A few simple shortcuts on Macs make it incredibly easy to record your screen, perhaps even easier than screen recording on mobile.
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Most file formats, extensions, and codecs are easy enough to recognize, but one of the lesser-known ones that you might come across is Xvid (which in terms of capitalization can be styled in a number of ways). It’s essentially a way of compressing video, and it’s been around since 2001—and here we’re going to explain…