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"Your Mac's built-in screen recorder Posted on Wednesday, January 8th, 2014 at 5:54 am. PT Written by Dave Mark Not sure when this feature got added, but since this was new to me, thought this was worth sharing. Launch QuickTime Player (it's in your Applications folder). Now select New Screen Recording from the File menu, or type control-command-N. A small screen recording window will appear, like so:"

Useful utility to rotate those videos you created with your phone and you recorded sideways.

"I've got a Panasonic HC-V750 camcorder which supports AVCHD and MP4. The highest quality AVCHD settings are called "1080/60p", while the highest quality MP4 settings are called "1080/50M" (also at 60p). Both are 1920x1080 full HD resolution.   When I check out some sample files recorded in those 2 formats with MediaInfo, I see the AVCHD bitrate is variable and seems to be in the 22.8 - 25.0 mbps range, while the MP4 bitrate is close to the advertised "50M" at a variable 45.4 - 49.2 mbps.   So, although I know the answer is a bit subjective, I am interested in which format people think has better video quality.  By bitrate and file size alone, I would be inclined to say MP4 in this scenario.  But the instruction manual implies that the AVCHD is better quality.   FYI: on the audio side, the AVCHD has AC3 384 kbps 6 channel audio, while the MP4 has AAC 128 kbps 2 channel, so the AVCHD AC3 audio clearly seems superior."

Capture audio from AV source.