QuickTime crashes while using screen recording in Mavericks - Is there a fix?

Hi all,

I'm having the same issue on my Mac Mini, model A1347 (CPU i7, 4Gb RAM, 1Tb HDD).

This problem got worst after the Yosemite's upgrade.

At first it would take some few minutes to crash but now it take only a few seconds. It seems to be recording but when I want to stop the recording it says "Not Responding". This is really frustrating!

But it is not only with QT... I also tried Screen Recorder Robot Lite and others I found on Apple Store. They all crash when I finish the recording.

On Mac Forums someone told me to backup my data, do a clean install and then migrate data back. I did it, but it didn't solve my problem. Every screen recording app I try, it hangs.

I'm also using an external USB headset (Sennheiser PC 8). Mac mini inputs only have line in, so I can't try other mic.

I also tried VLC but it only records full screen and it didn't capture any sound at all! 😟

I really need to have this working as I have lots of screen recordings to do.

Honestly, I started to like Mac a lot I would even rate it as almost good as Linux (my favourite OS)... But with all this problems, I think I'd rate it now as bad as M$ Windows... :S

Any suggestion?

Kind regards,

Carlos Santos

I agree... I used a software, not free, to record screen and now it crashes too... then I use a online service that allows 15 minutes recording... it works ... But... Apple knows the problem? Are they working to resolve it? Could we have an answer?

I'm having exactly the same problem too with recording Steam games, everything appears to be running fine, then when I click stop recording it just "loads" forever and I have to force quit, when I reopen it only loads the video until the point I've opened Steam, which is completely useless!

same problem.

Macbook Pro, 15-inch, Late 2013
OS X 10.9.5 (13F1134)

2.3g Intel Core I7

16GB 1600 Mhz DDR3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M 2048 MB

----hardware overview-------------

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro11,3

Processor Name: Intel Core i7

Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 4

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 6 MB

Memory: 16 GB

Boot ROM Version: MBP112.0138.B16

SMC Version (system): 2.19f3

Just buy Screenflow. No longer depend on Apple for anything. They DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOU. STEVE JOBS is gone.

I have found a slight fix, Quick time crashes overtime you try to SAVE or EXPORT after screen recording but i managed to get it to save when i finished my video i went to close the program and it prompted me to save the last file and it saved!!! finally!!!!