CUTTER (for Mac only right now)

The best way to make clips of video / audio on your Mac. Simply select the video and audio input and hit record. The options are:

VIDEO:

• Full Screen
• Screen selection (like a screenshot, but will record that section of your screen)
• Webcam
• None

AUDIO:

• System audio (intercepts the sound as it is leaving your computer. Able to even record sounds when listening to a song with headphones)
• Microphone
• None

These will be able to mixed and matched however you want.

Installation

Right now there is only a makefile. In the future I will put together a pkg installer. I just have not learnt how to do that yet. So if you feel like assisting, do let me know.

To install:

• sudo make install

Uninstall:

• sudo make uninstall

About

• This makes use of an older open source project to record system audio. WavTap. As such, it has some bugs and I hope to hire someone to help me fix them up in the future. For right now it seems to work for me (Mavericks).

Warning / Bugs / Use at your own risk (for now)

• This may be some of the worst Obj-C you have seen? Made this while learning it so if you see improvements please submit pull request.
• The kernel extension for recording the system audio has some bugs and is old. It works fine for me, but you may have issues.
• When doing selection screen recordings, there is a bug I have not figured out yet. It seems to crash if opening the select screen multiple times?

YO YO YOSEMITE ISSUE

The kext is not signed which apple needs so to get around that run:

sudo nvram boot-args="debug=0x146 kext-dev-mode=1" in your terminal and then restart your computer and try the installation again!

Fixes

• If you notice your speakers not outputting sound anymore simply: System Preferences -> Sound -> Internal Speakers. If you want to then try using Cutter again do the previous with Cutter closed and then open it. Hopefully that works.

Structure

• Extension/ contains the kernel. This is copied from WavTap
• Cutter/ contains the UI of the app and all the functions to start recording, etc

TODO

• Pause / continue recording
• Fix issues with recording system audio
• Some bugs that happen when you try to screen select too many times
• A PKG builder
• Gif maker
• Auto subtitle video option
• Better upload form (upload older vids)
• See previews / edit clips

Most of this it seems can be accomplished with Monosnap. The difference is I want to also provide the ability to easily capture the system audio and upload to a public website! Other than that, monosnap is great!

Feedback / Contact

• If you need to reach me for any reason please email: [email protected] or submit an issue.

License

Feel free to do whatever you wish with the code. This will be open source forever. Let's give it an MIT.