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How to Screen Record on Mac
Hey everyone. In today's video, I want to show you how to record your screen on any Mac computer. You could work on laptops. You could work on IMAX, Mac Pro, it's all the same process. I'll show you two free options that I've used for a very long time and recently I just upgraded to a hardware option where I just plugged my Mac into it and it lets me multi-switch between my computer and to the camera, to the overhead camera, to my phone. Really, really cool. So if you want to advance the option, check it out at the end of the video, let's jump in here. So the very first option is free and it comes with your Mac. You don't have to download anything.
Okay, and it's up here. If you search for it, it's called quick time. QuickTime Player. Just go ahead and open that up and I'm just going to cancel this. This typically pops up, but you don't need it right now. So you'll have a QuickTime player now, right on top. All you have to do is click this right here and go to file and then press new screen recording.
This also records movie recording, which gets access to your webcam, but this is what we do. Okay, let's go ahead and select that and you see creates this dash around my screen is telling me this is what it's going to record, which is my entire screen, but I could change that and select a window or even a portion of my screen to record in this case, I'm going to record my entire screen.
Let me go to the options to show you something here. I'm using QuickTime player and it's going to save it to QuickTime player, but I could save it directly to my desktop. After the recording is done. I typically do this though, so I could save it later. It gives you a five-second timer, which is a countdown timer, but this is really, really important.
The microphone that you choose here makes a big difference in your sound quality right now is set to built-in Mike, which is terrible. It's not going to sound good, but right here, the short seven is the best microphone, USB microphone. There you could buy. Okay, it's about $250 as I'm recording this, but it's well, well worth it.
This is my fourth USB mic and I kept improving them. Okay, before that I had the snowball and a Yeti. Okay, that's a different type of mic. That's a little bit cheaper. This actually has Bluetooth and XLR and it's over here. If you could see it right here, this is the mic. So I would set it up like this and then I would do my screen recording.
Okay, I'm doing, I'm using a different mic right now in front of me. But this is when I do my screen recordings that are just dedicated to the computer. So make sure you select one of those mikes. If you don't have one, you'll just be using the built-in microphone. I'll put a link in the description to this one if you want to just get it from Amazon.
Okay, and then you have some other options, like showing your mouse clicks, and then to record you just press record right here. You get that five-second countdown. If you set it to five seconds and then just like that on recording and the way I know I'm recording is I get this stop sign right here. You see the stop icon.
This is going to stop the recording if I click it. So right now, whatever I'm doing, my mouse movements are all getting recorded. If I press this is going to stop it and open it up in QuickTime. Okay, so this is a preview. I didn't do anything, but I moved my mouse around and you could see that. So now I could go-ahead to file and then go ahead and save this.
Okay, and then save it to my desktop and I'm all set just like that. It's going to save to my desktop. Looks like I already have one song named as something else and just like that you saved to my desktop and I could close this. Okay, there's the screen recording that we just. Okay, with sound. Now, the next one I really liked because it also lets you easily record any device, any screen, any phone, and it could even stream.
Okay, it's very popular in the streaming world. The application is called O B and is completely free. Let me show you, and you could download OBS here for your PC as well for Mac and Linux. In this case, we want Mac and then you will select the download. Again, it's completely free and it lets you basically do a lot more than what QuickTime lets you do.
Let's go to it right now since I have opened up OBS this one. Okay, so this is it right now. I'm not recording anything, but as you can see, I record my iPad this way, my iPhone, all kinds of different things that I record using this right now, I'm going to press the plus sign here and to record your screen, you want to choose display capture if you choose this.
Okay, this is going to be my screen. The Mac screen, I'll name it. That and I'll press. Okay, and just like that, it's going to bring this up right now. I'm just going to press okay on this. This is my Mac screen. If I selected, I can make sure. I actually extended out to fit this whole black screen. There you go.
Now, over here, if I press to start recording is going to record my screen or I could go to settings right now and change a couple of things. Okay, so typically I go to the video tab and change my resolution. Based on my screen, you probably have 1920 by 1080. If you don't have a 4k screen as I have on the iPad.
But you have all these options frame rates. This is mine, but I know most people we'll record 1920 by 1080 or 1080 P as it's called. Okay, so that's your settings then again, I picked up the microphone over here. To be my microphone, you could change your microphone under the audio mixer here. So you have an option here for adding different microphones.
So if I go to the property, you could see that my default microphone is going to change to this one, which is what I have selected. And you could see the bars now. Okay, so the microphone that was behind me that I showed you is now active. So if I press record, it's going to record my screen over here. Let me just do that press record and if I go back to my other screen, it's going to let me record the screen and record the sound. Okay, and then when I'm done, I'll press stop and in this case, I had the set to just save to my desktop. So let me go to my desktop here and this is the screen recording right over here. Okay, if I press this vape spar who see the screen recording, we just did and from OBS to the website back to OBS again with sound. Okay, and finally, I'm going to show you a very, very advanced option that I know most people are not going to need, but just in case or in the future, you want to take it to the next. The way I've been recording this whole video is I could go from my camera to my computer back to my camera really, really fast right. I don't have to open up QuickTime or OBS or edit them together. This just edited it for me live just from going from my face that, and I could also do this. I could turn on the monitor of the computer and then put myself like this. Okay, and I could record my phone this way, a ton of different thanks.
But let me show you how I'm doing this right now. I'm using this switcher from this company called black magic. Okay, so it lets me record right onto a hard drive right there. You see that hard drive right there. It's just recording right onto that hard drive and my computer is plugged in here with the HTML.
I have other things plugged in like this camera that you're seeing right here, my main camera on my phone, it's all plugged in sometimes using different dongles over here, but this is really, really handy. So if I go to camera one, for example, now I'm on camera one. This is camera two. This is my computer and type, the third one here is my phone, which I don't have plugged in right now. Okay, so that's how I would do a recording. If you want it all switched like that between your camera and have picture and picture, it's really a very, very powerful option. I'll put a link to that switcher in the description.
So you can read more about it, see how much it costs at the time that you're checking it out, the hard drive. Also, you have to buy if you want to record this way, but most people use that to record or stream right on the computer too. It has the power to do that. Really an incredible, powerful switcher for recording whatever device here that you have laying around, it really just uses HDMI connections, which your Mac could send out using different dongles and things like that. If it doesn't have an HTML output. Okay, so I know that's an advanced option. Quick time, if you want to just have a free, easy option OBS, if you want to take it a little bit further to shore microphone, if you want better sound cool and the black magic switcher, if you really want to take it to the next level and have a set like I have going on here, but I've made over a thousand videos and I didn't get this set up until video number 800 or so. Okay, thanks so much for watching this video. I hope you found it useful. Please give it a thumbs up, check everything out in the description to learn more, and I'll see you next time.