Screen recording- ScreenCaptureKit or AVFoundation?

Hi!

I am building a Mac swift app to make screen recordings. I want to be able to record all the screen, a window or an area of the screen.

I am very new to swift and am not sure if I should be using AVCaptureSession or SCScreenCaptureSession.

I am trying to understand the differences and when I should use one over the other can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

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Starting from macOS 12.3, use the ScreenCaptureKit framework for screen recording instead of AVCaptureScreenInput. Although AVCaptureScreenInput can define a cropRect to indicate the portion of the screen area to be captured, ScreenCaptureKit provides rich APIs to identify and capture specific windows, such as SCShareableContent and SCWindow.

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Thanks for the reply! So if I use ScreenCaptureKit how would I go about recording just part of a window (I want to define a rect and record for that area only) rather than the whole window. I can see cropRect for AVCapture is there something similar for ScreenCapture?

Thanks for your help!

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