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fgrab For Mac

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Record videos of your Mac's screen, capture system sound and insert audio commentary, with this simple and easy-to-use application. #Screen capture  #Video capture  #Capture video  #Capture  #Record  #Grab  

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fgrab is a lightweight tool designed to help you capture video content from your Mac’s screen and save it as an FVF or MOV clip. It is a very simple utility that offers several recording modes, but it is mainly intended to be used together with FastCut.

The main application window is very straightforward, as all the primary functions are easily accessible. However, it would be great if the app could be sent to the menu bar, as it would make it much easier to manage recording sessions without having to bring up and hide the main window constantly.

Also, you cannot start and stop captures or save your files with the help of keyboard shortcuts.

You can select one of the three recording methods, two of them designed for FVF capture (Economy and Game mode), as well as one that allows you to save content to MOV files. fgrab can capture content at up to 30 fps, but whether the app can reach this figure depends largely on your system’s configuration.

In Economy mode, the application only captures areas of the screen that are in motion, greatly reducing CPU load. A full frame is saved every four seconds to make it easier to edit the created files in FastCut.

Game mode is more taxing on your system, but is more suitable for instances when the whole screen needs to be captured continuously.

Unfortunately, you do not have the option of recording specific areas of your desktop.

Movies recorded in the two modes described above can be saved to FVF files, which you can open using the bundled player app or send directly to FastCut and start processing them immediately.

Fgrab is a helpful tool that offers a respectable array of functions, but its usefulness is limited by the fact that the recorded FVF clips can only be processed with FastCut, although you do have the option of saving videos as MOV files.

What's new in fgrab 1.5.3:

  • [Fix] fgrab does not use its own bundle folder to save recording data temporarily any more
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fgrab 1.5.3

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  runs on:
OS X 10.10 or later (Intel only)
  file size:
2.8 MB
  filename:
fgrab.zip
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fgrab - fgrab enables you to perform screen recordings, complete with system audio and voice commentary.fgrab - The application is bundled with an FVF player that allows you to play the recorded file and prepare it for being processed in FastCut
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