Using the screen recording method of connecting my iOS device directly to a MacOS system and recording through quicktime – is it possible to record the setup assistant? Or is recording only capable once the phone is set up and booted into iOS.
IOS – Record screen iPhone during setup assistant
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You could use Audio Hijack (per Tetsujin) to capture the audio as needed or you could use a USB audio adapter to do it for significantly less.
I use the Behringer UCA202 Audio Interface with my iMac.
When I needed to record a screencast with the audio from the application, I just used an RCA audio cable I had laying in a drawer similar to the image below. You don't need anything fancy or expensive, just a standard RCA audio cable.
In quicktime, I just selected the USB device as my input:
Now, when I say significantly less, Audio Hijack is about $50 if buying the new license. The USB Audio device is $30 and if you have to buy an RCA audio cable, you're looking at another $5. So, for $35, you get an audio interface that has many more uses than the software can provide (for example, I can hook my Bose Wave Radio to my iMac now) whereas the software doesn't allow you to do that.
Make no mistake, Audio Hijack is good software. This is just another, albeit less expensive, avenue to solve your problem.
The reason this happens is because a video cannot change orientation mid-record.
IE: My wife starts many of her video recordings on her phone in a vertical position. I remind her that we will likely have a terrible experience watching that video at a future date from a television because of the huge black bars on the left and right. She rotates it mid recording session, but all this does is make it so we have to turn our head on the couch.
There's a reason you haven't seen anything rotate on Youtube either -- it simply isn't equiped to all the sudden change from widescreen to portrait.
Solution:
Quicktime (assuming you're on a mac based on your screenshot) also lets you select "New Screen Recording" from the File dropdown menu. You could record your whole screen like you alluded to, but if you want a more controled/correct size, you would do the following:
- Pretend like you're going to do a new iPhone recording. Have the phone on the screen. Take note of where the phone is on the screen in portrait mode, as well as landscape mode.
- Use sticky notes on your monitor to create a "square" that will make sure your phone is completely visible during landscape as well as portrait. (see where I'm going with this?)
- Tricky part. Open your applications folder. COPY quicktime to your desktop. Double click the desktop icon. This will open a SECOND instance of quicktime.
- Use the second instance of quicktime to do a "New Screen Recording". You do NOT have to record your whole screen; Select the square that you made with sticky notes on your monitor so we record this area.
- Hit record on the second instance of quicktime, while the first instance of quicktime is simply used to watch the phone in both portrait and landscape!
I know, it's a little involved. Likely easier to buy some software, but for free -- you can't beat it.
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Looks like it's possible. After launching quicktime, choose File > New Movie Recording (I was thrown off at first because I kept choosing New Screen Recording).
Once I correctly chose new movie recording, I was able to capture right from the initial setup screen (where it's scrolling through 'hello' in different languages).