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Snapz Pro upgrades to v2.5, adds Cocoa, Retina support
Snapz Pro X has never been a particularly beautiful application. It is, however, a very handy one. For authors and bloggers, it's been an indispensable tool in terms of screen capture -- letting you get very simple easy-to-tweak results with a minimum of interaction. One of Snapz's key features is its ability to capture a movie from a user-selected portion of the OS X screen, adding optional Mac audio and microphone narration. For static screen shots, it's also multi-screen aware, lets you carefully adjust image framing, select a single window to capture, or choose a pre-set fixed size segment. Ambrosia's 2.5.0 is about to debut any second -- probably by end of business Thursday. This version is a complete ground-up rewrite of Snapz Pro X in Cocoa using modern APIs. You read that right. Seriously, Ambrosia just finally got around to dumping Carbon. It's a welcome update that dedicated users will breathe a sigh of relief to finally download. This update should fix compatibility issues with MacOS X 10.8 (aka "Mountain Lion"), as well as full support for Retina displays. It's not prettier than previous versions but, as I found when participating in the recent Beta program, it's just as effective. Pros: Easy to use, does what you need a tool like this to do. Cons: Soviet-era aesthetics Snapz Pro is a free upgrade for existing Snapz Pro X 2.x users or costs $69 for new purchasers. %Gallery-170967%
Cinemassively: Machiniminute, Episode 2
Yesterday, Juiceof Prunes showed us how to get started on machinima in the first episode of Machiniminute. Today, we'll look at episode two, which focuses on the interface, mice, and arrows. If you're even an intermediate machinimator, these tutorials will probably not tell you anything new. However, they're quite detailed and fairly painless for the person just starting out.Tip #1 in the video tells you how to hide your user interface (UI). I can't stress enough how important this is for your Second Life machinima. Tip #2 explains how to remove the mouse cursor in Fraps. Tip #3 talks about something that I don't believe will affect you when your UI is off, but for those times when you need the UI on, is very useful. In episode three, which is yet to be released, she'll instruct us on camera angles.
Snapz Pro X 2.1.1 is available
Earlier today, Ambrosia released version 2.1.1 of their popular screen capture tool (we've written about Snapz Pro X several times). For the unfamiliar: Snapz Pro X lets you capture what you're doing on your Mac's screen - or just a portion thereof - as a Quicktime movie. It's a fantastic way to make screencasts, and also snags audio and still images.Version 2.1.1 brings a number of changes, including: Improved registration experience Several squashed bugs, including the blank frames at the end of some movies and garbled video capture on older, nVidia-equipped Macs Improved performance for audio captures We like Snapz Pro X quite a bit. Try it out. A single license will cost you $69US. It's universal and requires Mac OS 10.3.9 or later.
Snapz Pro X Universal Binary
Ambrosia today announced a Universal version of their premiere screen capture software, Snapz Pro 2. Snapz Pro, for those who are not in the know, Snapz Pro makes recording a screencast easy. It also lets you record anything that is playing on your screen (and the audio) so you can save it later (DVD's of public domain movies, and YouTube videos for example).This version also brings with it a number of bug fixes, and it works on Leopard (for those lucky developers out there who have a copy). Snapz Pro costs $29.00(image capture only) or $69.00 (image and screen capture).
