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Clipping games on a Mac
Practical guides to recording and clipping on macOS, including the parts where the honest answer is "use something else". RSS.
Guide ·
How to clip gameplay on a Mac
There are five ways to record gameplay on a Mac: the Shift-Command-5 toolbar, QuickTime, OBS Studio, Steam's own Game Recording, and a dedicated instant-replay app. Which one you want depends on whether you know in advance that you want to record, or only realise afterwards.
Guide ·
How to record game audio without your Discord call
macOS mixes every application's sound into one stream before it reaches your speakers, so a recorder reading that output cannot separate the game from Discord. The fix is to capture the game's window rather than the display, which lets ScreenCaptureKit take that application's audio in isolation, with no virtual audio driver.
Explainer ·
Screen recording permission on macOS, and why it keeps asking
Screen & System Audio Recording permission lives in System Settings under Privacy & Security, and macOS re-confirms it periodically even for apps you have already approved. Clicking Allow keeps the existing grant. A prompt on every single launch means the entry is inconsistent and should be removed and re-added.