Choosing what to record

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Full Screen

Captures an entire display. With a single monitor, it's selected automatically — there's nothing to click through, you just hit Start. With more than one monitor, you'll be asked which one to record.

Custom region

Opens a dimmed full-screen overlay. Drag to draw a rectangle, then fine-tune it from any of its eight resize handles, or drag the whole box to reposition it. Recording starts the moment you confirm the region — there's no separate "Start" click after you've drawn it.

Window

Closes the Record view and opens a tile grid of every open window, similar to Alt-Tab. Click the one you want and recording begins immediately. Window capture uses Windows' own per-window capture technology rather than Tieddr's native full-screen path, so very occasionally a specific window may behave differently depending on your graphics driver — see Troubleshooting if that happens.

Which should you pick?

Full Screen is the safest default for most tutorials and demos. Custom region is great when you only want to show one part of a busy screen (a specific panel or app corner). Window is ideal when you want to record just one app and don't want anything else visible, even accidentally.