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It was suggested I ask the question here as Snapz Pro uses QuickTime technology. Basically I wondering if anyone is using Snapz Pro and has used it successfully for making screen shots in Yosemite. It always seems to fail for me, not saving a file. If Snapz Pro isn't working, is there any alternative, any software that will make a screen shot and include the active cursor?
Thanks very much.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Mid 2012 2.6G i7
Roaring Apps says NO for Snapz Pro. I usually look for stuff at macupdates.com. I know there are lots of similar products out there, but i don't know which ones might also capture the cursor.
SSo far I've been forced to do WuickTime screen captures to get menus and submenus with the cursor, and then take a frame to Preview and crop it. Really a long way around the houses.
Can't you just click on a menu or sub-menu item to make it stay onscreen, then use a simple snapshot? What about using a QuickTime screen shot?
Simple snapshot doesn't include the cursor. QuickTime screen recording is what I have to do. It's can be really tricky sometimes when you need to do something from a full screen app, switch to QT in a different space, activate screen recording, take a rough grab of the area, start the recording, switch back to the app, activate the function you want, stop the recording, find the area you want in the QT file, copy a frame, open Preview, make a file from the clipboard, trim the image to the desired area, and crop it.
Quite right. It is a shame Snapz isn't working in Yosemite. It was definitely a great help. Here are a couple highly rated apps, but I don't know if they do it all:
They may be worth checking out, and should all be Yosemite compatible.
Happy New Year!!
Have you considered using Grab (Applications/Utilities/Grab)? Grab will capture the cursor if you set the preferences to do so--or, at least it does under Snow Leopard.
For some purposes, I also find InstantShot! (http://projects.digitalwaters.net/index.php?q=instantshot) handy.
GGrab only allow specific cursors from its own preferences. I really need the application cursor, which can be very varied. The other annoyed by thing about Grab is that it only seems to make TIFFs and full screens so it's sort of back to having to crop and reformat in Preview, so I may as well go through the QT dance to get the right screen display with the right cursor.
TRied Viola. Found it very cumbersome with its array of shortcuts.
Thanks. Not perfect, but quite a step up compared to the others. Not quite as functional as Snapz Pro with its screen freeze and precise image size and position control.
RC Concepcion at KelbyOne came up with a fix that has worked for us, but it is only just been tested on a couple of computers so I don't know if it will work for everyone.
You will need to go into Preferences and change the Scratch file location under Advanced settings. The default location was causing problems but if you will change it to your User location it should work. See the bottom part of the panel. I hope that helps
TThanks.
Regarding audio support not working in 10.10.x, I'm posting here instead of at http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/story/Ambrosia-Software-Releases-Snapz-Pro-X-254 or http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=133336, because Ambrosia's registration is broken (invalid email).
The problem is that Ambrosia hasn't got around to signing their kext yet, which is now required in 10.10.x.
To work around this, add kext-dev-mode=1 as a kernel flag and restart;
[mac09:~] me% sudo vi /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
...
[mac09:~] me% cat /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>kext-dev-mode=1</string>
</dict>
</plist>
[mac09:~] me%
Spoke too soon, that fixes one problem but reveals another, see system.log.
Snapz Pro on Yosemite
