Apowersoft Screen Recorder Microphone Not Working



Website: https://www.apowersoft.com/screen-recorder.html

Ultra Screen Recorder - Your perfect screen and webcam recorder for making video tutorials, product demos, sharing gaming experience & more. Even better, it's a free and open source software. Note: this app does not support Windows 10 in S mode and you need to switch out of S mode in order to use it. To reset this permission if it is still not working, click the Trash icon next to BombBomb or Gmail related pages for both camera and microphone. Then go back to the BombBomb site or Gmail and try using the recorder.

With the increasing popularity of video blogs and video tutorials (and video reviews too) you might wonder how you can make your own? This review will walk you through how to do that – and provide a little demonstration at the end so you can see the end result.

This review is the first in our series of video screen recording reviews for macOS, so at this stage it won’t highlight any differences between Apowersoft Video Screen Recorder and other products, but as I review more I will try to remember to come back to this review and update it accordingly. With that in mind, I highly recommend subscribing to our e-mail feed (it’s free) so you get alerted as this is updated. The form is to the right and we won’t send you any spam!

Apowersoft Video Screen Recorder is a relatively simple screen recording utility that seems to work very well. Initial impressions are good, although at this point I only have the trial version so I’m limited to a 3 minute demonstration. However, what I have seen so far works extremely well and with excellent results, including Minecraft for Mac (thus you can clearly record 3D games too). Installation is simply a case of clicking the install package and following a few prompts (one of which is to enter your password, as I suspect this installs some device drivers to enable it’s functionality). Then open Finder and double click on the Apowersoft Mac Recorder icon.

As you can see above left, the main application window is extremely simple (some might say bland even) – but functional. The software is ridiculously easy to use. I discovered when creating my first demo however that there is one area you need to select before beginning if you’re using a USB headset and/or microphone to do voiceovers while you’re recording… Click the Audio Input label and make sure you have the tick next to System Sound and Microphone – otherwise you’ll find your voice doesn’t work.

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Clicking the record button does exactly as you’d expect and starts a recording, first giving you prompts that show you which hotkeys will do what. The biggest one to remember is likely to be ALT-E to hide the recording toolbar and ALT-T to stop the recording (ALT-S being to start). The use of hotkeys here is good because you want to concentrate on your screencast, not on the casting software itself. Clicking the Record button drops down the option of recording a region of the screen (as seen in the screenshot to the left), the whole screen, or the built in iSight webcam. If you’re using Region or Full Screen, you can choose to pop up a ‘Picture In Picture’ which will show you the contents of the webcam overlaid on the screen. I like this feature, although I hate appearing on camera, it does add a much more personal touch to your screencasts and can be useful for showing the viewer additional information where necessary. (Apologies for the image quality here, I had to use my phone for these ones!)

Clicks with the cursor are highlighted with a small round red circle so that attention is drawn to where you’re clicking, for example if you’re demonstrating how to use some particular piece of software. The colour and size of this circle can be adjusted by clicking the Options label and then clicking the ‘More Mouse Cursor Settings’.

When you’re done you can click the Convert label to convert the video to a format that is suitable for the device on which you wish to play, or you have to the option to Burn To DVD. I haven’t tried to burn it to DVD as my MacBook Pro has no DVD burner. The conversion screen opens and advises you to ‘Drag Files Here’. Unfortunately dragging the file from the main screen doesn’t work (a bit of an oversight I think since that’s the logical place you’d drag from) but you can right click on the main screen, choose Show In Finder and drag from there. Alternatively, right click over the video in the main window and clicking Convert from there automatically loads into the Convert window. The advertising blurb on the website says ‘Upload to YouTube’ but this isn’t done internally within the application, so you’ll need to work out how to do that yourself – which is a bit of a shame, particularly when Apowersoft have other software that interfaces neatly with YouTube. That said, there’s a whole range of video sites you might want to upload to and I suspect if they supported one site, people would want all the others too. Uploading shouldn’t be hard anyway. The conversion on my 3 minute demo was extremely quick and painless.

I’ve also had a play with the demo and can confirm that screen recording works with Minecraft for Mac (both in window and full screen mode) and Eve Online. I did notice some odd happenings with Eve Online, such as the screen resolution being a bit off and I’m not sure if that’s something that Apowersoft Recorder for Mac has altered or whether something else has changed it.

Once recorded you may wish to edit your video, perhaps to clip bits out, add annotations after the fact, or blur out sensitive information. The package does not allow this natively, and right clicking over your screencast and clicking edit will redirect you to the Apowersoft Video Editor, which appears at the time of writing to be a free download and will be the subject of an additional review which I’ll write later.

Apowersoft Screen Recorder for Mac is a simple tool but seems very effective and works well. At the time of writing it’s priced at US$39.95 which seems to be quite a bit cheaper than many of its competitors. Some of those competitors appear more polished and have additional features built in (such as the editing and uploading facilities) but without doing a proper review I can’t say for sure (check back regularly for updates as I get more information). However, the price point for the ability to record your screens for demonstrations, tutorials, videoblogs and even just to keep things for posterity is good and the software does everything I think I’d need it to.

You may find nowadays that something like Wondershare Filmora 9 offers better value for money though. The Windows version of Filmora 9 is just $59.99 as is the Mac version. That’s a one of payment which gives you screen recording AND video editing all in one package. If you prefer the subscription model it’s around $45 per year for the Mac version. I’ve done a review of Wondershare Filmora 9 for Mac over here…

But thus far, Apowersoft support has been very good, so this product gets a decent thumbs up from us. It could use a little more design flair on the interface perhaps, and some of the typography on buttons and drop down menus is a little odd (for example, every single macOS application I’ve seen uses File->Preferences notation for preferences, whereas Apowersoft have decided to opt for File->Options instead). But these are minor things for a product that you just want to work and this is by far the easiest screencast recorder I’ve seen so far (I have used a couple of others but not in enough depth to review yet).

  • 7/10
    Design - 7/10
  • 8/10
    Features - 8/10
  • 9/10
    Cost - 9/10
  • 10/10
    Ease Of Use - 10/10
  • 10/10
    Customer Support - 10/10
  • 9/10
    Overall Value - 9/10

Summary

Positives: Easy to use, cheaper than alternatives, great results.
Negatives: Bland design, no easy Upload button, Editing not included.

Website: http://www.apowersoft.com/mac-os-screen-recorder
Price: US$39.95

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You are trying to record audio with Windows voice recorder but it doesn't work well? Though the voice recorder is designed to record any sound or voice without any third-party software on Windows 10, sometimes users find Windows voice recorder not working well. Considering that you have this trouble too, I hereby list some common fixes for solving the problem that Windows 10 voice recorder can't record sound.


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Solution 1. Update Your Audio Driver

The first fix you need to try is to update your audio drivers by following the below method.


Step 1: Click on 'Start', enter 'device manager' in the search box and then select it to open the Device Manager window.


Step 2: Click on the arrow next to 'Sound, video and game controllers' option to expand the list and then right click your sound card and select 'Update driver'.


Step 3: Click on 'Search automatically for updated driver software' to let Windows update driver software.

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Alternatively, you can automatically update your sound driver with a software which can identify the drivers required to update and offer the most up-to-date version.


Hopefully this solution can help you fix Windows voice recorder not working issue, but if not, then try below fixes.


Solution 2. Make Sure Microphone Is Enable from Sound Settings

In fact, the most likely cause of Windows voice recorder not working issue is that your microphone is disabled. Therefore, try to follow below methods to enable microphone or recording device and adjust microphone levels.


A. Enable Microphone or Recording Device

Step 1: First of all, right click on the Sound Settings icon at the bottom right corner and select 'Recording Devices' from the Sound Settings list.

Step 2: Then select 'Recording' on the top menu of Sound window.

Step 3: At last find any desired device in the list, right click on it and choose 'Enable'.


Note: Since disabled devices might be hidden, if you can't find the desired 'Microphone', then right click anywhere in the sound window and select 'Show disabled devices', then right click the desired microphone and select 'Properties', finally choose 'Use this Device (Enable)' from the drop-down list of 'Device Usage' and click on 'Apply' > 'OK'.

B. Adjust Microphone Levels

On the 'Recording' window, right click your microphone or recording device and select 'Properties'. Choose 'Levels' and move the sliders to right side to increase microphone volumes.

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After that, check if Windows voice recorder not working issue is fixed or not.


Solution 3. Check if Your Device is Connected

In addition, you should check whether your device is connected. If there are multiple recording devices installed on your machine, Windows probably doesn't know which device to use, so you are supposed to select your device as the default recording device.

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To do that, open the 'Sound' window by clicking on Sound Settings icon, select 'Recording' and right click the device you want to use and select 'Set as default device'.


Solution 4. Let Windows Voice Recorder Run with Firewall

Since firewall might not allow some software to run, such as Windows voice recorder, therefore, you should also try to check whether your firewall allows Windows voice recorder to run. Just close the firewall and check if you can record audio with Windows voice recorder now. If not, try other fixes.


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Solution 5. Use A Different Audio Recording Software

If the Windows voice recorder not working issue still exists after trying above methods, then it is time to consider switching to different recorder software, referring to that, TuneFab Screen Recorder is the best alternative tool of Windows voice recorder, as this software is an all-in-one tool for recording, editing and sharing screen activity.


To record audio with TuneFab Screen Recorder, you need to:

Step 1. Download and Install TuneFab Screen Recorder

Click on below download button in accordance with your system and then install TuneFab Screen Recorder on your computer.


Step 2. Adjust the Volume

Launch it and choose 'Audio Recorder', then enable 'System Sound' and 'Microphone' and adjust the volume.


Step 3. Start Converting

When you are ready to start the conversion, click on 'REC' button. If you want to stop recording, simply click on stop icon on the recording panel and then click on 'Save'.


Solution 6. Run the Audio Troubleshooter

Windows 10 provides a built-in audio troubleshooter, so when you find Windows voice recorder not working, then you can try to run the audio troubleshooter.


Step 1: Right click at 'Start' and then choose'Settings'.

Step 2: Select 'Update & Security' > 'Troubleshoot'.

Step 3: Right click on 'Run the troubleshooter' of 'Recording Audio' option and follow the instructions to fix the Windows voice recorder not working issue.


Solution 7. Reboot Your Computer

Though you don't know exactly why Windows voice recorder not work well, you can try to reboot your computer to fix the issue. Here comes what you can do.


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Step 1: Click on 'Start' and then enter 'msconfig' into the search bar and click on 'Enter' to launch 'System Configuration'.

Step 2: Choose 'General' and then select 'Selective startup' and uncheck 'Load startup items'.


Step 3: Choose 'Services' and then check 'Hide all Microsoft services' and click on 'Disable all'.


Step 4: At last, click on 'Apply' > 'OK' and then restart your computer. After that, try to record audio with Windows voice recorder again.

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Seven common ways to fix Windows voice recorder not working issues are shown as above. When you find the Windows voice recorder is not well, just follow the above solutions one by one, we sincerely hope that you can fix the issue successfully.

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