welcome back everyone today's topic is QuickTime Player on your Mac so first and foremost if you
don't have QuickTime Player down here on your dock you'll go ahead and go to finder your applications
and then scroll down towards the bottom and here we have QuickTime double-click QuickTime it opens
up to a new window prompting you to open up a movie well we're not trying to play a movie we
want to create a movie and more specifically a screen recording so I'm gonna go ahead and
choose cancel here and head up towards the menu bar in the top left of my screen and under the
file menu I have three different choices to either make a new movie recording new audio recording or
new screen recording now for the purposes of creating a tutorial for someone else to watch
I would naturally do screen recording you could do an audio recording and that's just capturing
your audio or do movie recording which is going to use the FaceTime camera on your laptop or if
you have an external camera plugged in to create a movie also but screen recording is going to
capture what you're doing here on the screen so let's go ahead and select that now when we do
that you're gonna get this little dialog box here and it's pretty straightforward there's not a lot
of options to customize because you want it easy to use we have our record button in the middle
to the right of that we have different options number one to choose the microphone either have
no microphone or internal microphone if you have an external microphone plugged into your computer
and that would be listed as a choice as well and then we also have options to show the mouse clicks
during recording so right now we're gonna keep it with internal mic as well as keep the mouse
clicks and let's go ahead and just choose record and when we do that it gives us two choices again
either to record the entire screen or just choose a portion of the screen that we want to select
and record for that right now we'll go ahead and just click anywhere on the desktop to do
the full entire screen and let's just pretend that we wanted to do a tutorial to teach some
how to email a photo so we would open up photos down on our dock find the photo that you want ok
and let's open up this photo perfect it's selected if we scroll up towards the top of our our toolbar
in photos we can click the share button and then choose mail and that will automatically open up
mail for you on the Mac create a new message automatically attach that photo and now we can
go ahead and email it to whomever we want choose send and we could say picture of Hudson and bath
choose send and now that photograph has been sent to to whomever thanks for watching there
we go so now we've recorded that and we can send that off to someone so what we would do to stop
our screen recording is in the very top menu bar of our Mac there's a little circle with a square
that allows us to click that stop recording and here we have our QuickTime video that has that
whole duration that we recorded and our QuickTime video allows us to quickly scrub through the the
video that we just recorded and then we have a couple different options to either trim the
beginning or trim the end if we didn't like that if you want to trim anything in the middle you
don't have that that choice but you can always take this video into iMovie or some other video
editing software and splice it up to combine it together now for our purpose here we don't want
to trim it at the beginning of the end so we're going to save and export this video so we will
do file in the top menu bar we can do save and it's going to prompt us from the finder
to title the file and we could say email photo video and we'll save it directly to the desktop
and as that saves we're gonna generate this this QuickTime movie that we can then upload
to YouTube we can upload to Google Drive put on a flash drive however you want to share that media
is up to you but this allows us to quickly and easily generate video and screen recording just
with the tools built in our Mac and here's the video on our desktop that now we can do what we
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