Capturing game footage: Difference between revisions

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 let's 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 precisely select the contents of Oni's window. Fortunately, iShowU provides its own zoom feature while you perform this selection, but make a tiny mistake and you could ruin your output with a row or column of pixels from outside Oni's window. By contrast, OBS Studio records the direct OpenGL output from Oni, giving you a perfect capture of just the game every time (but with the added hassle of configuring OBS and Soundflower).