Screen Recording On Mac

Have you tried the native screen recording facility on macOS, most quickly accessed by pressing Command Shift 5? In my experience, I am able to click the options button in that window, select my microphone, and then click the record button to start recording. In these recordings, I can hear microphone audio, as well as VoiceOver and other system audio.

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I was really struggling with this and found this post so thought I'd update with my findings.

Firstly, I was going into Quick time and starting a new screen recording. This brings up the same dialog as Cmd+Shift+5. So I setup my microphone, choose to record entire screen and hit record and then....

Well, at that point it's not clear what is happening. QuickTime Player has no windows. There is a system dialog you can find using Application Chooser (VO+F1 twice I think) but it's just the same record window again.

I am certain that when I last tried this, at this point QUicktime would have some sort of page up with some controls, most importantly stop recording. However, now this does not appear to be the case.

However, I found that if I then press Cmd_Shift+5 again the dialog now has the option to Stop Recording. If you select that, you go to a weird dialog that has just one button called, I think, Markup. This dialog is weird because whatever button you press it goes ping until you activate the Markup button with VO+Space. Then you get a menu where you can choose Done or Delete.

If you choose Done it saves it to wherever you selected under Options before. So when I tried this I had a new file called "Screen Recording" with a timestamp after it and it was in my Desktop.

I'm not sure if this change was intentional or if it's a VoiceOver bug. But it's not very intuitive. Unless you know the Cmd+Shift+5 shortcut then I'm not sure how you would have any idea what to do. I certainly didn't!

For me, I've found the quickest way to stop a screen recording is to click "Stop recording" in the status menus. This should then bring up the dialog where you can click the markup button.

Oh I totally missed that up there. Stupidly the recording I was making meant I had to scroll past that icon too.

I'm not 100% sure I got the keystroke down but try Control Command grave or whatever that key is called in the upper lefthand corner of the U.S. full sized keyboard when you want to end the recording.

I imagine that if I made screen recordings everyday, it would become second nature. But I had to make one today for the first time in months, and if it wasn't for this discussion, I would still be banging my bloody forehead against the keyboard.

You need to create an audio device in the loopback app and add voiceover, sound effects, and any other apps you want to hear in the recording as sources. Also add your microphone as a source. To be able to hear voiceover while recording your screen, add one monitor to the output channels. You could add it just for voiceover instead of all the sounds at once, but that's more fiddly and I'm not sure how to do it right. Once your audio device is set up, when recording your screen via quictime, select it as the input device. I hope that works.

This only records audio, I’m assuming they want video as well.

The Loopback app is not Audio Hijack. It can pass audio to any app that has anything to do with sound, and that's exactly the case with the QuickTime app. When set up correctly, it lets you record the screen along with the audio :) I know because I've done it more than once, and it works really well :)

My stumbling block was the keyboard shortcut required to stop recording.

For audio, I use a simple non-directional microphone. It records VoiceOver from the built-in speaker along with my voice just fine, good enough for a bugt report to Apple at least.