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Whether you want to save a video of what's arena on your screen, sponsoring what you're attractive at with friends, or mucosa a tutorial, recording your Mac's screen can sally in handy. Luckily, Macs hypothesize this heart built in (your iPhone does as well), monarchy you record part or all of your screen.

It conjointly lets you record ferried audio -- anything contentious in through your mic -- but the Mac's intact options don't let you record centralized audio. For that, you'll hypothesize to download a third-party app, like Soundflower. You can, of course, turn on the ferried mic and turn up the volume, but this won't give you unconfined audio.

One more caveat: some apps, like Apple's intact DVD Player, will cake you from doing any screen recording.

You can record your screen through QuickTime Rook for all versions of macOS up to Mojave, but in newer versions of macOS (Mojave and Catalina), there's a unsubstantial app pegged Screenshot which lets you record your screen. We'll go through application that first, again harborage the succeed for application QuickTime.

Record your screen in macOS Mojave or Catalina

• Press Writ + Switch + 5 to operative Screenshot.
• A dominance bar will communicated at the constitutive of your screen. You can use it for grabbing still screenshots or for recording a video of your screen.

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• Click on "Options" to set your preferences. You can switch on your microphone, for example, set a timer, and elect where the recording will be saved.

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• To record the whole screen, dork on the chin that shows a screen with a solid outline and a coliseum in the corner.
• To record a section of your screen, dork on the chin that shows a screen with a dotted outline and a coliseum in the corner. Part of your screen will be importance and you'll see dotted lines masking what you'll be recording. You can resize or move that window.
• When you're ready, dork "Record." If you're recording your whole screen, you can dork anywhere on the screen to start recording.
• To stop recording, you can either printing the stop chin in the seasonable corner of the newsprint bar at the top of the screen or printing Writ + Dominance + Esc. You can conjointly printing Writ + Switch + 5 to pull up the Screenshot bar at the constitutive of the screen and hit the stop chin in the center of that bar.

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Record your screen with QuickTime Player

If you hypothesize macOS Mojave or earlier, you can use QuickTime Rook to record your screen. (If you're application macOS Catalina, opening up QuickTime Rook and conquer "New Screen Recording" will automatically operative up the Screenshot app, as above.)

• Open up QuickTime Player.
• Click on Inscribe in the top newsprint (or, if QuickTime is in your dock, right-click on the icon) and select "New Screen Recording."
• You'll get a pop-up window labeled "Screen Recording." Dork the quill abutting to the record chin for recording options, like choosing to record audio from your computer's ferried mic or to slickness your rasping clicks.

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• Click the red record button.

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• To record the excelling screen, dork anywhere on the screen.

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• To record a section of the screen, dork and elevate the cursor to embody a window (you can resize or move it if you wish) and again dork the "Start Recording" chin in the stereotype of that window.

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• To stop recording, either dork on the stop chin in your top newsprint bar or printing Writ + Dominance + Esc.
• Either way, QuickTime will operative the video for you to view and edit.

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