Recording Screen Video on Mac OS X. Screen Capture Without Software

In our Mac tips section, we’ve dedicated this article to recording screen video on Mac OS X. Did you know you can capture a screen video on a MacBook without installing any software? If you’re wondering how to record screen video on a MacBook, check out the illustrated walkthrough below.

Recording Screen Video on Mac OS X

Those who previously used Windows and switched to a MacBook might, out of a Windows-era habit, assume they need to install a program on the system to record screen video. However, if you want to record a screen video on Mac OS X, you can do this without installing any extra software. How, you ask?

How is a screen video recorded on a MacBook?

First, we press the F4 key on our keyboard. The shortcuts for the programs installed on the OS X system will appear on the screen.

Then we open the “Other” folder and launch QuickTime Player.

Then, from the menu above, we click FILE – NEW SCREEN RECORDING.

The program we can use to record the screen video will open.

When we click the red record button, the window below will appear.

If we want to record video for a limited region, we draw the region by dragging our mouse cursor. And the screen video recording begins.

When we want to end the video recording, we click the stop-recording button that appears in the top-right menu.

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In this article, we covered recording screen video on a MacBook running Mac OS X. We explained, with illustrations, how to do screen video capture on Mac OS X without using any third-party software, and how to record screen video on a MacBook.

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