The screen recorder function is included with QuickTime Player in Mac OS X 10.6 – 10.9 and later. Here’s how to use it to capture a video of the Mac screen in action: Launch QuickTime Player (located in /Applications/) Pull down the File menu and select “New Screen Recording”. Operating Systems Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.9, Mac OS X 10.10. Additional Requirements. Report Software. Related Software. Screen and video capture utility; save actions.
In Mac OS X, to take a screenshot (including any menus youmay have selected), pressCommand-Shift-3
. You will hear a camerashutter click, and an image of your current screen will be saved toyour desktop in PNG format. In Mac OS X 10.6 and later, itwill be named with the date and time that you take the screen shot.In Mac OS X 10.5 and earlier, it will be named Picture N
,where N
is a number (e.g., Picture 1
,Picture 2
, etc.).
To take a screenshot of only a portion of the screen:
- Press
Command-Shift-4
. Your mouse pointer willchange into crosshairs.Note: If you want to cancel at any point in thisprocess, press
Esc
. - Move your mouse to the upper-left corner of the area you want tocapture. Hold down the mouse button, drag the mouse to thelower-right corner of the area you want to capture, and then releasethe mouse button.
You can also take screenshots of individual windows, menus, and icons:
- If you want to take a screenshot of a menu, select it. If you wantto take a screenshot of a window, click it to bring it into focus.
- Press
Command-Shift-4
, and then press the Spacebar.Your mouse pointer will change into a camera.Note: If you want to cancel at any point in thisprocess, press
Esc
. - Click the window, menu, or icon you want to capture.
Note: Whether capturing an image of the screen, aportion of the screen, a menu, an icon, or a window, if you also holdthe Ctrl
key down along with other keys, it will save theimage to the Clipboard rather than a file.
Grab
You can use Grab, which is normally installed in/Applications/Utilities
, to take screenshots of all orparts of your screen. It has a timed function that lets you include apull-down menu or change which application will be active in thescreenshot. You may also change the appearance of the mouse pointer orremove it from the screenshot altogether. Grab saves your images asTIFF files, which you can display in Preview or modify in agraphics editor, such as Adobe Photoshop.
Split Screen Mac Os
Snapz Pro
Screen Capture Mac Os 10.6
Screen Capture On Mac
For more advanced screen capture features, including video capture,see SnapzPro X, available as shareware from Ambrosia Software.
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