How to Record Multiple Screen Regions on Mac

Full-screen recordings are wasteful when you only need to capture specific areas. This guide shows you how to record multiple screen regions on Mac using Conjuly, exporting to video or GIF without recording your entire display.

Why Record Regions Instead of Full Screen?

Most screen recording tools on Mac capture your entire display or a single window. While this works for some situations, there are many cases where recording specific regions is the better approach.

• Focused content: When you record just the area that matters, your viewer's attention stays on the content. No distracting toolbars, docks, or unrelated windows. This is especially important for tutorials and product demos where clarity is key.
• Smaller file sizes: A region recording captures fewer pixels than a full-screen recording. This means smaller video files, faster uploads, and less storage consumed. If you record a 960x540 region instead of a 2560x1440 full screen, your file size drops dramatically.
• Privacy: Full-screen recordings capture everything on your display, including notification popups, personal messages, bookmarks, and anything else visible. Region recording eliminates this risk by capturing only what you intentionally select.
• Better viewer experience: A focused recording is easier to follow. Viewers do not have to figure out which part of the screen to look at because you have already made that decision for them.

Setting Up Capture Regions in Conjuly

Conjuly makes it simple to define screen regions for recording. Here is how to get started:

1. Open Conjuly on your Mac.
2. Click to create a new capture region. Drag to select the area of your screen you want to record.
3. Adjust the region boundaries by dragging the edges or corners. You can position it precisely over the content you need.
4. To capture additional regions, create more capture regions. Each one operates independently.

You can create as many capture regions as you need. Each region can be positioned over a different application, a different part of the same application, or even across different monitors in a multi-display setup.

Recording Regions to Video

Once your capture regions are set up, recording is straightforward:

1. Select the capture region you want to record.
2. Start the recording. Conjuly captures only the pixels inside your selected region.
3. Perform the actions you want to record. The capture follows your region in real time.
4. Stop the recording when you are done. Conjuly saves the video file to your specified location.

The resulting video contains only the content from your selected region, with no extra cropping or post-processing needed. The output is a clean, focused recording ready to share or upload.

Exporting as GIF

Sometimes a video file is more than you need. For quick demonstrations, bug reports, or async team updates, an animated GIF is often the better format. GIFs play inline in Slack, GitHub, Notion, email, and most other communication tools without requiring a video player.

Conjuly lets you export your region recordings directly as GIFs. This is ideal for:

• Quick bug reports showing a UI glitch in a specific area
• Short tutorials demonstrating a feature in a few seconds
• Async standup updates showing progress on a specific component
• Documentation showing step-by-step interactions

Because you are recording only a region rather than your full screen, the resulting GIF is smaller in file size and dimensions, which means faster loading and better quality at reasonable file sizes.

Grid Mirror for Multi-Region Recording

What if you need to record multiple screen regions simultaneously and present them in a single video? This is where Conjuly's Grid Mirror feature shines.

Grid Mirror takes multiple capture regions and composites them into a single unified view. You can arrange them side by side, in a grid layout, or in any configuration that fits your content. When you record the Grid Mirror view, you get a single video that shows all your selected regions together.

This is incredibly useful for scenarios like:

• Recording a code editor alongside a live preview to show cause and effect
• Capturing a form input and the resulting API response simultaneously
• Showing multiple monitoring dashboards in a single view for incident documentation
• Creating tutorial videos that show the teacher's actions and the student's expected results side by side

Use Cases

Conjuly vs Full-Screen Recorders

macOS includes a built-in screen recorder (Command + Shift + 5) that can record a selected portion of your screen. However, it records to a file with limited export options and does not support multiple simultaneous regions, GIF export, or compositing.

Tools like OBS offer extensive recording capabilities, but they are designed for live streaming and require significant setup. Configuring scenes, sources, and encoding settings for a quick region recording is overkill for most workflows.

Conjuly sits in the sweet spot: powerful enough to handle multi-region recording, GIF export, and Grid Mirror compositing, but simple enough that you can start recording within seconds of opening the app. It is purpose-built for the Mac and integrates naturally with macOS workflows.