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How to Take a Screenshot on Your Mac

It's very good and easy to use, but there's a significant delay of about 2-3 seconds whenever I press Record to start a new screen recording. I didn't realise this until after I made a couple of sample test videos, and realised that the first few seconds of the recording where I immediately start speaking was not captured. So now after pressing Record - I purposely wait and count 3 seconds (in my head) before proceeding, and it works perfectly.
 
Howard Brazee said:
How do you terminate it?
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There's a circular STOP button that appears in the menu bar (on the top-right of screen).

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Howard Brazee said:
Thanks. I did not see it, nor did I see any way to get help to find it. Lots of times Apple figures things are so obvious that we don't need any way of figuring things out. Lots of times Apple is wrong about this.
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I know exactly what you're saying. It's always been a fundamental principle of Apple to make features seamless and easy to use, which is a good thing in my opinion, but ironically that simplicity can sometimes lead to confusion.
 
thiskiwicanfly said:
I know exactly what you're saying. It's always been a fundamental principle of Apple to make features seamless and easy to use, which is a good thing in my opinion, but ironically that simplicity can sometimes lead to confusion.
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Software vendors usually face the challenge of providing >N features with <N interface controls. Users don't want the clutter of a separate button or link for every possible action, so the vendor provides easy access to the most important actions, then "hides" the others in submenus, behind Advanced buttons, or in plain sight if you know which modifier keys to hold or where to force touch.

Apple is typically better at this game than many other software vendors, but every user has his or her opinion about how much should be obvious and their own intuition about where the rest of the functionality is hiding.
 
H.Finch said:
Can this also capture entire webpages as a screenshot? Or do I still need a plugin for that?
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Obviously save as PDF is not an answer. So no, as of now sadly you still need third party apps such as paparazzi! to accomplish this.
 
I have a few Macs, and I pointed them all to save their screenshots to an iCloud Drive folder cleverly named "Screenshots", so they're available from everywhere.

Using OnyX, I also have them all named starting with the name of which Mac I took them from, so a screenshot taken just a bit ago on this Mac is automatically named MacBook Pro 2018-10-10 at 4.36.17 PM.png
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SMGreenfield said:
Are there any changes related to capturing MENUS? It has always been painful to capture the Menu name (in the menu bar), the full menu that drops down, AND any hierarchical menu popped out from the main menu — WITHOUT capturing any of the underlying background.
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It's a bit of a kludge, but if you click the menu, hit ⌘+⇧+4 and then hit space, it'll capture the menu -- then you could do it again with the sub-menu to get that separately. If there was a quick way to combine them you'd end up with a very clean image, no background.
 
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I'm not on Mojave, having just upgraded to High Sierra last week, but this new screen capture function seems to be more cumbersome than it was before. I use screencaps a lot, especially for creating tutorials. The 4 I use most frequently are capturing the entire screen or an area, to a file or to the clipboard. The keyboard shortcuts are the fastest way I've found to do that:

Cmd-Shift-3 to capture the full screen to a file
Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-3 to capture the full screen to the clipboard
Cmd-Shift-4 to capture an area to a file
Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4 to capture an area to the clipboard​

The new functionality in Mojave adds unnecessary steps, requiring not just a keyboard shortcut but now also requiring selection of options with the mouse/trackpad before the screenshot is taken. As long as the existing keyboard shortcuts still work, I'd be bypassing the new interface.
 
I can't get the cropping tool to work. After taking the capture, then clicking on the thumbnail, there's a cropping tool, but I can't seem to adjust it at all, there's no handles or anything. Can anyone else figure this out?
 
This is only interesting if you can record system audio right out of the box

If not, same **** of earlier systems but new interface for those who doesnt like shorcuts...
 
Good luck sharing a mojave mac screen recording video via iMessage. The iOS recipient can only preview a tiny thumbnail. Enlarging the video doesn't work b/c Quicktime isn't supported on iOS.

Old man shouts at sky: "WTF!? How does preview work on iOS but not full screen???"

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rumormiller said:
Try completely free https://derailer.org/paparazzi/ for capturing entire web pages. I find setting capture mode to scrolling results in the images always loading on a web page.
[doublepost=1533736378][/doublepost]How to change the default capture format. It's currently set to tiff which results in enormous file sizes. Time to find the terminal command.
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OnyX is great for stuff like this, BTW. Lots of control over different system parameters like this. I used it to append to the beginning of my screenshots the name of the Mac I took them on, so I get something like "MacBook Pro 2018-11-02 at 11.57.00 AM.png"
 
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