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Use QuickTime Player To Create Quick And Easy Videos
Mar 11, 2025
A quick video about how I make my videos, and how you can easily make videos with QuickTime player too. For more great videos and for the links discussed in this video, check out http://www.cultofmac.com Follow me on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MichaelSteeber Follow Cult of Mac on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/CultOfMac
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hey everyone this is michael with Cult
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of Mac here and today I'm going to show
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you how you can use the built-in
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applications on your Mac primarily
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QuickTime to actually create your own
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easy videos so since the beginning here
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at called Mac I've received a lot of
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email about my videos in regards to what
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software I use to make them how I'm
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recording my screen as well as things
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like how do I make that little sonar in
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fact around a mouse cursor whenever I
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click on something you see these rings
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like indicating where I've clicked all
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different kinds of questions like that
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and I get these questions all the time
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so I finally decided that I should make
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a video about how I actually make my
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videos in a sense to show anybody out
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there who wants to get into making
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videos of any kind who's interested in
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video editing how with the tools that
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are built right into your Mac you don't
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have to go and buy anything how you can
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actually create videos that look pretty
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professional so as you know with any Mac
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you get QuickTime Player built in
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QuickTime and Mac OS 10 line you can
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actually do quite a bit of professional
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stuff that rivals some expensive
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applications to make some pretty nice
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videos so if you have QuickTime Player
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Open and you go up to the file menu
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you'll probably surprised if you haven't
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played around QuickTime that you can do
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a lot more than just playback video and
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audio with them you can actually do some
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quite advanced things so you can do a
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movie recording using a webcam or your
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internal iSight camera you can do an
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audio recording and that's how I record
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pretty much all the audio for my videos
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and you can do a screen recording I've
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been using the screen recording
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functionality and QuickTime Player for
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my last several videos now that I'm on
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Mountain Lion and there's been some
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compatibility issues with some of the
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software I use a QuickTime has been
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really great for making my videos so if
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you're looking to make something like a
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screencast and you go on to a new screen
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recording you're going to see this
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little window pop up here and you have a
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whole bunch of different options on here
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so if you click on this little arrow
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right here what you're going to see is a
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whole bunch of different options so you
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can choose the type of microphone input
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and I use the Samson meteor mic but you
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can use the built-in microphone in your
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Mac you can also choose the quality of
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the video
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and I would choose hi for most
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everything to make your videos look the
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best and then here's what a lot of
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people ask about which is showing most
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clicks in the recording so if you have
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the selected QuickTime Player will
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produce a it's a great ring in this case
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around your mouse cursor every time you
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click and you don't see this during
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recording but when you play it back
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afterwards you'll see the clicks and
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from here you can record your screen so
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if I just press record you're going to
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see in the middle of the screen this
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little thing pop-up and it says on it
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you can click to record the entire
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screen or you can just click and drag to
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record a section of the screen so let's
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say I just want to record this section
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of the screen up here you can see it
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highlights and you can select the trunk
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you want and you can click start
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recording so what you'll see here is
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that it is recording and it's only
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recording what's in this lighter box
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right here and once you're finished with
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your recording you can hit stop and I
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have this little video here of what you
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just recorded so you can play this back
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and you can see exactly what you
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recorded and the nice thing about it is
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that you can see that the little
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recording box that popped up on the
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screen goes away why recording so that
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doesn't get in the way of your video now
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once you're done with your video if
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you're satisfied you can send it right
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up to YouTube or Facebook or you can
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send it over to iTunes maybe email it
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message it all different things like
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that but if you want to add some extra
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touches to your video and you really
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want to make it shine you can select
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iMovie and you can send it to iMovie now
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if you really want to go the extra step
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with your videos and make them really
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professional you can use an application
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like ScreenFlow and ScreenFlow is what
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I'd used for the majority of my videos
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up until mountain lion just because I've
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been having a couple different
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compatibility issues which I assume will
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be resolved by the final release of
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mountain lion I'll be able to go back to
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using at them but for right now I've
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been using QuickTime Player myself but
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ScreenFlow is really nice because it has
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a lot of advanced features and you can
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make some really amazing looking videos
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with it that's not free so it's probably
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only something you're going to want to
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invest in if you do a lot of work with
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videos or you know if you're really
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serious about what you're doing but it's
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definitely a great option and if anybody
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wants to look into it I'll have a link
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to it below the video that you can check
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it out
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so hope this video answer a lot of the
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questions that the viewers have had of
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my videos kind of wanting to know what I
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use to make videos and how I do it
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really going to get into things like I
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move your final cut here they're more
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advanced topics that would really kind
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of need to stretch over a long series of
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videos but this is just the basics on
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what I do for my videos and it kind of
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covers all the different questions that
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I've been asked over the past year or so
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about what I do for my videos and as
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always if you have any suggestions for
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videos or things that you would like to
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see a how-to on make sure to send me an
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email that's how I ended up making this
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video I hope you found this video useful
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and thank you for watching
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