Schedule

You can use schedule options to start and/or stop recording automatically at a certain time or when duration or size of the output file reaches a limit. To view schedule options, click Recording options button from application window then navigate to Schedule section.

Figure 1: Recording options

Figure 2: Schedule options

Contents

Start at a certain time

To start recording a certain time:

1. Click Recording options button from application window to view Recording options.
2. Choose Time for Start mode under Schedule section.
3. Enter the time which you want to start recording.

Stop at a certain time

To stop recording a certain time:

1. Click Recording options button from application window to view Recording options.
2. Choose Time for Stop mode under Schedule section.
3. Enter the time which you want recording stop at.

Stop by duration

To stop recording by duration:

1. Click Recording options button from application window to view Recording options.
2. Choose Duration for Stop mode under Schedule section.
3. Enter the duration which you want recording stop at. The default is 1 hour (1:00:00).

Stop by size

To stop recording by size of the output file:

1. Click Recording options button from application window to view Recording options.
2. Choose Size for Stop mode under Schedule section.
3. Enter the file size which you want recording stop at. The default is 1 gigabytes (1GB).

Restart recording

You can choose to start recording immediately right after previous session stops automatically. This feature is useful when you want to automatically split the output into multiple files with specific duration or size.

To enable restarting recording:

1. Click Recording options button from application window to view Recording options.
2. Choose a mode for Stop mode under Schedule section then enter the desired size, duration or time to stop.
3. Click the selector under After recording stopped then choose Start new recording

Use other apps

You can control recording through command line interface which makes it possible to use other apps such as Windows Task Scheduler to control recording.

For example, you can use start command and Windows Task Scheduler to automatically start recording at a specific time or day of the week. This is useful for complex scheduling scenarios which is not covered by the scheduling options provided by Screenbits.