Since upgrading to MacOS Monterey, Quicktime Player now stops recording at 10 minute and 55 seconds. I can no longer record any video segments longer than that. Prior to upgrading, I routinely recorded Quicktime videos in excess of one hour.
I've confirmed that this behavior occurs both with the built-in Mac camera and an external Logitech Brio camera.
MacBook Pro (2020 and later)
It is resolved. I made the adjustment with the battery options... Make sure that all boxes in "Battery" option are unchecked except "Optimized battery charging" and "Show battery status in menu bar" and go to "Power Adapter" option to uncheck all boxes. It is important that "Turn display off after:" changed to "Never" on both "Battery" and "Power Adapter". I tested it and the camera recording ran more than 20 minutes without abruptly stopped it.
Yes I'm using an external webcam and microphone. I'm thinking I may need to record with OBS for the time being (even though this makes the file size larger) whilst apple sort this out.
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same here. I record two podcast a week, and for the video portion I use a Logitech c920S and it was stopping at 10:55 then once I went to high it’s been fine.
I am also having this exact same issue. Recording stops at 10:55 with the same error message. Restarting does not resolve the issue. Looking for a resolution.
I am running MacOS Monterey 12.0.1 on a mid-2015 MacBook Pro with a 2.8 GHz i7 with the Dual Graphics GPU with 2GB for the AMD GPU.
Has anyone found a resolution to this? I've restarted, check battery and screen saver settings and still its stopping at 10min55secs. I really need to record multiple hour long videos and had to do the last one in 6 segments! Incredibly frustrating.
Me too, I have the same problem with 10:55 min regardless built-in camera or external camera (Brio). It has nothing to do with the screensaver because I did test it while did my stuff... it stopped at 10:55. MacOS Monterey has to do with it. Wait to find out what is the solution. Pretty much depending on it for my projects. As of now, I am using my iphone 13 but it is inconvenient.
Getting that setting changed won't help. I'm using an M1 Mac mini on 12.0.1 so it doesn't have that same disk sleep timer in the System Report like yours, since it's always on AC power.
Yet, I still have the same 10:55 stoppage. Glad I found this thread, I was about to lose my mind! Guess I'll just have to wait for a fix...
Just tried your suggestion. Previously ran into this issue on my M1 Mac mini with my USB capture device plugged into USB-A via Thunderbolt-connected CalDigit Element hub.
I tried plugging the capture device directly into the Mac mini's rear ports, and unfortunately still stopped at 10:55.
Sorry, samond241, but it did not work for me. The recording stopped at 10:56 on my 2020 13-inch MacBook Pro despite the battery and power adapter settings. I've noticed that the 10:55 limit has increased to 10:56 for me. At this rate I might be able to record a 1-hour video in about 1000 years or so.
No, I'm not going to go so far as to wipe and reinstall the OS. Something is fundamentally broken in Monterey for this to be happening. I can't even get QT to run in safe mode.
I will not trust QuickTime again until Apple makes another major revision to the OS. For now, I'll continue to use an older Mac for my recordings.
Same boat….MacBook Pro 2019…upgraded to MacOS Monterey. QuickTime will not record after 10:55. I’m transferring VHS to digital. I’ve change power preferences and a clean install. The more activity on this thread, more likely apple will address the issue.
there is a lot of VHS talk going on here what are you guys recording videos of time capsule porn? Haha. I have not had the 10:55 issue with recording on high, still stops on maximum at 10:55 when I use my 2020 MacBook Pro M1 running Monterey using a Logitech c920s webcam. However, the 10:55 problem I am nowhere near a solution when using same equipment and same OS on my 21.5 inch iMac 5K retina desktop. So, Apple, please make my Monterey, Monterey, Monterey…Monterey problems please make them go away..
I'm having the exact same issue. Ever since upgrading to Monterey, many apps that I use daily are broken and useless. I've tried using other applications like Photo Booth in place of Quicktime for video recording, but any file over the 10:55 mark ends up corrupted once recording has stopped.
An update on my situation:
Now the new account trick isn't working either. Test account one began to experience the recording bug while attempting another try at video capture. I set up Amphetamine before recording, and I assumed that is what was causing the bug. So I did some test recordings after closing the Amphetamine app and using the default power settings. The bug still occurs.
Went ahead and deleted test account one and created test account two. I'm encountering the recording bug on test account two right away with no third-party apps set up or running. Amphetamine wasn't set up and is disabled completely.
Apple support was supposed to give me a phone call yesterday afternoon, but the call never came at the scheduled time. Despite that, I will let the support chat know about my test accounts experiencing the recording issue.
As a last resort, I tried running QuickTime via terminal to see if any errors or messages appeared when the recordings fail. No such messages appear.
Frustrating....
The VHS talk simply refers to how some of us use QuickTime to help digitize/convert VHS tapes to a more modern format. In my use situation, QuickTime is the app I use to access my video capture setup to do this task. I have a VHS VCR connected to an AV-to-HDMI converter box, which then goes to an HDMI capture dongle connected via USB-C.
Quicktime video recording stops at 10:55 in MacOS Monterey
