Are you looking for an ultra-low cost no-nonsense way to record your Mac
computer screen? Well if you have a relatively modern Mac you already have a
great little screen recording application already loaded onto your
machine. It's called QuickTime Player and in this
video I'm going to show you how to use QuickTime Player to create great quality
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QuickTime Player is an often overlooked media creation tool that comes
pre-installed on a Mac. You can use QuickTime Player to record audio record
and edit video. You can also use QuickTime Player to record your computer
screen to create great quality screencasts. Let's hop onto the computer
so I can show you the process. So here we are on my Mac I'm running Mac OS 10.13.2
And I have this keynote project open here. Now let's say
I want to record a tutorial using this keynote project. Well obviously in order
to do that I need to record my screen and to do that I'm going to use
QuickTime Player. So to launch QuickTime Player I'm
actually going to go up to this magnifying glass icon here which is
Spotlight Search open that up and I get this search field and I'll start typing
in QuickTime and there's QuickTime Player. I'll double click that to launch
it. You can also find QuickTime Player in your Applications folder. Okay now I'll go
up to the top menu bar and making sure a QuickTime Player is active I'm gonna
select File - New Screen Recording. You can see there there's also a keyboard
shortcut for that. Now when you select New Screen Recording
you get this little screen recording interface. This red circular button is
what you select to start recording but before we do that we need to set a few
options. Now when you click this little down arrow beside the Record Button
you'll get options for your screen recording. The first option is Microphone
so any microphones you have connected to your computer will be listed including
the built-in or internal microphone on your Mac which you could use to record
your voice for your screen recording. I prefer to use a higher quality external
microphone which in my case is the Rode NT-USB microphone which I have selected
and I'm using right now. Now most likely you're going to have to adjust the level
of your microphone. To adjust the microphone level just go up to the Apple
icon here and select System Preferences
select Sound select the Input button and then select your microphone in the list.
Here is mine the Rode NT-USB microphone and then down here beside Input Volume you
can use this slider here to adjust the input level of your microphone. This
meter down here shows you your microphone level while you speak into
the microphone you can see it moving up and down as I speak right now. You want
to adjust your input level so that the meter kind of peaks around this
second-to-last little dot here. You don't want it sitting in this last dot
consistently. Usually if that's the case your level is too hot and your sound
could be distorted which isn't very good. Okay now that our microphone level is
set up I'm gonna close out of the Sound panel here and return to our screen
recording interface. I'm going to open up the Options menu again by clicking this
downward arrow and down here you can see options.
You have the option to show mouse clicks in your recording so everywhere you
click on the screen during recording a little circle graphic will flash onto
the screen helping draw the viewers attention to that spot where you clicked.
I'm gonna leave this unselected for our demonstration. Now this slider control
here allows you to listen to your voice through your speakers or headphones if
you have them attached to your computer as you record. A bit of a warning here
there is a delay between when you speak and when it comes out of the speakers
which can be incredibly distracting. I don't use this setting so I'll leave it
all the way down. The microphone I'm using the Rode NT-USB has a
headphone jack built in so I can listen to my voice while I record through the
microphone itself with no delay which is handy. Okay so now that we have all of
our options set and our microphone level all ready to go we can record. So once
you have your screen arranged the way you want it you select the red
Record Button and you'll get this on-screen prompt
"Click to record the full screen. Drag to record part of the screen." Okay so what
does this mean? Well if you click anywhere on this screen you'll be
recording your entire screen but if you click and drag
you'll get this selection window and you can start recording by pressing this
button but you can adjust this selection window by grabbing its edge clicking and
dragging. You can also adjust the size by grabbing these little grey circles on
the outside of the window clicking and dragging
to size the window.
Only content within this selection window will be recorded. If you're not
happy with your selection window just hit the Escape key
and that'll take you out of recording mode and back to the screen recording
interface. Alright let's actually record
something. So I'm going to hit the red Record Button again
and I'll get that prompt about the screen area. I want to record my entire
screen so I'm going to just click anywhere on the screen
and now I'm recording and I know I'm recording because of this little Stop
icon way up here on the top menu bar. Here's a little tip you want to wait
until this little Stop icon is fully black before you start delivering your
content. When it's fully black it means the recording is up to speed and running.
If you don't wait for that icon to be fully black before you start the
beginning of your presentation may be cut off. Okay so now we're recording. So I'm
going to deliver a little bit of this example tutorial here. So one of the
great features of Apple Keynote is a transition called Magic Move. But it
works more than like a transition it's really an animation technique. Here I
have a slide and I have some basic shapes on here and I have Magic Move
applied to this slide to transition from this slide to the next slide. So let's
just see how this works. So I'm gonna go up and select Play - Play Slideshow. Here's
my slide. Now I'll hit the Forward Arrow key and watch what happens.
Very cool. Let's get out of that by hitting Escape. Okay so I'm gonna stop my
little tutorial demo here and when you're ready to stop recording there's
two ways you can do it. You can go up to this Stop icon and click that. Another
less conspicuous way to stop your screen recording is to use the keyboard
shortcut Command-Control-Escape which is what I'll do to stop this recording.
Once you stop the recording your recorded file will pop up automatically
as you can see right here so that you can check it. I'll quickly check my
recording. I'll hit the play button here on the QuickTime Player.
"...and now I'm recording and I know I'm recording because of this little Stop
icon way up here on the top menu bar. Here's a little tip. You want to wait
until this little Stop icon is fully black before you start delivering your
content. When it's fully black it means the recording is up to speed and running.
If you don't wait for that icon to be fully black before you start the
beginning of your presentation maybe cut off. Okay so now we're recording so I'm
gonna deliver a little bit of this example tutorial here. So one of the
great features of Apple Keynote is a transition called Magic Move but it
works more than like a transition it's really an animation technique. Here I
have a slide and I have some basic shapes on here and I have Magic Move
applied to this slide to transition from this slide to the next." Okay I'll stop
that. It seems to be all there. Now if you're not happy with your recording you
can trash it by going up and selecting this red Close icon the red X here.
You'll get this dialogue that will give you a choice to delete your recording
and you can do that by selecting the Delete button right here. You can also
save your screen recording from this dialog and that's what Export As means.
You enter a name for your screen recording file here in this field and if
you select this drop-down arrow you can find a place for your recording on your
hard drive. I'm just going to hit cancel to get out of this dialog screen. Another
way to save your recording is to go up to the top menu and select File- Save
and then find a spot on your machine and then hit Save. So as you see making a
screen recording using QuickTime Player is pretty simple if all you want to do
is record your screen and your voiceover narration which to be honest is pretty
much what you're going to want to do for most of the screencast tutorials that
you create. But what if you want to record your screen, your voiceover
narration and the sounds coming from your computer, sounds coming from the
applications that you're demonstrating for example? Well unfortunately you can't
do that with QuickTime Player alone. You need an extra piece of software. Now if
you're interested in learning how to do that - to record your screen, your
voiceover narration and the sounds coming from your computer using
QuickTime Player I've got a video tutorial that explains how to do that.
I'll leave a link to that tutorial in the description below. And as always if
you want to learn more about how to create engaging informative and
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watching and I'll see you next time.