Any screen recording apps to record specific areas AND save the areas to hotkeys?

[Oneechan69]

I'm looking for an app that can record specific areas of the screen (and preferably take screenshots as well), that can also remember multiple capture areas, and let me bind them to hotkeys.

 

[Chuckeee]

Camtasia can do a specific region but I don’t know about hot keys or multiple regions at once

 

[iStorm]

MacOS has one built-in, though it doesn't remember multiple capture areas. Shift-Command-5 opens up the screenshot tool with the last used area selected. You can record a section of the screen or take screenshots.

Take screenshots or screen recordings on Mac

On your Mac, take pictures or recordings of the screen using Screenshot or keyboard shortcuts.

support.apple.com

 

[Cyby-CyberDog]

Take a look at CleanShotX

 

[padams35]

OBS can be used to record specific areas and can be setup to start/stop recording on hotkey. However toggling between different areas by hotkey might be beyond it. I also don't think it does screenshots.

 

[Cyby-CyberDog]

OBS can be used to record specific areas and can be setup to start/stop recording on hotkey. However toggling between different areas by hotkey might be beyond it. I also don't think it does screenshots.

OBS is great, but seems a bit of overkill for ‘only’ recording part of the screen

But it is open source of course and Cleanshot X is not.

 

[bogdanw]

macOS still has the screencapture utility that can capture video of a specified window or a rectangle with defined values.
Example:

screencapture -v -R 0,0,1280,720 720p.mov

records a video of the top left corner with 1280 width and 720 height.
screencapture can be integrated into an AppleScript saved as an app or Automator QuickActions.