The Chromebook application allows you to upload your content to our hosting platform. If you would like to save your content online for easy sharing, uploading your recording to our site can provide many benefits. For a quick overview, see our Tips and Tricks video.
Key reasons to upload to our hosting site:
You can see more benefits on our plans page under Video Hosting & Sharing.
After you've finished a recording using our screen recorder, click Done and you will see a preview of your recording with a slider below it.
You can choose to trim the start and end of the video to upload only a portion of the video to our hosting site. Check out this video for a description of commands that will help in trimming.
When you are ready to upload, use the Options menu on the right to click Upload to Screencast-O-Matic.
If you are not already signed in with your account, you will see the following message.
The following options are displayed for upload:
Once you've finished selecting your upload options, click Publish to upload your recording to our hosting site.
Once the upload is complete, the application will process and encode the data in preparation for final publish on the site.
While the recording is encoding, options are displayed to share your recording on popular social media services like Twitter and Facebook.
When you are finished with the sharing options, click Done. At this point you can choose to to upload to another service or close the application.
For a full video guide to uploading, please check out this tutorial on YouTube.