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one of the most useful features a laptop
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can give you is the ability to
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screen grab or screen record so getting
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a still image or a video of whatever it
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is on your screen so you can share it
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and honestly chromebooks haven't been
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that great at doing this
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up until now but with chrome os 88 a new
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tool is coming out that's going to allow
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you to not just get stills but also
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and audio from your chromebook right out
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of the box with no extensions no apps
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for right now as i said this is a
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feature that shows up in chrome os 88
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88 currently is in the beta channel we
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don't expect 88 out until sometime in
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january so if you're seeing this before
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then you're going to need to head over
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to your flags hey you're going to have
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to go to the the beta channel and then
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you have to go to your flags
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again if chrome os 88 isn't stable by
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the time you're watching this it'll be
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may or may not be behind a flag so if
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you're not seeing it out of the box
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know that you need to go to your chrome
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colon forward slash forward slash
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flags once you get there you're going to
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screen capture once you do you'll find
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flag going to enable that and then
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you'll have a button down here that
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shows up you click reset
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it'll reset chrome and you'll be ready
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to go so we're just going to close that
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basically once you've enabled the flag
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you have a couple different ways you can
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invoke this new screen capture it's
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right here in your main
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tray over here so you've got screen
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the old shortcut that would give you the
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old screen capture so control and
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that just does the old screen capture ui
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nothing special there but the minute you
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the old like different size screen
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capture ui so control
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shift and overview you boom come into
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brand new interface so that's going to
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look the exact same as if you just go
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down here and hit screen capture
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so same thing once you're here there are
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a couple things that you can do
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so you see there's a toggle at the
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bottom that shows a camera
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and video and as you hover each of these
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it tells you what what it is so that's
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going to switch us to screen record
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if i click this it's going to say take
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full screen screenshot
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and then you'll see it kind of
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highlights the entire screen you tap
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anywhere out here and boom you've got
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it's going to slide in until you've
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taken a screenshot it's set to do a
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out of the box so when you do this so
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say i do this right here
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i'm like that's not exactly the framing
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i wanted we can drag this frame around
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we can grab the edges
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and as you can see you get a nice little
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magnifying thing there so you can
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actually really hone in on that edge
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that you want to grab
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once you're cool and you're like this is
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it this is what i got and i need to move
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it a little bit more there we go that's
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click that capture button boom screen
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and you can click it and view it in here
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and see that it's an exact
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grab of the portion of the screen that i
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now when you move to video capture
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again our little box stays up here oops
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sorry our little box stays up here
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and if i flip over to video the box can
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stay here we can define
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specifically how much area we want to to
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record and you actually get
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pixels down here so you know exactly how
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much of the screen you're getting
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and once we're there say okay i want to
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start recording click it
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and you're going to get a countdown once
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the the outline goes away but it's still
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only going to record that portion of the
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and you'll see that here in just a
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second once you're done
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there's a stop button right down here on
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done we're going to click this and we're
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going to click our video and what you're
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going to see is just a portion
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of the screen so outline and you'll hear
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and so you see it only grabbed that
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portion of the screen which is a really
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nice trick honestly i mean if you're
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trying to do a screen recording
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of just a particular section of a
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website or anything on your chromebook
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it's so awesome to be able to define
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that space and then click screen record
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so now you don't have to go and
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you know chop up the video afterwards to
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actually get the crop that you were
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so finally the other trick i want to
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show you is you heard my audio pop in
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it's going to record the audio from your
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microphone so there's not always going
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to be a need for that or
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maybe you just don't want that to be the
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case right now there's no toggle to turn
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but if i go over here in my main chrome
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click next to the main speaker input
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i can just take my mic slide it all the
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way down that basically mutes the
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and so now when i go to do my screen
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again i can click full screen down here
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if i want to screen screen grab the
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i'm talking oh i did the wrong thing
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record full screen click it so as it
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i'm going to record and talk in this and
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you'll hear in just a second
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as i get done with that and hit stop
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click into this one and as you can hear
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there's no volume my volume is at max
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no volume whatsoever so if you need a
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screen recording and you don't want the
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volume in there of your kids screaming
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in the background or whatever
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just turn your microphone down but what
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is basically a full-fledged screen
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recorder i mean everything you need to
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screenshots small ones full screen video
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small full screen audio while you're
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doing it i mean it really replaces the
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need for any kind of extension or
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application for screen recording on your
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for chrome os to be a lightweight
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operating system and have this robust of
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a screen capture tool
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built in is pretty awesome and so we're
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excited to see it we're excited to see
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it roll out and stable again
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it'll show up in chrome os 88 so if you
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want to try it now head to the beta
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or wait around for chrome os stable to
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hit 88 but guys that's it for this one
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