Well, thanks, that seems to have worked. I never would have guessed at those steps, but I finally have the recording Apple wanted. At least, I hope I do; the audio is good, but I have no idea if it captured the screen correctly. By default, does it record the whole screen, or just the active window, do you know? I'll have a sighted person review it before I upload it, but I'm curious. On Jul 31, 2014, at 9:14 PM, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote:
> Hi Alex, > > Try it this way. > > 1. Go into QuickTime. > 2. Press cmd-ctrl-n to open the new ScreenRecorder window. > 3. VO-space on the Start button. > > The stupid window comes up that doesn't seem to have anything VO useful > > 4. Press VO-cmd-f5 to bring mouse focus to the VO focus. > 5. Physically click your mouse or trackpad. > > This will start the recording. I don't think you actually need to do step #4 > but I just make sure that the mouse won't click out of the window by bringing > it to the current VO focused spot. > > 6. Press Escape or cmd-period. > > There will be a window with the Stop button and a little clock timer thing > counting up how long it's been recording as well as the current size of the > file. > > 7. cmd-tab out of QuickTime and do whatever you wished recorded and then > cmd-tab back into QuickTime when done. > 8. VO-space on the Stop button. > > The regular QuickTime window will appear now with the Play/Pause button. > Press VO-space on it to start or stop. This is totally visual so there's > nothing much to do from a VO prospective except possibly look at the elapse > time. > > 9. Save your file and send it off. > 10. Tell the Apple engineers to fix that window so that it is more VO > friendly. > > HTH. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On Jul 31, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> I'm using Quicktime to do a screencast of a problem in a beta - Apple wants >> to see what's visually going on so they can track down the issue. However, I >> cannot get Quicktime to start or stop on command, and the "stop recording" >> item in the Extras menus doesn't work well either. Even the start button in >> Quicktime doesn't seem to always work, yet once you hit it you have no >> controls until you can activate the control in the Extras menu. Basically, I >> can't get Quicktime to reliably start or stop recording, so I've done the >> demo three times now and not once have I managed to actually record it. Yet >> two test recordings have gone, not fine, but I at least got a result. Is >> there something in Quicktime that will make this easier, or do people have >> alternative screen casting apps they prefer? Again, this has to record the >> Mac's screen as well as audio, not just the audio, and output a commonly >> supported movie format. Any thoughts? >> -- >> Have a great day, >> Alex Hall >> mehg...@icloud.com >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Have a great day, Alex Hall mehg...@icloud.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
