Thomas Zoechling

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

Seamlessly record your Mac's screen, microphone and camera. Edit your recordings and share them as movie or animated GIF/PNG.

By purchasing the Pro Exporter Pack, you can also integrate Claquette into your Final Cut Pro X workflow.

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Alli Shea
What do you see as the most applicable / popular use case here? Can personally see myself using this for email newsletters, in particular.
Thomas Zoechling
@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 :)
Alli Shea
@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 :)
Thomas Zoechling
@allisonshea30 yes - also works great for support :) I am occasionally answering support mail with GIFs.
MarkusMüllerSimhofer
Great tool for creating animated GIFs of screencasts
Thomas Zoechling
@bentossell Hello Ben, the app should already be in the store. Does this link work for you: https://itunes.apple.com/app/cla...
Thomas Zoechling
@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
Is there a way to only record a specific window similar to how you can take a screenshot of a specific window?
Thomas Zoechling
@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).
Richard Sison
Freaking love it. Got a few requests though: - Gif export filesize preview. Just so I can tweak until I'm happy before the exporting. - Saved presets for advanced options on export. So I don't have to re-set the settings for every export. - Would be helpful to export directly to Droplr instead of exporting a file, to then upload manually. It might be there already, but Droplr doesn't appear on my share screen options? http://share.richardsison.com/16tQB - Would like the ability to drag a box for my selected record area. In addition to using the handles because that's still helpful (especially the center-guides!) So freaking close to a perfect product. Great job!
Thomas Zoechling
@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.
Richard Sison
@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.
Thomas Zoechling
@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.
Collin Davis
I still use QuickTime X's built-in screen recording feature. How does this differ?
Thomas Zoechling
@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.
Collin Davis
@weichsel great stuff! I'll check it out. Thanks
Christian Montoya
I've been using Screenflow for years but this looks like a much cheaper alternative... how does it compare feature-wise?
Thomas Zoechling
@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.
Christian Montoya
@weichsel Thanks! I think for what I do Screenflow is good enough but Claquette's option to export to GIF is very useful.
Avi Lambert
Intrigued, used to use Screenflow, now using Snagit's video recording solution. Will check this out in future.
Desert Man
Mac Os already supports screen rec with mic. What's the Claquette's benefit? only exporting gif and trimming capture?
Stephen Voisey
Bought it today. Perfect for what I'm trying to do and the Vimeo export is perfect, although a little hidden (Maybe it should appear in file/export menu?). Thanks Thomas, keep up the great work :)
Ed Holloway
I've tried so many screen capture tools over the years - but I always go back to Screenflow. I really need something that is between Jing and Screenflow as far as functionality and ease of use. This looks promising. Do you have a demo download available anywhere?
Thomas Zoechling
@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.
Frank
What does this app cost? How does it differ or improve upon QuickTime, which is free and built into every Mac?
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