Capturing New Frames

After you create a movie, you might need to add more frames to it. One method that you can use to add frames is to capture an image of any area on your screen. A frame is then created based on that captured image.

How to Capture a New Frame

1. Prepare your screen or workspace for capturing. This includes opening the application window(s) that you want to capture and/or arranging your desktop exactly as needed.
2. Open the movie.

3. Do one of the following:

   • RibbonSelect View > Frames.

   • Keyboard Shortcut Press CTRL+J on the keyboard.

   The Frames window pane opens.

4. In the Frames window pane, select an existing frame. The new captured frame will be inserted immediately after that frame.

5. Do one of the following, depending on the part of the user interface you are using:

   • Ribbon Select Frame > Screenshot.
   • Right-Click In the Frames window pane, right-click on an existing frame and from the context menu, select Capture New Frame.

   Mimic minimizes and a rectangle with a red border appears on your screen, along with a task bar.

6. (Optional) Rearrange the capture area. You can use several methods and features to do this.

   Drag Edge

   You can resize the capture area manually by clicking any of the handles (small squares) around the edge of the rectangle and dragging them to resize the width and/or height.

   

   Move Entire Capture Area

   You can move the entire capture area by clicking the size-all icon in the center of the area and dragging the area to a new location on your screen.

   

   Type Width or Height

   You can click in the number fields in the task bar to manually change the width and/or height of the capture window in pixels.

   

   Maintain Aspect Ratio

   You can click the chain button in the task bar to maintain the aspect ratio when you change the width or height of the capture area.

   When this feature is disabled, the button displays as an broken chain image. If you then change one dimension of the capture window, the other dimension will not be resized automatically. For example, if you drag the window border to the left (to increase the width), the height will remain the same size.

   

   When this feature is enabled, the button displays as a chain image. If you then change one dimension of the capture window, the other side will be resized automatically. For example, if you drag the window border to the left (to increase the width), the height will be resized accordingly.

   

   Choose Pre-Set Size

   You can click the drop-down in the task bar and choose one of the pre-set window sizes.

   

   Snap/Move Into Rectangle

   If you have a particular application or window open, and you want to capture it, you can choose an option to snap the capture window around that element, or you can choose to move the element into your capture window. When you use one of these options, the Select Window dialog opens. You can then choose any of the applications or windows that you have open.

   

   Note If you are using a newer operating system, you may need to enable window-based recording optimization. See Enabling and Disabling Window-Based Recording Optimization.

   Note Be aware that new frames will still be created in the same size as the existing frames in the movie. Therefore, if you make the capture rectangle larger or smaller, the resulting images in the frames will be stretched or shrunk to compensate for the size change.

7. Click the red button on the task bar. The image inside the rectangle is captured and the new frame is added to the movie.
8. Click to save your work.