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Is it have way to take single screenshot?

Open vsychov opened this issue 4 years ago • 8 comments

Hi guys,

thank you for best macos application for screen recording. I found, that is no way, to take one frame screenshot, am I wrong?

vsychov avatar Jul 28 '20 21:07 vsychov

Hey @vsychov

Depends on what you mean. If you mean grab a screenshot from a recording, you can right click at any paused frame in the editor, and save a screenshot.

If you mean grab a screenshot of the screen, then no. Kap is focused on screen recording

karaggeorge avatar Jul 29 '20 06:07 karaggeorge

@karaggeorge , I mean 2nd option, grab a screenshot of the screen. MacOs don't have good open source software, that can record videos and take screenshots together, and upload it somewhere, like ShareX on windows.

I think will be very cool, if Kap got this possibility in future.

vsychov avatar Jul 29 '20 07:07 vsychov

hey @vsychov it's not open source but the built-in screencapture tool on macOS is quite good! the default keyboard shortcut is ⌘⇧3, more info here:

  • https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201361
  • $ man screencapture

theopak avatar Aug 31 '20 23:08 theopak

@theopak The built-in is really nice, however it does not support defining the size of the capture area by writing it.

For example taking screenshots in 800x600 is quite hard with mac's tool.

olivernybroe avatar Oct 22 '20 18:10 olivernybroe

@olivernybroe oh i neglected to include a link, but the cli does that! 😄

  • example: $ screencapture -R 100,100,800,600 ~/Desktop/out.png
  • copy of $ man page docs: https://ss64.com/osx/screencapture.html

theopak avatar Oct 22 '20 18:10 theopak

Also built-in not support uploading to s3 or somewhere else

vsychov avatar Oct 22 '20 19:10 vsychov

There is a huge whole in this area no other apps do this as well - I agree it would be a killer feature to add.

TristanBrotherton avatar Nov 18 '20 18:11 TristanBrotherton