Comments on: MacMost Now 288: QuickTime X Screen Recording

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:38:47 +0000

Jing is free. Maybe that will work for you

By: Teguh Santoso

Teguh Santoso — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:12:08 +0000

Hello Gary, just wondering, is it possible to record audio and screen recording at the same time with Quicktime X? (I know about sound flower. didn’t work for screen recording) if not, can you recommend me a good screen recorder that also records sound that’s free? it’s ok if it’s not free, though, I prefer the free ones (yes I’m cheap) =D

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:40:56 +0000

Just wanted to see how to capture a portion of the screen. This is purely for those who are scared to select a menu option and explore. It should have a ‘extreme novice” warning on the label so we don’t have to waste time watching the whole thing only to find that it does not address anything beyond simple screen recording.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:23:13 +0000

It sounds like you need a more powerful screen capture tool. There are many Snapz Pro, ScreenFlow, Skitch, Jing, etc.

By: yourma

yourma — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:20:10 +0000

Dude quicktime is realllllllllllyyyyyy annoying. okay im trying to record a screen but i want to select my own area that im trying to record but nooooooooooooooo quicktime just records my entire desktop and i dont want that i wana choose what to record with it like a seperate screen its agrivating

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:39:46 +0000

Experiment to get an Automator workflow to start and stop QuickTime screen recording. Not sure if it is possible, but if you do get it working, then add that workflow to an iCal alarm set for that time.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 12 May 2011 15:37:40 +0000

David,

Would you share with me on how to get automator to start and stop quicktime screen recording at a schedule time and date?

Thanks,

Bryan

By: mike

mike — Mon, 09 May 2011 14:47:27 +0000

thx a lot

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:51:28 +0000

You can edit the video in iMovie if you like and crop it there. Or, get one of the many third-party screen capture tools like ScreenFlow or Snapz Pro and you have a ton of features like that.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 07 May 2011 08:40:06 +0000

Hi Gary,

firstable many thx. for your little show!
But do you know, how to cut the big video, so you just can see, what you want to see?

kindly regards

Mike from germany

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:35:55 +0000

Good question. Doesn’t look to be any way to do that. Probably should use one of the many 3rd-party applications for that.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:33:38 +0000

Do you know of a way to have the Quicktime X Screen Recording feature capture a secondary display?

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 22:39:11 +0000

i see thanks for the help :)

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 21:43:07 +0000

No way to continue it. But record it in segments and them edit together in iMovie. Yes, you can certainly use iMovie to edit. Be sure to import into iMovie in original format (not letting iMovie resize it).
Also, you can switch to a third-party screen recording option if you like — many of those do let you resume a paused recording, and some let you edit as well.

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:26:14 +0000

is there a way to pause the recording or save it and continue recording later? and can i edit the screen recording in imovie?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 02:19:19 +0000

No. QuickTime X is for Mac.

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 01:50:50 +0000

Does this work with Windows? Vista in particular?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 20:38:16 +0000

For that you’d want to use Handbrake to rip the DVD content directly to a video file. See episode 492: http://macmost.com/importing-dvd-video.html

By: Jim H

Jim H — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:38:17 +0000

Is there a screen recording program that allows you to capture DVD video such as home recorded dvds?

By: David L

David L — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:26:31 +0000

Gary,
I found a way to do it.

I used an automator script to start and stop quicktime screen recording. I’ve been searching for weeks and finally found a solution. The reason these webcasts don’t allow you to watch it later on is because they are streaming once live at little to no cost. Saving it onto a server to allow downloading by thousands of users later costs them too much in bandwidth.

Now I can watch training classes when I’m available on my schedule. Thanks for leading me down the right path.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:58:28 +0000

Probably not the right way to do it. Screen capturing a live broadcast is like pointing a camcorder at your TV. Better to see if the webcast has any option to watch it later on.

By: David L

David L — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:46:10 +0000

Gary,

Is there a way to schedule a recording or set a timer for the recording?

There are often live webcasts for training programs that I would like to view but they are streamed when I’m not home. Any way to set up automator to do this? I can’t find any “timer” commands in automator for starting/stopping a Screen Recording.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 14:48:27 +0000

AAC lock? What do you mean by that? How are you getting AAC files when screen recording?

By: Brandon McLean

Brandon McLean — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 11:39:11 +0000

Is there a way that I can be able to take off the AAC lock?

By: Franklin

Franklin — Wed, 26 May 2010 10:31:16 +0000

Thanks so much for the tutorial. In the future, I want ScreenFlow. Right now, I’m just testing out concepts, so I’ll play with Quicktime.

Thanks again.

–Franklin

By: Homer

Homer — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:52:17 +0000

I’m using successfully IShowU from shinywhitebox.com for years now. Great utility that includes the important options. Many features and cheaper than SnapZ, Camtasia, etc. I’ll stick with it.