when only recording a specified section of a screen is needed or indeed even required in order to help protect user privacy whilst the recording is taking place. In cases like this we can simply select the “Region” recording tool (as is pointed out in the above image) and then, before pressing “REC” to begin the recording, drag and re-shape the recording area box to the part of the display which is going to be recorded (this can be seen below):

With the recording area now set, the recording functionality will work in much the same way as it did before when recording the full screen (the recording area remains outlined throughout the recording process so as to remind users what will and wont be included in the recording).

Next, having seen the screen region recording in use, another useful recording mode is the webcam recording mode which can be turned on via the “Webcam” button as is shown above. Once enabled, this mode will output the contents of the webcam onto the screen and allow for the recording of the webcam input (plus sound) using any of the applicable file formats (such as the default MP4 option).

NB – We can record the webcam output by itself (as per the above) as well as use the webcam input & sound as a part of another screen recording (these are two separate functions). To switch on system microphone and webcam inputs when making a regular screen recording we can toggle the buttons towards the bottom of the main application window (as is pointed out below):

Other Features and Settings

At this point in my review I have covered many of the main recording modes and functions as well as the built-in editing suite which is ideal for performing basic video editing tasks (and helps mitigate the need for external video editing software). In this section I am going to look at some of the other functions and settings available when making use of EaseUS RecExperts, this begins with the automation functionality which can be found towards the bottom right of the main application window.

First of the three features shown above is “Auto split”, a function which allows recordings to automatically be split up into specific time or file seized amounts (e.g. we can make a new file every 10 minutes or when the file size reaches 1GB and so on).

The next of the three auto settings is the “Auto stop” feature, a function which works in much the same way as the auto split feature (e.g. we can specify a time limit or file size limit) and will stop any active recording when these parameters are reached. Finally, we have the “Task Scheduler”, a tool which allows us to specify one or more individual schedules in which screen recording will take place automatically.

As can be seen above, the scheduling tool is very powerful and provides the option to implement specific recording times such as only on weekday afternoons or during the first 8 hours of each weekend day and so on. It is also important to note that this scheduling tool allows for multiple scheduling events to be set, this means we can be very specific with our scheduling requirements and build up scheduling functionality across several scheduling configurations as and when required.

As can be seen above, as well as specifying the time and days in which an automatic schedule will be activated, we can also specify the type of recording to be made upon that schedule. Options here echo the main options available to us when manually starting a recording and include being able to record the full screen, a specified region of the screen and optionally including the webcam input and system sound.

Finally, as can be seen above, the main settings page is where we can specify many of the default attributes of the RecExperts application. From this settings page we can specify the default file format to be used for any recordings, the default recording quality (to potentially reduce file sizes), the frame rate, GPU acceleration settings and also specify the default storage path being used on the system.

There is also an advanced settings section (as can be seen above) where we are given even more control over how the application can be customised, for example, it is here we can choose to hide the mouse cursor and floating toolbar during recordings as well as optionally specify what hotkeys and pre-recording countdown’s can be made use of.