Questions tagged [screen-capture]
An image or video taken by a computer to record the visible items displayed on the monitor, television, or another visual output device. Usually, screen capture is a software process where the image is captured as it is intended to be drawn but can also include traditional recording using a camera or other device to record a display physically and not mathematically.
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Mac screenshot resolution on macbook pro changed from 144 to 72 dpi after upgrade to Sonoma - either via keyboard shortcut or terminal command
Mac screenshot resolution on macbook pro changed from 144 to 72 dpi after upgrade to Sonoma - either via keyboard shortcut or terminal command. Interestingly I discovered that if I take a shortcut ...
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Why screenshot insert a label automatically on the capture file
I usually use the screenshot feature with Shift + Command + 4 in the screen area on OS X. Occasionally, a label appears in the capture as if something was selected. Is it an OS X error? Is it a ...
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Persist screenshot sketch tool setting
Every time I take a screenshot and I need to mark some areas I reach out to the Sketch tool and just draw. By default, if I draw an arrow or a circle shape it automatically changes them to a crisp ...
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Sonoma breaking fix to preventing Preview from opening "Open" file explorer when taking screenshot
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Issue when i take screenshots on my mac, with e.g. shift ⇧+command ⌘ +4. If the screenshot is the first to be opend in the Preview app, then it also opens the "Open" file explorer. ...
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macOS Ventura screenshot tool like Big Sur: change defaults to be able to draw without having to click twice
In macOS Ventura, I can't draw right after taking a screenshot like I used to do on macOS Big Sur. Instead, I've to click the Markup tool:
Then I would need to click on either Sketch or Draw tools:
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Files app has some screenshots from Safari that wasn’t screenshot
I have an iPhone 11 with the latest update and everything. But recently I noticed in my Files, there are several long screenshots from some sites I frequent, specifically comic websites and art ...
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How to use the FaceTime Live Photos on tvOS?
Using FaceTime on iOS and iPadOS, there's a circular white button that takes a still frame of the video:
It doesn't seem to be available while on a call directly on the TV :
Is there a way to take ...
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How do you automatically delete screenshot?
A common workflow for me is to take a screenshot of something on my iPhone, click on the floating thumbnail, click share to send it to someone... and now I want the screenshot deleted and I want to ...
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Is there any way to make the screenshot output 'tile' that appears in the bottom right corner, appear on all displays?
I'm running macOS 13.5 on a 13 inch MacBook Pro M1 2020 with a second monitor. I use Shift-Cmd-4 to take screenshots often, but the output preview only appears on the primary monitor. Is there a tweak ...
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How can one screen record part of the screen on iOS? [duplicate]
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The built-in screen recorder seems to be only able to record the entire screen. I know I could use that and then use another application to crop the video (this is how I created the example ...
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Auto grab a window screenshot on each mouse click Mac
Is it possible to Applescript an autotake of a screenshot in an app on every mouse click without need to press Cmd+Shift+4->Click every time?
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Using a Windows keyboard. How can I map the "Print Screen" button to open Flameshot and take a screenshot?
I installed https://flameshot.org/docs/guide/key-bindings/#macos and want to use that when I take screenshots.
I'm using a Logitech USB wireless Windows-style keyboard, so I have a Print Screen key.
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How do I edit screenshot with preview for highlight and pointing? [duplicate]
When I take a screenshot I usually need to highlight some section and point to it. With skitch it is quite simple,
But with preview I can't find an easy way to do these two tasks. The "Hightligh ...
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How to open URL from screenshot
I recently saw a comment online by a user who said that it was possible to open URLs from screenshots of text that contained URL data. This seems like an attractive function for me, as some sites I ...
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Launch Screenshot.app from terminal
I've tried googling around for this, but search results keep littering things like "screenshot save location" and other junk. I am running MacOS Monterery v12.6 (intel chip).
What I want is ...
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"Module aw-watcher-window quit unexpectedly."
I use the ActivityWatch app to track the time that I spend on the computer. I am running v0.12.2 which is the latest version. When I restart my computer, it displays an error message. The error ...
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Hiding a stage on the same Mac OS without external monitor during live presentation
I finally got my project on how to integrate Auth0 APIs into my ASP.NET MVC web app, save their token in an SQL Server distributed cache in Docker on a MacBook.
So I wanted to finally show the ...
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possible to get current desktop to show on MacOS lockcreen?
I'm using MacOS Ventura on my MBP laptop (no external displays). For reasons I don't want to get into, I would like my lockscreen to display whatever was showing on my desktop around the time it (i.e ...
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taking screenshot directly to clipboard [duplicate]
99% of the time when I take a screenshot (using cmd + shift + 4 to draw a rectangle on screen) I would like to directly paste it somewhere (slack, powerpoint, you name it). Unfortunately on my machine ...
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Where are screen recordings saved from a cancelled share?
I took a long recording of my entire screen using the Screenshot Toolbar. Afterward, I clicked the "share" button so I could send my recording elsewhere, and clicked the "Dropbox" ...
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How can I save screen shot name replacing white space with `_`?
When I save a screenshot, the current filename shown as follows: Screen Shot 2017-03-01 at 10.05.05.png. Instead of using a whitespace character, can we change it to another character like _?
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How to take a screenshot in MacOS 9.2?
I am trying out an old install of MacOS 9.2, and can't remember how to take a screenshot. It is very hard to find any resources on MacOS 9.2 on the internet via search engines.
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Make window screenshot use transparent background
Pressing ⌘ Command⇧ Shift4 then pressing space then clicking on a floating window takes a screenshot of that floating window with the dropshadow included.
For some reason, mine now have white ...
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Taking a screenshot of the same area of the screen multiple times [duplicate]
I often want to take before/after screenshots of things. I often use the inbuilt screenshot tool to screenshot a portion of the screen (cmd + shift + 4). However, having to redrag to get the same ...
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The color picker in macOS Ventura screen shot tool does not open. Any ideas how to fix that?
When I take a screenshot with SHIFT + CMD + 5 and try to open the color picker via Show colors... to choose a custom border color, nothing happens.
If I do the same thing in Preview, the color picker ...
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How to recover a quciktime screen recording if you run out of storage while recording?
I just recorded a few hours worth of footage on QuickTime. At one point, the recording automatically stopped because I ran out of space. I deleted a few files, and made some room.
After restarting the ...
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When uploading a screenshot to Slack, it gets uploaded as a "binary file"
I take a screenshot using Command Shift 4, then upload it to Slack, but it gets uploaded as a "binary file". I can download the file, but to open it, I need to add a ".png" ...
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How to record Mac screen above 60 fps? (120fps, 144fps, ProMotion)
Shift + Command + 5 generally works great for recording the screen, but it doesn't even seem to try keeping up with ProMotion or any above-60 FPS display. According to QuickTime Player, the directly ...
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Make Audio Capture Engine (ACE) to act as an Input Device for Quicktime Screen Recording
so currently I am running macOS Ventura 13.1 on MacBook Air M1 model. For Discord, I managed to download Rogue Amoeba's Audio Capture Engine (ACE) for screen share audio.
I am interested in knowing is ...
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How can i uninstall (and reinstall) misbehaving Preview on Mac?
Previously I took screenshots with Preview (comes with Mac), then embedded those images inline in text body of gmails. Suddenly now, Gmail insisting on their being attachments only, and often the ...
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Apple Mail won't send annotations on images for any other Image Size than "Actual Size"
macOS: 13.0 (22A380)
A lot of communicating with my clients depends on annotated screenshots I send them via Email. My workflow goes like this:
I press command+alt+shift+4, then I press space and ...
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Screen recording stop recording after a few minutes with Quicktime
When recording the screen with Quicktime or other software like Camtasia, the screen gets frozen after a few minutes.
I'm recording the second monitor (4k), and after a few minutes of recording, I can ...
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A more comfortable workflow to rename screenshots
I find myself frequently wanting to change the names of my screenshots to something more memorable. I can change the location in which they're stored via the screenshot tool itself, and I can do some ...
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Where do screenshots go now that I've installed Ventura?
Until upgrading my operating system to Ventura, screenshots taken with Cmd+Shift+3 and Cmd+Shift+4 went to my Desktop.
Now I can't find them. Does anyone else have this problem? Any idea where they ...
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Scapple files enormous because of screenshots
I'm using Scapple (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview) as a way of learning and jotting down information to link ideas; and sometimes to even give presentations. I often take screen ...
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Screenshot tool default draw
I am using the default mac OS screenshot tool in Ventura 13.1.
When I take a screenshot of a section of the screen (using the shortcut Cmd+Shift+4) and then click the screenshot thumbnail in the ...
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Quick Look markup toolbar is no longer shown by default
I'm on Ventura 13.0.1 (22A400).
In the past I was able to take a screenshot (CMD+SHIFT+4), click on the thumbnail in the corner of my screen opening the "Quick Look", and immediately begin ...
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Mac Screenshot Cmd+Shift+4 no longer defaults to file save --it follows the options set in Cmd+Shift+5 instead
On a MacBook Pro with Monterey 12.5
For a long time, Cmd+Shift+4 would enable a custom screenshot (drag cursor) that would dump a file to the Desktop in addition to putting the image in the Clipboard.
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How to stop iOS downsampling images when sharing via email?
Whenever I share a screenshot via email or other means, the photo is always downsampled to a very low resolution automatically. I can't figure out how to disable this - I want to share screenshots as ...
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Is there an easier way to let iPadOS do "regional screen shot then copy to clipboard" action?
Under Windows 10, you can Win+Shift+S then draw a rectangle on screen to do screen shot, then the screen region in the rectangle will be copied to clipboard. Easy.
Under iPadOS, you have to Cmd+Shift+...
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Is there any way to take a true HDR screen shot on a Mac?
Currently screen shots are coerced into standard color ranges, meaning you cannot take an accurate screen shot of the screen when ultra bright HDR content (or possibly ultra black HDR content) is ...
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How to take screenshots on macOS without having to remember a bunch of key combinations?
There was a program called Grab.app on earlier versions of macOS that you ran to make screenshots.
Now there are only combinations of keys that take the screenshot. I can't remember these and have to ...
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How to run OxiPNG with launchd and WatchPaths?
I want to run oxipng *.png in /Users/user/Desktop/ immediately after a PNG screenshot (Cmd-Shift-3) is created in my Desktop folder.
I have the following plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/
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<?...
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On a mac, how do i get the screenshot to automatically have the timestamp on the resulting file name?
some settings changed on my mac recently, where now every time I take a screenshot I have to edit the untitled file before it would have the timestamp, example filename: Screen Shot 2022-02-02 at 5.17....
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Detecting Static Footage in FCP
I'd like to strip out all footage in screen captures where there is no onscreen motion or changes. These are screen captures of non-motion video sources like leaderboards in a game.
I would think ...
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Add a drop shadow to the clipboard image, for example when capturing a screenshot?
I often want to add a drop shadow to images in my clipboard (like when using ⌃ ⇧ ⌘ + 4). For the macOS built-in capture utility I can add a dropshadow when capturing the whole window by hitting the ...
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Giving Screen Recording permissions to a shell script called by launchd
Given a shell script that calls the macOS screencapture utility, a proper screenshot (meaning, a full capture of what is on the screen, including any application windows visible) is produced when ...
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How can I simulate typing on a keyboard when pasting from buffer
I'm recording a screencast involving iTerm demo. During the demo I want to type some commands. Since it's hard to type them for real, I just copy them from a text file and paste them into iTerm.
It ...
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How to make command + shift + control + 5 video capture selected area on macOS?
Default picture and video capture shortcuts are logical:
Although it isn't among the default shortcuts, it follows that video capture of a selected area could use the following:
command + shift + ...
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Automatic run of shell script with screencapture
I am trying to automate a screen capturing of my machine.
The issue I had is no software out there (I have found so far) cannot screen all monitors at once.
I ended up with a shell script, that is ...
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