Free video frame capture for mac software for mac

Capture Me is a screen capture utility for Mac OS X which features a floating capture window and resize ability.
Capture Me is very easy to use - just drag and resize the floating window to cover the area you want to capture. Then click in the window to capture the screenshot. You can resize it, copy it to the clipboard, and save it in a variety of formats and locations. Its behavior is customizable with respect to what happens after a capture.
What advantage does Capture Me hold over the built in OS X screencapture facility? For some tasks, the answer is simple - there is none - the built in capture is elegant and easy to use.
However, there are occasions when its nice to be able to choose what file format your capture saves in, copy it to the clipboard without holding down four keys at once, or resize it on the fly.
Its also common to want to take successive shots of the exact same position on the screen without moving the capture region at all, or make all your captures the same size.
These tasks are trivial with Capture Me, but difficult at best with the built in utilities. Another possible use is as a floating capture pad - see the comments in the review section for an example of one user who does this.
Main features:
- Free!
- Globally floating capture window.
- Fast screen captures (uses OpenGL).
- Ability to down scale captures (proportionally or not).
- Save as PNG, JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, or GIFF.
- Adjustable translucency of capture window.
- Nifty capture sound.
- Options to auto-save to desktop, auto-copy to clipboard, etc.
- Barest beginnings of AppleScript support.
- Written with Cocoa - native to Mac OS X.
- Universal binary - Intel, PPC native.

Spindownfix tells the computer if the Energy Saver is off not to spindown non-boot volumes. This problem has been noted as a problemwhen doing video capture in Mac OS X, as frames get dropped if the hard drive isnt spinning when files are written to it.

Frame Image is an AppleScript for PhotoFlash that will create a frame around the frontmost image. You can indicate the thickness and the script uses either black or the current background color for the frame.

Completly freeware.

AnimAide is for stop motion animation but it could also be used other traditional animation (e.g. pencil tests). It captures frames from a digital still camera or it may be used in conjunction with other remote capture software. (Preferably with a live feed).
This software does not interface with video and is intended for high definition output. It supports JPEG and TIFF images. If you are intent on using video, you could still use AnimAide along with other video capture software as a reference. Just point the project directory to the place where the video image files are being stored on the hard drive. It also has a view window that is completely transparent when the source is fully off and it allows you to see other applications (frame grabbers, live feeds) behind it. So other animation software can work in conjunction with AnimAide. Script automation in preferences allows for switching between AnimAide and another software.
Main features:
- Rotoscope
- Onion Skinning
- Quicktime export
- Script automation
- Clap Activation
- Straightforward Interface.
Enhancements:
- New line drawing tool was added
- Improved the visual quality Quicktime Movie exports.

Beat Direktor is a widget designed for video artists who work with music on a regular basis. You simply enter the BPM (beats per minute, or tempo) of the song you are using, the frame rate at which you are working at, and the beats per measure (generally 4 for pop music). Click the kompute button, and it tells you how many video frames there are per beat of music, measure, and 4 measures. Very handy for synching up animation and music!

Future updates may allow you to specify changes in song pattern for easy keyframing in another app.

Mac Filelight is a clone of the KDE Filelight utility.

It provides a pretty and user-friendly interface for discovering whats taking up all your disk space.