Mike Wuerthele
Apple has included an incredibly easy to use screen recorder with macOS High Sierra, contained inside the QuickTime Player utility. AppleInsider shows you how to use it.
The QuickTime Player lives inside the Applications folder. Open the player, and pull down the File menu. and select New Screen Recording.
A "Screen Recording" controller will pop up. If you have multiple displays, put the controller on the display that you want to record.
Click the record button. After you click the button, the QuickTime Player will display the following:
A simple click records the entirety of the screen's contents.
If you just want to record a smaller segment of the screen, for instance, a browser window, drag across the area you want to record.
The recording starts when you click the oval "Start Recording" button in the middle of the selected area.
Regardless if you record the whole screen or just a window, hit the stop button in the menubar to stop the recording.
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It's on Apple's support site as of 2012, guys! (https://support.apple.com/kb/ph5882?locale=en_US)
But with High Sierra you can use Quick Time to record your iOS screen! Actually no, you could also do it long ago. Keep up the good work!
Kudos for Apple for including this (as Zeitgen points out, it's been around for a long, long time), but 2 demerits for hiding this functionality in the least intuitive place possible.
Strange, this feature was also available in macOS Sierra as I did some screen recordings several months ago.
its been a part of OS X/Quicktime since 10.6 (end 2009)
it is intuitive, as QT has been the default AV app in Apple forever.
Does it still not allow audio recording from macOS sound mixer, while recording a screen recording?