Recording System Audio from Mac. If you want to get audio of what is played on your Mac (not your own voice or music), use another tool. Capto can be a great helper here. This app records screen and its main function is creating video tutorials. It grabs both video and audio outputs and captures everything that is happening on Mac. If you own a modern Mac, there is a screen recorder built-in the QuickTime Player X app. QuickTime can record whatever you have displayed on screen, including video playing on websites.
Use the playback controls to play, pause, rewind, fast-forward, adjust volume, and take other actions. The controls appear when you move your pointer over the QuickTime Player window, and they hide when you move your pointer away.
To move quickly forward or backward through the timeline, swipe with two fingers on your trackpad, scroll with your mouse, or drag the handle in the timeline. You can also repeatedly click fast-forward or rewind to increase playback speed in increments.
To view a video in full screen, click the full-screen button or choose View > Enter Full Screen. You can also use split-screen view and stream videos to your Apple TV from QuickTime Player.
Audio Recording Software For Mac
Record
QuickTime Player can record a movie from your camera, or record the screen of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. It can also record audio from a microphone or record the screen of your Mac.
Record a movie
Movie recording works with your built-in camera and many external cameras. If you're using OS X Yosemite or later, you can also record the screen of any iOS device (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch) with a Lightning port and iOS 8 or later.
Choose File > New Movie Recording.
To change the recording settings, click the arrow next to the Record button. Then choose your camera or iOS device, microphone, and recording quality.
To monitor audio while it's being recorded, use the volume slider.
Click the Record button to start recording. Click it again to stop recording.
Record audio only
Audio recording works with your built-in microphone, external microphone, or other Core Audio-compliant audio device.
Choose File > New Audio Recording.
To change the recording settings, click the arrow next to the Record button. Then choose your microphone and recording quality.
To monitor audio while it's being recorded, use the volume slider.
Click the Record button to start recording. Click it again to stop recording.
Record your screen
Screen recording creates a movie of all or part of your Mac screen. For details, see How to record the screen on your Mac.
Open image sequence
QuickTime Player can create a movie from a sequence of still images. For example, you can use it to make a time-lapse or stop-motion movie from images you've already captured. Or try it with a batch of photos captured using burst mode on your iOS device.
Make sure that your image files are named in alphanumeric order, which is the order that they will appear in your movie.
Choose File > Open Image Sequence from the menu bar in QuickTime Player.
Select the images to use for your movie. Use Command-A to select all images, or press and hold the Shift key or Command key when clicking to select specific images. Then click Choose Media.
Choose a resolution, frame rate, and encoding, then click OK to create the movie. Example: If you have 60 images and choose a frame rate of 60 frames per second, your movie will be 1 second long.
Edit
QuickTime Player offers several options for editing your movie, including trim, split, cut/copy/paste/delete, remove audio/video, and flip/rotate.
Trim
Use the trim function to remove unwanted parts of your movie.
Choose Edit > Trim. The yellow trimming bar appears, with handles on each end.
Drag the handles to select the part to keep. You can also take these actions:
Click the Play button to play back the part selected.
Move quickly through the part selected by swiping with two fingers on your trackpad, scrolling with your mouse, or dragging within the trimming bar.
Choose View > Show Audio Track to identify quiet sections of the movie.
Click Trim. All video and audio outside the trimming bar is removed. To undo the trim, choose Edit > Undo Trim.
Split
Use the split function to split your movie into multiple sections that can be manipulated further.
Go to the point in the timeline where you want to make the split, then choose Edit > Split Clip.
From here you can take several actions:
Drag a clip before or after another clip.
Move through a clip by swiping with two fingers on your trackpad or scrolling with your mouse. At any point in the timeline, you can choose Edit > Split Clip to split the selected clip.
Choose View > Trim to trim the selected clip.
Choose View > Show Audio Track to identify quiet sections of the clip.
Select a clip and choose other editing commands from the Edit menu, such as Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete.
Click the Play button to play back all clips.
Click Done. To see your clips again, choose View > Show Clips. To undo your splits, choose Edit > Undo Split Clip.
Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete
Use the Cut, Copy, Paste, and Delete commands from the Edit menu when you're editing split clips. If you're pasting a clip into another movie, you don't have to be editing clips in that movie: just go to any point in the timeline of the other movie, then paste the clip.
To quickly join movies together end to end, open the first movie, choose Edit > Add Clip to End, then select the other movie from the file dialog.
Remove audio or video
To remove the audio track from your movie, choose Edit > Remove Audio.
To remove the video track from your movie, choose Edit > Remove Video.
Flip, rotate
Use the flip and rotate commands from the Edit menu when you're viewing a movie or editing split clips. These commands flip or rotate the entire movie or clip.
Share
After saving your movie, you can share it by Mail, Messages, AirDrop, YouTube, and other methods:
Open the file in QuickTime Player, then choose File > Share.
Or open file in QuickTime Player, then click the Share button in the playback controls.
Or Control-click the file in the Finder, then choose Share from the shortcut menu.
Learn more
For more information, open QuickTime Player and choose Help > QuickTime Player Help.