Screencasting or simply screen recording is a very easy to do task. You can easily download a software for it and record what you need, which can be further downloaded as a video and you can upload it wherever you like to host it. Right now, there are various good and handy screencasting tools or softwares available in the market that are free to install and use.
But, the thing is not many of us know about the fact that we can even screencast our desktop screen merely using YouTube. So, what's the benefit of recording your screen using YouTube? The answer is quite simple! Why should we waste our time using those softwares and tools when we have our beloved YouTube to do the work for us. Not only this, YouTube has an extra advantage over these screencasting tools i.e. We can also host it as a live stream at that moment only which in my view is a great thing.
So, following is a detailed step-by-step guide on how you can screencast you desktop using YouTube.
Screencast your desktop using YouTube
1. The very first step you need to do is to Sign In to your YouTube account using your Google credentials. Now, as soon as you login, you can see the Upload button on the top right corner of the webpage. You just need to click on it.
2. As soon as you click the Upload button, it will redirect you to a page where you can see the Live Streaming option on the right side. Click on the Get Started button under that option.
3. If you are doing this all for the first time, YouTube will verify you. You can verify it using your working mobile number with either a message for the code or a call.The verification page looks something like this.
4. After doing this, You will reach the page where you can see Live Streaming option to the left with two sub-options. You need to select the Events tab which opens a new page where you need to click on the New Event button on the top of the page.
5. Now, a page will open asking you for the title of your live streaming. Just enter the necessary details and change the privacy to Unlisted or Private and just click on the Go Live Now button to the right.
6. Doing this will open a Hangouts on Air page. You can click on the camera and the microphone option to turnoff the video and the audio respectively.
7. Now, click on the screencast button on the left side pane and select the desktop window that you want to record. In case you are using multiple desktop windows, it will only show the window that is active at the current time.
8. Click on the Share button that appears and then click on Start Broadcast to start recording you screen. We set the privacy earlier to Unlisted or Private so nobody else could watch our stream except us. When you have finished recording your screen, click on Stop Broadcast button and switch back to the Youtube website.
9. That's it, just open your Youtube Dashboard where you can see the video that you just recorded. You can easliy save that video to your Google drive which can later be downloaded easily for offline purposes.
So, that was all about on how to screencast your desktop screen using Youtube.
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