Recording screen videos on Mac

I first wanted to directly record it on the iPhone. Later I found it too troublesome .. Therefore, you can directly record data on Mac. After searching, the original QuickTime player of MAC can be recorded .. Very convenient.

In fact, QuickTime player has the screen recording function in the 10.6 era. However, the function is very simple and there should be few users, and this software has not been updated, it has never been upgraded since the release of version 10th. However, in the Lion system, QuickTime player has finally been updated to version 10.1. Although the improvements seem to be very small in terms of version number, a large number of new features have been added, for example, it supports more codecs, full screen mode, and only exporting audio. Of course, the most powerful thing is the screen recording we will introduce in this article.

Screen recording

Directly go to the topic, start QuickTime player, and click File in the menu bar -- create a screen recording. To highlight the position clicked by the mouse during the recording process, select the inverted triangle on the right of the control interface, select "show mouse clicks in recording". Of course, you can also set microphone input here. For example, when recording a tutorial, you can set the "built-in input: you can also set the video recording quality by using an external microphone.

After setting these parameters, you can click the red button.ProgramYou will be asked whether you want to record a selected area in full screen mode or by clicking the mouse. If you want to record a selected area, drag the mouse to the area, then the recording is officially started.

After the recording is completed, the video is saved in the "movie" folder (~ /Movies) and starts playing automatically.

Highlight mouse clicks
Video Editing

The above is the screen recording process. However, some of the built-in "editing" functions of QuickTime player are easy to ignore. You can find these functions from the editing menu, including video trimming (removing unnecessary clips from the beginning and end of the video), video merging (directly dragging the video to be merged to the QuickTime player window), and video turning (in editing mode, video vertical, horizontal flip) and many other features, you can try these editing functions by yourself, it will certainly bring you great convenience.

Merge multiple videos

Powerful video editing functions
Video export/share

After recording and editing are completed, it is natural to export/share the video. At this point, QuickTime player 10.1 also provides a very complete function, you can easily export videos to formats compatible with the web and various mobile devices (including IOS devices and Apple TV ), you can also export the video to 480 P, 720 p, or 1080 p. You can even share the video through YouTube, Facebook, Vimeo, or email.

Share/share videos in multiple ways

Export videos to multiple formats
Now, you should know the power of a seemingly inconspicuous QuickTime player!