Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com.
On today's episode let's look at using QuickTime Player to record your screen.
So I'm often asked how do I record the screen when I'm making the MacMost video podcast.
For instance do I use something like ScreenFlow or Camtasia, both of which are excellent screen
recording software apps.
As a matter of fact I'm using ScreenFlow right now to record the screen because I'm going
to demonstrate the way I make most of my videos which is not to use those apps but instead
simply to use QuickTime Player.
Some people don't realize that you can record the screen with QuickTime Player.
I'm going to run it right now.
This is the standard QuickTime Player that comes with your Mac and it is something that
every Mac has and every version of Mac OS 10 has added features to.
In the last couple of versions of Mac OS 10 we've got the ability to go File and New Screen
Recording.
When you do that you get a little box like this and it shows the microphones being picked
up.
You can actually click here and select the microphone that you want and also whether
or not you want to show mouse clicks while recording, which I do.
A lot of people notice that there are little circles that appear over the mouse clicks.
So let's go ahead and I'm going to hit Record and now I have the option to record the full
screen or I can drag for part of the screen.
So let's start by recording the full screen.
I'm going to click here and let's say I want to do something where I'm just showing how
I can drag files and folders around there.
You can see I've got this little circle with a box inside of it.
I can click on that and it stops the recording.
It instantly opens up what I've recorded inside of QuickTime Player.
Now I can actually play it back and I can scrub through it and I can even go and do
some standard QuickTime stuff.
Like, for instance, I can trim it there so I can get some stuff off the beginning and
the end.
I'm not going to do that with this particular one.
Then I can either Export it or simply just Save it and now I can save it out as a QuickTime
movie.
It saves it as a pretty compact QuickTime movie.
I like this method of doing it because instead of saving it as a file and if I don't want
to keep it now I have to go and find that file and delete it.
Instead now I can actually just see what it is and not save it if I don't want to keep
it.
That's actually how I make a lot of these podcast episodes is I will record a small
segment and if I don't like what I've said or how I've said it or something that was
shown on the screen was unexpected I simply don't save it and I start again.
So when I'm saving it I'm only saving clips that I'm going to use and then I edit them
together either in iMovie or FinalCut and that's how I make the videos.
You'll notice here that I've got, right there, that little black circle I talked about.
A lot of people ask how do I get that.
Well QuickTime just does that as long as you select that option there that I showed for
showing mouse clicks.
So you can see I've got the trackpad button held down and you can see it puts the circle
there to indicate that on the video.
So it is a pretty straight forward easy way to do it.
I'm going to close this without saving.
I'm going to show you just one more time how it's done but this time I'm going to click
and drag a boxed area.
So not only do you get to select an area but you get to adjust it.
See the Start Recording button in there but I can drag the edges.
So if I want to capture just a small area I can certainly do that and I can do it in
an unusual size even to create an unusual movie.
You can see now I can do things in here.
I can hit the Stop button and I get a QuickTime movie that is that size right there.
It is really easy to do, really easy to make quick little clips to demonstrate something
to somebody and it's all there in QuickTime Player which you've got on your Mac right
now.