Tech Byte: Screenshot, Screen Recording and/or Audio Track Captures

Screenshots, screen recordings and audio tracks are easy to capture on a Mac.

Inspiration for the Classroom:

Create “how-to” videos for your students.

Screen record your laptop screen to save lessons for students who may be absent.

Record conference calls and/or webinar sessions.

Getting Started:

With Mojave -

Use Shift-Command-5 in macOS Mojave. With macOS Mojave, press Shift-Command (⌘)-5 on your keyboard to see all the controls you need to record.

Click in the onscreen controls. Your pointer changes to a camera .
Click any screen to start recording that screen, or click Record in the onscreen controls.
Use the thumbnail to trim, share, save, or take other actions.

Click in the onscreen controls.
Drag to select an area of the screen to record. To move the entire selection, drag from within the selection.
To start recording, click Record in the onscreen controls.
To stop recording, click in the menu bar. Or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape).
Use the thumbnail to trim, share, save, or take other actions.

After you stop recording, a thumbnail of the video appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen.

Take no action or swipe the thumbnail to the right and the recording is automatically saved.
Click the thumbnail to open the recording. You can then click to trim the recording, or click to share it.
Drag the thumbnail to move the recording to another location, such as to a document, an email, a Finder window, or the Trash.
Control-click the thumbnail for more options. For example, you can change the save location, open the recording in an app, or delete the recording without saving it.

Click Options in the onscreen controls to change these settings:

Save to: Choose where your recordings are automatically saved, such as Desktop, Documents, or Clipboard.
Timer: Choose when to begin recording: immediately, 5 seconds, or 10 seconds after you click to record.
Microphone: To record your voice or other audio along with your recording, choose a microphone.
Show Floating Thumbnail: Choose whether to show the thumbnail.
Remember Last Selection: Choose whether to default to the selections you made the last time you used this tool.
Show Mouse Clicks: Choose whether to show a black circle around your pointer when you click in the recording.

Without Mojave -

Use QuickTime Player

Click on Applications on the left side of screen and scroll until you find QuickTime Player.

Once open, you should see this in the upper right corner of your desktop.

Click on File and choose what you want to record: Movie, Audio or Screen.

Click on the Record button to begin recording.

To finish recording, click on the Stop circle.

Click on the drop down arrow next to the red record button for a drop down menu.

To record Audio, be sure that the Internal Microphone is checked.

When finished recording, click on the red button in the upper right corner.

This window will appear, Name the recording and choose where to Save the recording.