Recording¶

What to record¶

The three small buttons in the Screen tile choose what to record:

For a tutorial with camera and keys, use Screen or Region. A window recording only takes that window's own picture, without anything that lies above it.

Picking a region¶

Choose Region, then Pick region… and the screen. The screen darkens; drag a rectangle over the part you want. The size shows in pixels while you drag. Drag again to start over, Enter takes the rectangle, Esc cancels. Very small rectangles (under 64 × 64 pixels) are refused. The region is remembered for each screen.

Sound¶

The Audio tile records two sources into the video's one sound track:

• System audio: what your computer plays, such as a video or a notification sound.
• Microphone: your voice, from the microphone chosen below the switch.

Switch off what you do not want in the video.

Start¶

Press the record button or ⌘⇧R. The control window hides, so it is never in the video, and a countdown 3, 2, 1 shows in orange on the screen being recorded. ⌘⇧R or Esc during the countdown cancels it.

While recording:

• The menu bar shows a Bella ScreenRec item with the time recorded so far; it has Stop recording.
• A region is marked by a thin orange frame just outside it, so the frame is not in the video.
• The overlays stay where you put them. The key overlay hides its Keys label, so only pressed keys show.

Stop¶

Press ⌘⇧R, or choose Stop recording in the menu bar. Bella ScreenRec saves the file, shows it in Finder and brings the control window back.

Without a license every recording stops by itself after 20 seconds, and the file is kept. See License.

If a recording breaks off, for example because the recorded window was closed or a screen was unplugged, the part recorded so far is kept and the control window says what happened.

Where recordings go¶

Recordings are saved in your Movies folder as ScreenRec 2026-10-29 14-05-09.mp4, with the date and time of the start. A name that already exists gets (2), (3) and so on, so nothing is overwritten. The gear next to the record button chooses another folder (Output, Choose…). A folder that cannot be written to is reported before the countdown, not after the take.

Quality¶

The gear of the Screen tile sets:

The Mac's video hardware encodes the video, so recording takes little power. The video has the size of the screen or region in pixels; the mouse pointer is recorded.