Did you know that if you have a Mac running macOS High Sierra (10.13) or later, you already have a handy dandy application that allows you to record movies from your built-in camera, iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch? That application is called QuickTime Player, and it is capable of recording movies from a variety of sources. Simply launch QuickTime Player and then click File > New Movie Recording. If you click the Options menu (the down-pointing arrow immediately to the right of the Record button with the red dot), you’ll be able to specify the following settings:
Camera: If you have a built-in camera, it will likely be the default setting and will allow you to record yourself which can be useful for vlogging. However, if you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch connected to your Mac, you should also be able to record whatever is displayed on screen for those devices, like this.
Microphone: This allows you to choose an audio input. For most users, it will default to the internal microphone, but if you have more than one available, you should see those choices too.
Quality: You can choose either High or Maximum. If recording a movie from your built-in camera, high quality means H.264 video and 44100 Hz AAC audio, whereas maximum quality means Apple ProRes 422 video and Linear PCM audio. If recording the screen on a mobile device, high quality means H.264 video and 44100 Hz AAC audio, whereas maximum quality means H.264 video and Linear PCM audio.
After specifying your movie settings, press the Record button to start recording. During recording, the Record button turns into a Stop button which you can obviously click to stop the recording. If you like the results, click File > Save to save your recording.
Interestingly, I was using a 3rd party USB to Lightning cable to connect my MacBook Pro to my iPhone, and although I have successfully charged my iPhone with that cable many times, QuickTime refused to display my iPhone as a camera input until I changed my cable to an official Apple Lightning cable.
Finally, if you want to just record audio without video, from QuickTime Player you can click File > New Audio Recording instead. It should come as no surprise that your settings will be limited to Microphone and Quality.t
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