[Tips] 3 Solutions to Record Mac Screen with Internal Audio

Vicky Lewis Dream big and down to earth

April 27, 2020

You might sometimes want to record what's happening on your Mac screen or create videos that require capturing the screen, like making a video tutorial which is more intuitive to show the operations; recording a clip of the online video to share or save without downloading the whole one. Or, maybe you would even want to record gameplay, an important online meeting, etc. So, it goes without any question that screen recording with audio is a general need for people currently.

Screen Record on Mac

Luckily, screen recording is also easy to accomplish on a Mac. You will get several free and easy methods to record your Mac. And in the following, you can follow the guidance to see how to get it done in details.

CONTENTS

Solution 1. Using Screen Recording Program on Mac Solution 2. Record Mac Screen By Pressing Shift-Command-5 Solution 3. Record Mac Screen With QuickTime Player

Solution 1. Using Screen Recording Program on Mac

If you want to record something on your Mac screen, the most professional way is to use a reliable third-party screen capture that can help you record the screen with easy steps but high quality. You can do this easily with the help of RecordAnyVid.

RecordAnyVid is a stable and easy-to-use tool that perfectly works on Mac, allowing you to record anything that happens on the screen without any crash or flash back problem. This simple and powerful program also brings you various necessary features, which enables you to not only record all kinds of screen activities with system audio and microphone audio, but allows you to define the recording area, customize audio settings and so on. Additionally, thanks to its simple and intuitive interface, the process of recording video of your screen is easy as well.

RecordAnyVid

So, RecordAnyVid is indeed a reliable screen recorder. And with the comprehensive guidance below, screen recording via RecordAnyVid can be such a piece of cake that you could handle it in a short time.

NOTE: RecordAnyVid offers you both a free version and the pro one, among which the free trial only allow you to record for less than 3 minutes while not supporting you to clip video or audio before saving. Hence, if you want to unlock the limited functions, you need to buy the register version. Surely, you'd better download the free trial to try before paying for it so you can see whether this software fits your needs.

How to Make the Video Recording with RecordAnyVid

STEP 1. Install RecordAnyVid on Your Mac

First of all, head to the RecordAnyVid product page on VidPaw and go to the Mac version of the software. Then, download a free version directly or purchase it in the Store section. After downloading the software, you need to finish the installation and launch the software on your Mac device.

STEP 2. Run the Program and Go to Video Recorder

As you can see, there are four tools listed on the main interface when you launch RecordAnyVid. And the "Video Recorder" option is for recording the screen. Here we should choose it, so simply click it to enter its interface.

RecordAnyVid for Mac

STEP 3. Select Recording Area and Make Pre-settings before Start

RecordAnyVID offers rich customizations, so in RecordAnyVID you can select a recording area size for fitting the recording video to be the perfect one, then adjust the system as well as microphone sound volume. Not only that, you can also hit the gear icon to enter "Preferences" section for making more pre-settings for the video.

Change Recording Area

STEP 4. Click REC Button to Start Recording

After finishing all the customization and presettings you want, go back to the "Video Recorder" interface, and then click on the "REC" button.
Now, the recording process is starting. You can hit on the "REC" button again to end to the recording process.
Before saving, you will be navigated into the previewing mode, where you can customize the length of the video by trimming or clipping it (for register users). Finally, click on "Save" and the video recording will be saved on your Mac device within seconds.

Save Recording on Mac

Solution 2. Record Mac Screen By Pressing Shift-Command-5

With macOS Mojave, you can make a video recording of the entire screen or just a selected portion of it via pressing Shift-Command-5, and this method is also available to any macOS Catalina items.

Record Screen with internal audio on Mac

STEP 1. Press Shift-Command (⌘)-5 on your keyboard to to bring up the toolbar, including record video and capture still images of your screen.

STEP 2. If you want to record the entire screen, you need to click on the full screen recording mode,the Record Entire Screen button in the onscreen controls, then you would find your pointer changes to a camera icon.

Or, click the custom recording and drag to select portion of the screen to record if you're only gonna to record a part of it.

STEP 3. Click "Record" in the onscreen controls to start recording, then press the Stop Recording button in the menu bar or Command-Control-Esc (Escape) on the keyboard to stop recording.

STEP 4. When you stop recording, you will find that there is a thumbnail of the video appears briefly in the bottom-right corner of your screen. And you could trim, share, or save the recorded video with a right-click on the thumbnail.

Solution 3. Record Mac Screen With QuickTime Player

QuickTime Player also allows you to record what is happening on the screen of your Mac with ease, if you can't run Mojave or don't want to install it.

STEP 1. Run QuickTime Player from your Applications folder, then choose "File" > "New Screen Recording" from the menu bar to open the "Screen Recording" window.

STEP 2. When the "Screen Recording" box pop up on your screen, you can hit on the white down arrow to edit more recording settings, such as selecting microphone options (internal or external) to record your voice or other audio with the screen recording; decide whether your mouse clicks should show up during recording or not.

Record Screen with QuickTime Player

STEP 3. After that, choose to record the whole screen or the portion of screen before click on the red "Record" button.

* To record the entire screen, click the red record button and then click anywhere on the screen to get start the recording.

* To record a part of it, click the red record button too and drag to select marque across the area you want to capture, then click "Start Recording" within that area.

STEP 4. Once you are ready to finish recording, click the Stop button in the menu bar, or press Command-Control-Esc (Escape) for stopping. Then QuickTime Player will automatically open the recording video, and you can now play, edit, or share it.

Screen recording always comes in handy, and your mac has a few great tools for taking it. Additionally, with RecordAnyVid at hand, the process of screen recording is simplified but much stabler, so you won't meet any crash or flash back problem during recording.

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