EaseUS RecExperts screen recorder review

If you’re creating webinars or need to record videos on your computer, EaseUS RecExperts is one of the best screen recorders we've tested. This capable software enables you to capture a specific subset of your screen, easily overlay video from a webcam, and record audio on top of it all. RecExperts supports 4K recording and comes with a variety of handy features to make your videos more impactful.

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EaseUS RecExperts: Pricing and plans

• EaseUS offer both subscription and perpetual licence options, satisfying people who like to rent their software, and those who prefer to own it

EaseUS offers various ways to pay for the software, whether you wish to subscribe or own it. You have two different subscriptions available: $20 a month or $50 for the year. This is a licence for a single computer and grants you upgrades for a month or a year respectively.

Alternatively, if you’re already struggling with the mountain of subscriptions you already have to deal with, you also have the option of purchasing the software outright for $80 for a single computer, and best of all, this includes a lifetime of free upgrades.

Businesses have a separate deal: an outright purchase of two licences for $120, which also includes free upgrades for life.

If you’re curious about the software, you can download a trial version for free, which lets you explore most features, but restricts your recordings to a single minute.

For alternatives without the price-tag, we've rounded up the best free screen recorders.

• Pricing & plans: 4.5/5

EaseUS RecExperts: Interface

• Very well designed interface, which is simple to navigate, and makes turning on the settings it needs to operate a breeze. You also have access to many parameters, if you like to control every aspect of your software

Every software designed to record your screen, webcam, capture your audio, etc, needs you to authorise these functions through your computer’s settings. You can either be shown how to do it, or the software can take you to the right preference’s location, leaving you to toggle the feature on yourself. RecExperts was able to do most of this automatically for you; all you have to do for most requests was to simply click on ‘grant access’ within the RecExperts software. Couldn’t be simpler. Only once did we have to toggle the feature in the computer’s settings, but when that happened, RecExperts had taken us to the right place, making this almost an effortless process.

The interface itself is very simple and well designed: a small rectangular window offers you all the information you need, with a sidebar for the video, audio, webcam, and ‘enhanced’ mode. The latter is a feature that enables you to capture encrypted footage from websites which frustratingly don’t usually allow you to do so, namely Netflix, Disney, Amazon Prime and others. RecExperts will make this possible, as long as you’re using Google Chrome.

Top right is a hexagonal button which leads you to the app’s settings. You have access to many parameters, such as the output format and quality for the video and audio, setting up hotkeys, and having the ability to see when the mouse is clicked, among others.

You’ll also find options in the webcam setting to use AI to blur or replace your background. Sadly the results proved very subpar for us. If cutting out your background is your preference, we’d recommend making use of a green screen (which this software supports). On a more positive note, you have full control over where to place the webcam video (even in the middle of the screen if you so wish), as well as its size.

You will undoubtedly bump into some features reserved for those who have paid for the software. For instance the microphone has a couple of options which you can’t evaluate during your trial: 'microphone noise reduction’ and ‘microphone boost’.

Once you’ve explored the various settings, it’s good to know the main features are prominently displayed: turning your webcam, system sound, and microphone on or off is done with three large, impossible to miss, buttons. When it comes to the screen, the default option is to record all of it but clicking on the ‘Region’ button lets you create a rectangular area which RecExperts will focus on, ignoring the rest (this area is easily resizable until you’re happy with it, prior to recording).

Once you’re ready, click on that big ‘Rec’ button on the right.

• Interface: 4.5/5

EaseUS RecExperts: Performance

• Set up what you wish to record (audio, video, webcam, mic) and away you go. Everything you do on screen will then be recorded. You have few editing options, but also have a series of interesting ‘pro’ tools

Recording full screen, you lose all visible control buttons, and have to pause or stop the recording through keyboard shortcuts. When you set a specific area, a control bar can be found just below that area, although the keyboard shortcuts still work. As you’d expect, everything you do will be recorded, including the system audio, your microphone, and your webcam if you’ve selected them.

Once you’re done, you’re taken to another window which contains a list of all your previous recordings. If you’re in the trial version, you’ll only be able to see the first minute of any recording. However the whole recording is actually saved should you decide to upgrade. It’s jus not accessible to you until you pay.

There is also an editing section, but this too is not available for trial users. What you can do for free, is alter the footage’s speed, take a screenshot, and change its volume. If you wish to do more advanced editing, the recordings are saved straight to your computer (by default as mp4), so it’s a simple matter of dragging those to a proper video editor and continue your work from there.

We found the screen capture works very well, and were impressed that we could indeed record videos from Netflix and others, although we did experience the image freezing at times, and the odd rendering artefact appearing every now and then - for those websites. Videos that aren’t encrypted had no such issues.

Be aware that unlike some other screen recorders like ScreenFlow or ScreenPal, you cannot remove your webcam footage from the recording. It was there when you were recording, and it remains there in the final video.

Some tools that looked interesting are Auto Split, Auto Stop, and Task Scheduler. Their titles are pretty self explanatory: if a recording goes on for too long or its file size becomes too big, RecExperts will automatically stop it and seamlessly start a new one; you’re able to stop recording after a set length of time, file size, or at a specific date and time; and you can automate your recording process so the software will start and stop on its own without you even needing to be at your computer. Those are pro features.

All in all, RecExperts is very well designed with a good number of very useful features which makes using it easy for newcomers, while also feeling full featured for more advanced users. It’s only let down by a poor selection of editing tools, and the inability to manipulate the webcam footage after the fact, as it’s burned into the recording.

• Performance: 4/5

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