DejaVideo

Continuous screen recorder for Mac, jump back anytime.

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Continuous screen recorder for Mac, jump back anytime.

1 follower

Built to be always on, allowing you to go back in time and export the last minute at any moment. - 🐛 Software testers: Instantly documented reproduction - 📼 Stream watchers: Capture crazy stuff after it happened - 🙉 Chaos monkeys: How did I just mess up?

Launch tags:Mac•Productivity•Developer Tools

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EneyProactive AI for Mac. Free test, 20,000 credits.

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I like the concept - downloaded and going to give it some use. First thing that jumps out as pretty annoying is how it flashes over my entire screen every minute or so. If I'm not able to disable that I'll probably not be a user for long.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@gioismeyo Thanks for trying out and giving your feedback! It should only flash when you connect/ disconnect a screen and on start up of the application (to indicate which screen it is recording from that moment on). The animation also briefly shows up while the last minute is being exported when you press the export button. If it does it more often, it's a bug 😉 Perhaps the animation is also a bit too much at the moment, had too much fun with it, will minimise it in later versions. Thanks again!

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8yr ago

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@jasper_hartong Yeah I'd say it's def a bug in that case. It's happening at random times and will happen in sequence over and over again. I'm going to uninstall - I'll check it out again in the future.

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8yr ago

Quuu

I think a simple menu bar countdown timer would be suffice. Counting down from 60 each time to indicate when a new recording has started...

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8yr ago

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Maker

@danielkempe I think this is a reply to my conversation with @gioismeyo ? Your suggestion indeed sounds like a better, less intrusive way to give feedback about the fact that DejaVideo started recording a certain screen. Not absolutely sure whether it should be counting down or up though?

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8yr ago

When deploying and testing, stuff breaks. DJV has helped on several occasions to identify the steps to reproduce bugs or issues.

Pros:

Lifesaver

Cons:

can't be blank

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8yr ago

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Maker

Hi! This is my first side project published on Producthunt, exciting times 😃 It was a lot of fun to develop and to learn Swift in the process. It took a lot of experimenting to come to a recording method that had minimum impact on battery but still offered enough quality to be actually meaningful. DejaVideo has already saved my own butt several times in the past weeks and I hope it will also be useful to others! For now I think it's mainly useful for QA'ers and developers to instantly have a reproduction for bugs, but there might be completely other use-cases too 😉 It still only has the bare minimum features, curious to also hear about what you would like to see added!

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8yr ago

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Maker

Small update. I recently released the code of DejaVideo, you can find it here: https://github.com/jasperhartong... . Perhaps it's useful to anyone :D

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6yr ago

Could I ask you, except a Free app, what's competitive with RetroClip? Thank you very much.

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8yr ago

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Maker

@yhc Thanks for pointing me to RetroClip! I did some searching before I started on DejaVideo, but never came across it, seems quite similar indeed, even the styling 😃 I just downloaded it to check it out, these are my quick insights: - RetroClip seems to have more features (global shortcut, audio-recording and internal editor providing cropping, ...) and records either 30 or 15fps (the latter to save battery) - DejaVideo seem to have less battery impact (~0.25 vs ~4.0 average according to the Activity Monitor), but off course only provides 3fps recording (instead of the 15fps). I think RetroClip seems more oriented to recording gaming sessions, while DejaVideo is just to record daily actions.

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8yr ago