Quicktime Screen Recording doesn't work in Lion When starting a new Screen Recording in Quicktime Player in Lion 10.7.3, as soon as I click record I get this following error message:



Here's a video demonstrating the issue: http://db.tt/CROyXgIt

Here are the settings under the triangle on the right:
Finally figured it out - apparently the Movies folder in my home directory had a weird permission set on it and things couldn't be written to it, which caused QuickTime to give a very descriptive message "The operation could not be completed" and saving to a different folder (or after fixing the permissions on Movies), worked.