Note that newer versions of the screen recorder will just hide the player completely, making it entirely invisible regardless of how it’s activated or deactivated. QuickTime Player gets out of the way when you are recording the screen so that the activity is not obstructed by the application, this is also why it’s best to just use the keyboard shortcut to halt the screen recorder.

Once the recording is stopped, the capture is automatically opened in QuickTime Player as “Screen Recording.mov” which you can then save and use as you’d like.To stop recording, either press the Stop Recording button in the menubar, or hit Command+Control+Escape.Press the Red button to start recording the screen activity.Pull down the File menu and select “New Screen Recording”.Launch QuickTime Player (located in /Applications/).Here’s how to use it to capture a video of the Mac screen in action: The screen recorder function is included with QuickTime Player in Mac OS X 10.6 – 10.9 and later.

Mac screen recorder with audio