How to record screen on Mac for free QuickTime: Subscribe! Twitter In this video I’m going to show you how to record your screen on your Mac for free. So to record your screen on your Mac it’s really easy. All you have to do is use QuickTime. QuickTime is already built into Mac OS X so open up QuickTime Player on your Mac and then go up to the QuickTime Player menu bar and do “File”, “New Screen Recording”. ![]() In our first tutorial on using QuickTime Player for Mac, we focused on creating audio files.However, QuickTime player is more than a one-trick pony, so this time we’ll take a look at how to create video recordings with a camera, either internal or external. Record Audio with QuickTime Player for Mac How-Tos When we put QuickTime Player at the top of our list of the Best Free Audio Recording Software for Mac, we also promised a full tutorial to follow up that praise. Okay and you’ll see this little box here and click this little down arrow. It’ll show you the microphone options so you can choose to record a microphone as well or just leave it on None if you don’t want to record any microphone. And then you have this option here. It says “Show mouse clicks in recording”. If you leave that checked it will do little halo effects when you click on your mouse during that recording so I’ll leave that checked so you guys can see how that looks. So once you’re done with those settings just hit the Record button, and it’ll say “Click to record the full screen” so all you have to do is just click once if you want to record your whole screen or if you want to just record a particular part of your screen click and drag and choose your part of the screen that you want to record. So we’re just going to click and record the whole screen for now. Okay so once you click it will start recording, and you can go in here and do your thing. Record what you need to record and then up here at the top right of your Mac click the Stop button. Okay and then it’ll bring up the video here and show you what you just recorded. And you can play it. So here’s the video and you can see during the mouse clicks it will give you that little halo effect showing you when you clicked the mouse, when you right-clicked or left-clicked. And if you want to save your Mac screen recording just go to “File”, “Save” and then we’ll just save this to the Downloads.
There it is right there. So that’s how to record your screen on your Mac for free using QuickTime Player. Facebook Google+ Instagram Website Share this video! Best page layout for mac. Thanks for watching my video: How to Record Your Screen on a Mac (Free) Royalty-free music: 'Blown Away' by Kevin MacLeod (). Use COMMAND+CONTROL+N to start a new QuickTime screen recording. A tiny drop down arrow shows up next to the record button as seen above. Click it to choose the microphone. There’s one other option in the drop down list. It reads Show Mouse Clicks in Recordings. ![]() Turn this on for tutorials. It helps viewers see what buttons or menus they need to click in the software you’re teaching them. Keep it off for things like recording a video game. Change the sound volume level using the slider at the bottom of the box. Now we’re ready to record the screen. Click the red record button. A helpful overlay shows up on the screen as seen above.
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