The video, the Find function, can't actually hear what you're saying in the video and index that but it can do it with the comment in here. You can do a Find on Files, and that video will show up. So if you were to actually, you know, put a couple key words in there or a quick description of what it is you talked about, you can actually search. So if you wanted to add a comment, some sort of text, to the diary then you could do that. Like for instance there's Comments down here. Now when you've got info, Command i after selecting the file, notice there are other things you can do as well. I would probably like for a diary for myself, if it's just going to be me talking and I'm not going to be showing anything special, just save it in a compact format like that. So depending upon what you want that is how you can save it out. You can see the quality is still pretty good it's just a small video frame. This one here, I'm just doing Command i, is 2.8 mg. This one here is actually 9mg and that was only for a few seconds of me recording. But you can say just say delete it because I want to just keep this file there. If I haven't saved it already and I try to Quit it would say you haven't saved this.
Make a video diary online 480p#
Like if I don't want anything special for this I can do 480p which is like standard definition video. So you can Export As and you can do a lower resolution. Do 1 or I can do like the date in some sort of format and save that out.Īnother option you may want to do instead of saving is go right to Export. So let me say Diary and I can just number them. So you can do File, you can do Save, Command S, and you can save it to the desktop. There's no file to find and delete.īut, at this point if it's what you want you can Save. Then you can just start the process again. So the great thing is if say you have a false start, you start and then you say no no no I want to start again, you can basically just close this window, Delete, and it's gone. Then you can talk about your day and how you feel and maybe things you have planned. You probably, for something like this, just want to stick with High and not Maximum, so your files aren't too big. You would just, again, choose your internal microphone. I also have a variety of different audio sources microphone. It's probably the only thing that appears there. But you would normally just choose your regular builtin camera. So I've got my MacPro here and I've got a whole bunch of different video sources. Notice this little down arrow next to the record button. This will then show you your camera and you can choose things here.
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Instead of opening a document to play you can go to File then New Movie Recording. I've moved it to the Dock just for easy access.
So you can launch Quicktime Player using Spotlight, Command Space, and QuickTime Player. QuickTIme Player has player in the name but it actually can record as well. But you could do this using QuickTime Player. There's some expensive apps that you could buy that will allow you to organize your stuff. So, it's actually really easy to do this with builtin software. It's a great way to keep a journal and it must be really fun to look back years later to see about what you were doing with your day and how you felt. While you can type out a diary some people would prefer to actually record some audio or maybe just use the camera and do some video. After all, most Macs, the iMacs and the MacBooks, have a camera right there. Video Transcript: I was recently asked by somebody if there's a way to record a video diary using the Mac.
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