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SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL MAC MOVIE

On the left is an X button to close the screenshot panel, but you can also just hit the Escape key to exit out. Likewise, the two video-recording buttons let you record your entire screen or a selection of it. There are three screenshot buttons that let you capture the entire screen, a window or a selection of your screen. Shift-Command-5Ī shortcut command introduced in MacOS Mojave (2018), this combination calls up a small panel at the bottom of your display with your screen capture options. You can toggle between moving the bottom edge and right edge by keeping the mouse button or touchpad engaged and pressing the Shift key. Without releasing the mouse button, release the Shift key and hit it again to reposition the right edge of your selection area. Hold down the Shift key (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in each side of the selection area made with the crosshairs save the bottom edge, letting you move your mouse up or down to position the bottom edge. It's very handy if your initial selection area is off by a few pixels just hold down the space bar to reposition it before releasing the mouse button to snap a screenshot. Press and hold the space bar (after dragging to highlight an area but before releasing the mouse button or trackpad): This locks in the shape and size of the selection area but lets you reposition it on the screen. A screenshot captured by this method features a white border around the window with a bit of a drop shadow. Click on your desired window to take a screenshot of it. Press and release the space bar: The crosshair turns into a little camera icon, which you can move over any open window. You have a number of other options after hitting Shift-Command-4: Release the mouse button or trackpad to take the shot. Use this keyboard combo to turn your cursor into a crosshair, which you can drag to select a portion of your screen to capture. This technique is somewhat limited in that you can't easily capture video frames without pausing the video before each capture (for that you should get a video screencapture program and then convert the resulting mov or avi to animated gif), and you can't readily adjust the frame time for each frame.This keyboard shortcut captures a screenshot of your entire screen.

Save the document as gif, and then preview using a browser, or another app that shows animated gifs.

Rearrange any that are out of order using the sidebar to drag and drop.

Preview the animation by selecting the top icon in the sidebar, then using the down arrow.

If you drop them elsewhere it won't add them properly.

Select the remainder to the screenshots, drag and drop them directly on top of the icon in the sidebar of preview for the file already opened.

Show the screenshots in finder, ordered by date.

Convert the images to gif (or set your screenshot preferences to gif prior to capturing the screenshots).

Use Cmd-shift-4-spacebar to capture a screenshot of the window for each frame.

There is a way to do it in OS X without an additional tool, and this works well if, for instance, you just want to show someone the sequence of steps to disable a particular system preference. This is probably why the only answer to the conversion question above used an online service. A lot of people use VLC to capture frames and imagemagick to collect them back together into an animated gif.

SCREEN CAPTURE TOOL MAC MOVIE

There don't seem to be that many apps that do the movie -> gif conversion on OS X, though. Look at these two questions for possible solutions:

A video screen capture tool, and a movie to gif conversion tool. If you need to capture video and convert it to GIF, or a very long involved sequence of steps, then you'll need to combine two separate programs.