Snapz Pro X anyone?

Hi,
Been using this little screen captured program called Snapz Pro X for so long now. i use it to capture my internet payments for record keeping and to capture whatever images i want. Now i can't start this little program. it just starts, show it's logo and resets every time i try to run it. This happened after i installed security update 2008-006.
Anyone has suggestion on how to fix the bug? thanks. I am using a powerbook G4 1.5m with OSX 10.4.11.

I'd open Console in Utilities, and look in the Crash Logs, or observe Console while trying to launch it for clues.

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Hello. I use Snapz Pro X, the latest version, to create short rough videos to work from. It has worked fine for over a year. However, with the recent update to Quicktime, now when I attempt to open files created in Snapz Pro X Quicktime crashes immediately. I have made several movies with Snapz Pro X and all crash the latest Quicktime for Macs. I then attempted to make a movie file in another application and it opened with no trouble. Also, all older movies made with Snapz Pro X open just fine. And all other types of files made by Snapz Pro X (stills, etc. that don't rely on Quicktime work fine. Interestingly, I tried to send one of the movie files that crashes QT to a friend to see if they could open it. Haven't heard back yet, but the file in the email shows up as a movie time line. When I clicked on the play button the sound was audible but the picture was not.
I have checked to see that I have all the latest updates and I do but the new movie files keep crashing Quicktime. Has anyone else had this problem and does anyone have a solution?
Thank you,
Dave
iMac Mac OS X (10.4.9) Snapz Pro X v.2.0.3

Please let me know what the answer is. I'm experiencing the same problem since 7.1.6 and can't find out how to fix it.
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Yosemite killed my Snapz Pro X 2.5.4

I have been a long time frequent user of Snapz Pro Screen Capture utility but since updating to Yosemite I am no longer able to capture mac audio. Does anyone have any good alternative apps to use that work on Yosemite or any solutions to get Snapz working?

Yeah, well I spent a bundle on Ambrosia's SnapZPro not all that long ago, and I'm not thrilled about spending another $79 on something similar. Furthermore, iShowU is only full-screen capture, with no option to grab just part of the screen (which is what I need).
QuickTime Player can do screen (or part of screen) capture, but it can't record Mac audio -- which seems like the easiest part of the problem to me.
I'll keep looking for something else, while actually hoping that Ambrosia can make one last surge at updating this application for Yosemite.

CS5 and ScreenCap Movies (Snapz Pro)

Im captuing full frame rate (30fps) screencap with Snapz Pro and have the option to then render each capture to "anything Quicktime can render to".
I know I need to choose something that will play and cut well in PPro but I also want to maintian the larger and non standard sizes of the movies (so i can do pan and scan)
anyone have tips of what is a good workflow here?
Like what settings to render to
And how to get it into PPro and working right in the timeline?
(if I am bringing in into a 1080p 30 fps video project or a 720p 30 fps project for example)?

AFAIK Snapz records the screen activity into RAM as OS-level screen calls and then renders the file to your drive with whatever CODEC you choose when you save the clip. So the choice of CODEC won't affect the frame rate, but the size of the capture frame will.
The Animation CODEC is the best choice as it retains the full fidelity of the screen grab (no loss of quality). The main thing to remember when configuring the Animation CODEC is to set the keyframe rate to 1 (every frame is a keyframe). Final Cut does a bad job of handling key frames in the Animation CODEC when making cuts edits between keys - you'll get weird artifacts.
This makes for big files and Final Cut will want to conform the clips to 29.97 (or whatever timebase your using) so it will need to render the clips before you can edit them. Make sure your timeline is set to the same frame size, CODEC and KEY FRAME rate as the clips coming in.
Once you've done your cuts and are happy with your edit, output directly to whatever delivery CODEC your going to use: MPEG2 if DVD, Flash, H-264 etc for web. Avoid rendering to DV as the DV CODEC slaughters text and hard edged objects.
My two cents worth.
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FCP can it render audio from Snapz Pro X 2.0?

Hi all,
I can't get FCP to render audio when I make a Quicktime movie of a Snapz Pro X 2.0 screen capture. Anyone have a solution? I have varied the Snapz Pro settings but still no success.
RWCPete

What did you export the audio as?
Shane

Snapz Pro on Yosemite

It was suggested I ask the question here as Snapz Pro uses QuickTime technology. Basically I wondering if anyone is using Snapz Pro and has used it successfully for making screen shots in Yosemite. It always seems to fail for me, not saving a file. If Snapz Pro isn't working, is there any alternative, any software that will make a screen shot and include the active cursor?
Thanks very much.

Regarding audio support not working in 10.10.x, I'm posting here instead of at http://www.ambrosiasw.com/news/story/Ambrosia-Software-Releases-Snapz-Pro-X-254 or http://www.ambrosiasw.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=133336, because Ambrosia's registration is broken (invalid email).
The problem is that Ambrosia hasn't got around to signing their kext yet, which is now required in 10.10.x.
To work around this, add kext-dev-mode=1 as a kernel flag and restart;
[mac09:~] me% sudo vi /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
[mac09:~] me% cat /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Kernel Flags</key>
<string>kext-dev-mode=1</string>
</dict>
</plist>
[mac09:~] me%

Snapz Pro, Final Cut looses quality

Hi
I captured some video in Snapz Pro and as you can see here:
http://tinyurl.com/39j5w3 it is of a good quality
However when i import it into Final Cut Pro it looses all its quality as you can see here:
http://tinyurl.com/3atv9l
Anyone know why it's doing this?
Thanks

Snapz Pro has certain default values. When you call it up and click movie it will have framerate, size, etc. Then when you are done capturing and it prepares it it will have selections to export. Do not recall what the default export is, but if it is H.264 or DV there will be a hit there. You may want to recapture at a PAL frame rate and export with a higher Codec.
You could convert the one you have to PAL, and it may be okay, but if you run into the issue try the recapture (with a short clip as a start).

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Snapz Pro X and Final Cut Pro

I'm screen capturing QuickTime movies of usage of a website via a web browser to include in a video production. I'm using Ambrosia's Snapz Pro X to do the video capture. I've sized the browser to 720x480 for the capture. I'm exporting the capture using the animation codec (which looks much better than a DV stream), but it comes in at 8 frames per second, which doesn't mesh with my timeline (at 29.97 fps).
Is Snapz Pro X a good solution to do this, or is there a better program to do this? If Snapz Pro X is a good choice for this, what settings should I change in the program to get the best video for use in Final Cut?

AFAIK Snapz records the screen activity into RAM as OS-level screen calls and then renders the file to your drive with whatever CODEC you choose when you save the clip. So the choice of CODEC won't affect the frame rate, but the size of the capture frame will.
The Animation CODEC is the best choice as it retains the full fidelity of the screen grab (no loss of quality). The main thing to remember when configuring the Animation CODEC is to set the keyframe rate to 1 (every frame is a keyframe). Final Cut does a bad job of handling key frames in the Animation CODEC when making cuts edits between keys - you'll get weird artifacts.
This makes for big files and Final Cut will want to conform the clips to 29.97 (or whatever timebase your using) so it will need to render the clips before you can edit them. Make sure your timeline is set to the same frame size, CODEC and KEY FRAME rate as the clips coming in.
Once you've done your cuts and are happy with your edit, output directly to whatever delivery CODEC your going to use: MPEG2 if DVD, Flash, H-264 etc for web. Avoid rendering to DV as the DV CODEC slaughters text and hard edged objects.
My two cents worth.
Chris

Need help creating movies in Snapz Pro and then editing them in FCE

I'm in the process of creating a series of training videos on a software application that will ultimatley be on a DVD accompanying a book. I'm trying to use SnapZ Pro to capture the video (with audio) and then edit the sound in FCE. I have no clue what settings to use in Snap Z Pro for the best quality and that will be compatible with FCE. I tried a few samples and used the Animation codec (and various audio compressions). The audio tract was fine in FCE when I listened to it alone, but jumpy with lost segments when combined with the video. I'd appreciate some ideas of what settings to use at every step of the process for best results.
When I tried saving a segment using the Apple Intermediate codec in Snapz Pro, FCE repeatedly crashed when importing the file.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

FCE is a fixed resolution video editing application. It will only work in DV or HDV. 10fps is not a frame rate used by either of those. The material needs to be in a standard frame resolution and frame rate. The standard for DV is 720x480 at 29.97fps. If you capture at 10fps you're going to have to save the material using the DV NSTC codec, set the frame size to 720x480 and the frame rate to 29.97. You may have pixel aspect ratio issues requiring capture at 720x540, but I don't know enough about SnapzPro to know how that product handles frame resolution and frame rate conversion.

Hi my Snapz pro X and WireaTap Studio don't record sound in OS Yosemite

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Why?
What shall I do to fix it?
Best regards
Lars B.
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Quicktime 7.6 and Snapz Pro X

I'm running an older version of Snapz Pro X on my older iMac (flat-screen, domed) under Tiger 10.4.11. I have and paid for the newer Snapz Pro X on my white Macbook purchased this Summer, running Leopard (hence my profile info here), but don't much like how the newer Snapz Pro X works (too many highly annoying distracting squiggly graphs and such).
Since updating to Quicktime 7.6, I can no longer take screenshots of a paused Quicktime movie with Snapz Pro X. The Snapz Pro X intro screen pops up (although it is in my start-up items and already loaded), and then nothing happens. It works fine taking screenshots of anything else UNTIL I try taking a screenshot of a Quicktime movie, then Snapz Pro X is inoperable for everything until I restart.
I've repaired permissions, repaired disk, ran Cache Out X, OnyX, DiskWarrior, etc. etc. etc., even tried removing Snapz Pro X from my start-up items. Same behavior as above.
Any ideas?
I know--someone will say to post this on the Snapz Pro X forum, but the likely answer there will be to use the newer version, and I just plain don't care for the newer version. And who knows, it may have the same problems with the Quicktime 7.6 update (which I haven't yet updated on my white Intel Leopard Macbook).
So I guess my real question is, if no one has a possible fix--I have my drive cloned to a bootable external drive, which still has Quicktime 10.5.5. How can I get it back to my main computer? Just drag it? What do I drag? Should I delete any Quicktime-related file(s) on my main computer before dragging it over?
Thanks in advance.

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We longer use Snapz Pro X.

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Singenu wrote:
I tought about looking in Monitor Activity to see what happens...
Well, when I start working (should I say try to work with FCPX, activity monitor in the %processor column for FCPX jumps rapidly over 100% and reaches more than 200% ??? What the **** is that ?
200% or more is not strange. Remember that your mac has 4 cores (you say it's 3 months old, so I assume it is a new model), so 200% amounts to using 2 of these 4 cores to the max.
Regarding the question of creating a new admin user: while it sits in the same system, it may help if the problem is caused by some user-specific preferences or settings. Not likely in your case, since you seem to have reinstalled from scratch, but still it is worth a try. It takes 5 minutes and may help pinpoint the problem.

Snapz Pro and FCP

Hi all,
I did a screen record with Snapz Pro that I would like to edit in FCP:
dim: 800x600
ramerate: 10
codec: animation
How do I set up a sequence in FCP so that I don't have to render the original. I have tried to set up a custom sequence and I was able to set the codec to animation and the dimension to 800x600 but I cannot change the framerate to 10. The lowest it goes is 23.98 (its actually called "editing timebase" in FCP).

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For my student job I'm supposed to make web video and I have a guidebook that explains how to do it. However, I have found some problems that have screwed up some things.
So I have captured video from Snapz Pro and I did this by setting the display resolution at 800x600 so that text can be readable. Now I set my selection capture at the same setting so that my final .mov file is 800x600 with good readable text.
The issue is when I get into FCP HD 4.5!
My final output is 480x320 MPEG-4 for flash video.
My guidebook tells me to set the sequence setting to 480x320, square pixels and MPEG-4 Video.
The problem is that when I bring in the 800x600 .mov file, I have pixelation problems and the video quality is markedly decreased.
I haven't been able to figure out the best approach but I need to change something for sure.
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You in the same class with Timothy Mosbach by any chance?
Anyway, Timothy and I went through this exact issue in this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=3493859#3493859

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