Popchar 8 95. I collect screenshot apps like other people collect shoes. It’s not that I haven’t found a good one, it’s that there are so many good ones to play with.
With Capto you are able to choose absolutely any form of capture, no matter what it is, a floating panel or just a small menu area. Also, you can use the available keyboard shortcuts to facilitate the process. Improved Video Editing. You have the opportunity to record full-screen video or a certain part of the screen. Capto (was Voila) is an easy-to-use app that takes capturing, recording, video and image editing to the next level.With an intelligent file manager and quick sharing options, Capto Free Download mac is perfect for teachers, students, creative professionals and anyone in need of a powerful screen capture tool.
I probably use the built-in screenshot utility in macOS more than any of them. ⌘⌃⇧4 to copy a screenshot to my clipboard is my constant go-to keystroke. I often grab an entire window by hitting space bar first, or just drag on a region of interest. I use the copy to clipboard because lots of times I’m going to just paste into a Telegram message, or my clipboard manager, Copy’em Paste will hold onto it until I need it.
If I know I’m going to save a screenshot, I’ll often use ⌘⇧4 which opens it right in Preview so I can save it out to disk. But I almost always regret doing that because I often want to add an annotation, and I hate the annotation tools in Preview with a fiery passion.
When annotation is a must, I use Monosnap, or ⌥⌘5 in my world. Again I can do a window, or drag for an area, but once I’ve got the shot, the annotation tools are ever so much better than Preview. I can click and drag for a precise location of an arrow or a box to highlight something, and I can change the line thickness after the fact, and I can blur out sensitive information. You can’t do those things with Preview.
I know Monosnap can record video as well as screenshots, but for some reason when I want a quick video to show something off, I use the screen capture tool in Parallels Toolbox. With one click I can grab an area of the screen, hit record, hit done, and then I’ve got the video cluttering up my desktop. Sometimes I’m lazy and send that giant file as is to someone (usually Steven Goetz but Dorothy often “enjoys” my videos of my homework “progress”.) If I’m feeling kind, like when sending a video of a bug to a developer, I’ll open the video in QuickTime and export it to a smaller format.
I know Monosnap can record video as well as screenshots, but for some reason when I want a quick video to show something off, I use the screen capture tool in Parallels Toolbox. With one click I can grab an area of the screen, hit record, hit done, and then I’ve got the video cluttering up my desktop. Sometimes I’m lazy and send that giant file as is to someone (usually Steven Goetz but Dorothy often “enjoys” my videos of my homework “progress”.) If I’m feeling kind, like when sending a video of a bug to a developer, I’ll open the video in QuickTime and export it to a smaller format.
And yes, I know I can record video of the desktop using QuickTime, but for some reason, I just don’t reach for it to do that. Parallels Toolbox is right there in the menu bar with all those tools I go to all the time.
Enter Capto
You would think that I have enough screenshot tools at my disposal, but I’ve got a new one that’s pretty fun. I had lunch with my buddy Niraj, and he told me about a tool he’d found called Capto. I looked into it, and I think it’s the replacement for a screenshot tool I reviewed a decade ago called Voilà. I’m not kidding about the decade part, it was in 2009!
Capto is from a company called Global Delight (globaldelight.com/…). They also make a tool called Boom, that modifies your system sound. Back when I last looked at Boom, it just made the macOS audio louder, but it looks like they’ve expanded it into 3D sound and it runs on iOS, Android and Windows now.
But let’s talk about Capto, the screenshot utility from Global Delight and see if it’s going to be added to my arsenal of screenshot tools. Capto is $20 with a 15-day free trial, and it’s also included in your Setapp subscription if you’re of that persuasion.
Capto works as a menu bar app and as a normal app. You use the menu bar app (or the keystrokes they give you) for the different things you can capture, and then the image opens in the editor and is stored in the Capto library for future use. None of my other tools have a library function.
Update: It turns out Capto can’t capture iState Menus drop down menus, but it works just fine on regular menus in apps. I just happened to keep trying iStat in all of my testing.Capto will give you the typical type of screenshots: full screen, area or window. But it has more options than I’ve seen in most screenshot utilities. It has a dedicated option to capture a menu, but for the life of me, I can’t get it to work because of macOS Catalina permissions. Support is trying to help me get it to work but they sent me a download version and now I have two versions and things are getting very tangly. Oddly it’s only the menu capture that seems to be annoyed with screen recording permissions. Every single other feature of Capto works flawlessly for me.
So let’s skip the menu option. The next option is something that’s definitely rare in screen capture apps. You can capture an entire web page with Capto. With your web page of interest open in your browser, simply go to the menu bar app and choose Snap Active Browser URL. Instantly you’ve got a PNG of the entire thing. Capto also has a built-in browser and you can navigate in there if you like but I figure the native browser is probably more useful.
Once you have a snap inside Capto, things get really interesting. For the web page snap I just mentioned, on the right-hand side you can see the file name (a prefix of your choosing plus date and time), then the title of the web page, then the URL that was captured. I think that’s pretty slick that it captures all of that information.
You also can see at a glance the dimensions in pixels, size on disk, the date captured and the type of snap. In this case, it says Web Snaps. Remember I said Capto is actually a library of your screen captures. You can search and filter by the type of snap, including screen snaps, camera snaps and imports. You can also add tags and a description in a notes section so all of those are available for doing a filtered search.
Video Screen Capture
I guess I buried the lead there. Capto records video as well as screenshots, and it can take photos and video with your webcam. You can even record your webcam while recording the desktop, creating a picture-in-picture video. You can choose which microphone you want for your voice and record computer audio at the same time. You can even choose to have mouse clicks recorded into your video! Other than the $100 ScreenFlow, I’ve not seen a tool this inexpensive that can do all of that.
Often when capturing video of my screen to send to someone, they can see what a mess my desktop is. With Capto, you can choose to have your desktop clutter hidden away and replaced by your desktop wallpaper, another image, or a solid color.
You get the option to record a custom size, or you can choose from some standard sizes. I really have wished that Parallels Toolbox had the option for standard sizes because I always end up sending these mutant aspect ratios to people.
Video Editing
Once you’ve captured your masterpiece video you can do some fairly advanced editing in Capto. Like QuickTime, you can trim by dragging the ends of the clip, but you can also crop the video to a new size, and you can cut bits out of the middle of the video.
Capto also lets you do some pretty neat annotations of your video. You can put in rectangles and arrows (even bendy arrows), thought bubbles and plain text, and you can blur sensitive information (in video!) You can even import images to overlay on your video. When you make these annotations, you get an indication in the timeline of when the annotation stops and starts, and you can drag those ends around to get it just right. The annotations show in the timeline with an icon for the type of annotation. For example, I can see an arrow in the timeline where my arrow annotation was inserted. Get this: you can even stack annotations so they overlap on the timeline and you can still move them around and change duration on each of them separately.
After your video is captured, you can modify the computer audio and the microphone audio independently, changing volume and adding fades in and out.
By default, the video from your webcam comes in on the bottom right, but you can change that in the editor to several different positions and change the size of the picture in picture video. If you don’t like the camera’s video you can uncheck the box to include camera video on export.
Screen Snapshot Annotations
I sort of jumped ahead by going straight into the video screencasting capabilities of Capto and skipped over screen snapshots. I explained the type of shots you can take but I skipped a really interesting one. You can capture a free form area on screen. You get a little cursor you drag around to capture any shape you want. Not sure what this would be for but it’s fun to play with if you’re a creative type.
The annotations on images are even more fun than those on videos. You get a pen and a highlighter with controls for the stroke width and color. The thought bubbles can be a few fun different cartoony shapes. You can stamp your image with solid rectangles, ovals, stars, diamonds, pentagons and octagons, and even a free form tool. All of these tools have options to change the stroke of the shape, add shadows and even control the opacity of the shadow.
I mentioned the blur tool a couple of times which is awesome for hiding stuff. But sometimes you sort of want the opposite – you want to add focus to something specific on screen. With Capto you can choose a shape (freeform or predefined) and everything outside of that shape will be darkened, leaving only things in your shape looking bright and important.
I should mention that all of the tools I’ve been describing are non-destructive, allowing you to move them around, delete older ones, edit text and change pretty much anything you desire. Back on the video editing where I said you could cut out part of the video – you can even undo that after adding other annotations.
One thing in my beloved Clarify app was the ability to add sequence step bubbles. Capto has that capability too. One enhancement I’d like to see is that if you put down three sequence bubbles showing 1, 2, 3 and you deleted the second one, the 3 should change to a 2 like it did in Clarify.
There’s one last crazy tool. It looks like a standard-issue rectangular marquee tool, but when you drag it over an area, nothing seems to happen. It turns out if you drag on the rectangle you just drew, it copies that area as a new object on screen! Not only that, you can increase (or decrease) the size of the area you just copied, creating a very interesting effect. I can see using that to show off a part of a screen snapshot.
George from Tulsa often sends me photos of his dogs and they always have a silly thought bubble coming out of their heads. I sent him a picture of Tesla on Santa’s lap with a thought bubble saying “I want a Milk-Bone dog biscuit”. See? I couldn’t have done that with any of my other screen snapshot tools!
Below the image you’ve been editing, there are some more tools. You can move objects on screen forward and back. Note that the image itself is not considered an object so it’s unaffected. You can flip annotations horizontally and vertically too. Sometimes you get a part of an image just perfect and you want to make sure you don’t mess it up, so they’ve provided a button to lock specific annotations in place (and easily unlock them as well).
There’s an option to free-form change the canvas size, which can be handy if you want to add an annotation that’s outside of the screenshot. I need that all the time. For some reason, I always crop my screenshots too close to the material and leave no room for an arrow or some text. Once you make the canvas bigger and add your annotations, Capto has a button to crop the canvas right to the edge of all objects so it’s not bigger than it needs to be.
Organization
In a way, Capto is like a clipboard manager except for images and videos. If you like to store your screen snapshots and videos in case you need them later, you’ll like the library management tools. You can view just images, or just videos, search and filter as I mentioned before, but you can also create collections. They even have smart collections where you can apply some rules to classify your material.
Bottom Line
The bottom line is that I thought I was just going to spend 10 minutes playing with yet another screen snapshot tool, but Capto really surprised me in some of its unique features that I could really use. If you have a Setapp subscription, definitely give Capto a try. If you don’t, remember they have a free 15-day trial at globaldelight.com/… and it’s only $20 if you decide to buy. That’s not bad at all for such a highly capable app.
Cyber Monday is All About Incredible Deals. Check It Out Now!
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Its time to dust off your wallet and buck up for the biggest Cyber Monday Sale! As the holidays are coming upon us soon, Global Delight is up with the year’s biggest sale. Let’s dive in to discover the best Cyber Monday deals that you can jump on right now.
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Don’t Miss the Best Black Friday Deals on Boom 3D and Capto!
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The biggest shopping spree of the year is upon us and we’re up with the best deals on our Mac and Windows apps! With Black Friday and Cyber Monday right around the corner, we’ve slashed down the prices of Boom 3D for Mac, Boom 3D for Windows and Captoby65%!!! So, hurry up, as these are limited time offers.
Start your holiday shopping with the best apps that can make your Christmas extra merry! If you have any concern regarding Boom 3D, reach out to us on Facebook,Instagram, or Twitter. If you want to talk about Capto, reach out to us on Facebookor Twitter.
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Our Biggest Sale Is Here to Make Your Thanksgiving More Special!
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Through the ending days of autumn we recall countless things we’re thankful for, comprising the Thanksgiving holiday itself.
While the table is set, and the turkey is roasting, there’s still one more thing to do, playing some foot-tapping music. And if you want to kick off your shoes and dance the night away, get Boom 3D, the best audio enhancer for your Mac and Windows. And since its thanksgiving, we are up with our biggest sale that can make your close-to-perfect holiday, a perfect one!
Just head to our website and pick a card to discover unbelievable offers starting from 60% to 80% off on Boom 3D and Capto. You can also be one of those lucky winners to walk away with a free copy of Boom 3D or Capto!
While Boom 3D brings sheer aural pleasures, Capto is the best Screen Capture and Video Editing software for Mac that can help you to create “capto-vating” screen captures and videos and edit them like a pro.
So, go ahead and try your luck to get the best offers on Boom 3D and Capto and set the mood for a special evening.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Capto is Now Fully Compatible with macOS Mojave! Update Your App Now
Capto is back with a bang with the recent release of its latest version, which is now fully compatible with macOS Mojave.
But before closing the tab and rushing for update, please check the below mentioned steps that will help you in updating and enjoying Capto on Mojave.
As per the security requirements of the new OS, Mojave, Capto now requires certain permissions for access, which you have to enable to ensure the smooth functioning of the app.
When you try to update Capto to the latest version, it asks permission for access to control Finder (refer to the screenshot).
Please provide permission in order to perform the update. We assure you that Capto doesn’t use any of your documents (as mentioned in the title). This is a generic title provided by Apple. We just need this permission to extract the updated application downloaded from Global Delight website.
If this permission alert doesn’t appear or you are unable to update, then you can allow this access from System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Automation -> click on checkbox ‘Finder’ under Capto -> Quit and Relaunch Capto. And then try to update the app again.
Also, the hotkey for Window Capture has been changed from Shift (⇧) + Cmd (⌘) + 5 to Cmd (⌘) +Ctrl+5, since the new macOS is using the same hotkey for system Capture/Record.
Capto would also require permission to access the Camera and Microphone in order to proceed with recording audio or video (please refer to the screenshot):
For Microphone:
For Camera:
But, somehow if you miss this, then you can allow the access to Microphone by going to the System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Microphone -> Select Capto -> Quit and relaunch the app.
To provide access to Camera, go to the System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Camera -> Select Capto -> Quit and relaunch the app.
Wait no more, update your app now to continue creating amazing content with the best screen capture software that combines the best capturing and editing features.
If you have any concern, please drop us an email at [email protected].
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Capto is Getting Ready for macOS Mojave 10.14
Apple has just released the tenth macOS Mojave 10.14. From system-wide Dark Mode, Finder advancements, changed App Store to firmer security, Macs are about to be befitted with a lot more advanced features.
We expect to have full Mojave compatibility very soon, and the Capto team is working hard at the moment to make it possible.
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Meanwhile, you can keep reading on to find the solution for any of the following concerns:
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