It’s a while since I last used Licecap for screen recording, and I’ve since upgraded my OS X to Monterey.
Licecap seems no longer to work in v1.31, and apparently according to a 3 year old post here stopped working with the previous upgrade to Big Sur.
I’ve just downloaded and installed the latest v1.32 Licecap, and that doesn’t work either - instead of recording actions in the Sketchup window, it cuts through it and records only a static image of my desktop wallpaper.
What do others on the forum now use, on a recent (in my case not even the latest) Mac OS X?
[My 8-year old iMac won’t upgrade to any later version of OS X than Monterey v12.7.x.]
for a very short recording (or small), like this, I would use the native tool.
standard shortcut is command+maj+5
(4 will make a full screen image, 3 will make an area, 5 allows you to make videos as well)
you can also fin the app in application/utilities
I just checked, and Licecap 1.3.2 still works fine on my Mac under macOS 13.6.3 Ventura. I have no idea why it is peeking through to the desktop for you. I don’t see a setting that sounds like it would cause that effect (and I can’t imagine why anyone would want it!). I do remember that in some versions I had to explicitly enter the .gif extension on the file name before it would work, but that seems to happen automatically in 1.3.2.
I like Licecap for grabbing short animations because it is simple to use and generates .gif, which most browsers will play. The macOS capture (cmd-shift-5) generates .mov. .mov is a container around an MPEG-4 file that Apple developed for QuickTime. Safari on Mac will play a .mov, but I’m not sure what other browsers and apps will do so without an extension, especially if not on macOS. So, I still prefer .gif.
Command-shift-5 is all I use now. It lets you capture the whole screen or part of the screen as a still image (to a file or the clipboard), and the whole screen or part of the screen as a video. You can choose whether to record audio, and where the audio comes from.
It does other things too. There is no longer a need to use QuickTime Player for screen recordings.
Native tool is great but it makes standard mp4 with little compression. I just made a test, full screen (1920*1080) for one minute, it’s already 20,5mb
OBS is indeed streaming-oriented, and many of its parameters are here for that.
However, you can set up a screen recording (with or without sound, mic or internal) in a few minutes, and the result is not as heavy. Same parameters, 1 min fullscreen, 3,8bm (mp4 too)
so yeah, if I need a quick snip of my screen to post to the forum, I’ll go native, if I need a longer / bigger vid, I’ll go OBS.
Thanks for those suggestions. I’ll explore them. I don’t use screen recording often, so don’t want to spend much or any money on a replacement for LiceCap.
The built in QuickTime method works ok, though i spent a frustrating 15 minutes looking for the Stop (recording) button! On the very left of the menu bar, not near the right,
