Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
- Subject: Re: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
- From: Marco Ugolini <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:04:16 -0800
- Thread-topic: Matching profile of image with a QuickTime movie frame?
In a message dated 1/1/10 8:31 AM, Dan Wood wrote:
> I have tested the screenshot mechanism, using the command-shift-4 and then
> spacebar technique. It actually does the right thing, but what you end up
> with is a screenshot of the entire window frame and the shadow around the
> window too. That's why I pointed out that if I would have to crop the image
> to the right size, because what I want is the contents of the movie frame, not
> what the movie looks like in a window.
Yes, I hadn't mentioned the spacebar technique, because since Mac OS 10.5.x
it has been changed to include the shadow around the window -- the
usefulness of which escapes me, since one is forced to recrop in the
overwhelming majority of cases, adding what I consider an unwelcome
complication.
I find that very frustrating. It would have been much better to offer the
capture of the shadow along with the window as an added OPTION (perhaps
Command-Shift-5), instead of forcing this change on all users.
There may still be a way to capture a window without the surrounding shadow,
as was the case before 10.5.x, but so far I've been unable to find out how
that would be done in the newer OS using the Command-Shift-[?] technique.
Good news is that if you use the Grab utility (which comes with the OS, and
is found in the Utilities folder), it does indeed capture a window WITHOUT
the shadow. But of course it's not as quick and convenient as the other way
was before 10.5.x.
Thank you, Apple, for forcing on us a change that makes no rational sense.
And a happy new year!
Marco
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