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2013, March 22 - 5:19pm

Macpast

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Screen Recording software

I would love to get screen casts of some of the older games I have running on my os9/ os10 dual booting PowerMacs. I know that cpu stress and memory is an issue so I think a screen recording app for 10.4 might work while playing the game in classic. (though if anyone has an os 9 screen cap software, I'd love to screw around with it).
I'm having plenty of trouble with the likes of Screenium and Screenflow giving me black screen recordings of full screen CURRENT games so there might not be much hope.

Thanks!
-Max

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2013, March 22 - 7:04pm

Tanara Kuranov

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I'll admit, I usually use Windows for video recording (a greater abundance of video codecs and software), but there's Snapz Pro X and Camtasia for OS X, and I believe there's an older Snapz Pro for OS 9 floating around on the Macintosh Garden here, too, so there's a few things you could try.

2013, March 22 - 8:30pm

Macpast

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Camtasia and Snapz Pro X both record black screens on fullscreen as well! Too frustrating. I'll look for that download for Snapz os9 from Mac Garden, cause that'd be killer. Thanks!

2013, March 22 - 11:22pm

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Gary

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I've owned Snapz Pro since 1998. It's Quicktime capture mode will do the same Black Screen image as you have already encountered. The fault lies in Quicktime and it's built-in DRM.

I've explored a slightly different approach.

Try running the game on a machine with a VGA output. Mirror the Main Screen and the VGA screen and pipe the cloned image (VGA) to a composite or S-Video input on a DV Capture device. With a second computer, capture the video stream from the first computer via the DV capture device. Works like a charm (granted a more than a little convoluted).

Gary

2013, March 24 - 6:40pm

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At least I have a do-able method now! Thanks Gary!