
Most people just figure it’s a video player since that’s part of its name, but QTP can also manage quite a lot of recording… Whether that separate app exists or not, however, the fact is that QuickTime has always been an underrated powerhouse of a program with far more capabilities than you would guess at first blush. Did you know you can record what’s happening on your screen while you narrate, for example? Or that you can easily record video captured by the webcam on your Mac system and even trim the start and stop times to make the output perfect? I might call it something like iWebcam to keep with the Apple naming conventions for applications. First off, I want to say that I rarely suggest that there be more applications on a computer system, but the recording capabilities of QuickTime Player should really be broken out into a separate app so people are aware of the additional features. The short answer is yes, QuickTime Player, but let’s have a closer look.
