Voila: easy to capture images and video from the screen OS X
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Currently, there are a lot of different software to capture video and images from the screen. One of the brightest representatives is SnagIt. But its price tag in 1690 rubles will scare away many potential users. Nevertheless, there are alternatives that cost a lot less. On one of them - Voila - we are now acquainted.
Voila window looks like the same SnagIt: icons on top - for taking screenshots and video capture control, left - to add various filters, objects and the like, and the main window in the center displays the current image and the controls set in order, objects.
Making a screenshot of iSight camera (very convenient feature); his image appears in the large window, and miniature - underneath. Now we can add effects to the picture taken. To do this, in the left column, there are a variety of tools.
Effects here are many: add text, apply filters, cropping images, etc., etc ..
In addition to standard capture the desktop and images from the camera, you can take pictures of the menu. For this purpose there is a separate icon "Menu".
Choose it and open any menu item. Press the key combination Cmd + Shift + M and photograph. Make the image located in the miniatures. Not really convenient way, but if you want to make a nice screenshot, you have to press three buttons.
Next - excellent video recording function. You can capture video from both the entire desktop, or from a separate window.
A good supplement will be that with the picture it is possible to capture and sound. Thus the sound may go from both internal or external microphone. And, of course, the sound of the system.
And last on our list is a function of the image capture of the browser. Here there are several ways:
- Capture images from the built-in browser Voila. We opened the window browser, which we are introducing are interested in our site, then take pictures of the selected area or the whole page;
- Opening of the active tab. If you have already opened page in a browser, then this function will open a page of the same name in its window (if multiple tabs - will currently active), where you, as in the first case can make screenshot;
- a snapshot of the active tab. Then the app will simply make a screenshot of browser tabs open.
Please note that if you make a screenshot of the browser window, the application will save the entire image the page from top to bottom (it can be quite long), no tabs and menus, only the content itself pages.
In addition to its core functions, the program has a number of additional, but necessary discharge.
For example, the publication of the images. Initially, you can only save the resulting image, but if you get into the settings and add accounts for various services, the publication will take a matter of seconds. Supported include: FTP, SFTP, Flickr, YouTube, Dropbox, Tumblr, and Evernote.
Also in the settings you can specify the save image formats (default is PNG) and indicate the number of frames per second video recording (of course, do not forget about the type of compression).
In general, this is all that can please us Voila. But, you see, the functional extensive enough. And when you consider that the program is worth 649 rubles, which is two times cheaper than SnagIt, - the price is justified.
On the downside can be attributed only to the lack of localization. During the use of the program found only a strange bug - the program takes off through times when trying to take a screenshot of the browser window in which the document is open Google Docs. In this case, all other windows service photographed with a bang. Let us hope that this is only a special case.
Download Voila can be in the Mac App Store (169 rubles) or website developers (15 days trial).