It's estimated that up to 100 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every 60 seconds, during which video tutorials from screen capture account for a large proportion. Frankly, YouTube is brimmed with virtually any sort of videos that you'll possibly need, from educational tutoring to game walkthrough. In another words, many users are bound up in recording video on Mac for further uploading to YouTube.

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To address users' ever increasing needs to capture screen video on Mac OS, this article introduces two easy ways to let you capture video of Mac's display and upload it to YouTube with the help of QuickTime Player and MacX Video Converter Pro's built-in video recorder.

Part 1: Record Screen with Mac' Built-in QuickTime Player

One easy way is the use of QuickTime Player in Mac OS X 10.6 and later as Apple has added display recording feature to QuickTime Player in Snow Leopard. It lets you record the screen of the Mac easily. Below is how to use it to capture screen video on Mac OS X:

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Step 1: Launch QuickTime Player, go and hit File and choose New Screen Recording.

Step 2: Once you finish loading the app, a recording window will pop up. You can click the small triangle button on the right side to set settings before you begin capturing the display video.

Step 3: Press the red button to start recording display activity on your Mac, you will get a hint to ask whether to capture the entire or only a portion of the screen.

Step 4: Click 'Stop' button once you finish activity recording. Then the capture is automatically opened in QuickTime Player as 'Screen Recording.mov' which you can then save and use as you'd like.

Part 2: Capture Display Video on Mac with Video Screen Recorder

Although QuickTime Player offers screen recording feature, you don't have much control over the recording itself. And the video quality isn't great. While MacX Video Converter Pro will definitely meet your requirement. Its built-in video screen capture for Mac enables you to record video taking place on Mac, including videos that non-downloadable online videos, streaming videos, etc with excellent quality. More than expected, you are allowed to Unlock protection from iTunes video by recording it on Mac at fast speed. Below is the guide on how to capture ongoing video on Mac with this screen recorder.

Step 1: Click 'Screen Recorder' Button.
Download and open this screen recorder on Mac, click the 'Screen Recorder' button in the main window.

Step 2: Adjust Settings.
Customize the area by choosing 'Keep Full Screen' or 'Crop Region', adjust video frame rate or other parameters, capture mouse clicks, select a target folder as output location, etc.

Step 3: Start Recording Display Video on Mac.
Then click the record button to start recording! Wait for the recording procedure to be completed, then press the stop short key to stop recording and find the video file located at the output folder you set.

By default, this screen capture software for Mac simply creates screencast in MOV format, but it's also capable of adding the recorded movie to convert list and allowing you to convert recorded video to FLV, MP4, etc so as to upload to YouTube, Facebook, blog, etc.

Author: Candice Liu | Updated on May 23, 2020

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Use Shift-Command-5

If you're using macOS Mojave or later, press Shift-Command (⌘)-5 on your keyboard to see onscreen controls for recording the entire screen, recording a selected portion of the screen, or capturing a still image of your screen. You can also record the screen with QuickTime Player instead.

Record the entire screen

1. Click in the onscreen controls. Your pointer changes to a camera .
2. Click any screen to start recording that screen, or click Record in the onscreen controls.
3. To stop recording, click in the menu bar. Or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape).
4. Use the thumbnail to trim, share, save, or take other actions.

Record a selected portion of the screen

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

Trim, share, and save

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.

Change the settings

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.

Use QuickTime Player

1. Open QuickTime Player from your Applications folder, then choose File > New Screen Recording from the menu bar. You will then see either the onscreen controls described above or the Screen Recording window described in the following steps.
2. Before starting your recording, you can click the arrow next to to change the recording settings:
   
   • To record your voice or other audio with the screen recording, choose a microphone. To monitor that audio during recording, adjust the volume slider (if you get audio feedback, lower the volume or use headphones with a microphone).
     
   • To show a black circle around your pointer when you click, choose Show Mouse Clicks in Recording.
     
3. To start recording, click and then take one of these actions:
   • Click anywhere on the screen to begin recording the entire screen.
   • Or drag to select an area to record, then click Start Recording within that area.
4. To stop recording, click in the menu bar, or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape).
5. After you stop recording, QuickTime Player automatically opens the recording. You can now play, edit, or share the recording.

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• When saving your recording automatically, your Mac uses the name ”Screen Recording date at time.mov”.
• To cancel making a recording, press the Esc key before clicking to record.
• You can open screen recordings with QuickTime Player, iMovie, and other apps that can edit or view videos.
• Some apps, such as DVD Player, might not let you record their windows.
• Learn how to record the screen on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.