

Whether you want a more precise way to capture specific parts of your screen or if you want to record entire videos, you should ditch the built-in basics and get a dedicated screen recorder. If you do any kind of digital tutoring, offer or need tech support, or use video conferencing, using your operating system’s default screen capture system won’t be good enough to record you properly. There are plenty of reasons why you might want to record your screen, and documenting your instant message threads to make hilarious jokes is just one of them. This basic method has some major drawbacks, however – you can’t specify which part of the screen you want to capture, and you can only record a single image. While it doesn’t actually create a printout of your screen, as you might guess, it will copy your screen into your computer’s digital clipboard.


NOTE: If you do not want to include your microphone audio and only include the audio from your computer in your screen recording, just take out the steps related to the “Aggregate Device” and choose SoundFlower 2ch in QuickTime for your screen recording. This was the exact thing I needed to do when I figured this out, thought I would write it up to remember in the future. This is great for a screen-sharing session where you are talking to someone and walking through an application over the computer. The Holy Grail (Adding Audio from your Microphone and your Computer while being able to hear the audio as it records)

