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Rick's Daily Tech Tips Update for Sunday, March 19, 2023
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Today’s quick tech tip…
How to record the screen on your Mac
Have you ever wondered if you could record the contents of your screen and turn them into a video?
The answer is yes. In fact, people do it all the time because it's a great way to visually show someone how to perform a given task (or series of tasks). They can literally watch you do everything you did via the video you created.
If you have a Mac you can make a recording of your Mac's screen without having to install any third-party software. Here's how:
1 - Press the Command+Shift+5 key combination to display the "Screen Capture" menu.
2 - If you want to record the entire screen, click on the rectangular icon with a circle in the corner.
If you want to record a portion of the screen click on the dashed rectangular icon with the circle in the corner.
3 - Click Options to choose whether you want to record audio to accompany the video, to select a location to save the recording to and/or to select any other options that you might want to choose.
3 - Press the Record button to start recording everything that takes place on the screen (or the selected portion of the screen).
4 - To stop recording and end the video, either click on the Stop icon (the square inside a circle) at the top of the screen or press the Command+Control+Esc key combination.
That's all there is to it. You should now have a video in the location you selected that shows everything that happened on the screen while you were recording it, complete with audio if you selected that option.
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