I had also been recording my headphone mix into my MacBook's minijack input to Quicktime purely as a placeholder track to help with sync. Without using loopback, my workflow up until recently had been the alternative of using a field recorder while capturing picture to Quicktime. Two workflows available to us are to use a loopback enabled audio interface such as the Audient EVO 4, or to capture discrete audio channels to a second system or field recorder to mix later. Step 2 Then, you'll see the following window appearing on your screen. Launch QuickTime Player and choose File, New Screen Recording (the keyboard shortcut is Control, Command, N). Click on File menu and choose New Screen Recording. There are a few different approaches to doing screen recording for web videos, but the perennial question has always been how to capture high quality audio in the process. Launch QuickTime Player from your Applications folder. This includes choosing your desired microphone, where you want to save. Open the QuickTime Player app on your Mac. Clicking on Options allows you to select various options for your Mac screen recording. Quicktime for Mac has a trick up its sleeve to help those making screen recordings for the web. When youre recording your screen using QuickTime, you can also choose to record sounds, such as your own voice for narration. Luke Goddard details a way of capturing multitrack audio on a Mac without any additional software.

In principle sharing a screen capture video without specialist software is easy but controlling sound from a microphone with computer audio from a DAW or similar is far better if audio is captured as multitrack.

Quicktime screen recording with sound