How to video screen capture on mac

If any of you out there would want and video screen capture on your mac, it is quite easy and apple has already provided the tools for the job. Though it is not sophisticated as many third party applications it works fine and is more stable than many of them which I have used.

Quciktime 10 has the ability to make video screen capture and export them as .mov

First open Quciktime 10

Then under File open New screen recording or alt + command + N

Finally this should be self explanatory press the record button and click the screen

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