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Mirillis Action! screen recorder and streaming software
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Mirillis Action! screen recorder and streaming software is a user-friendly program with many features that help to capture and broadcast any on-screen activity in a superb HD video quality. You can record and stream your gameplay, web player videos, record music, capture screenshots, add webcams, microphone commentary... and more!


The application was developed by software company Mirillis Ltd.  It was first presented to the global market in November 2011 and since then Action! has been constantly improved to enjoy the best possible recording and streaming experience.

The Thoughtfully designed and intuitive interface gives the users total control over the output video files. Mirillis Action! offers 4 recording modes and enables LIVE streaming to most popular services and platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, Smashcast, Ustream and more.

The latest Intel Quick Sync Video, NVIDIA NVENC and AMD APP hardware acceleration technologies together with highly optimized application engine provide the ultimate performance of smooth HD video capturing and broadcasting.

What are the key features of the program?

Smooth HD game: recording up to 120fps!
The best recording performance and low CPU usage!
Easy to use and stylish user interface!
Up to 20 times smaller video recordings!
Video recording directly to MP4! (H.264/AVC)
Microphone audio commentary and webcams support!
Fast export directly to YouTube and Facebook!
LIVE Streaming to Twitch.tv YouTube, Ustream and more!
Control video recording with Smartphone!

Homepage:

https://mirillis.com/en/products/action.html

Download:

https://mirillis.com/en/downloads/downloads_action.html

Size:  22.50 Mb
Current version:  2.8.0
Release date:  October 9, 2017

System Requirements:

Mirillis Action! supports Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10. It does not support Mac Operating System.
DirectX and latest graphics card drivers, 512MB RAM, 1.4GHz processor, internet access and admin rights. H.264/AVC and H.265/HEVC hardware acceleration

https://mirillis.com/en/products/action_...ments.html

Installation:

After you download the installer, simply double click on the file and follow simple on screen instruction till installation complete. No skills needed for installation.

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Automatic updates allow to keep your Action! version always up to date with no need to download new versions manually. When new version is available the program will automatically downloads new installation files then inform you that new version is ready to be installed.

Free trial:

The program will let you enjoy fully functional 30-DAY free trial. The only limitation in the trial version is the watermark that is added to every video recording made with the trial version. After the trial is over you will need to purchase a license. Product activation is required to use the program after the trial period and to remove a watermark from all your gameplay, Windows desktop and any other video recordings.

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Purchase:

You can easily purchase a lifetime license from the online store here:

https://mirillis.com/en/store/onlinestore_action.html

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Activation:

Enter "License for" and "Serial number" then press "Activate" button. In "License for" field you can provide your real name, nickname or PC name. Internet connection is not required for activation.

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User Interface:

The user interface is very friendly, easy to use and well arranged. The left side shows preview window and the right side shows toolbar with many buttons available. The interface will show different options depending on the tab you will select. There are video recordings manager with thumbnail view, audio recordings manager, benchmarks manager, screenshots manager. HUD is displayed when the program is connected to your applications, games or desktop. It will provide you with many information. For example;  current and average framerate, 3D engine detected, status icon, progress bar, free and used disk space.

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Features:

The most user friendly and stylish interface of all screen recorders!
Mirillis Action! gives you Greenscreen Mode.
Record webcam or USB/HDMI Capture Devices
Try screen recording with Selected Application recording option.
Record gameplay in HD. Benchmark games performance.
The outstanding screen recording performance!
Live stream gameplay and desktop activity to popular services!
Never miss a gaming moment with Time-Shift option
Screen and gameplay recording in outstanding 4K!
Screen recording with automatic webcam background removal using Intel RealSense technology!
Upload Windows desktop and gameplay recordings to YouTube or Facebook.
Smooth HD Windows desktop recording, screen recording and easy tutorial creation!
Continuous Windows desktop screen and gameplay recording!
Export screen and gameplay recordings to popular formats and devices!
Add webcam to your screen or gameplay recordings
Hardware acceleration for stunning HD screen and gameplay recording in MP4 format!
Monitor and control your screen or gameplay recordings with free Action! RCU app for Android
Outstanding slow motion effects for your gameplay recordings
Support for Logitech G13/G15/G19 multimedia keyboards
Smooth screen recording for real-time web videos recording.
Capture Windows screen and game screenshots
Add live audio commentary to your screen and gameplay recordings
Fast and easy screen recordings playback.
Record what you hear!

New features:

Added possibility to record selected audio device (ie. microphone) to a separate audio file. Check Recording microphone to separate audio file for game and screen recordings tutorial to learn more.
Added support for Elgato Game Capture HD60 S device (USB 3.0 required)
Improved Elgato capturing devices support
GUI improvements

Application is multilingual and you can choose from 15 different languages of user interface.

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Now let me discuss the main uses and features in the program:

Video Recording:

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Video Recording tab manager offers 4 recording modes:

Game and applications recording mode: 

This mode is dedicated to capture videos from all DirectX 8/9/10/11/12 and OpenGL games and applications. In this mode recording can be started only using a hotkey F9. The game or application must be active to start or stop video recording. If the game is not active HUD displays current game framerate in gray color.

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Video might be recorded and streamed in 2 formats; MP4 and AVI. User panel settings allow you to change the Video size, FPS as well as set the duration of the recording.  Microphone option allows to include LIVE commentary during your gameplay while webcam adds a personal touch to the recordings.

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Active Screen

You can perfectly record everything on your PC screen: applications, websites, videos, music videos, games and more! You can simply start this by switch Action! recording mode to "Active desktop". Now, press "Start/stop recording" button or F9 hotkey

Active desktop region

The program is a perfect tool for recording videos, web videos, games and any other screen activity. You can easily record any selected area of your computer screen. Press "Start/stop recording" button or F9 hotkey to start Windows desktop recording.

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Record webcam or USB/HDMI Capture Device

Program ensures amazing recording performance of Direct3D games/applications and support sRGB OpenGL applications as well as old OpenGL games.


Video Recording options:

Time-Shift (Games and applications): Mirillis Action! introduces also a Time-Shift option. This feature allows the program to save your best gameplay actions instantly to a file. No spectacular game action will be lost thanks to this option.
Webcam recording, Webcam recording with Chroma key, Webcam recording with automatic webcam background removal using Intel RealSense technology
30bit Windows desktop recording, Time limited recordings, adding custom logo and other overlay graphics for video recordings, Optional mouse cursor recording, Optional mouse clicks visualizations

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Video recordings playback 

The program has a built-in internal Action! Player which is useful for video recordings playback. In addition, DirectShow filter is also present to playback AVI video recordings with 3rd party video players

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Exporting and uploading desktop and gameplay recordings:

Using Mirillis Action! you can easily share your desktop recordings, gameplay recordings and all other video or screen recordings on YouTube or Facebook. Super-fast video exporting with AMD APP, NVIDIA NVENC, NVIDIA CUDA and Intel Quick Sync Video hardware acceleration saves your time and makes sharing videos easy!

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Live Streaming settings:

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Action! Live streaming service enables to broadcast all games, videos, desktop activity, tutorials, webinars skype and other applications, directly to YouTube, Facebook, Twitch.tv, Smashcast, Ustream and more.
You may set the title of your live streams and privacy option while steaming to YouTube, Facebook and Twitch to target the right audience.
Videos can be live streamed up to 4K resolution using original video size option. Program allows for RTP/UDP/IGMP streaming (via custom URL address) and custom RTMP streaming. Windows desktop might be streamed in fullscreen or selected region and recorded to a disk in MP4 format.
Streaming videos might be personalized by applying custom Overlay graphic or Logo for branding purposes.

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Audio options offer: Recording system sounds, Stereo or multi-channel sound, Optional microphone input, Microphone volume adjustment and Microphone mixing level adjustment.

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Mirillis Action! supports Elgato, AMD and Hauppauge PVR capturing devices that allow the user to capture videos from gaming consoles, other PC, TV broadcasts, webcams and camcoders.

All recorded videos can be easily and quickly access and manage in a built-in manager. Action! screen recorder includes an internal ultra-responsive video player optimized for AVI and MP4 screen and gameplay recordings playback. Just double click your screen or gameplay recording thumbnail on the Action! list to start playback!

Capturing screenshots of windows desktop and games:

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You can capture many screenshots for your computer and games using the program. It will be easy for you to capture screenshots for selected desktop region. In addition, you will have the option to capture individual desktops or entire desktop for multi-display setups. The program supports many output file formats for desktop, games and applications, for example BMP, JPG, PNG

Mirillis Action! HUD settings

HUD displays free disk space, FPS and a timer indicating the length of the recording. Mirillis Action! is the only product worldwide featured in a unique option of HUD opacity settings. This is available for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 and 10 Desktop, D3D9, D3D10, D3D11, D3D12 and OpenGL. It allows users to set the level of HUD visibility on the screen.
Depending on users’ needs, HUD might not be included in the recorded video. This means that it will be visible on screen but not recorded. You can do this simply from the settings
Additionally, HUD might show recorded webcam preview which is helpful while recording videos with camera view. This option allows to monitor and improve the recording settings right away.
Another very interesting feature of Mirillis Action! is Live Streaming viewers statistics. This option shows streamers how many people watch their video at a given moment. The position of HUD on screen can be freely modified.

More features

Mirillis Action! offers a lot of settings to configure and many useful options to check:
150% GUI and HUD size for displays larger than 2560x1440
Information about GPU used for active screen/application rendering


Mouse clicks visualizations that are visible on the recorded video,

Chroma Key/ Greenscreen Mode option for webcam recordings and LIVE streaming,

Selected Application recording option – allows for recording Windows desktop screen in complete privacy

Benchmarking:  Action! allows to benchmark desktop and all supported DirectX or OpenGL games and applications performance. Benchmark results are saved in popular CSV file format.

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Hotkeys:

All recording and streaming activities can be easily handled thanks to hotkeys configuration. Using selected hotkeys allows to start/stop the recording (F9), capture screenshots (F12), show/Hide HUD (F6), add bookmark (Ctrl+B), mark video as favourite (Ctrl + F), record webcam and microphone on button down (On/OFF) and many more.
Hotkeys can be easily customized in settings panel.
Mirillis Action is a robust application for excellent screen recording and streaming performance. Mirillis ultra-fast, multicore optimized proprietary video codec (FICV – Fast Intra Compression Video standard) together with highly optimized application engine makes Action! one of the most powerful and reliable screen recorder in the world

Currently Mirillis Team is working on Action! 3.0 update featured in totally new options such as:

- Live preview of video composition
- Streamlabs, Muxy and other alert services support
- New recording engine
- Account manager
- New improved HUD
- GPU/CPU temperature monitoring and many more..


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Settings:

The program has many settings that are categorized under many buttons. These include general, video recording, overlay graphics, webcam, audio, microphone, HUD settings, export, hotkeys.

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Pros:

Screen recorder with high quality
Webcam recorder
Record gameplay in HD. Benchmark games performance
Easy to use
Allows streaming and real-time recording of Windows desktop
And many more

Conclusion:

Action! Gameplay and screen recorder, offers you a wide variety of must-have tools and features which make your game recording as easy as it has never been before. The program has user friendly intuitive interface which will let you find any option you need in second. You can easily upload your game recording to most popular video portals with just a few clicks. It is gentle for your hardware and guarantees the best performance, high quality with low CPU and GPU resources usage
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Well written review. I like that you added the tutorial video on the review.
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as always very detailed review thanks Thumb Heart Heart Heart Heart
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