Screen Recording and audio in Mac

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Screen Recording and audio in Mac

Hi everyone. I played around with my QuickTime screen recording and playback audio and found a possible solutions.

First I am not talking about QuickTime Screen Movie or QuickTime Screen Capture options.

I am talking about QuickTime Screen Recording

Second, my Mac version does not have the QuickTime internal mic options.

Now I discovered that if you make a video with the Photo Booth or zoom and save it, when you open the video, it will playback as normal with audio.

However, if you try to screen record the same video, all you will get is the video and no audio on playback.

Solution:

Do the screen recording at the same time you are making the video with zoom or Photo Booth.

When you playback the screen recorded video, you surely will hear your audio

I hope this helps

Thank you

iMac (2017 – 2020)

Posted on Jan 8, 2024 11:14 PM

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Jan 9, 2024 4:44 AM in response to Geoffmetric

if you want to record the sound in a screen recording, you might want to try this:

to record the mac's internal sound with quicktime (or also “shift-command-5”) you need additional software. i use the free BlackHole Virtual Audio Driver. then you can choose "BlackHole 2ch" in the recording options instead of "Built-in Microphone."

you will also need to set up a multi-output device in your audio MIDI setup utility to be able to both hear and record the internal audio at the same time.

to set up a multi-output device:

Open Audio MIDI Setup: (found in /Applications/Utilities)

hit the '+' button in the bottom left corner and select "Create Multi Output Device"

then in the panel that appears on the right, in the Multi-Output Device tab, select "Built-in Output" AND "BlackHole 2ch". (and, if you want, any of your other connected devices.)

once you do that, (and BEFORE recording) you can choose "BlackHole 2ch" or "Multi-Output Device" in your menubar "sound options".

to both hear the speakers and record the audio at the same time, choose "Multi-Output Device". before choosing multi-out, set the internal speakers' volume to a comfortable level first. you cannot control the volume once you are in multi-out mode.

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