How to record Skype video call and convert video to iPod, iPhone, BlackBerry, MP4, MP3, etc

Now more and more people all over the world are using Skype to have their video call with friends, lovers, family, or business partners. Skype is proprietary free software that allows you to make calls or conference over the Internet using your PC or notebook. Skype uses decentralized peer-to-peer and VOIP technologies, so your calls do not go through a central server, but through distributed servers and other users.

And on many occasions, we want to record Skype video call and save as video files on our PC. Recently, I found a perfect software tool to record Skype webcam video during a conversation. Now I would introduce Camersoft Skype Video Recorder which is an excellent Skype Recorder for recording Skype Call video and audio during your chatting. In addition, it even provides you with an important advanced function: Video Converter, with which you could load to review the recorded files, and convert them into other format you want, such as video to iPod, iPhone, MP4, WMV, MP3, etc.. Now, this article will show you in details how to use this professional Skype recording software.

Firstly, please make sure you have installed Skype and the webcam on your PC.
Note: if your Skype is running, you need quit it completely before install the Skype recorder.
Then, you could free download Camersoft Skype Video Recorder from the official website:
http://www.camersoft.com/downloads/camersoft-skype-video-recorder.exe
And run the setup file to install it on your PC. The software could support almost all Windows OS
Version: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 2000 and the new released Windows 7.

Part1: How to record Skype Video with Camersoft Skype Video Recorder?

Step1: During your Skype chatting, startup the Skype Video Recorder software. Now you could see the main UI displayed. Now click "Record" button to begin recording and the time elapsed will show on the bottom of the UI . If you minimize the main UI, you could see that the icon on the system tray would switch between red and blue to remind you that the recording is still in progress. If you want to stop recording Skype, just click the “Stop” button to finish it. Then the recorded video file name will appear in the list.

Step2: After recording, you may want to play the recorded files. Now double-click one file in the list, the file will be opened by the Windows Media Player, which is always the default video player on windows OS. Of course you could handle the files freely: play with other players, copy them into your flash disk or edit the videos with other tools, because they have been saved on your folder and just click the "Open folder" button and the folder will be opened.
Notes: You could see that two files are generated in one recording procedure: one is the video of your own webcam and the other is of the other side of the conversation. They are named according to the time of the system. The only difference is that the video recording your self is named with a postfix “_1”.

Part2: How to convert recorded Skype Video to other formats with Camersoft Video Converter.

In section 1, we have got the recorded Skype video files. Now we will try another powerful Video Converter tool provided by Camersoft .
Firstly, click "Converter" button on the main UI to start Camersoft Video Converter.
Step1: Click "Add" button to load the video files which you want to convert.
This converter could support not only the Skype video call recorded AVI files, but many other input formats, like MP4, AVI, FLV, MOV, MPEG, WMV, MOD, etc. And you can select one file in the list and preview it in the right screen panel.
Tips: If you like the current image when preview video, you can use the "Snapshot" option. Just click the "Snapshot" button, the image will be saved and you can click the "Open" button next to "Snapshot" button to find your picture.

Step2: Click the “Format” drop-down list to select the format according to your portable player. For example, if you want to convert your videos to your iPhone format, please select the “iPhone video MPEG-4 (*.mp4)”. The converter support many output formats and different players or mobile phones like Blackberry, iPod, Zune, Nokia, MP3… And more formats will be supported in the future upgrade. Then you may set a folder to save the converted video files or use the default directory.

Step3: If you are advanced users and want to change more options, you could click “Setting” button, you may set the Video Resolution, Video Bitrate, Audio Bitrate to customize your output files.

Step4: Click the "Convert" button. Please wait before the conversion succeeds!

Now all is OK. You could load the files into your iPhone with iTunes to test it like below.

The converter could help you to enjoy your recorded Skype videos on many portable devices. So you could share your video and joy with more friends. If your need further information about recording and converting Skype video, you may visit http://www.camersoft.com/ or send email to: support@camersoft.com.