Ever since macOS Mojave (10.14), Soundflower, the go to free sound plugin that overcame Apple Quicktime’s inability to include audio to screen recordings has ceased working with subsequent macOS’.
Nov 18, 2019 How to Take a Screenshot in macOS Mojave and Catalina. The Screenshot tool in macOS Mojave delivered new on-screen controls for easy access to every screenshot option and new video recording capabilities. That continues with macOS Catalina. On a desktop Mac, press Command-Shift-5 to summon the screen capture window. With macOS Catalina (10.15), Apple introduced new security and privacy features for your Mac. In order to capture screen shorts and screen recordings with Dropshare, you have to grant it access to the Screen Recording permission. Capture a new screen shot with Dropshare and you will see the following message: Click 'Open System Preferences' and allow Dropshare to access the Screen Recording permission. Nov 21, 2019 The Screenshot app in macOS Mojave — and now macOS Catalina — provides on-screen controls for easy access to every screenshot option and new video recording capabilities. Press Command + Shift + 5 on your keyboard to bring up the screenshot toolbar, then choose either Record Entire Screen or Record Selected Portion. Mac Catalina screen capture. On Mac Catalina, your browser may lose access to your screen.
There’s now a fix for this in the form of Existential Audio’s virtual audio driver that allows applications to pass audio to other applications with zero latency.
You first need to download the BlackHole.vx.x.x.pkg from Existential Audio and follow the install process detailed at their BlackHole web site.Once you’ve successfully installed the BlackHole audio driver, all you then need to do is select “BlackHole 16ch” as the output device from your System Preferences > Sound > Output tab:
Alternatively, you can also toggle it from within your Volume menu in your macOS menu bar:
Once you’ve done that, please note that your system will no longer produce any sound output from its ordinary output device, so during your screen recording the system will be mute.
Launch Quicktime and start a New Screen Recording:
Select your recording area and then in the Options menu on the control pane, select BlackHole 16ch under the Microphone preferences:
Click Record to begin your screen recording.
If you ever intend to remove BlackHole:
Screenflow
- Delete BlackHOle.driver from
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL - Restart CoreAudio with Terminal command
sudo launchctl kickstart -kp system/com.apple.audio.coreaudiod
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Many thanks to Existential Audio for this great virtual audio driver!