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ACA Capture Pro - Capture screen images, web pages, Flash, icon, menu from your Windows PC even those hard-to-grab DirectX, Direct3D games or video player, create videos of your computer screen.

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Capture Menu

Screenshot: The Capture menu of ACA Capture Pro

Screenshot: The Capture menu of ACA Capture Pro

  • Full screen: Captures the image of the entire desktop and all applications visible on it. The hotkey is PrintScreen.

    • TIPS: If you want to capture the full screen of game, please use ScrollLock or PrintScreen key, see DirectX/Direct3D and Video Player Capture.

  • Active window : Captures only the "topmost" window, or the window that currently has focus. The default hotkey is Ctrl+Shirt+F12.
  • Window or control - Capture an entire window or just a predefined area within a window such as a control or button. When clicked, a cursor cursor will appear, and a red blinking frame will appear around the target object.
    1. Move your mouse to the object that you want to capture.
    2. Click with your left mouse button or press Enter key to select and capture the region around which the blinking frame surrounds.
    3. Click your right mouse button or press Esc key to abort this command.
  • ToolTip control: A ToolTip control displays a small pop-up window that contains a line of text that describes the purpose of a tool. They appear automatically, or pop up, when the user pauses the mouse pointer over a tool. To capture a ToolTip control, please follow the steps below:
    1. Move the mouse pointer over a tool.
    2. Press Ctrl+Shift+T (the default hotkey for ToolTip capture) when the ToolTip control appears.

    Screenshot: The ToolTip control

    Screenshot: The Tooltip control

  • Region: Captures the image from the selected region. When clicked, a large cross cursor cursor will appear.
    1. Click using your left mouse button to indicate where you want to start the capture area, and then release it.
    2. Drag the outline to enclose the area you want to capture, the size (in pixels) of the capture will be shown within the help window.
    3. Click the left mouse button or press Enter key to complete the capture.
    4. Click your right mouse button or press Esc key to abort this command.

    The default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+F2.

  • Fixed region: Captures the image from the region that specified the width and height. When clicked, the Capture Fixed Region dialog opens.
    1. Input the width and height of fixed region by pixel on the dialog, then press OK button.

      2. Screenshot: The Capture Fixed Region dialog

      Screenshot: The Capture Fixed Region dialog

    2. A cursor cursor will appear, and a fixed rectangle will be shown in screen.
    3. Move the mouse pointer, click the left mouse button or press Enter key when the image to be captured is covered by the rectangle.
    4. Click your right mouse button or press Esc key to abort this command.
  • Polygon: Captures the image from a polygon region. When clicked, a large cross cursor cursor will appear.
    • Press the left mouse button or press Enter key to accept the first position.
    • Move the mouse pointer to next point, and press the left mouse or Enter key.
    • Repeat s2 until complete. Double click the left mouse button to end this screen capture operation.
    • Click your right mouse button or press Esc key to abort this command.

    The default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+F3.

  • Round: Captures the image from a round region. When clicked, a cursor cursor will appear.
    1. Press the left mouse button or press Enter key to accept the center of the circle
    2. Move the mouse pointer.
    3. Press the left mouse button or press Enter key when the image to be captured is covered by the round.
    4. Click your right mouse button or press Esc key to abort this command.

    The default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+F4.

  • Ellipse: Captures the image from an ellipse region. When clicked, a cursor cursor will appear.
    1. Press the left mouse button or press Enterkey to accept the first position.
    2. Move the mouse pointer.
    3. Press the left mouse button or press Enterkey when the image to be captured is covered by the ellipse.
    4. Click your right mouse button or press Esc key to abort this command.

    The default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+F5.

  • Menu: Shows the help dialog of menu capture. To capture a screenshot from a menu:
    • Click the menu that you want to capture, stay on the menu.
    • Press the hotkey, the default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+F6

    Screenshot: How to capture a screenshot from a menu

    Figure: How to capture a screenshot from a menu

  • Start auto-timer: Enables program to perform unattended captures at intervals that you define.
  • Predefine capture: You can predefine a specific part of the screen. When you want to capture echo time, you can directly press the hotkey without selecting the screen area.

    • When clicked, the Predefine Capture dialog opens, you can adjust the predefined start X, Y, Width, Height and the hotkey.

    The default hotkey is Ctrl+Shift+D.

  • Web content to image: Capture a long WEB PAGE to an image file, even if it scrolls off-screen.
    1. Click the menu Capture | Web content to image, then type the URL of web page. Ex: http://www.acasystems.com.
    2. Click the Start button.
  • Web images or Flash: Get all images or Flash on a web page.
    1. Click the menu Capture | Web images or Flash, then type the URL of web page that including the images or Flash. Ex: http://www.acasystems.com.
    2. Click the Start button.

    Note: ACA Capture Pro only captures the standard web images or Flash. It doesn't support for dynamic images or Flash that outputed by IFRAME, JavaScript or CSS.

  • Video: Captures the actions from your Windows screen and the the sounds from your Microphone or media player, then saves it as a standard, easily edited, AVI (Audio-Video Interleaved) movie file.
  • Icon: Performs fast scan of all local hard disks for icon images.
  • DirectX capture: Allows you to capture the DirectX/Direct3D game or video player screen