TheTon

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by TheTon 9y ago
OK, I would expect that setup to perform really well (like just a couple % CPU use in activity monitory). If you have a chance, can you send a sample[1] to support at realartists.com? I'd love to see what's taking all that time. [
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by TheTon 9y ago
Yeah, my 4 year old son loves to spam the capture button. We have soo many Mario Kart clips.
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by TheTon 9y ago
Well, it's totally sandboxed, no network connections are allowed either in or out, and the video is only stored in memory, not on disk until you press the keyboard shortcut, so it should be pretty secure.
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by TheTon 9y ago
I'll think about it. In the meantime, I have a few pro tips that may be useful. One trick is you can drag the icon from the QuickTime's window's title bar (or command click on it to reveal it in the Finder). Along with the ab
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by TheTon 9y ago
It's totally sandboxed. It can't make network connections, in or out at all. You can verify this yourself like so: $ codesign -d --entitlements - /Applications/RetroClip.app Executable=/Applications/Retro
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by TheTon 9y ago
Sorry, I don't. It would need some dusting off to to compile on recent macOS (it depends on OpenSSL which they removed I think in 10.11, so I'd have to switch to SecureTransport or something). It also doesn't do any of the th
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by TheTon 9y ago
I haven't tried OBS in a while, but a few years ago I was really into the Heroes of the Storm beta early on and I streamed it a little on Twitch. I actually wrote my own streamer because I wasn't happy about the resources that OBS
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by TheTon 9y ago
It's a good idea. I'll think about it. I definitely would recommend using ScreenFlow for capturing screencast type videos where the content is at least a little bit pre-meditated. It will let you crop the screen after the fact, pa
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by TheTon 9y ago
Our main product we do sell outside of the app store. It's a much bigger and more complex app, and I like not having to pay Apple a 30% cut on it, and I also like the ability to push updates whenever I need to without having to do app
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by TheTon 9y ago
Yeah, I render the video into the canvas, as opposed to positioning a video element on top of it, so that the capture will work recursively.
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by TheTon 9y ago
Yeah, sorry. Apple decides how the price translates across different currencies.
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by TheTon 9y ago
Thanks! I totally hear you about the menu bar. I used to laugh at Windows machines with all the crap in the system tray, and now look what I've become.
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by TheTon 9y ago
Is this with the real Mac RetroClip? That sounds really high, like way higher than expected. Is it an older machine without a hardware video encoder?
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by TheTon 9y ago
RE: Store Path. Unfortunately, no. In order to write outside of the app sandbox container, an entitlement has to be approved by Apple, and they only would only approve ~/Movies/<AppName>/. RE: Two Hot Keys. Ruh-Roh. Tha
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by TheTon 9y ago
I can't really recommend the approach in general. From accessibility or search engine optimization standpoints, what I've done is a disaster. It's more just an objet d'art type thing, just this sort of stylized recursive
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by TheTon 9y ago
To add to that, I've been on the fence about adding audio muxing. I should just do it, and folks who have a Rogue Amoeba app installed would be able to make use of it. Compared to storing the video data, the audio data is tiny, so buff
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by TheTon 9y ago
I should add, though, the idea of storing the mouse cursor separate from the captured video is a really good one in general. I am pretty sure this is what ScreenFlow does, because you can edit the mouse cursor in their app after a video has
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by TheTon 9y ago
Yes! Check out the Xbox app for Windows 10. GPU drivers also provide a similar feature (nvidia’s is called shadowplay).
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by TheTon 9y ago
I thought about that, but the problem is, I would have to decode and then re-encode the video on save to composite in the mouse cursor. As far as I know, there is no way to quickly and non-destructively composite an image on top of h264 vid
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by TheTon 9y ago
It doesn't. For some reason, which only the CoreAudio team could explain, it is necessary to use a kernel extension to capture system audio on macOS. Kernel extensions are not allowed in the Mac App Store (and rightly so), so having it
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by TheTon 9y ago
If you want to do a longer recording and you want to keep the whole thing (or substantially the whole thing), QuickTime Player is better. I also use, and love, ScreenFlow for doing screen cast type videos. The difference is, I'm not go
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by TheTon 9y ago
5 bucks. :)
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by TheTon 9y ago
Thanks! My original intended use was to win at video games (or at least fail in amusing ways) and then post the replay clips to Reddit ;) It's also useful for software development. If I had a nickel for every time I got a screenshot in
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by TheTon 9y ago
Hi, I'm James and I wrote RetroClip. It's just a little side project, but I think it's neat and so I decided to release it. I really enjoy technical how it's made blog posts, and I also enjoy elaborate desktop UI recreat
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by TheTon 9y ago
Not to contradict what my partner, kogir, is saying here, but I think the benefit, as a Ship user, for subscription pricing goes even further than any discussion of the server. Imagine that a future GitHub API v5 is perfectly suited to the
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by TheTon 9y ago
Maybe. We did iOS support on Ship 1.0, and I think it turned out pretty well. For Ship 2.0, the Mac app is a Cocoa app, and the codebase is already factored into UI/non-UI areas, so it's somewhat portable, but of course much of th
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by TheTon 9y ago
Regarding the pricing model and server usage: A major design goal for Ship is to have everything you see be live. I love it when a colleague updates something from the web, or the app, and I see it instantly on my screen. Receiving real tim
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by TheTon 9y ago
Good point. I updated the link.
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by TheTon 9y ago
Sorry, I was doing something dumb with javascript on those, so if you were browsing with it off or were blocking resource loads from ajax.googleapis.com, it wouldn't work. I think it's fixed now. Here's a direct link to the a
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by TheTon 9y ago
Sorry, not at the moment. We're all in on GitHub right now.

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