Claquette - Seamlessly record your Mac's screen, microphone and camera

@allisonshea30 I am personally using it to enhance bug reports or GitHub issues. We also use one animated screenshot on our product page. Sometimes I also send my mum a small GIF that shows her how to attach a photo to an email or something like that :)

@weichsel Ah, interesting! I bet folks working on more technical support teams could find it useful as well. Good call re: Mom explanations. I'll have to do the same :)

@allisonshea30 yes - also works great for support :) I am occasionally answering support mail with GIFs.

@bentossell Hello Ben, the app should already be in the store. Does this link work for you: https://itunes.apple.com/app/cla...

@bentossell Thank you. I have no idea why the original link doesn't work for some people. I was using the format that Apple suggests here:https://developer.apple.com/libr... (in the "easy to read links" section)

@joe_blau After recording, you can crop your recording to only contain a certain region. We store the window frames for the frontmost window during recording and offer alignment guides that help you to select the window during crop. Tip: The window crop guides use a padding, which takes the window drop shadow into account. If you want a tight selection, you can hold the alt modifier on your keyboard - this will snap the guides to the exact window frame (without padding).

@richardsison Thank you for the detailed feedback. - I'd also love to have a preview for the file size. The problem is, that we'd have to perform a full export pass for each changed setting to determine the exact file size. Not sure yet, how I can implement this. - We currently only support a subset of the sharing services. It's planned to support all services that make sense for video/gif assets in the future. We also plan to make it possible to set a default export type for each service (e.g. H.264 video for Mail, GIF for Twitter, ...) - This is one of our most common feature requests. So it's already on our list. Personally I think that selecting the crop region after recording makes more sense than defining that region beforehand. Because for video it's harder to estimate the needed region than for a still image.

@weichsel Oh i personally don't mind the full-screen record. I didn't expect it at first, but realised it's actually pretty good for flexibility. I just meant that setting the crop region via a drag-box would be a good alternative to using handles only. I hope saved presets for advanced options isn't too tricky though? I'd probably find the sweet spot of "good enough" quality for my needs and always use that.

@richardsison Oh. I forgot to answer that point above :) We already store all settings, except "Number of Colors" and "Dithering Level" in the user defaults. Those two settings are very specific to the recorded material. E.g. if you have a lot of gradients but not too many colors in your recording, you want a high dithering level but a low color count. Those two values need manual tweaking to achieve optimal results, so we fall back to sane defaults for each export.

@lumbadoja We also support animated GIF and animated PNG as export formats. Claquette additionally allows you to record from your Mac's camera while capturing a screencast. For Pro users we also offer an In-App Purchase to unlock exporters for Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5.

@weichsel great stuff! I'll check it out. Thanks

@decktonic The feature set is way smaller than Screenflow's. We have very high (lossless) capturing quality but only trim and crop as editing tools. But if you want advanced editing capabilities, we offer an IAP that unlocks a Final Cut Pro X and Motion 5 exporter. Those exporters generate layered projects with separate tracks for the front window, the cursor and the video/audio tracks.

@weichsel Thanks! I think for what I do Screenflow is good enough but Claquette's option to export to GIF is very useful.

@edholloway Currently no demo, but we ran a beta for the 1.5 release. The beta binary will expire in a few days, but you can contact me via support or Twitter and I'll provide you a link.

What does this app cost? How does it differ or improve upon QuickTime, which is free and built into every Mac?