On 18/07/2005, at 5:04 AM, tom sampson in WAMUG Mailing List wrote:
I would dearly like that to work before I try to fork out the money
to buy the license.
The other thing I have found is that the VLC player mutes my
preferences. I have thrown away a few files now simply because I
thought there was no sound.
Hi tom,
Some information that I've gathered to help with snaps from video.
I've not needed to upgrade, so all the following relates to 10.3.9 with
DVDPlayer 4.0.
I sympathise with you on the simple still/ video capture ease - ie
difficulty - with OS X (my version is 10.3.9)
I found out pretty quickly that the bundled apple DVDPlayer disables
all screen capture, either with keys 3 or 4 when it is playing any
video, pauses or otherwise. You can't even get a snap of another app
using CTRL SHFT 4 when DVDPlayer is running.
After looking for the same kind of things you seem to be after - apps
to quickly capture stills or short video excerpts - I landed on this
one for stills:
http://www.efritz.net/software.html
It will get whatever is displayed on your screen exactly the same way
as wiretap will get whatever sound your system is outputting.
and I just return to the very powerful and easy PowerDVD in the XP box
if I need to get moving excerpts, so I've no help for moving stuff.
For your search for movie clipping, you may find it worthwhile starting
at the fora run by the MacTheRipper mob
http://www.ripdifferent.com/phpbb2/viewforum.php?f=26
