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Steps for

Record your screen on a Mac

Choose New Recording from the PointerCam menu bar icon, pick a display or a window, and press Record. Your clicks are followed in every app.

Mac app only
Where to find it
  1. Menu bar
  2. PointerCam
  3. New Recording…
  1. 1Click the PointerCam icon in the menu bar and choose New Recording…, or press ⌘N while PointerCam is in front.The recording toolbar appears.
  2. 2Choose Display or Window.Each opens a picker with a picture of every display or window. Choose the one to record.
  3. 3Set your microphone, camera and system audio on the toolbar.See Your microphone and camera.
  4. 4Press Record, or press Return.A short countdown runs first. You can turn it off under Options.
  5. 5Work in any app. Click, type and scroll as usual.
  6. 6Press Stop on the bar, or press ⌘⇧2 from anywhere.The take opens in the editor with a close-up on each click.

The toolbar#

Video or Guide
What the take makes. Guide records lighter, without your voice or camera, and opens as a step-by-step guide.
Display
Records a whole display. With more than one, pick which.
Window
Records one window. Pick it from pictures of your open windows, grouped by app.
Camera
Your face in a corner of the video. It records as its own track, so its layout can change later.
Microphone
Pick a microphone, or No microphone.
System audio
Records what the Mac plays, such as an app’s sounds. Off unless you turn it on.
Options
Count down from 3, Open the library, Settings… and the switch to the classic design.

During the take#

A small bar shows the clock and the controls. The menu bar icon turns into a clock too, and its menu has Stop Recording, Pause and Discard Recording.

⌘⇧2
Stop and save, from any app
⌥⇧D
Draw on the screen
Esc
Close the toolbar before you start

Read next

Your microphone and cameraTurn your microphone and camera on in the popup or the Mac toolbar before you record. Your camera records as its own track, so its layout can change later.Draw on the screen while you recordPress ⌥⇧D during a take to circle, point at, box or highlight things. Drawings fade 3 seconds after you stop, unless you keep them.Pause, stop or discard a takeEvery take has a small bar with the clock, Draw, Pause, Stop and Discard, and keys that work from anywhere. The Mac app keeps its bar out of the video.The Mac app cannot record my screenmacOS needs Screen & System Audio Recording turned on for PointerCam Capture. Turn it on in System Settings, then reopen PointerCam if macOS asks.

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