As QuickTime screen recording with audio needs the help of third-party programs and the recording functions are quite limited. Thus, many people are looking for a better Mac screen recorder that can record screen with audio simultaneously with more features.
If you have ever tried recording your Mac’s screen, you probably know that QuickTime is the best way to do it. It supports recording entire screens, selective regions, and even allows you to record voice overs at the same time, using your Mac’s built-in microphones.
However, there is one feature that is missing from the otherwise perfect screen recording solution, and that is the ability to record system sounds. I mean, sure, you could output the sounds to your laptop’s speakers and hope to god that the mic catches it loud enough to be audible, but that’s not really a solution. So, in this article, I’ll be telling you exactly how you can record screen with audio on macOS computers. Pass Audio Between Applications Using Soundflower Soundflower is a Mac app that allows users to route audio from one application to act as the input for another application. Say, you’re playing a song on iTunes, and you want that song to be recorded in a screen record. Soundflower can let you make the iTunes output act as the input to the QuickTime screen recording, without having to rely on the Mac’s speakers and microphones (no matter how great they might sound). In order to record both screen and audio on Mac computers, you will need to install Soundflower, first. To do so, simply visit this, and click on the “Soundflower-2.0b2.dmg” link to download the installer for Soundflower.
Once you have done that, simply install the app on your Mac. Route Audio Between Applications Now that you have installed the app on your Mac, you can start recording screen and audio. To do so, just follow the steps below:. First, press and hold “Option”, and then click on the Volume icon on the menu bar. (On macOS Sierra, you can simply click on the menu bar.), this will expose a list of options for input and output devices. Under the Output Devices, select “Soundflower (2ch)”. Now open QuickTime, and go to File - New Screen Recording.
Click on the little disclosure arrow on the side of the record button, and from the menu that pops down, select Soundflower (2ch) as the microphone. Simply click on the record button to begin recording. Try playing a song on iTunes, and once you stop the recording, play it back, you will hear the sound as well. So, what did Soundflower do? Soundflower simply took the audio that was meant to be output to the speakers (or the headphones), and routed it to QuickTime Player.
The QuickTime Player, in turn, used the Soundflower channel as the microphone, so any sound that Soundflower sent was recorded in the screen recording. Uninstalling Soundflower While Soundflower is a really great app, there are some cases where the output gets set to Soundflower by default, leading to a lot of hassle, panic and basically unwanted frenzy.
If you are facing a similar problem, you might want to uninstall the Soundflower app, but the app can’t be found in the Applications folder on your Mac. That’s because Soundflower is only a kernel extension, and not an application itself, which is why it is not that simple to get it off the system, but it’s not too difficult, either. If you look at the dmg that we downloaded to install Soundflower, there is a file in it by the name of “Uninstall Soundflower.scpt”. This is an AppleScript that is meant to uninstall Soundflower, should you ever need to. In order to use it, simply double click on the file name to open the script up in Script Editor, and click on the play button.
Key in your login password, and viola! Just like that, Soundflower has been erased off your Mac. If you look at the sound options again, you will probably still see Soundflower as an available input and output. To fix that, you will need to restart your computer, and once you’ve done that, Soundflower will no longer vex you. SEE ALSO: Record Screen with Audio on Mac So that is how you can record both screen and audio on Mac computers. This will prove extremely handy to people who make screen recording videos for YouTube and other such video sharing platforms, especially people who record videos of gameplay, and would like to record the sounds in the game along with the screen recording, so that the viewer gets the full experience of watching the video. Soundflower fixes this exact issue with screen recording on the Mac.
The application offers the highest quality audio and screen capture features and delivers the key functions required to present your screen experience to your viewers. Movavi aims to be as efficient as possible. It makes use of the minimum resources possible and offers users a simple interface that is easy to navigate. The Video Recording Engine The underlying program is built around a smart recording engine. Movavi is built to efficiently use system processing power while capturing audio and video at even the highest resolution and quality on your Mac screen. The easy to use interface helps you complete tasks more efficiently. We have reduced the setup requirements needed before recording and provided more options for exporting and publishing videos.
We use multiple layers where the video, audio, keystrokes and mouse clicks are recorded in separate tracks. This allows users greater customization options for recording. This removes the need for re-recording everything in order to show where the keystrokes should be displayed. How Does It Work? Recording video through MovAvi is quite easy.
Simply install the program on your device and start it up. You can get it at Once you start the software, it will show you a window of the area that will be captured during video recording. You can hold and drag the window to expand or contract the area on the screen that will be recorded. You can also change the screen capture area through options.
Recording audio on Mac is also a straightforward four-step process and you will need to get a third party software. Step 1: Get the SoundFlower Software: As the first step, you will need to download the SoundFlower software from the internet. You will need the latest Mac OS X version in order to be compatible with our latest Movavi recording app. This program is an extension to Mac devices that lets you pass audio information into other applications. The software also allows you to send and receive audio between different devices easily. Step 2: Restart your Mac device: After installation of the SoundFlower program, you will need to restart your system. This will help refresh all controls on your system and reduce the chance of errors in the future.
This minimizes the chances of trouble during recording sessions. Step 3: Follow the basic settings: After the device reboots, go to system preferences click on the sound tab. Select the ‘sound output’ option and choose SoundFlower (2ch) as your active output for current recording. Step 4: Launch and Record Open the QuickTime application and select ‘New Audio Recording’.
QuickTime’s built-in function should pick up SoundFlower as a mic. Simply choose Soundflower (2ch) and the quality of video you want to record.
This will start recording the system sounds including those coming in from the mic. And that’s it.
With both the screen capture and audio recording in place you can be creating high-quality videos in no time. This will start recording the system sounds including those coming in from the mic. And that’s it.
With both the screen capture and audio recording in place you can be creating high-quality videos in no time.