As I have been filming my YouTube videos and learning how to operate a Mac computer, I have been on a steep learning curve. There are constantly things I need to figure out how to do. I am very thankful and grateful I watched a few YouTube videos which mentioned a some short cuts on my computer. For example, when using iMovie, you can start and stop the video by pushing the space bar.
One shortcut someone mentioned in her video was using command shift 4 to get a cursor. You then have to drag the cursor to highlight what you want to screen shot on your screen. Once you let go of the cursor, the image will be captured as a photo. This is a great feature. I constantly use it. But there is one problem. Often I am trying to capture a slide or just a small area of my screen. If I do not get the cursor correctly lined up, the screenshot is a little bit askew. This is not a big deal, but when there are two slides back to back which I want to use in my YouTube video, this causes the frame to jump when switching between slides.
Tonight, I was working on my pre-production for my next YouTube video. I thought I hit command shift 4, but instead of the compute taking a screen shot, I got a preview window with the ability the adjust the screen shot to the correct dimensions. I made the box bigger and lined it up with the outline of my slide. I then hit the “capture” button at the bottom of my screen. Then, the computer took the screen shot. I was baffled how I did this. I tried doing it again, but I just got the regular screen shot cursor.
I then thought, maybe I hit command shift 5 on my keyboard instead of command shift 4. I tried the new key configuration and behold, the box appeared to adjust the area on my screen I wanted before the computer took a screen shot. I was absolutely thrilled! After all this time struggling with the cursor on my keyboard to try to get the image I wanted inside the screen shot box and take a screen shot, now I can preview the area on my screen I want to capture and adjust its dimensions before the computer takes a screen shot. Wow! This is going to save me so much time and make my videos look more professional. I love when God provides a wonderful happy accident!
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