Visual Capturer 2.1.0.31

• License:

  Free to try; $15.00 to buy

• Editor's Rating:

  3.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  Be the first to rate this product!

• Downloads:

  239

• Operating Systems:

  Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98

• Additional Requirements:

  Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP

• Limitations:

  Can capture 10 seconds only

• Date Added:

  July 29, 2007

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version Visual Capturer 1

• Add to my Watch List

Publisher's description of Visual Capturer

This program, at a specific timed interval, will capture either the full screen or an active area of the screen and save it to a specified location on your computers hard drive. You can choose to save the image with the following options as well: JPEG Progressive Encoding, or JPEG Greyscale, Adjustable JPEG compression from 1% to 100%, adjustable capture rate from 5 milliseconds to 2.5 seconds, automatic screen cropping, with click-and-drag target cropping, invisibility mode, making the application virtually invisible until you deem it to be visible, automatic image sorting and storing with 8 different pre-programmed paths and formats, and the ability to save unique files only by utilizing 128-bit MD5 comparisons. Version 2.1.0.31 is a bug fixing release.

See more CNET content tagged:

JPEG,

hard drive,

image

Editor's review of Visual Capturer

• 3.0 stars

• "Visual Capturer"

• Reviewed by: CNET Staff
• Version reviewed: Visual Capturer 2.1.0.31

Capture screen grabs silently with this monitoring utility, but you'll have to take it on faith that most options work, since they cant be tested before registration. Visual Capture's small dialog-sized interface offers a few easily set options. However, all advanced options are blocked for demo users.

This app is easily operated by any user. It's a mere click of the radio buttons to set the few options for capture area and image type. Capture area is limited to either full screen or active window, and color or gray-scale JPEGs are the only image types. Setting the JPEG resolution percentage slider offers a novel pop-up indicator. Setting the capture timer uses a similar slider, but limits users to 5 to 2,500 milliseconds between screen captures. During testing, we found full-screen color captures for a 1,440x990 screen at 100 percent resolution were 360KB per image. You could very quickly put a sizable dent in your hard drive with saved images.

The demo doesn't have a way to hide the application or the saved images. Numerous other promised options also are restricted to registered users. The final restriction is that the demo stores only 10 seconds of images each time the app is invoked. That was long enough to prove the program saves the correct images. However, with so many blocked options we can recommend Visual Capture only to those users happy to buy before they try.

User reviews

Write your own review Be the first one to review Visual Capturer 2.1.0.31 and share your experience with the CNET community!