The Best Mac Video Recorder and Windows Video Converter

Overview

Do you need a Mac video recorder to record your favorite movies, TV shows, video tutorials, education videos, webinars or some other videos? Now the following article will introduce top 2 widely used softwares to help users to record video on Mac.

Method One: Use QuickTime

Many users like to use QuickTime to play their videos, but QuickTime can also record screen video on Mac, no matter what video type you have. Check out the steps below.

• Click File button> New Screen Record
• Click Options to choose what video recording option you want: Microphone or Options.
• Click the Record button and choose the recording type: record the entire screen or record just one part of the screen.
• Click Start Recording button.
• Click Stop button or use Multi-Touch Bar to finish your recording.
• Click File> Save button to save your recording. Before clicking the Save button you may also need to enter a file name for your recording file.

By default, QuickTime will save the recording file as MOV H.264. And QuickTime has not ability in converting the default MOV H.264 to other video formats.

Method Two: Use Allavsoft

Allavsoft is a professional video recorder which can both work on Mac and Windows. Besides, this professional video recorder can also convert the default recording format to any other needed video format. Furthermore, this professional video recorder also enables to download videos from almost all video websites. Before following the steps to record your video, let's know the key features of Allavsoft.

• Record any video, like the movies, gaming videos, webinars, any online live stream, Skype calls, etc on Mac and Windows.
• Record any video and convert the recorded video to MP4, MOV, AVI, FLV, MKV, WMV, VOB, AVCHD, ASF, etc.
• Record any audio to MP3, AAC, WAV, WMA, FLAC, AIFF, OGG, etc.
• Download any video or audio from almost all video and audio websites and convert the downloaded video or audio to any video or audio format.

Guide on Recording Video on Mac

The following recording video step by step guide on Mac also works to record video on Windows.

Make Preparation: Free download Video Recorder for Mac or Windows

Free download the professional Video Recorder Mac or Windows version - Allavsoft ( for Windows , for Mac) , install and then launch it, the following interface will pop up.

Step 1 Click REC button

Click the red "REC" button and a recording area window will pop up. Click the "REC" button before starting your video playback.

Step 2 Adjust recording area

Click and drag the compass icon or click and drag the recording area handle to adjust your recording area.

Step 3 Start and Finish recording TV program on computer

• Click the "Record" button to start to record videos after 3 seconds.

• You can also click "Pause" button or "Delete" button to pause or delete the video recording. (Optional)

• Finally click "Stop" -> "Save" to finish recording video (When you click the Save button, a window will pop up where you may select the location for storing your recorded videos and also create a name for your recorded videos and then click Save to save your recorded videos.)