To save versions of your video in lower resolutions, you can use the option Export As. Long movies and footages taken from a screen with the high-resolution may be of huge size. You can also save a copy of the video by clicking File – Duplicate. In case you don’t want to cut the video, click File – Save (command + S) and get it written over the original. Point the new start and end of your video by dragging the yellow handles down at a frame scale. But first, we recommend you save a copy of the initial version of the video. You can edit the video, after recording it. Saving, trimming and exporting screen video Now, your video will be available to view in Quick Time Player.
To stop recording, click the Record button once again. You can either click it once again, to get the recording started, or drag the highlighted area if you’d like to record only a particular area of the screen. Now you need to click on the red/white recording button. In case you want mouse clicks to be shown on the video as well, tick it in the ‘Options’. Select a source of a ‘Microphone’, if you’d like to record your voice over the video. Go to File, then click New Screen Recording, and the window for Screen Recording will open.Ĭlick an arrow sign which is placed next to the record button and a smaller window with the list of configuration options will appear. To record the screen of your Mac, you need to open Quick Time Player.
This guide gives you a handy step-by-step tutorial for on how to take screen videos on Mac computers, iOS devices or Apple TV.īefore getting to the matter, we’d like to advise you clean memory on Mac prior to starting the recording process as it may require a considerable chunk of system resources. But what to do when just one screenshot is not enough to describe a complex problem or show something cool in motion, and you actually would like to record a video from your screen? Having taken a screenshot of a problem on your Mac or iPhone will help you get more relevant advice from another knowledgeable Apple user. A screenshot taken from the screen of your Apple device is an easy and fast way to share something exciting with others.