Microsoft recently experimented with adding a new feature, its Snipping Tool, which you can use to record videos on your computer screen, and this feature is currently only available to some users of Windows 11 in the Insider developer channel. This feature was provided in the latest Windows 11 update that the company recently made, in this article we will explain how to download this tool because it is not present on the operating system itself if you have applied it to your computer before.
Disclaimer: The steps that we will explain next will automatically replace your old Snipping Tool on the operating system you are using Windows 11 with the new Snipping Tool that we will explain how to download today, but you can restore the old version and we will also explain how if you encounter any problems using the Snipping Tool feature new.
Download cropping tool for video recording
- First log in this link.
- In the first rectangle on the left, click on the arrow to bring down the drop-down list, then select “Productld”.
- Now copy this code into the second rectangle 9MZ95KL8MR0L
- In this step, move to the third rectangle, press the arrow, then choose Fast, and then press the “correct” sign in the last rectangle.
- Now choose the version that we selected in the following snapshot, which is Microsoft.ScreenSketch_2022.2211.35.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.Msixbundle
- Now just install the tool on your computer, then after the installation process is complete, open the tool and click on “Update”.
- After the update process is completed and then open the tool again, you will now see the Record button in front of you. Once you press it, the computer screen recording will start.
Steps to go back to the previous version
In the event that you want to go back to using the old cutting tool, either because of some errors or problems that you found while using the old cutting tool, or just because you are used to using the old version, then you can easily return to the old version just by following the following steps..
- First, you must access the same previous link in the previous method, and perform the same previous steps until you reach the penultimate rectangle. Choose RP from the small drop-down list this time, and then click on the “correct” sign.
- Now you have to choose the link named Microsoft.ScreenSketch_2022.2209.2.0_neutral_~_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle to start downloading and installing it again on your computer.
- After completing the previous step and starting to install the old version again, a message will appear in front of you stating that you already have the latest version of the tool, and all you have to do now is just click on reinstall for the old version that you want again.
With that, you’ve got your old copy of the Windows 11 Snipping Tool back.
Use the video recording feature of the Snipping Tool
There is no shortcut key to record your video using the cropping tool on Windows 11, but to do this you can press “Record” or Start to start recording your video and then you can select the area on the screen that you want to record the video, as You can adjust the space just by dragging the edges of the square in front of you to either decrease or increase the area as you wish.
Once you press Start, your video will start recording only after 3 seconds, and you can cancel or stop the recording at any time just by pressing the trash can icon that you will see in front of you.
When you finish recording the video you want, just press Stop, and then the cutting tool will now review the video that you just recorded in front of you without the need for you to go to the video clips file on your computer, but one of the disadvantages of this tool is that it does not record the audio accompanying the video. Which makes it somewhat closer to GIFS, as it was noted that the mouse pointer is also captured during video preparation, and there is no setting to prevent the pointer from appearing in the video.
To save the video that you recorded using the trimmer, you can just copy and paste it into the clipboard of the tool, or you can also copy it to any other application, and you can certainly save it to any other file on your computer simply. Knowing that the video will be saved in MP4 format, and there is no way to adjust and modify the video using the cropping tool, so if you want to make several modifications to it, in this case you must resort to using another external application to do so.
The application may crash while using it at times, but in general it works well, you can use this tool to record videos on your computer screen, perhaps to explain operational steps regarding the application of other programs or use it for other educational videos, but then you will have to use other applications To add voice to the explanation and then mount it on the video, so the topic may be a bit cumbersome, or you can just use this tool to record short videos or GIF images and use other applications and programs to record video clips for explanations that may take a long time so that you can also add the modifications you want after you finish from video recording.