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sometimes you find yourself in need of recording your screen with both video and audio Amaya Zak turn today I'll be showing you how to use sound flower to record system audio while you're doing the screen recording on Mac OS 10 let's say I wanted to grab a quick clip from a video to use in a presentation later Vimeo has a selection of Creative Commons videos the video we're about to show you requires attribution to be used and it's by Hadrian Genest if you've got a modern Mac you've got a built-in screen recorder in QuickTime 10 to start a screen recording do a spotlight search for QuickTime Player then click file then new screen recording and hit the record button you can select the whole screen or just an area of the screen to start recording if I try a screen recording with quick times built-in player here's the result I get a silent video to capture the audio it's time to use sound flower sound flower is a free piece of software from Mac OS 10 by cycling 74 it makes your computer think sound flowers an audio device like your headphone jack which means you can route all of your system audio through it download and install the software sound flower does require you to reboot your system after installation for it to work now what you want to do is send all of your system audio to sound flower and is going to feed into QuickTime Player well relaunch QuickTime Player and start a new screen recording click the down arrow and select sound flower to channel as the input after that Launch System Preferences and go to the sound settings go to the output tab and select the same sound flower - channel option as you did in QuickTime Player if you've got audio notifications popping up from Facebook or Skype that audio will also be captured here so be careful about that let's go back to that awesome Vimeo video you'll see the audio meteor pulsing as now quicktime player can hear the audio plane then start your recording while this is going on you won't be able to hear the audio to monitor what's being recorded you'll have to change your output audio back to original settings when you're done then play back the video just recorded and there you have it recorded video and audio thanks to QuickTime Player 10 and I'll flower Amaya's Akhtar for more tips and tricks like this check out how to cnet.com