Hit the record button to bring up the record dialog. You can record any combination of audio and video but only one track of video at a time. Specify the parameters of a file to record to then hit Do it. For recording video, the monitor window has complete TV tuner and picture adjustment, but only when capturing from Video4Linux. Click on the Channel name to bring up a channel table. You could just go to Settings->preferences->video and select capture from the screen.

The record window is much like VCR. You can record, rewind, fast forward, and play back in this window. There are even different record modes. You can have the recording stop after a specified time or loop over the specified time infinitely.

Be aware that although you can loop video recordings all day and keep the commercials you like, there is no way to synchronize audio in a loop recording. Starting with the second pass you'll get a glitch where the new pass overwrites the old pass. After saving a recording you need to find the glitch point and paste silence to synchronize the overwritten audio.

The samplerate, framerate, and frame size are taken from the project settings. The best way to change these is to go to File->new to create a new project with the desired settings. These settings become the defaults for new projects.

Video recording tries to capture frames as close to the project framerate as possible. Ideally you would set the framerate slightly lower than the maximum possible, so Broadcast 2000 can make up dropped frames. Set the framerate to some high number like 100 and record a test movie with sound. Divide the actual number of frames captured by the time duration of the audio and round down to get a reasonable frame rate for capturing.

While recording video, you can zoom and pan the captured part of your video by middle clicking the video window. Shift middle clicking and moving up or down controls zoom. Also the cursor keys allow pixel translation adjustments. Zoom is done in hardware so if your video card doesn't support hardware scaling, you won't get any zoom. Zoom isn't available when capturing from the screen. Instead middle clicking during a screen capture determines which part of the screen is captured.

Be aware that Video4Linux has a lockup bug that occurs during sustained capturing of less than 29.97 fps. If this bug occurs during a Broadcast 2000 capture, hit save and restart Broadcast 2000.

After many a Xena episode was missed for lack of unattended recording features, scripted recording was implemented. Broadcast 2000 can configure an output file and start recording with a single command line invocation.

Start Broadcast 2000 with the -b flag for batch mode. The next argument is a script file much like the included record_script file. This file contains all the options for starting a recording.

If you omit options, the defaults will be used, which can be quite unpredictable.

The output file is overwritten without question when recording from a script. The script exits after the recording is started and returns control to the user.