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==Mac A/V recording== | ==Mac A/V recording== | ||
These programs will automatically record Oni's sound and video at the same time. Just make sure to close any other applications that play sounds before you record Oni, unless you're using Audio Hijack ( | These programs will automatically record Oni's sound and video at the same time. Just make sure to close any other applications that play sounds before you record Oni, unless you're using Audio Hijack (see "Mac audio-only recording"). If you don't want to pay for an A/V capture solution, the free alternative is OBS Studio under the "video-only" section used alongside Soundflower under the "audio-only" section, but it's much more complicated to set up than any single recording app. | ||
===ScreenFlow=== | ===ScreenFlow=== | ||
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2. Drag the white lines at the edges of the recorded screen inward until they snap to Oni's window.<br /> | 2. Drag the white lines at the edges of the recorded screen inward until they snap to Oni's window.<br /> | ||
3. In order to crop out Oni's window title bar, you'll need to zoom in on the video so you can see the individual rows of pixels and try to drag the top canvas line down to the top of the actual window content. You might think you can adjust the canvas size manually by typing in a smaller height value, but a decrease in pixels will be subtracted from the top and bottom of the window equally, whereas you want the lower edge to remain snapped to the Oni window. | 3. In order to crop out Oni's window title bar, you'll need to zoom in on the video so you can see the individual rows of pixels and try to drag the top canvas line down to the top of the actual window content. You might think you can adjust the canvas size manually by typing in a smaller height value, but a decrease in pixels will be subtracted from the top and bottom of the window equally, whereas you want the lower edge to remain snapped to the Oni window. | ||
If you want a total A/V solution that also supports region capture, see iShowU. | |||
===Snapz Pro=== | ===Snapz Pro=== | ||
$69, http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ | $69, http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/snapzprox/ | ||
Snapz Pro used to be the most popular screen recorder for Macs, but development has practically ceased and it no longer seems to work in OS X. Unless development on it resumes, you should look at the options | Snapz Pro used to be the most popular screen recorder for Macs, but development has practically ceased and it no longer seems to work in OS X. Unless development on it resumes, you should look at the other options here first. | ||
===iShowU=== | ===iShowU=== | ||
$20, http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ | $20-$79, http://www.shinywhitebox.com/ | ||
shinywhitebox offers several versions of their capture technology, from the classic version of iShowU ($20, and somehow still supported for OS X 10.11) to the full-featured capture-and-editing suite iShowU Studio ($79). If you're thinking of getting classic iShowU, it probably makes more sense to go with the newer product iShowU Instant ($24) instead. Both apps do record system audio, though technically classic iShowU should be under the "video-only" section since it requires Soundflower (bundled with it, but see "audio-only" section for more info) to capture this sound. Then again, the newer iShowU apps also require an additional free component, iShowU Audio Capture (a replacement for the semi-defunct Soundflower that they wrote themselves), but in this case it's a part of the same developer's suite of software, so I'll count that as a total A/V solution. | |||
iShowU supports region capture and window capture, but its window capture option records the window's title bar as well, which is not desirable for gameplay recordings. This means that you have to use region capture to record a region of a fixed size equal to Oni's resolution and then precisely position this region over top of Oni's window (you may find OS X's Zoom feature, under the Accessibility preferences, helpful for making a precise selection). By contrast, OBS Studio records the actual OpenGL output which comprises the contents of Oni's window, giving you a perfect capture of just the game every time (but with the added hassle of configuring OBS and Soundflower). | |||
==Mac video-only recording== | ==Mac video-only recording== | ||
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Either way, before you can record the audio that is being looped around by Soundflower, you must select Soundflower as the audio input source in your video capture program before starting to record Oni. | Either way, before you can record the audio that is being looped around by Soundflower, you must select Soundflower as the audio input source in your video capture program before starting to record Oni. | ||
Note that, as of April 2016, Soundflower the extension is in a somewhat precarious state of development, and Soundflowerbed the app is discontinued or in the process of being rewritten. See iShowU Audio Capture for a solution that may be newer and easier to use. | |||
===iShowU Audio Capture=== | |||
It appears that shinywhitebox's free Audio Capture extension, designed for use with their iShowU video capture apps, will work on its own, allowing you to add system audio to any video recording app, including QuickTime Player. It probably works similarly to Soundflower, but if anyone actually tests it, please update this section. | |||
===An audio cable=== | ===An audio cable=== | ||