In this tutorial I'm going to show you
how to record your computer screen and
your on-screen narration your talking
head at the same time using just
QuickTime Player on the Mac. Hey it's
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you know QuickTime Player is a simple
little media creation tool with
remarkable capabilities that comes
bundled with your Mac for free you can
use it to record high-quality audio
video your computer screen or all three
at the same time that's right using only
QuickTime Player on the Mac you can
record your computer screen microphone
audio and your webcam together to create
that picture and picture style video you
see so often in webinars online courses
and many YouTube videos interested in
finding out how to do it then let's jump
into it alright so here we are on my Mac
now to set up my QuickTime Player
picture and picture screen recording the
first thing I'm going to do is launch
QuickTime Player now there's two ways
you can do that you can go into the
finder and into the Applications folder
and select QuickTime there or you can go
up to this top menu here to this
magnifying glass icon select that and
you get spotlight search now I can just
start typing in QuickTime Player in
there and it comes up in the search
results and I'll just double click that
and now QuickTime Player is launched now
the first element I want to add to my
screen recording this picture and
picture screen recording is my webcam or
my face cam so to do that I'm going to
go up to the top menu here and under
file I'm gonna select new movie
recording and that brings up my webcam
this is the movie recording window and
if you take a quick look at it you can
see you have your big record button down
here
there's this arrow this down arrow if
you click it you get some options so
here you can select your camera the
built-in FaceTime or in this case I'm
using my Logitech c920 HD 1080p webcam
great quality great price and then you
can select your microphone here and it
really doesn't matter in this setup
what microphone you select here because
we're actually not going to be using the
sound from this movie recording window
we're just using the video image and
down here we have quality again this
depends on the quality you want to
record there's high quality which is
usually 720p and then maximum is the
maximum your camera or your system can
record high is fine for our purposes
because what we're gonna do here is now
that that's selected we're gonna shrink
down this window or it's gonna grab the
corner here and if I can grab it here we
go and we're gonna shrink it down and it
only gets this small you can only shrink
it down this much but that's fine and
we're gonna place it in the lower right
hand corner now you can place it
anywhere you want on the screen I'm just
gonna place it down here so as you can
see choosing high quality or maximum
quality doesn't really matter because
the windows gonna be pretty small okay
so this is our webcam or our face cam
for our picture in picture the next
thing we're gonna do is set up our
screen recorder and to do that we're
gonna go back up to the top menu bar
here with QuickTime still selected we're
gonna select File and as you can see the
only new thing that we can select here
is a new screen recording so we'll
select that and it just popped on my
other screen I'll just bring it over
here and that is the screen recording
interface and here you have a few
options along with that big red
recording button so let's just click
this down arrow to see the options and
here you can select your microphone now
here is where you want to select the
microphone you're going to use for your
screen recording this is the microphone
that's actually going to capture
the sound of your voice so in my case I
already have my audio technica at2020
USB plus selected that's the mic I'm
using right now and then down here we
have some other options show mouse
clicks in recording now what this does
is in your recording it'll show a
graphical highlight everywhere you click
the mouse which is great if you want to
track the movement of the mouse on the
screen we don't need that for this demo
so I'll leave that unchecked so this is
all setup and so now with this screen
recorder set up and our face cam down
here setup I can press the record button
here to start now this is the record
button you would press to record your
picture and picture screen recording not
this recording button down here on our
face cam okay so don't touch that you
don't need to because what's gonna
happen is the screen recorder is going
to record all of the screen including
our face cam down at the bottom okay so
let's start recording so I'm gonna press
the record button here and I get this
prompt click to record the full screen
drag to record part of the screen and
recording by clicking the stop button in
the menu bar so if I click the screen
right now I'll start recording the
entire screen now there may be a case
where you want to just make a selection
maybe there's a certain app window
that's open that you want to record so
you would then in that case click and
drag to make a selection and everything
in that selection will be recorded now
keep in mind if you want to use that
face cam shot down there it needs to be
included in the selection if it's not
included in the selection it won't be
recorded with your screen record you'll
hear your voice but you won't see your
face cam
so just keep that in mind I'll escape
out of that and reset the screen record
and now I'll record for real I'll hit
the record button and then I'll click
the screen to record the entire screen
and we're recording and as you can see
there is my FaceCam shot down to the
bottom corner and here is my desktop
it's kind of a boring screen record so
let's open up an application because I
want to show you something so I'm gonna
open up an app when I'm actually gonna
open a browser window and here we are
it's my website Michael Kinney calm
little plug and so let's say I wanted to
demonstrate a demo or walk through my
website here with my face cam so wanted
to walk through and show people give
them a tour but say I wanted to make the
browser window more prominent so I just
drag it out here rather I'd stretch it
out let me just grab the double arrow
here and I stretch it out and uh oh
where the face cam where's my face it's
covered by this browser window that's
not what I want is this a problem can I
fix this well yes it's very easy
actually if you make sure that QuickTime
Player is selected and active you go up
here to the top under the View menu you
select float on top and watch what
happens I'll select that and now I'll
grab the browser window to make it
active and look at that my face cam shot
stays on top of the active browser
window and that's because I selected
float on top and this will happen with
any app window your face cam if it's set
to float on top will float or stay on
top of everything else now
there's one big limitation with float on
top however and I'll show you if you
decide you want to go or enter full
screen okay let's just do that say I
want to go full screen with this browser
window I go to this little green
fullscreen button here in the top left
corner
now I'm full screen but look my face cam
has disappeared and that's because when
you enter full screen
it takes over the entire screen and your
facecam will not show up even if you
have flown on top selected so let's get
out of this here I'll just go down here
and reduce the size of this window and
we're back and there is my face cam so
if you want to have app windows open big
on your screen like almost fullscreen
the best thing to do is to size them up
manually
like this now there's just one more
gotcha I just want to show you here when
I watch when I mouse over my FaceCam
shot here with my mouse you see the
QuickTime movie recording interface
comes up that's going to show up in your
screen record so you might want to be
careful not to hover over this and for
some people that may not matter but it's
thought I'd point that out that this
will be included in your recording all
right
well let's stop this recording and see
what we've got now there's two ways you
can stop your recording one way is to go
up to the top menu bar here and click
the stop button here and another way to
stop is a keyboard shortcut which is
command control escape so I'll do
command ctrl escape and my recording
stops and a playback window
automatically pops up here so what I'm
going to do here just to make this less
confusing I'm gonna size down my record
my recorded screencast here with my face
cam and I'm also gonna close my face cam
so it's not so confusing and so here we
are we have our recording let's play it
back and see what we've got
recording and as you can see there's
okay so I can see my face cam is there
and there's my desktop and it seems to
be going pretty well and I can hear if
you listen I want to show you something
so I'm gonna open up an app when I'm
actually gonna open a browser window and
you can see and here we are it's that my
body oh my voice narration even though
it's being captured by the microphone in
the screen recorder syncs up perfectly
to the video of my talking head in my
face cam shot ruin show people give them
a tour but say I wanted to make this
alright let's just stop this just drag
so now if you're happy with your
recording you can save it out you simply
go up to the QuickTime menu and under
file you would select save and that's
how using just QuickTime Player you can
create sophisticated picture and picture
style screen recordings now in this
tutorial I showed you how to include
just your microphone sound in your final
screen recording if you want to also
include computer sounds say from an
application or video you're gonna need
an additional piece of software
QuickTime Player can't record computer
sound on its own at least not at the
time of this recording now if you really
want to know how to record computer
sounds using the QuickTime Player screen
recorder on the Mac I made a detailed
tutorial that shows you exactly how to
do that using an additional piece of
free software the link to that tutorial
should be on the screen right now the
link is also in the description below
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