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BarretV Author

Level 1

8 points

Quicktime Screen Recording Makes Green Screen Video

Here's what I do:

1. Open Quicktime Player (v10.2)

2. Select File->New Screen Recording

3. Click the record button

4. Click the screen one more time to record full screen

5. Record for 10-20 seconds then press stop

THE PROBLEM: The resulting video is a blank green screen. Nothing but green. Even after exporting it to my desktop, I open the file to view it and it is still green.

This is my first time using this utility, so perhaps I did something wrong? Any help is much appreciated!

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.3)

Posted on Mar 30, 2013 10:11 PM

34 replies

Apr 17, 2013 12:59 AM in response to luckychris

Mine just started working again for no apparent reason... weird.

nilebma

Level 1

0 points

Apr 23, 2013 1:21 AM in response to piguy24

Worked for me ! Thx Piguy24! After I pressed CMD+R at boot up, I arrived in an interface where I choosed "disk utility". Then I selected my MacOS Partition, and repair the permissions for this partition.

Apr 23, 2013 6:53 AM in response to BarretV

Excelllent - repairing permissions worked a treat! I went about it a quicker way though...

go to applications- utilities - disk utlity ... no need to reboot.

Thanks!!

cdolan92

Level 1

15 points

Apr 23, 2013 8:19 AM in response to smitchnstu

Run repair permissions - Its seems like a ML error where a lot of the audio/visual files in ~/System/Library are given owners when they should be set at 0.

I'd recommend doing it in the recovery partition (Command + R on Startup), unlike what smitchnstu advises. Doing it from the recovery partition is a lot more 'certain' than doing it from Disk Utility. After all, you'd much prefer another doctor do surgery on you, than you do surgury on yourself :-).

...That, and doing it in Disk Utlity did not fix the problem for me!

Apr 29, 2013 1:37 PM in response to cdolan92

I actually did all three... the only time it works is after doing yours
thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

May 29, 2013 2:53 PM in response to cdolan92

Tried repairing permissions with Disk Utility. Permissions were repaired, but the fix didn't take effect until restarting. Thanks for posting, everyone.

Jun 26, 2013 12:13 PM in response to BarretV

All I had to do was restart the machine, and the issue went away.

OS: Mountain Lion 10.8.4

QuickTime: 10.2

coolnalu

Level 1

0 points

Jun 28, 2013 3:05 PM in response to CMiYC

This solved it for me. Thanks!

RMBP 15''

Initially it didn't work then I found out gfxCardStatus won't let me switch to integrated only when QuickTime is open. Then I quit QuickTime and tried again, switched to integrated only, (waited for a few seconds for it to actually switch), then started recording and worked great!

Aug 6, 2013 11:41 AM in response to luckychris

Repairing disk permissions then restarting my Mac fixed the green screen problem. Now my QT screen recording is working perfectly.

Edgar189

Level 1

0 points

Aug 27, 2013 4:41 PM in response to BarretV

I have a brand new Mac Laptop (RETINA SCREEN) with solid state hard drive.

This Green screen happens all the time. Then I have to log out and log back in and it's fixed.

THIS IS THE MOST ANNOYING THING OF ALL TIME.

Can nobody fix this? I detest having to log out and log in every time I want to make a screencast using iShowU or Quicktime.

Sep 7, 2013 7:09 AM in response to BarretV

Yes I had the same problem and repairing permissions worked for me, instead of restarting just go to Disk Utility, click First Aid, the Repair Permissions in the bottom left corner.

Edgar189

Level 1

0 points

Sep 10, 2013 1:36 PM in response to Andrew98h

I tried repairing permissions. No good.

This *****

worst thing of all time. Ever

CMiYC

Level 1

5 points

Sep 10, 2013 2:29 PM in response to Edgar189

Edgar189 wrote:

Can nobody fix this? I detest having to log out and log in every time I want to make a screencast using iShowU or Quicktime.

As I already said, use gfxCardStatus form gfx.io. Make sure you aren't running QuickTime or any other applicaitons that enable the external graphics chip. The dropdown menu will tell you if any are running, so you can qut them.

I use it all the time when I make screencasts.

Oct 13, 2013 1:12 PM in response to BarretV

Thanks! This solved my problem and has inspired me to be active in the user help-community.

Oct 24, 2013 2:18 AM in response to Nick Barbeln

To be honest I now just use http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/ as its more reliable.

Cant be bothered with the fuss and hassle. Just updated to 10.9 so hopefully that helps though.

Quicktime Screen Recording Makes Green Screen Video