How to take a screenshot on your Mac
Record the entire screen Click in the onscreen controls. Your pointer changes to a camera. Click any screen to start recording that screen, or click Record in the onscreen controls. Filmora Scrn is an amazing screen recorder for Mac which is one of the best software for recording your screen activities as well as the games you play. Filmora Scrn as one of the best screen recorder for Mac is very easy to use especially if you want to record your gaming sessions or just capture your screen for making some great tutorial videos.
- To take a screenshot, press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 3.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
How to capture a portion of the screen
- Press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 4.
- Drag the crosshair to select the area of the screen to capture. To move the selection, press and hold Space bar while dragging. To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key.
- To take the screenshot, release your mouse or trackpad button.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
How to capture a window or menu
- Open the window or menu that you want to capture.
- Press and hold these keys together: Shift, Command, 4, and Space bar. The pointer changes to a camera icon . To cancel taking the screenshot, press the Esc (Escape) key.
- Click the window or menu to capture it. To exclude the window's shadow from the screenshot, press and hold the Option key while you click.
- If you see a thumbnail in the corner of your screen, click it to edit the screenshot. Or wait for the screenshot to save to your desktop.
Free Screen Recorder Mac Os
Where to find screenshots
By default, screenshots save to your desktop with the name ”Screen Shot [date] at [time].png.”
In macOS Mojave or later, you can change the default location of saved screenshots from the Options menu in the Screenshot app. You can also drag the thumbnail to a folder or document.
Learn more
- In macOS Mojave or later, you can also set a timer and choose where screenshots are saved with the Screenshot app. To open the app, press and hold these three keys together: Shift, Command, and 5. Learn more about the Screenshot app.
- Some apps, such as the Apple TV app, might not let you take screenshots of their windows.
- To copy a screenshot to the Clipboard, press and hold the Control key while you take the screenshot. You can then paste the screenshot somewhere else. Or use Universal Clipboard to paste it on another Apple device.
Mac OSX has QuickTime Player built-in. QuickTime allows you to easily do a screen recording. However, when doing so, you only get the screen – no audio.
You can install Soundflower to route your computer’s audio back into QuickTime to record it.
Screen Recording
- Open QuickTime Player
- Go to File – New Screen Recording
- Click red Record button
Adding Audio from your Computer
This allows you to capture the audio from your computer in your QuickTime screen recording. This is what I kept finding when trying to search for a solution. Google “Screen recording with audio on Mac” and you will see. This option routes ALL audio through Soundflower and therefore you CANNOT HEAR IT to monitor it as it is being recorded.
- Download and install Soundflower http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
- Go into System Preferences – Sound – Output — choose Soundflower 2ch
- Open QuickTime
- Start New Screen Recording – Click drop down arrow on right side of dialog box – choose Soundflower 2ch
- Click red Record button
The Holy Grail (Adding Audio from your Microphone and your Computer while being able to hear the audio as it records)
This is great for a screen-sharing session where you are talking to someone and walking through an application over the computer. 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.
Screen Recording Mac Os X
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.
- Download and install Soundflower http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
- Go to Applications – Utilities — Open Audio Midi Setup
- Click the (+) Plus sign in bottom left corner
- Choose “Create Aggregate Device”
- Place a checkmark next to Soundflower 2ch and Built-in Microphone
- Click the (+) Plus sign again
- Choose “Create Multi-Output Device”
- Place a checkmark next to SoundFlower 2ch and Built-in Output
- Go into System Preferences – Sound – Output — choose Multi-Output Device
- Now, when you open up QuickTime – Start New Screen Recording and select “Aggregate Device” from drop down arrow on the right.
Free Screen Recording Mac Os X
Voila!