KeySnatcher
Posted on 11. Jul, 2008 by Jerzy Drozda Jr in Blog
Since I’m working on Making It Look Great 5 DVD I don’t want to miss any opportunity to make things look their best. I’ve watched previeus editions of this series and most of them where recorded on Mac using some build-in software. The most cute feature was a visual representation of keys that were being pressed during the recording. I wanted that for myself.
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find any software for Windows that would do what I desired. Everything that I found was made for Mac. I liked KeyCastr the most. I believe that I even seen one software for Windows that meets this functionality, but it was worse than ugly. After an hour of googling I decided to make my own, and so I did. Here’s a little preview video of what it is at the moment.
There are some small bugs to fix, but hopefully it won’t take long before I publish this wonderful little app for us Windows users.
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UmairVFX
11. Jul, 2008
This is FINE buddy :)
i need this can you give me?
PLZ
HOPE YOU WILL
Maltaannon
11. Jul, 2008
Sure. As soon as I’m finished.
UmairVFX
11. Jul, 2008
Ohh man you are really best buddy i really want this this is pretty better than the others dvd
like MILG 2
Les
11. Jul, 2008
Very cool! Looking forward to the release.
VFX--Anomaly
12. Jul, 2008
Wow you are a Machine, Do you ever run low on Batteries?
:) This is Awesome George, can I have it now?
I need it NOW! :P
Chatton
13. Jul, 2008
wow awersome!
how did you code this? is this some kind of flash or air application?
Maltaannon
13. Jul, 2008
It’s a hybrid based on client-server architecture. I’ll explain how it works in a separate post when I’m done, which shouldn’t be long, since I need this tool to start recording tutorials for Making It Look Great 5
VFX--Anomaly
13. Jul, 2008
What are you using to record the video Tutorials George?
Camtasia or something else?
Janus
14. Jul, 2008
Looking forward to it :)
Peace!
Simon Bonner
15. Jul, 2008
This is seriously great! Thanks for this, Malt’. Looking forward to the release.
Delgadeth
16. Jul, 2008
This app will be usseful for me, for my classes of AE and PR.
Looking forward to the release.
iori
23. Jul, 2008
oh my god
u r such a genius!
Clint
16. Aug, 2008
Jerzy, what language did you program this in?
Maltaannon
19. Aug, 2008
It’s a hybrid in a client-server architecture build on top of Vb6 and Air platforms.
Fadliev
23. Aug, 2008
It’s a great helper program, I’ve been looking for such a program as well; but couldn’t find anything. thanks so much. What is gonna be the price of it, Jerzy? I have a suggestion: if you can, make an option which is gonna force the letter indicator to be near the curser and travel along with the curser. the viewers always follow the curser…
Pierre
15. Nov, 2008
Great didactic issue! Love this.
Well done Mr. Maltaannon :)
Loay
08. Mar, 2009
WOOOOOOOOW
can you tell me what do you can’t do…….?
Very very good man
Waiting for it
Stoyan
21. Jul, 2009
If I was to see this few months ago, I’d recommend ShowOff, which, with a little bit of tweaking can almost get you to that Mac software look. However, I can see you got it working and it’s WAY better than what you can do with the AHK script. Are you going to release it officially? :|
Regards,
Stoyan
Jerzy Drozda Jr
21. Jul, 2009
That’s the plan. Hard to say when. There are major changes to be made in order for it to work on other machines, not to mention adding cool features. Everything in it’s own time. I guess now (that I have been more active with the site) when I say “soon” it really means “soon”, so… KeySnatcher – coming soon :)
Stoyan
21. Jul, 2009
Thanks for the quick reply! I’m really looking forward to it. Maybe it’s not really the right place to say that, but keep those great tutorials up man! I always thought, when it comes to AE, I can pretty much do anything or figure it out in the process of creating it. However, going through the blog and the tutorials page, I realized how wrong I was. That’s why maltaannon.com popped up in my daily-check list. Again, great work!
Regards,
Stoyan
xxnu
24. Aug, 2009
JD, love the tutorials – any progress on keysnatch?
Drake
20. Sep, 2009
Hey is the plugin ready ? :D I know I’m bugging you but I cant wait !!!
Jerzy Drozda Jr
20. Sep, 2009
It’s coming. Be patient.
erikals
11. Mar, 2010
hi,..
any new news? :)
Jerzy Drozda Jr
12. Mar, 2010
As a matter of fact – yes. There will be a public release available in a few months. It’s just that NAB 2010 is very close and I’m quite busy getting ready for the presentations. After NAB I should go back to working on the public release. However – if you need the tool now drop me an email and we’ll work something out.
erikals
13. Mar, 2010
superb! :D
i can wait, no rush at the momento! :)
great stuff! :)
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