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Export MOV to MP4 with Quicktime on Yosemite
If you have ffmpeg installed, it is quite easy to do it
ffmpeg -i input.mov output.mp4
If you don't, install it as follows:
Press Command + Space, type "Terminal" and press enter/return key.
Run ...
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“cannot open” when trying to save screen recording in quicktime player
Sounds like a permissions problem. If it’s a bug I suspect it will be fixed in a future macOS update. Not much help, I know.
Until then, you have to peek behind the curtain:
Unsaved recordings are ...
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Is there a Mac screen capture tool that will export to animated gif?
Starting with macOS Mojave, and later, simply press ⇧⌘5 (Shift-Command-5) and you can choose from the following:
Capture Entire Screen
Capture Selected Window
Capture Selected Portion
Record Entire ...
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Screenshot to clipboard by default
System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots
You can set them to anything you like, so long as it doesn't conflict with any existing command.
Late edit to make this a more comprehensive ...
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How can I take a screenshot of the app switcher in macOS?
Use the timer option in the new screenshot popup app.
Cmd ⌘ Shift ⇧ 5
Select Capture Entire Screen on the left & 5 seconds from the Options menu
Click Capture.
During that 5s countdown, ...
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How do I take screenshots of the Touch Bar?
From this article by OS X Daily:
The new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar has replaced the standard Escape and Function keys with a little dynamically changing screen called the Touch Bar. Some Mac users ...
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Where does Quicktime store its screen recordings?
As of OSX Sierra, it's here:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX/Data/Library/Autosave Information
In there, there is a container/package/directory called Unsaved QuickTime Player ...
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How to take screenshots on macOS without having to remember a bunch of key combinations?
Screenshot.app
The application Screenshot.app replaces Grab.app in recent macOS versions. You can find Screenshot in the Applications > Utilities folder.
Once started, the Screenshot app presents ...
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Screenshot the entire web-page
Safari now has a ScreenCapture feature built-in, as explained in the article Full Page Screenshots in Browsers:
In Safari DevTools, select a node, right-click, and you'll see Capture Screenshot in ...
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Change location of screenshots mac
Terminal command to change screenshot save location:
defaults write com.apple.screencapture location "/path/to/new/location"
Put your desired screenshot path between the double quotes as it is ...
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How to screencapture just the active display in a dual monitor setup?
Starting from macOS 10.14 you can do the following:
Press ⌘⇧5
Select the «Capture entire screen» option
Click on the required screen to take its screenshot
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How to record both screen and sound with Quicktime on El Capitan?
Use Background Music.
To install, either:
brew install --cask background-music
Or go to https://github.com/kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic and install the .pkg file.
Now, in Quicktime Screen Recording, ...
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Copy screenshot to clipboard in addition to saving the file
The following is an example of what I'd do, if I needed both, to place a screen shot on the clipboard and save it as a file at the same time.
I'd use Automator to create a Service1 workflow, to ...
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How to disable screenshot option shortcut in Mojave CMD+Shift+5
Go to: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots
Uncheck: Screenshot and recording options
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How can you assign a custom shortcut to stop a QuickTime screen recording?
You may use the default stop recording shortcut: ⌘ + Ctrl + Esc to stop recording when you finished.
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How to disable Mojave's floating thumbnail screenshot preview?
Press commandShift5 to bring up the Screenshot menu
Uncheck Options > Show Floating Thumbnail
This will prevent it from showing up.
This will also disable the ~5 second saving delay (screenshots ...
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How to record both screen and sound with Quicktime on El Capitan?
For those wanting to record their voice or the sounds coming from the speakers...
No extra software is required.
You just need to click the little arrow to the right of the record button and change ...
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Capturing screenshots on macOS Sierra is very slow
On OS X Mojave, the problem is solved by disabling the "floating thumbnail feature" like this:
CMD + SHIFT + 5 -> Options -> [Uncheck] Show Floating Thumbnail
Enjoy!
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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar not saving Screenshots
I figured it out. I have the latest mac, that comes with the Touch Bar. So I noticed that when a press command+shift+4 (without the control, so it should save directly to the desktop) my Touch Bar ...
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Is it possible to record a Mac's screen while booting or during the initial set-up?
Exactly which Mac?
For an all-in-one like a Classic, then no. The best you can do is a telecine where a camera is carefully centered and focused on the display, and has the frequency synchronised to ...
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Mac no longer saving screen shots
None of the previous answers worked for me but, with Mojave, this one did the trick.
Instead of doing Command+Shift+3:
perform Command+Shift+5
In the Options, make sure "Desktop" or "Other Location" ...
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Capturing screenshots on macOS Sierra is very slow
On High Sierra I faced the same problem, which had Google Backup & Sync as reason of failure (as Robert answered before). Instead of completely quitting Google Drive & Sync, I could also solve ...
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Where do screenshots go now that I've installed Ventura?
Use the keyboard shortcut Cmd + Shift + 5 to display the Screenshot tools UI:
Click on the Options button to display the submenu where you can choose the Save to location or view the pre-configured ...
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How can I obfuscate a small section of a image on macOS?
Preview, built into macOS, has a few tools for doing this. First, open the image in Preview (the default app for images), then choose the Annotate button on the toolbar.
Options for obfuscating:
Use ...
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How can I disable Skitch's "Discard Skitch Note" dialog when quitting?
This prompt has to do with Skitch's ability to upload/sync screenshots to Evernote. Because you don't have this configured, it's asking if you're sure you want to quit without having done this ...
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Command + Shift + 4 not saving image to clipboard
Command + Shift + 4 saves a file to the desktop, not to the clipboard.
Use Command + Control + Shift + 4 to save to the clipboard.
Take a look at this comment I wrote a few years back for the full ...
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How to take screenshots on macOS without having to remember a bunch of key combinations?
Preview app
Additionally to the answers already provided, the built-in Preview.app lets you make screenshots under the "File > Take Screenshot" sub-menu.
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Is there a Mac screen capture tool that will export to animated gif?
Using built-in Screen Recording and Shortcuts app from macOS 12+
Step 1: Record screen using the Built-in Screen Recorder on Mac OS: Cmd + Shift + 5
Step 2: Using the Shortcuts app which comes with ...
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macOS Mojave: Command + Shift + 4, screenshot not getting saved anymore
Use the keyboard shortcut Command + Shift + 5 to invoke the screen capture app. Click on Options and check if the Save to location is set correctly.
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How can I highlight text on a screenshot using Markup in macOS?
1.Use the Draw tool in the upper left (Use sketch tool to the left if you want rectangular highlights
2.Change line thickness to as thick as you wish (very thick)
3a. Change line color to yellow
3b. ...
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