Hi Alex, Try it this way.
1. Go into QuickTime. 2. Press cmd-ctrl-n to open the new ScreenRecorder window. 3. VO-space on the Start button. The stupid window comes up that doesn't seem to have anything VO useful 4. Press VO-cmd-f5 to bring mouse focus to the VO focus. 5. Physically click your mouse or trackpad. This will start the recording. I don't think you actually need to do step #4 but I just make sure that the mouse won't click out of the window by bringing it to the current VO focused spot. 6. Press Escape or cmd-period. There will be a window with the Stop button and a little clock timer thing counting up how long it's been recording as well as the current size of the file. 7. cmd-tab out of QuickTime and do whatever you wished recorded and then cmd-tab back into QuickTime when done. 8. VO-space on the Stop button. The regular QuickTime window will appear now with the Play/Pause button. Press VO-space on it to start or stop. This is totally visual so there's nothing much to do from a VO prospective except possibly look at the elapse time. 9. Save your file and send it off. 10. Tell the Apple engineers to fix that window so that it is more VO friendly. HTH. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On Jul 31, 2014, at 6:21 PM, Alex Hall <mehg...@icloud.com> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm using Quicktime to do a screencast of a problem in a beta - Apple wants > to see what's visually going on so they can track down the issue. However, I > cannot get Quicktime to start or stop on command, and the "stop recording" > item in the Extras menus doesn't work well either. Even the start button in > Quicktime doesn't seem to always work, yet once you hit it you have no > controls until you can activate the control in the Extras menu. Basically, I > can't get Quicktime to reliably start or stop recording, so I've done the > demo three times now and not once have I managed to actually record it. Yet > two test recordings have gone, not fine, but I at least got a result. Is > there something in Quicktime that will make this easier, or do people have > alternative screen casting apps they prefer? Again, this has to record the > Mac's screen as well as audio, not just the audio, and output a commonly > supported movie format. Any thoughts? > -- > Have a great day, > Alex Hall > mehg...@icloud.com > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
