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How to record the Mac screen with QuickTime Player (OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion)

How to record the Mac screen with QuickTime Player (OS X 10.8.4 Mountain Lion)

QuickTime player Dock

Often I receive this type of questions: “how do you record your screen videos?” or “how can I record what I do on my screen?”. Well, the solution has always been under the nose of the people who asked me those questions and resides in the QuickTime Player app that we can find in the Dock or in the Applications folder.

QuickTime player Dock

QuickTime player Applicazioni

The app let us record videos from the iSight webcam, audio files through the integrated or external microphone and the at least our own Mac screen. To record our first screen video, let’s open the app, and then let’s go on the “File” menu and then let’s click on “New screen recording”.

QuickTime player menù file rec schermo

QuickTime player rec schermo

Now we have to decide if we want to record audio through the correct menu.

QuickTime player rec schermo menù audio

Once decided this we can click on the red button. After that, the app will ask us if we want to record the entire screen or only a part of it. To record the entire screen you just have to click anywhere on the screen, instead to record only a part of it you just have to drag the mouse holding down the left button in order to highlight the part of the screen we are interested to.

QuickTime player rec schermo completo

QuickTime player rec schermo solo una parte

QuickTime player rec schermo solo una parte Saffire Mix Control

To stop the recording you just have to click on the same button we used to start the recording. Then QuickTime will ask us to save the file. We can decide to save or to cancel the file.

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