How to Record Online Videos: 3 Best Ways to Capture

Network life is a new and emerging lifestyle. Many of us become the cyber citizens to spend our spare time by watching streaming lives, TV shows as well as online videos. However, sometimes it’s not enough to watch the online videos through the internet once only for the following reasons: You may want to save these videos and enjoy them even the internet is not available. Maybe you are in process of an emergency meeting which interrupts your enjoying of the routine programs. You are watching an online presentation and you want to keep it to the local system for future reference. So that’s exactly why we write this post to recommend 3 best ways for you on how to record online videos.

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Method 1: Using Game Bar (for Windows 10 users)
Method 2: Using QuickTime Player (for Mac users)
Method 3: Using Online Video Recorder (recommended for both PC & Mac users)

Method 1: Using the Game Bar to record online videos on Windows10

Game Bar is a software program included with Windows 10 which allows you to take screenshots as well as record videos without any third-party tool. With Game Bar, you can record the game tutorials or any app on your desktop. To simplify the recording steps, here we make a brief introduction of the Game Bar. Before the recording, you need to make sure that the software is configured. Press Win + G key combination to evoke the software and then choose Settings to do more configurations in advance.

How to use game bar to record online videos for Windows 10

Step 1: Open the app or the website window that you want to capture.
Step 2: Use the key combination Win + G to open the software and click the red button to start. A timer will appear in the top of the window and you can see the duration of the capturing.
Step 3: To end the recording, you need to bring back the Game Bar and click the red stop button.
Step 4: You can review the videos in the file destination.

Method 2: Using the QuickTime Player to record online videos on Mac

Like Windows, Mac is also equipped with the recording function. QuickTime player can be run not only as a media player but also a screen recorder. With powerful functions, you can capture any online videos with audio while with the installation of the extension – Soundflower. It supports screenshot, screen recording as well as audio capturing. Here detailed information is listed in the following part.

How to use the QuickTime Player to record online videos for Mac

Step 1：Open the QuickTime Player

Step 2：Select the recording mode. Decide whether you need to capture the whole screen or just a particular area. For online videos, the whole screen is recommended considering the better viewing experience.

Step 3: In the Options menu bar, you can do more configurations before recording. File destinations, Timer, and microphone settings are here. Select Soundflower(2ch) to save the system sound if necessary.

Step 4: Click Record button to start.

Step 5: Press Command-Control-Esc to stop or click stop in the menu bar.

Method 3: Using RecMaster to record online videos on both Windows and Mac

No matter the Game Bar or the QuickTime Player, the built-in tool always has the function limits. For example the system sound and microphone can’t be recorded at the same time without extension, the lack of task schedule function or fewer choices of the recording settings. Therefore, that’s where the third-party software comes in.

RecMaster is a professional screen recorder with easy operations. Both Windows and Mac users are freely to download the software. It supports various recording modes and with more versatile choices of settings. It can be applied to record Netflix streaming movies, Crackle contents and act as social media recorder for YouTube etc. Now we will make some tutorials on how to record online videos with RecMaster, as it’s easy to use and yields great results.

How to use RecMaster to record online videos

Step 1: Download and complete the installation.
Step 2: Open the application and there are multiple screen recording modes for you to choose. Here we recommend the Full Screen mode to capture the online videos.

Step 3: Make personalized settings. Optionally change the video format, quality and frame rate. Turn on the system sound so that the background music can be recorded as well. In the settings interface, you can change the file destination and mouse cursor effects.

Step 4: For Windows users, you can use the Task Schedule function to free yourself from sitting in front of the computer along the recording. Preset the start and stop time and RecMaster will automatically start working and successfully complete the recording.

Step 5: To start you just need to click REC button.

Step 6: With everything captured, click the Stop button to end.

After the recording, you can use the editing function to trim the video. Besides online video capture, RecMaster is also good at recording online audio and webcam facecam only.

Final Words

You can choose the most suitable way on how to record online videos with ease. But we strongly recommend RecMaster considering its comprehensiveness and speciality, and we believe with the software, recording online videos will never be a problem to you.

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