Screen Record Time Limitation in Macos 12.0.0 Monterey

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Screen Record Time Limitation in Macos 12.0.0 Monterey

I have noticed that I have an exact screen record limitation of 34 minutes and 47 seconds on my brand new M1 MAX 16" Mac.

I have tried this 3 times over two days, and each recording stops at exactly that time, regardless of how hard I am pushing the machine. The files are fine, it acts exactly as if I clicked the stop button. I will say for context that I am using a TB3 dock to connect it to 2 external monitors. I am also using the hdmi port for a total of 3 external monitors. The monitor I am recording is one of the ones connected to the dock.

This length of time is pretty long so its taking me some time to go through the possible issues but this is where I am at so far. I believe there shouldn't be a limit for screen recording especially as I have 2 TB free on my internal drive.

MacBook Pro (2020 and later)

Posted on Oct 28, 2021 8:12 AM

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Oct 29, 2021 10:00 AM in response to ergojosh

ergojosh wrote:

I believe there shouldn't be a limit for screen recording especially as I have 2 TB free on my internal drive.

AFAICT, there isn't a time limit. my longest screen recording to date has been 4.5 hours. however, i found a while back that if i set the "save to" location to anything but "desktop" i ran into issues saving my longer recordings. ever since setting the location to desktop, i have not run into issues with the length of any recording. and once saved to the desktop, i've had no issues moving those recordings to an external HDD or even to other locations. (such as my local drive)

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Oct 29, 2021 9:39 AM in response to ergojosh

Hey ergojosh,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities!

We see from your post that you're having issues with screen recordings on your Mac. We'd like to help out.

First, let's try freeing up some storage on your Mac to see if that's the issue: Free up storage space on your Mac - Apple Support

If that doesn't work, let us know and we'll go from there.

Cheers!

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ergojosh Author

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Oct 31, 2021 6:03 AM in response to DanielleM182

Thanks for your help, but I have solved the issue by simply updating to 12.0.1.

However, I would advise that in the future you actually read the post. Asking me to look at an article on how to clear the harddrive space after I clearly stated that I had over half of my 4 TB free, AND it being a brand new machine is silly and almost insulting.

I don't understand how anyone could have possibly thought that would have helped.

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ergojosh Author

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Oct 31, 2021 6:00 AM in response to jeffreythefrog

Thanks, I have noticed similar behavior where it would simply not save to any location other than desktop whatsoever, but I was saving to desktop for each of these examples.

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Screen Record Time Limitation in Macos 12.0.0 Monterey

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