Being able to record video footage of your Mac’s screen can be a lot more useful than you realize. Aside from creating tutorials and other similar types of videos, you can also save any content that you want – including online streaming videos, Skype calls, and games. If only it were easy…
It’s reasonable to both recognize the potential benefits of screen recording and be intimidated that it seems too complicated to try recording your Mac screen too. What you need is a user-friendly recorder program that’s designed to make setting up, recording and post-recording video saves easy. A program like Movavi Screen Recorder for Mac.
Essentially Movavi Screen Recorder for Mac is a simple video capture Mac program that is intuitive and straightforward. Its clean user interface looks modern, and focuses on placing everything you need to record your screen front and center, so you don’t need to hunt through menus or secret buttons to get the capture you want:
All you need to do is fire up Movavi Screen Recorder for Mac and draw a frame over the part of your screen that you want to record. Double check the settings – as shown above – then simply press ‘REC’ and start recording.
While you’re recording the control bar (which doesn’t show up in the recording!) even allows you to pause as desired:
When you’re done and press ‘Stop’ the video will be automatically saved. Now you can edit – rudimentary editing features are included in Movavi Screen Recorder but if you want something more sophisticated you might consider also getting Movavi Video Editor or using Apple’s iMovie program – and when you’re ready, click Save and check out all the many options for output format:
Movavi Screen Recorder for Mac also provides a number of other features too:
- Select specific program windows to record or use preset sizes to define the capture area
- Set the frame rate to up to 60 frames per second for smooth and high quality videos.
- Configure the audio devices that will be recorded and adjust the audio levels of each individually.
- Capture keyboard and mouse actions as part of the video recording.
- Set a timer or schedule the recording to automate it.
- Trim out any unwanted parts of the video recording after it is complete.
All in all Movavi Screen Recorder for Mac is a capable screen recorder that is versatile enough that it should work well for any type of screen capture that you may have. By trying it out you’ll be able to see firsthand how intuitive it is, and get a better idea of how useful it can be to be able to quickly and easily start recording your Mac’s screen.
Movavi Screen Recorder: $39.95 license, $59.95 including Movavi Video Editor license.