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.<p>I really enjoy technical how it's made blog posts, and I also enjoy elaborate desktop UI recreation web pages[1], so I made both for this project and I hope you like them. If you've got any comments or questions, I'll be pressing Cmd-R on this page.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.realartists.com/retroclip/" rel="nofollow">https://www.realartists.com/retroclip/</a>
Wow! This could be awesome for QA work. So often our QA team will manage to get our software into some weird state but not be entirely sure how they got there. If they used this they could hit the keyboard-shortcut to save the last 60 seconds as soon as they got to the error or weird state.<p>I've sent them the link!
Ooooh this could be pretty fantastic for user debugging. Instead of "can you recreate that problem?" Just hit the keys and send the clip of what they were actually doing.
How about an option to make the Notification Center alert open the saved Finder location, rather than opening the movie in Quicktime?<p>Much easier to do something with the clip file, and you still have the easy (and perhaps better) option to watch it with QuickLook.
Fantastic work. I wish there was something similar for Linux. it sounds like you've made something that has minimal overhead.<p>I like the mouse-pointer hack, I guess you could take it further by only adding it when the user wants to save the clips (and it gives the option of having no mouse pointer, or maybe hiding it around the time when the mouse is not moving or being clicked).
> I got the idea to write RetroClip after playing the game Fortnite Battle Royale and winning, and then having nothing to show for it besides a static screenshot.<p>You should try Shadowplay or the equivalent from your GPU vendor :) Great job on the project.
Can you expand a bit about your decision to ship this in the Mac App Store vs. outside? Especially if a non-App Store build could get you things like audio recording.
This is very slick and easy to use. You sell it well by comparing it to the features on modern game consoles. I'm not sure when/if I'm going to use it, but I like the idea that it's there if I need it!<p>My only criticism is it adds yet another menu bar item, but I understand the reasons why that can be useful (and apps like Bartender mitigate this somewhat)
I'm on a Mac running 10.11 at the moment, so cannot test (10.12 or later is required), but are the only choices for capture length 30 and 60 seconds? Would be nice if this could be set by the user. Though for longer recordings, would RetroClip offer any advantage (performance, file size, etc) over QuickTime Player's built-in Screen Recording feature?
What's the actual video format? I mean, my knowledge is a bit dated, but don't codecs like x264 usually have I B and P frames so you couldn't cut at an arbitrary frame without reencoding. Do you just emit I frames or does x264 have some more advanced tricks available?
This is pretty cool, but I'm seeing RetroClip take 300% CPU on my Late 2015 Retina 5K iMac. I thought it was maybe because I was watching a Twitch stream, but it still used 300% CPU when I paused it, when the only thing actually changing on the screen from frame to frame was a tiny animated GIF.
I'd love to purchase the Pro but I can't see the price anywhere. Nothing in the App Store or even when I click "upgrade to Pro" in the app itself no information on how much it's about to charge me.
I always wanted something like this for video, rather than just audio:<p><a href="http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/" rel="nofollow">http://plugin.org.uk/timemachine/</a><p>Thank you. I'll give it a try.
"Current generation video game consoles all have a feature where you can press a button and capture the last minute or so of gameplay and I wanted this for my Mac."<p>PS4 can record up to an hour, fyi.
can't wait for the Mr. Robot episode where RetroClip is mentioned and the hackers use the last 60 seconds of someone's screen without their knowledge.