This will let you record the action on a portion of your screen, and save it to a QuickTime movie. Gone are the days where you have to spend time touching up window selection captures, due to the lame Grab selection tool.įor a little extra dough, you can also take advantage of the Snapz Pro movie capture feature. Fortunately, Snapz Pro X can capture windows, menus, the Dock, and other interface objects. Although Grab hints at the ability to capture a window, the item is grayed out, and unavailable. The Objects tool is what really got us excited. This greatly magnifies the cursor area, allowing for a precise selection. You can get greater control over the capture area by holding down the Control key, which will invoke a 'Fatbits' type of tool. The capture area is shown as a bright box, and the rest of the screen is dimmed. Again, something that Grab can handle, but where Snapz Pro X offers extra goodies. But with Snapz Pro X, you can benefit from all sorts of extra options, like being able to scale the image, change the color palette, apply a border, and so on. The first, and probably least exciting, is the screen capture mode. Snapz Pro X has several different capture modes. In addition to GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, and PNG, which were supported by the original product, you can also save your shot in BMP (Windows bitmap) PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) and PSD (Photoshop) formats. The enhancements to Snapz Pro X begin with the number of different graphic formats you can save your shot as. Not just a port, this is a whole new version, taking advantage of many OS X features. The result, Snapz Pro X, brings enhanced screen capture functionality to OS X users.

The good news is that Ambrosia has been hard at work bringing the features of Snapz Pro to OS X. Longtime Observers may fondly recall Snapz Pro, Ambrosia's screen capture for OS 9. Even OS 9 had more functionality than this! Wrong! The bundled screen capture utility, Grab, is about as bare bones as one can get, it can only do a full screen capture, a timed screen capture, and a selection.

When we first started toying with OS X, we were sure that, due to the graphical nature of the system, we'd be offered a decent tool for screen capture. Snapz Pro X 1.0.0 ($29, $49 with Movie Capture, Shareware) The Mac Observer Express Daily NewsletterĬombat Lame Screen Capture In Mac OS X With Snapz Pro X August 20th, 2001

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