Don't use your phone's camera to record your Mac's screen. Instead, use the built-in screen capture tool to make a nice clean recording.
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Video Transcript
Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Here's the correct way to record the screen on your Mac.
So if you were ever asked by somebody to record your screen, perhaps to get tech support, don't hold up your iPhone and record it with the camera. Instead, on your Mac hold down Command Shift and then 5. This brings up the Screen Recording Controls here. Select this button here for recording the entire screen. Under Options check to see where the screen recording will be saved to. You can always choose any location you like. Also, look to see if Show Floating Thumbnail is checked. Then you'll see this icon here indicating that you're now recording the screen.
Perform the action that you want to record and then when you're done click here again and it will stop recording and appear as a floating thumbnail at the bottom right. You can click that to review it and even trim the footage. When you click Done it will appear in the location that you specified, in this case the Desktop. You can also just wait a few seconds for the floating thumbnail to disappear and it will automatically save here.
Now you've got a video file that you can post online or share with somebody.
I finally got the video after a few tries, but there is no audio. You didn't mention audio in your tutorial, so I wonder if there is something I need to do to record the audio along with the video on the screen. Without the audio, this has only limited value. At least if I record it with the phone, I will have the audio as well as the video. I'm sure I missed something. Thanks.
Lynn: Right, there is the option to record from the microphone (you can see it in the video when I click on Options). But recording audio directly from the computer requires more than this. Most of the time if you are recording the screen for support or to demonstrate something, no audio is needed except maybe your own voice narrating.
Gary -- This is the first 1 minute posting I've seen. It's a great idea to remind us of simple useful tips. I hope you will do more.
Thanks Gary. In a future video it would be super useful to show how best to record your screen, with audio PLUS a mini live video of the presenter (as you did in this and other videos. I currently do it by setting up a Zoom call with just myself and then record it. But it is not as slick as your method. These are really useful for when submitting an online presentation. Thanks.
Bob: To do that, use ScreenFlow. It records camera and screen in separate tracks that can be edited independently. That's how I make my tutorials.
Hi Gary, I took your advice and recorded a roughly one-minute video. But it's almost 100G, and I can't get MacMail to email it. Is this normal? Can I do a low-quality video (say, for my own use) that is small enough to email? How do people email videos that are 5, 10 + minutes and longer?
Thanks...
David: You should not be emailing a 100GB file. That's huge. Even if you can handle that on your end, the person on the other end would probably not be able to receive it. It is probably more than your or their email provider allows for an attachment. Even if not, it would take you a long time to upload it and them a long time to download it, even with a fast connection.
Is it really 100GB for one minute? I tried it and a full screen recording was only about 70MB (not GB). Were you trying to do something like screen capture a full screen video that was playing? In that case, screen capture is not the right tool there. I would need to know more about exactly what you were doing to suggest a solution.