You can either use your Mac's internal mic or attach an external studio microphone, which is particularly useful if you want to record voiceovers with your screen recordings. QuickTime also allows you to record external audio. And that distracting red dot that appears on the top-left corner of your iPhone's screen when you start recording? That won't be visible when you record with QuickTime on Mac. That shouldn't be a problem, though, because you can easily convert MOV to MP4 on your Mac later.Īnother reason is that you can easily edit and quickly merge your videos using QuickTime Player on your Mac.

However, MP4 files are more widely used and smaller in size.

The former isn't as compressed as the latter. Videos recorded with QuickTime are saved as MOV files, while the iPhone saves screen-recorded videos as MP4 files. The iPhone already has a built-in screen recorder, so why go through the trouble of using your Mac to do it? Here are a few good reasons why:įor starters, you'll get much better video quality with QuickTime Player.

Quicktime record screen