Screen capture problem

When I do a screen capture with command-shift-4 the resulting image is broken. That is it looks like the image is chopped up in vertical strips and displaced. Below is an example with what it should look like (the latter using Snapz Pro).

Having trouble including images!!

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Dear all,
I perform a screen capture with jframe size.The background capture is ok but i have a line border around the rectangle determined by the capture and a shadow in capture background..
How to remove the line border of capture, and suppress the shadow on mac ....
Thanks in advance for all helps..
package nomadsland.splashWindow;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.ConvolveOp;
import java.awt.image.Kernel;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class ShadowedWindow extends JWindow {
    private BufferedImage splash = null;
    public ShadowedWindow(BufferedImage image) {
        createShadowPicture(image);
    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        if (splash != null) {
            g.drawImage(splash, 0, 0, null);
    private void createShadowPicture(BufferedImage image) {
        int width = image.getWidth();
        int height = image.getHeight();
        int extra = 14;
        setSize(new Dimension(width + extra, height + extra));
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        Rectangle windowRect = getBounds();
        splash = new BufferedImage(width + extra, height + extra, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) splash.getGraphics();
        try {
            Robot robot = new Robot(getGraphicsConfiguration().getDevice());
            BufferedImage capture = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(windowRect.x, windowRect.y, windowRect.width + extra, windowRect.height + extra));
            g2.drawImage(capture, null, 0, 0);
        } catch (AWTException e) { }
        BufferedImage shadow = new BufferedImage(width + extra, height + extra, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
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        g.setColor(new Color(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.3f));
        g.fillRoundRect(6, 6, width, height, 12, 12);
        g2.drawImage(shadow, getBlurOp(7), 0, 0);
        g2.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
    private ConvolveOp getBlurOp(int size) {
        float[] data = new float[size * size];
        float value = 1 / (float) (size * size);
        for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            data[i] = value;
        return new ConvolveOp(new Kernel(size, size, data));
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
             BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(ShadowedWindow.class.getResourceAsStream("loginPanelGeneric.png"));
            ShadowedWindow window = new ShadowedWindow(image);
            window.setVisible(true);
            Timer timer = new Timer(5000, new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
                    System.exit(0);
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}Thanks you in advance for any help...

Dear all,
I perform a screen capture with jframe size.The background capture is ok but i have a line border around the rectangle determined by the capture and a shadow in capture background..
How to remove the line border of capture, and suppress the shadow on mac ....
Thanks in advance for all helps..
package nomadsland.splashWindow;
import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.awt.image.ConvolveOp;
import java.awt.image.Kernel;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.JWindow;
import javax.swing.Timer;
public class ShadowedWindow extends JWindow {
    private BufferedImage splash = null;
    public ShadowedWindow(BufferedImage image) {
        createShadowPicture(image);
    public void paint(Graphics g) {
        if (splash != null) {
            g.drawImage(splash, 0, 0, null);
    private void createShadowPicture(BufferedImage image) {
        int width = image.getWidth();
        int height = image.getHeight();
        int extra = 14;
        setSize(new Dimension(width + extra, height + extra));
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        Rectangle windowRect = getBounds();
        splash = new BufferedImage(width + extra, height + extra, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) splash.getGraphics();
        try {
            Robot robot = new Robot(getGraphicsConfiguration().getDevice());
            BufferedImage capture = robot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(windowRect.x, windowRect.y, windowRect.width + extra, windowRect.height + extra));
            g2.drawImage(capture, null, 0, 0);
        } catch (AWTException e) { }
        BufferedImage shadow = new BufferedImage(width + extra, height + extra, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        Graphics g = shadow.getGraphics();
        g.setColor(new Color(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.3f));
        g.fillRoundRect(6, 6, width, height, 12, 12);
        g2.drawImage(shadow, getBlurOp(7), 0, 0);
        g2.drawImage(image, 0, 0, this);
    private ConvolveOp getBlurOp(int size) {
        float[] data = new float[size * size];
        float value = 1 / (float) (size * size);
        for (int i = 0; i < data.length; i++) {
            data[i] = value;
        return new ConvolveOp(new Kernel(size, size, data));
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        try {
             BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(ShadowedWindow.class.getResourceAsStream("loginPanelGeneric.png"));
            ShadowedWindow window = new ShadowedWindow(image);
            window.setVisible(true);
            Timer timer = new Timer(5000, new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
                    System.exit(0);
            timer.start();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
}Thanks you in advance for any help...

Strange Screen Capture Problem

Ok, I'm stumped and hope someone can help me out.
For some reason, on my macbook pro, I can't get the screen capture cmd-shift-4-space to work. All the other screen capture modes work (eg. cmd-shift-3 and cmd-shift-4).
When I hit the cmd-shift-4 command and then hit the space bar, I see the camera show up, but it will not select individual windows. Instead the whole screen is highlighted and when I click, it takes a blank white picture. How do I fix this? Thanks.

Have you tried booting in Safe Mode? Hold down the Shift key as soon as you hear the startup chime. The boot will take longer, as the system repairs the drive, clears some caches, and disables all third party startup items (and some Apple ones as well). Try it in Safe Mode, then reboot normally and try it again. If it works in Safe Mode, but not when you reboot, then there is a conflict with some startup item.
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Screen capture : problems with audio quality & volume

Hi all ,
I'm quite new with Arch (I installed it 1 week ago) but I'm a quite veteran debian user (since 10 years)...
I'd like to produce screencast for my students , so I 've made some tests with xvidcap & recordmydesktop, they were fine
I 've decided to add sound to these first demos and that 's here that difficulties come...
My laptop is a Sony VAIO VPC Z1 (quad core i7 , 8Gb of RAM , 500 gb harddisk, with an hybrid graphics card i915/Nvidia M 330)
Soundcard is well detected :
\ └─(\ 1:\ 10:03\ :%)─\ ─\ lspci|grep -i audio ──\ (lun.,nov.29)─┘
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
01:00.1 Audio device: nVidia Corporation High Definition Audio Controller (rev a1)
they are seen in the cards file:
\ └─(\ \ 10:10\ :%)─\ ─\ cat /proc/asound/cards ──\ (lun.,nov.29)─┘
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xd7820000 irq 45
1 [NVidia ]: HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia
HDA NVidia at 0xd1000000 irq 16
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- it seems that my alsamixer are lost each time (preferences for each channel)
- I don't know what channel to use while recording because I've got :
record
record1
record2
digital
micro
micro boost
ouch...
I 've tried to make some sound capture with a Plantronics (earphones + micro ) using my front connectors (2 jack )
Results are very confusing:
- with audacity , sound is quite good
- with recordmydesktop, noise leveel is very high, I can't figure out how to filter the signal
- with xvidcap ,the man page is not very informative for options to capture sound
So your feedbacks are welcome...
It's my first attempt to do multimedia with Linux (I use it for programming Java/C++ and for documents editing in LateX)
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jerome

It does appear to be a bit tricky to get the Mac to always recognize this key combination. Especially if Space has another function related to that window, such as Quick View over a Finder window. I could not get consistent results when using the key combo, sometimes it worked first time, many times nothing.
But there is another way to get screen shots. There is the Apple Utility Grab in the Utilities folder (Apps/Utilities). It will help you with all the screen shots the key combos take.
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Screen Capture Problems

I got this question from a client and can't find any answer. Is there a way to fix this short of reinstalling the operating system?
Just a brief question of you regarding the screen shot - command-shift-4. When I do this I now get an alert sound without any picture being taken. If I do a command-C from the keyboard, I get the resulting "bullseye" that should accompany the command-shift-4 routine and I can highlight an area and a picture will result. If I highlight something then go to the EDIT-COPY. that behaves in the normal way in that I can paste the 'copied' where ever I want. I have run the disk utility and repaired permissions.
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Command-Shift-4 lets you select the part of the screen (using the mouse) to take a snapshot of. I use it all the time and it works great. After selecting cmd-shft-4 you need to sweep out an area with the mouse. The area is highlited in grey and a .png file is created.
Command-Shift-3 takes a snapshot of the entire screen.

I have a 17" Macbook pro with flickering red and cyan(blue) lines across the screen. The issue disappears temporarily when I tap on the computer, and the problem does not occur when I use external display or try to screen capture the problem.

I purchased my Macbook (17") through a certified apple tecnition in August 2012, it was refurbished and the motherboard was completely replaced. I do a lot of photo editing, but I have been unable to do so because of the red vibrating lines that interrupt my screen. The issue disappears temporarily when I tap on the computer, and the problem does not occur when I use external display or try to screen capture the problem. I brought the computer back to the technition I purchased it from and he said that it was a problem with my fan, so I have two new fans but the issue is still occuring. He says he doesnt know whats wrong. Does anyone have any information on this issue?
Here is an image of the issue
http://www.flickr.com/photos/67839707@N08/8884847081/

I recommend having your Mac serviced by someone competent. A force sufficient to "blow apart" the fans was clearly excessive and may have damaged the display cable, as well as any number of other problems.
Dust is properly cleaned with a vacuum, preferably one designed for computer service, and they are not cheap.
Compressed air should never be used. It just blows dust everywhere, often into places where it can no longer be removed.

Screen shot capture problems

I have a Mac Pro, and when attempting to take a screen shot using "Shift-Command-4," the content that I want is only captured sporadically. I've manipulated the image size, etc., to see if this was the problem, but there does not seem to be a consistent basis for the problem. I've also searched my computer via Spotlight to see if the PNG file was being saved to a place other than my desktop, but it is not.
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I have encountered the same issue. Lately when using the tried and true screen capture keystrokes (shift-command-3 or shift-command-4) I sometimes get an image file, and sometimes I don't. But I always get the camera click sound.
When searching for the answer to this problem I'm directed to the Grab utility. This app may have some nice features, but it is not as convenient as the standby keystrokes and is a step backwards if this is going to be the norm.
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Problem recording sound during screen capture

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I'm having a problem when recording screen captures in Windows XP SP3 in Boot Camp.
There is almost no sound. There is a very low sound level being picked up from the microphone.
The screen capture software I'm using is Capture Solution by SProsoft. I get the same result when using Windows Media Encoder, so I don't think it is a problem with the capturing program.
There is no problem with Windows XP making the sounds as I use it. It is just that I cannot record those sounds.
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I did a screen capture using Captivate and when I bring it over to my editing program to synch with the speakers video, the total running time of the screen capture is off by a considerable margin. The video (which was started and stopped almost simultaneously with the screen capture) is much longer than the screen capture.
I'm afraid that, in the screen capture something was checked to not record real time. Is that an option? Thanks in advance!!!
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Hi there
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I'm working in Captivatre 7 on a Mac, and I'm trying to add a recording slide to do a tutorial in Photoshop. When I do the screen capture, and then finish, it takes me back to Captivate, and all the slides have the background of my captivate template instead of the Photoshop window. This hasn't happened to me before, and all the settings look the same - I've used screen capture in Captivate 5 & 6, but not 7 yet. When I went to try the screen capture in Captivate 6 also, it's doing the same thing. Some of the motions (but not all) are being captured correctly - the text captions are referencing the motions related to Photoshop. Here are some photos below - the orange background is my Captivate background template, and I've added some photos of my settings. Any help is appreciated!

Be sure you have a blank (child) master slide and assign that one to the slides. If the objects you are seeing now sit on the main master slide, you can still create a blank child master slide for which you uncheck the options 'Show Main Master Slide Objects' adn 'Use Master Slide Background' in the Properties panel of that child master slide.
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As I said in the subject I'm having issues importing a Quicktime Screen Capture into Final Cut Express. I keep getting this message.
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No audio on screen capture

has it been resolved yet why there is no sound when you use screen capture? i wanted to take some youtube videos and put them together, but i also want the sound.

I can't help but wonder why they even botherd making the video recording software if they diidn't include audio .
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Hi, i need help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! URGENT!
I am currently doing Augmented Reality.
I got my marker to detect my model but my problem now is how to screen capture the content that is in swf.
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& also i just want to capture the swf window not the whole desktop.
I read online, they say its impossible?
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In the case, when i click on the capture button, it print screen.
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I need to create a movie for a client that shows the computer system that was developed for them. The system is a web application and is accessed using Internet Explorer. I need to be able to put the movie onto a dvd for viewing at various client locations.
I created a number of screen capture videos using Snagit 9 showing the user experience in Internet Explorer. I took these with my screen resolution at 1440x900 and, when I put them into my Premiere Elements project that is setup as a NTSC DV format, the video quality is unreadable. I have tried to use several tools to compress the video to a size that is lower than the 720x480 resolution of my NTSC DV format Premiere project and the files themselves look great when I view them using Windows Media player. However, when I add the files to Adobe Premiere they become extremely blurry regardless of whether I've scaled the video or not. I have tried different aspect ratios in the Interpret Footage and have even removed the scale to frame option.
Does anyone have any idea what I am doing wrong or how I can fix this problem? I need to have this video completed for tomorrow evening and am stuck with the illegible screen capture videos. Please help.
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Burn your project to DVD (or first to a folder then onto DVD) and see how it looks on a standalone DVD player. It may be a problem with your screen resolutions v native resolutions, or a lack of preview rendering (is there a red line above your timeline - if so press enter).
On top of this you have the absolute problem that your are asking PRE to reduce from a 1440 x 900 screen resolution to a 720x480 DVD format. How well it does this you'll really only see by burning a DVD - but if it doesn't look good enough you might consider using a 800 x 600 screen resolution to record your screen captures and reduce the amount of downscaling PRE does.
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