Screenshot or Reecording

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Tried advice from Gemini, but it can’t seem to answer the question, what they say doesn’t work. So I know cmd-shift-5 brings up a small bar at the bottom of the screen. Supposedly I can choose a screen capture as an image or start a video recording. I kept getting a very short (horizontal) bar with Capture at the end. No way to change that to Record. Once ON Record, I see options to do the static screen capture. I HAD been getting Record, but now it’s back to Capture with no way of changing it to Record.

What am I missing?

MacOS Tahoe 26.4.1

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That’s very strange. You should see a control strip with various buttons to indicate what you want to capture (entire screen, window, or arbitrary area, and the same for video). The active button at the far right changes from Capture to Record depending on the mode you’ve selected.

Perhaps you moved the bar so some of the icons are off the screen?