From the course: Screencasting with the Mac
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Recording with Snapz Pro - iMovie Tutorial
From the course: Screencasting with the Mac
Recording with Snapz Pro
It's now time to look at Ambrosia Software's $69 Snapz Pro X. This is an application that's been around for years and it's a very popular screen capture tool. We use it routinely here at lynda.com. Not only it can capture stills, but also motion along with audio. Let's take a look at the interface. We will launch the Snapz Pro application. When you launch Snapz for the first time, you will see the splash screen and nothing else. In order to see its interface, then press Shift+Command+3 and up pops the interface and from there, we will click the Preferences tab. If you like, you are welcome to change the key combination used to invoke Snapz. So, click the Modifier pop-up menu and you can choose to enable the Command+Shift+Option and Control keys. You can then select the Hot Key field if you like, and type the key you would like to use in combination with any modifier keys to invoke Snapz. I will leave it at Command+Option+3, as this is the Mac's default screenshot command. The area…
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