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Can it easily record a square section of the screen without recording the full screen? Would be nice to have a program like that equivalent to screenshot tools like flameshot.

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You might want to try ScreenToGif (https://www.screentogif.com/) for Windows and Kap (https://getkap.co/) for macOS.

screentogif is my go-to for windows for anything recording

Why not the built in QuickTime on macOS? It lets you choose a screen section with arbitrary aspect ratio.

Does it offer compression, post-recording resizing and multi-format exports?

I can also recommend licecap (https://www.cockos.com/licecap/), which is quite minimalistic but gets the job done

been using LICEcap for a few years, works perfectly.

ShareX might be what you're looking for.

https://getsharex.com/

This is indeed something I assume people would use a lot. The Windows snipping tool is already pretty neat, but the capability to record video and save as gif/webm would be really helpful.

This only records the whole screen. You might want to try OBS Studio?

OBS studio is really a good free software!! It has a lot of features and could be a bit intimidating at first but I got nothing but praise for them

I will use OBS for recording tech training sessions. It's a robust app that can be set up for anything I need. I develop open source software in a linux desktop environment, and am thrilled by the capabilities of this program to record my workflow.

I commend the author of this post for creating a simple tool for windows. Anything that helps is capture and share knowledge is a win.

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