- [Stewie] So, you want to record
your Mac screen for gaming.
Well, I am going to help you with just that today.
I'm going to break this video into three categories.
Free screen recording programs,
paid screen recording programs,
external screen recording programs.
First, here are the freebies.
The first way to record your Mac screen is to use
Mac's in-built screen recorder,
which is available on macOS Mojave.
To use this you press, Shift-Command (⌘)-5 on your keyboard,
which brings up controls.
You can record the entire screen, record a selected portion,
or capture a still image.
When you're ready to record your entire screen,
which I guess you wanna do, click record.
To stop recording simply click the record button
in the menu bar.
Your video will automatically be saved to the desktop.
If you are recording straight from a game,
be sure to open the menu first,
as it's more easy to access the controls.
If you haven't upgraded to Mojave,
you can also record the screen with QuickTime Player,
which comes on every Mac.
Find and open QuickTime Player,
then choose File and New Screen Recording from the menu bar.
The Screen Recording window will open.
To start recording, click the Record button.
Click anywhere on the screen
to begin recording the entire screen,
which, will be most of you or if you want, you can drag
to select an area to record.
But I don't think many of you are going to do that
because you want to record the entire area, right?
To stop recording, click the record button in the menu bar.
QuickTime Player automatically opens the recording.
Another free option is Medal for Mac,
which is available from their official website.
Medal records your last 30 seconds to 2 minutes
of screen footage in the background.
To see the footage,
all you have to do is press shift-Command (⌘)-2,
and the clip is saved to your Movies folder.
The downside to these recording programs or features
is that you have no ability
to record your Mac's in-built audio.
Which is why our next free screen recording program
might be a better option for some.
OBS Studio, is an open source software for video recording
and live streaming.
Download it from their website or via the link
in the description.
I'm going to show you how to simply record,
not how to stream.
Once you have it open
and have setup the auto-configuration wizard,
to start recording your display,
you need to add it in via the sources panel.
Press the "+" button and click "Display Capture".
Call it what you want and click "Ok".
You may have to resize it, to fit it into the canvas.
If you want to record your Mac's audio
you will have to download a separate program
called Soundflower, which will be used
as an audio output for OBS.
To start recording simply press Start Recording.
OBS Studio takes a while to configure for Mac,
so I have a full video guide in the description,
showing the best recording settings,
and how to record your Mac's audio.
Those are the best free screen recording programs
for Mac gamers.
Now let's look at the paid ones.
Your cheapest option is Capto.
Which is available from the Mac App Store.
Capto is an easy-to-use app that allows you to record video
and even edit it.
Once you have installed Capto, it very simple to use.
You can decide to record your full screen or an area,
and you can even record the audio of your Mac,
include your microphone and camera in the recording.
To start recording, click the Record button.
When you start recording,
you can stop it at any time by going up to the menu bar
and clicking "stop and save recording".
This will save it into the program where you can edit it
and share it as a file.
The quickest way to get it out of the program
is to simply select the file
and drag it to the desktop or any other folder.
Remember, Capto will automatically detect
your Mac's hardware and OS version and decide on the best
recording video setting to use.
You can manually change the FPS under preferences
and then record.
And you can also do that before actually recording
in this menu bar right here.
However, some Mac models
won't be able to go above 30 frames.
Your next option is to use ScreenFlow 8,
which is a more expensive option,
but it is very well optimized for macOS.
ScreenFlow is available from the Mac App Store.
This program is not only a decent screen recorder
but also a video editor.
You can record your display,
camera,
microphone audio,
and computer audio.
To start recording, click the Record button.
After you have finished recording, you can edit it
and choose how you want to output the footage.
When you output footage be sure to export at either 1280x720
for low end Macs and 1920x1080 for high end Macs.
Be warned depending on your hardware
and length of the recording, it may take quite a while
for the file to be exported from ScreenFlow.
And finally, the best way to record games on Mac
is by using an external screen recorder
such as the one of the Elgato Game Capture devices.
Using an external capture device is great,
as it won't use up your Mac's resources when recording.
To record a Mac with the Elgato HD60s or the HD60,
or a previous version,
you will plug the USB connection from the Elgato
into your Mac
and connect the HDMI cable
from the HDMI in-port of the Elgato capture device,
into your Mac.
Some older Mac's have built in HDMI,
and thus will not need any adapter to connect
to the HDMI input of the Elgato,
however, newer models use thunderbolt 1 and 2 ports,
and lately thunderbolt 3 or USB C ports.
Which means you need to purchase a Mini DisplayPort
to HDMI Adapter or a USB-C Digital AV Multiport Adapter.
Once you have it connected your Elgato properly to your Mac,
download the "Game Capture HD" software from Elgato,
open the program, and your screen
should automatically appear in the window.
To record audio, you'll need to use separate program
which comes on Mac called Audio MIDI setup.
Open Audio MIDI and choose a new "Multi-output device".
Check HDMI and your built-in Output.
This will send audio to the Game Capture software.
It's worth noting that if sound doesn't appear
and you've set it up correctly in Audio MIDI,
restarting your Mac often fixes the solution
and the audio will appear.
This is the most expensive option,
but it is more than worth it,
providing you with true raw gameplay footage.
And that's it, how to record your Mac screen for gaming.
If you have any questions,
don't hesitate to ask me in the comments.
And if you want, watch this video on how to benchmark
and track you FPS for Mac gaming.
Anyway, thanks for watching.
Buh bye.