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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

Dec 31, 2013 11:33 AM in response to BarretV

Another thing to watch out for: are you on battery? or plugged into a power source?

I was having the same "green video" problem but I found that it went away when I was plugged in to a power source. (No permissions repair required...)

kamilis

Level 1

0 points

Sep 9, 2014 9:33 AM in response to piguy24

It's "Repair Disk Permissions".

davidwin

Level 1

0 points

Dec 30, 2014 2:43 AM in response to BarretV

I just want to add to this thread because I spent 2 hours trying to solve this on my Mac. For me it had nothing to do with updates or codecs, it was that I was remotely accessing my Mac through TeamViewer and my Mac's monitor was off. This prevented the screen from recording properly. Just turned on the monitor and then it worked fine - stupid thing, but if you don't know you can spend hours pulling your hair out.

Jan 8, 2015 7:54 PM in response to kamilis

Has anyone figured out how to RESTORE the original video of the quicktime recording that went to green screen? My recording looked normal while I was creating it, then when I saved it, it went to green screen. This was a VERY IMPORTANT VIDEO. It was a recording of a FaceTime lesson and I need the video to remember what I did.

Quicktime Screen Recording Makes Green Screen Video