# 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.

Only in the Mac app. In Chrome, see [Record a browser tab](https://pointercam.com/help/record-a-tab) or [Record a window or your whole screen](https://pointercam.com/help/record-window-or-screen).

Where to find it: Menu bar › PointerCam › New Recording…

1. Click the PointerCam icon in the menu bar and choose **New Recording…**, or press `⌘N` while PointerCam is in front. The recording toolbar appears.
2. Choose **Display** or **Window**. Each opens a picker with a picture of every display or window. Choose the one to record.
3. Set your microphone, camera and system audio on the toolbar. See [Your microphone and camera](https://pointercam.com/help/microphone-and-camera).
4. Press **Record**, or press `Return`. A short countdown runs first. You can turn it off under **Options**.
5. Work in any app. Click, type and scroll as usual.
6. Press **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

> **Note:** On the free plan a video stops itself at 10 minutes and is saved, and the bar counts down the last minute. A take for a guide has no limit.

## Read next

- [Your microphone and camera](https://pointercam.com/help/microphone-and-camera)
- [Draw on the screen while you record](https://pointercam.com/help/draw-on-screen)
- [Pause, stop or discard a take](https://pointercam.com/help/recording-controls)
- [The Mac app cannot record my screen](https://pointercam.com/help/mac-permissions)

Source: https://pointercam.com/help/record-on-mac