No Live Screen Recorder in VS 2020 Ultimate. Where did it go?

[jungleexplorer]

I do not often use the Live Screen Recorded, but when I need it, I need it. I upgraded to 2020 a while ago and never noticed the LSR was missing until today. Did Corel do away with it? Do I have to install it separately? Where can I get it?

[Davidk]

The screen recorder (Live Screen Capture or LSC) that was been a feature VS versions - integrated with the main VS program, altho a standalone version is
'out there' - for quite a few years was dumped by Corel for 2019, and replaced with a cut-down version of their multi-camera control program, called multi-cam capture lite (MCCL). Why they chose to replace something so simple to use with a bastardised version of a camera control program for screen capture was never explained, despite the beta testers' screams about it, and their experience of it (mostly bad) and suggested alternatives were ignored. There are posts on various threads in this forum about that dated 2019, but with time memory of them has faded.
In you latest VS installation you should see the brownish icon for that MCCL feature. Or, you could seek a separate screen capture program from the many sources on the net - from various things said in posts, most VS users in your position chose that route.

[jungleexplorer]

Why they chose to replace something so simple to use with a bastardized version of a camera control program for screen capture was never explained, despite the beta testers' screams about it, and their experience of it (mostly bad) and suggested alternatives were ignored.

I have an explanation. It applies to many things. This is it. Too many engineers! Back when I was doing home remodeling, I was constantly frustrated by all the many different ways there are to have ceiling fans. I was like, "Why the hell are there so many ways to do this one thing? We only need ONE!" Then it dawned on me. In the world today, a college degree is looked at like the Gold Fields of old. People used to go off to the gold fields because it was their only hope of escaping the generational poverty that they were born into. Today, College is looked at the same way. If you want to escape the normal life (labor and service industry) and make something of yourself, you are told that you need to go to college and get a good degree. Well, there is one truth of life that people have forgotten. This is that, "Only things that are RARE have value"

Back a hundred years ago, there were very few people that had a college degree. Now, everybody has one. My daughter-in-law spent 60K getting a degree and she was working at a pastry shop for minimum wage when my son married her. Her degree has about the same value as toilet paper. So, if you did all the work to get the dang degree, it still is not worth anything anymore. So, to make it valuable, you have to distinguish yourself by doing something "NEW". We only need one way to hang a ceiling fan, but there are two hundred different ways, because there are too many engineers needing to reinvent the wheel to validate their expense of getting a degree.

Take Microsoft word as a good example. I have a copy of MS Word 2000. It is over 20 years old and it does everything I need to be done in a word processor and way more. But there are 20 new versions of it, and some really major changes, like the horrid RIBBON interface. Why? Too many engineers needing to validate themselves by reinventing the wheel over and over again.

[Davidk]

FWIW, my word/excel software is part of the Office 2000 suite. I added a plug-in for .docx a few years back, but that's it. it does what I want it to do. I use excel almost daily - the financial diary et al. Subscription software - which seems to be what Office 360 is - has never caught my fancy at all. Ribbon interface - if that's what the new edge at el are in, not for me.

[jungleexplorer]

FWIW, my word/excel software is part of the Office 2000 suite.

That's amazing! It is like we are brothers. I to have the Office 2000 Suite. I have the Premium edition that has everything, including PhotoDraw, which is a great graphics program, that I have never found a replacement for.

This suite was priced at $1000 when I got it back in 1999. But I only paid $100 because Microsoft was trying to promote their own hosting service at the time called "BCentral" and if you signed up for a year of hosting, which cost $99 for the year, they gave you a free copy of Office 2000 Premium. I was doing a FrontPage certification course at the time at a technical college in Dallas, so the school knew about the promotion.

[Testpilot]

OBS can be used for Livescreen. www.OBSProject.com

Today I had the same "problem" with screenrecord. VS2018 had it, and VS2019, VS2020 only as part of "Multicam Capture".
But in screenrecord I had only a small mousepointer. In OBS the mousepointer is in 4k recorded as it is set in windows.

[lata]

I do not often use the Live Screen Recorded, but when I need it, I need it. I upgraded to 2020 a while ago and never noticed the LSR was missing until today. Did Corel do away with it? Do I have to install it separately? Where can I get it?

Windows Start Menu – Multi Cam Capture Lite,
and
From the desktop should be a thumbnail for MCCL
or
through the programs Record - Capture Options