Screen Recorder For Mac – Screenshot macOS Catalina

Learn to use the built-in screen recorder for Mac. Use Screenshot in macOS Catalina. Use Screenshot to record full or partial screen. Use the markup feature to add text to screenshots. Use the markup feature to trim clips and share the clip with airdrop.

Have you ever wanted to record your Mac screen for things like tutorials, and do it for free? In this video, I’m gonna show you how to record your screen using a built-in tool, called Screenshot in macOS Catalina.

Consider for instance the ability to markup screenshots in iOS 11, it quickly became one of my favorite tools on the iPhone. So all those markup features that were on the iPhone came over to Mojave and now are carried over into Catalina. So let’s see what those look like.

How To Take A Screenshot – Screen Recorder For Mac

So for a long time in macOS we’ve had the ability of course to take screenshots and some of these shortcuts to do this like if you wanna take a screenshot of the entire screen it is Shift + Command + 3 and it puts it down here on the desktop. If you want to take a screenshot of just a specific area, that’s Shift + Command + 4 and your cursor changes and you can highlight an area that you want to capture, just like that. And starting out with macOS Mojave, we could Shift + Command + 5, which brings up this little window here and now we have five choices. So the first option here is Capture Entire Screen and that’s just like Command + Shift + 3, and when I click on that, the icon changes to a camera. I click there and it’s counting down and here goes my screenshot. It puts it on the desktop, but I want to capture a selected window, just select that. Click on the window, my counter’s going off. And there it is saved on the desktop again. If I come back and Shift + Command + 5, and if I wanna capture a specific portion, so I selected that area right around the Photoshop window right here. And if I click on Capture, it’s gonna count down there five seconds and it’s going to capture and save it to the desktop. So that just captures that we’ve always had, but now there is two options here to record the entire screen, or record a selected portion of the screen. Now, on the right side of this toolbar, there are options where you can save it to Desktop, Documents, Mail, Message, QuickTime Player, Other Location. I’m just gonna save it to the Desktop. So this is your timer here, so once you click Record, it will count down five seconds before it actually starts recording.

If you have a microphone, if you’re doing this with, you wanna include audio, you can configure any microphone that you have connected to your computer. Right now I have a microphone that uses Cam Link and my video camera. And we have down here we have options for Show Mouse Clicks, so if I’m clicking around in my tutorial here, it will show the actual mouse click and Remember Last Selection, so if I was in the mode here where I was recording a selected portion, it would keep that same selected portion the next time I do this. And Show Floating Thumbnail, once we do the recording and when we say stop recording, you’re gonna see a little thumbnail over on the right-hand side that is going to help us get to our markup tools. And if at any time I wanna get out of Screenshot, I can just hit Escape. So just for a moment, I wanna go back into Screenshot, Shift + Command + 5, because I wanna show you how to markup a screenshot in macOS Catalina. So I’m gonna use the Capture Selected Potion and this area is already selected around this Photoshop window. If I say, Capture, and it’s counting down, the thumbnail comes up on the right and if I right-click on that and select Markup, now here are all the markup tools, similar to what you might see in macOS with the preview. Of course, you can sketch, draw, add shapes, add text, shapes and styles, order color, fill color. All of these things that are available to you. And you can also come up here and you can share this in a variety of ways, anything form AirDrop to Add to Photos. You can say Done, and it will save it back to where you had specified earlier where to save. In this case, it would save it on the desktop for me, or you can delete it from here. And we’re done with this, I’m just gonna delete it.

How To Record With ScreenShot – Screen Recorder for Mac

So now I’m back into Screenshot, Shift + Command + 5, and we’re going to record the screen as if I’m doing a tutorial. So I’m going to select Record Selected Portion, my window here is already selected. I’m gonna click Record, it’s counting down and now I’m going to do some Photoshop steps here as if I’m doing a tutorial. So I’m going to add an adjustment layer here and make some adjustments just to show that something’s going on here. I’m gonna close that window. I made my adjustments and now, up at the top, I can come up here and I can say Stop. My thumbnail comes up on the lower right-hand corner, right-click and you have all these options that you can save to a different location that you had specified before when you set all this up. I can save it to the Desktop, Documents, I can open it in all these different locations and Show in Finder. I can delete it and I can come here to Markup. And this is what happens when I use the Markup in this case after a recording, so this interface, in particular, this icon right here, if I click on that, now I have my timeline down here, which not only can I play. And now I’m going to do some Photoshop steps here as if I’m– But I can trim either side of the clip. If a wanna revert this clip to the way it was, I can just click Revert, up here. If I click on this icon again, say I wanna trim my clip there, I can say Done, and it’ll save it back to the desktop. I can delete it from here and I can also share it to all these other locations here, Messages, AirDrop, Notes, Add to Photos, and in this case, I’m gonna say Done and it saves it here to my desktop. And if I double-click on it, it’ll open it up in QuickTime Player and I can use any of the editing tools here in QuickTime Player, or I can take this clip into another program to do any kind of editing that I needed to do. So there you go, that’s how you can record your screen on macOS Catalina. So now for the question of the day. What do you think of this screen recorder that’s built into the macOS? Let me know in the comments below.

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