# Recording a sketch
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789
**Category:** Libraries
**Created:** [January 1, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789 "2020-01-01T21:19:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@lnp](https://discourse.processing.org/u/lnp)
#### Post date: [January 1, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789/1 "2020-01-01T21:19:49Z")
Hi there and happy new year!
What’s the easiest way to a record real video from a P5 sketch? In Processing Python mode I was using Syphon and Soundflower. I’ve found in the past that stitching screenshots together works poorly. Ideally I want to generate mp4’s right out of the sketch somehow.
Any direction would be much appreciated! making the move in to p5… (finally!)
Luke
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### Author:  [@lnp](https://discourse.processing.org/u/lnp)
#### Post date: [January 2, 2020, 8:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789/2 "2020-01-02T20:47:40Z")
This is the best solution I’ve found so far: [https://peterbeshai.com/blog/2018-10-28-p5js-ccapture/](https://peterbeshai.com/blog/2018-10-28-p5js-ccapture/)
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### Author:  [@yaniki](https://discourse.processing.org/u/yaniki)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2020, 9:57am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789/3 "2020-01-03T09:57:38Z")
Use any software for screen recording (I presume, you are using MacOS, so build-in Screenshot [Catalina] or QuickTime [previous OS’es] should be ok). Also, some commercial, software (Screenflow, for example) can do the job.
And various solutions based on Syphon are still possible with apps such as:
> **[ScreenCaptureSyphon](http://techlife.sg/ScreenCaptureSyphon/)**
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> ScreenCaptureSyphon shares a whole or a part of your screen, or a whole or a part of window as Syphon, and can send the video played area to another application as video. PowerPoint, Keynote as well as materials on browser such as Flash contents (You...
or
[http://www.sigmasix.ch/syphoner/](http://www.sigmasix.ch/syphoner/)
good luck
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### Author:  [@anon68884268](https://discourse.processing.org/u/anon68884268)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789/4 "2020-01-03T10:18:31Z")
You can also use [OBS](https://obsproject.com) (Open Broadcaster Software). But it’s sometimes hard to get the sketch as video source.
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### Author:  [@lnp](https://discourse.processing.org/u/lnp)
#### Post date: [January 3, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/recording-a-sketch/16789/5 "2020-01-03T16:14:23Z")
This looks helpful, thanks.