Native Screen Capture Tool For The Mac
Posted : admin On 10.04.2020A new floating palette brings the traditional Mac screen capture functions together under a single menu. You can access it by hitting Command-Shift-5. Let's take a closer look at what's on offer.
The three buttons to the left of the first menu divider provide you with options to take a screenshot of the entire screen, a selected window, or a selected portion of the screen.
Note that the keyboard shortcuts for these actions still function as before in macOS. Taking a screenshot is as easy as hitting Shift-Command-3 to capture the whole screen, or Shift-Command-4 to capture a portion of the screen using the mouse cursor as a crosshair selection tool (a tap of the spacebar also turns it into a camera for capturing windows).
Meanwhile, on the right of the palette's first divider are two buttons to begin a screen recording – taking in the whole screen or just a portion of the action. These actions were previously only accessible in the macOS Grab utility.
If you choose to capture a window, hover your mouse cursor over it: The window will be highlighted and your cursor will change to a camera. Simply click your mouse button to take the capture.
If you're capturing a selected portion of the screen, use the mouse cursor crosshairs to select the area you want to capture. When you take a screen recording, a button will appear in the menu bar for you to click when you're ready to end the recording.
You can click the rightmost button on the palette to reveal an additional menu of options for controlling other variables, like where you want your captures to be saved (Desktop, Documents, Clipboard, and so on) and whether to include a 5 or 10-second delay before the capture takes place, giving you time to get your screen in order.
As you'd expect, unchecking the Show Mouse Pointer option ensures the mouse cursor doesn't appear in your capture. The Show Floating Thumbnail option takes a little more explaining.
When you take a screenshot or screen recording in Mojave, a floating thumbnail appears in the bottom corner of the screen, just like it does when you take a screenshot on an iOS device running iOS 11 or later.
Clicking on the thumbnail opens the capture in a window, which includes image Markup tools, or a clip trimming option in the case of recordings, as well as options to share the image/recording or delete it if it didn't turn out like you wanted.
If you're taking multiple screenshots in sequence, you probably won't want the floating thumbnail showing up in subsequent captures, which is why the option to turn it off exists.
For additional tips on controlling the behavior of screenshots using keyboard shortcuts, click here.
Capture the menu by following the steps to capture the entire screen, capture a window (the menu is treated like a window), or capture a selected portion of the screen. Markup, share, and save After you take a screenshot, a thumbnail of the screenshot appears briefly in the lower-right corner of your screen. Some of the unique niceties of ScreenFlow include the program’s ability to record video not just from your Mac’s screen, but also from a connected iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, as long as they come with a lightning connector.
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About 6 months ago I was playing around on my iBook G4 and I found the option to change the format that Apple+Shift+4 saves in. For some odd reason I choose JPG-2000 (picture.jp2). Of course, now I can’t find how to change it back!
It’s not hard to change the format of a screen capture / screenshot made with the native Mac OS X capture utility, but you do have to be comfortable opening up your Terminal.app and typing in a command on the command line. Y’know, the Unix underneath the snazzy graphical interface. 🙂
Start by going to Applications –> Utilities –> Terminal.app and launching it. You’ll see something like this:
At this point you want to decide which format you’d like. Here are your choices:
- BMP (Windows bitmap)
- GIF
- JPEG 2000 (what you chose)
- JPEG
- PICT
- PNG
- PSD
- SGI
- TGA
- TIFF
Quite a few choices, as you can see!
Pick the one you like — I recommend PNG, which stands for progressive network graphic, as the best of both GIF and JPEG formats — and then type in the following command exactly as shown:
For example, if you did decide to use PNG format, you’d type:
Burning is built right into Finder, and can be initiated in a few different ways. Click File > New Burn Folder, and you’ll be looking at a new folder into which you can drag-and-drop content to burn to a disc. XFreesoft Video to DVD creator for Mac is an excellent DVD burner tool for Mac users.It helps you burn comprehensive video to DVD on Mac with powerful editing functions. Pepsky Free Mp3 CD Maker is a powerful and easy-to-use mp3 cd/dvd burning tool. Cd burning software for mac high sierra. 6 CD and DVD Ripping Tools for Mac OSX. Media Maker 9 Ultimate by Nticorp. Available only for Mac OS X, this application lets you burn a CD or DVD by dragging and dropping files or folders to the main window, you can use sessions so multiple burns can be done in the same disc (CD only). It also has the ability to erase a CD or DVD.
Type that in and you won’t see anything change, but next time you take a screen shot (as documented here: how to get a screen capture on Mac OS X) you’ll have the image saved in the format you seek.