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Issues & Discussions to Capture Gif
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Cursor click indication #6

Closed CoryDuncan closed 7 years ago

CoryDuncan commented 7 years ago

It would be nice if the app showed some indication of a cursor click. Maybe hiding the green circle or removing the green circle fill (leaving an outline), when a click happens. Otherwise for animated screen captures, it can sometimes be difficult to tell where/when a click has occurred.

orklann commented 7 years ago

Hi @CoryDuncan

Sorry for late reply, your idea is nice, and I tried your idea before but failed.

Because GIF animation is generally in low FPS or it will be laggy, and we saw some tracking of mouse clicking in some screen recording app that export to video format, and those recording and formats are generally in hight FPS.

If the result GIF is in low FPS, then we can not always capture the mouse clicking event in every frame (That's to say, when you click your mouse and at the same time this frame may not be captured into the GIF), so in the end, the GIF file will sometimes miss a clicking event.

So sorry, this is GIF, and not video format.

CoryDuncan commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the reply @aaron-elkins. I had been using LICEcap for gif recordings previously, and click tracking seems to be the only thing I miss since moving over to Capture Gif. I hope this is a solvable issue one day.

orklann commented 7 years ago

@CoryDuncan thanks for your suggestion, if you like to make some more discussions on this topic, feel free to reopen this issue.