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Screen Recorder documentation
How to install, record, edit, caption, and export with Screen Recorder for Mac, and how licences, updates, and privacy work.
Quick start
01
Install
Drag Screen Recorder into Applications, then open it.
Install and set up
02Activate
Paste your license key, and give the four macOS permissions.
Activate
03Record
Choose Full screen or Select area, record, and select Stop.
Record your screen
All guides
Install and set up
Install Screen Recorder, activate your license key, and give macOS the four permissions that the app needs to record.
Start
Record your screen
Record a full display or a selected area at 30 or 60 fps, with your camera and your microphone or the system sound.
Record
Edit a recording
The panels and keyboard shortcuts of the Screen Recorder editor, and what each part of the timeline does.
Edit and export
Captions
How Screen Recorder makes free English captions on your Mac with Whisper, and how to add captions to an imported clip.
Edit and export
Export a video
Export an MP4 at the original size, 720p, 1080p, or 4K. The editor renders the video on your Mac.
Edit and export
License, Macs, and updates
What the one-time license covers, how to move it to another Mac, how to get a lost key, and how updates install.
Account
Privacy and network use
Where Screen Recorder keeps your recordings, what the app sends over the network, and what it never sends.
Account
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