![]() ![]() And if having your movie on top of other windows isn’t your thing, you can instead choose to view it floating over your desktop but behind other applications. (Note that your video card must support Quartz Extreme for translucency to work.) If you want to temporarily view the movie in all its glory, simply move the mouse over the Trans Lucy controller. Either you have to keep switching back and forth between your work and DVD Player windows, or you need to make one or both windows so small that you can’t really see either very well.ĬE Software has taken an interesting approach to this problem with its $15 Trans Lucy 1.0.1 ( Using OS X’s Quartz Extreme technology in ways Apple probably never imagined, Trans Lucy makes your movie translucent and sticks it right on top of your other work - you can still see, and use, other applications through the haze of your movie. Speaking of your screen, if you’ve ever tried to watch a DVD while working, you know that unless you have multiple displays, it’s a constant battle for screen real estate. If you need to capture your screen, Snapz Pro X 2.0 is the tool to use. Snapz Pro X’s interface has also been substantially overhauled it’s now easier to perform basic actions, but you still have quick access to more-advanced features. You even get a real-time preview of the movie as it’s being rendered, something the app does very quickly. When you’re done recording, you choose the video-compression format from your QuickTime-compatible codecs, along with frame rate, color depth, and data rate (useful for creating smaller videos for the Web or for e-mail messages), as well as audio-compression settings. You can now record full-motion video and audio (the latter from your Mac, an external mike or input, or both) of action on your Mac’s screen, at up to 30 frames per second in millions of colors. But what will blow you away is its movie-capture ability, which has been significantly improved since version 1.0. ![]() The improvements to Snapz Pro X’s image-capture component alone make it worth its price. ![]()
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