KAM Capture Tool 1.4.0 - sound on its own, a folder for each kind, nothing cut off
Sound on its own, a folder for each kind, and nothing cut off.
Audio, as a third thing beside Screenshot and Video. System audio, the microphone, or both, into one file — MP3 by default, M4A or WAV in Settings. It is the same in-process mixer the video uses, so either source can be switched on or off from the recording bar in the middle of a take, and the track carries on without a gap. System audio can come from a particular output, which matters when a call is playing through a headset. The case it was built for: screenshot every slide of a lecture, record the call's sound, and put the two together in an editor — sharp slides, and no hour of 4K video to store or upload. An hour is 86 MB as MP3, 58 MB as M4A.
Pause leaves the paused stretch out. It used to freeze the picture and keep recording the sound. Now both stop and pick up together: an eight-second take paused for two comes out as 181 frames, 6.03 s of video beside 6.01 s of audio. As sound alone, the same take comes out at 6.09 s, as MP3 or M4A.
A simpler home window. Screenshot, Video, Audio across the top; underneath, only the options that apply; then one button that says exactly what it will do. The separate recording setup window is gone — its choices live here and are remembered. Full screen starts straight away. Open Screenshots, Open Video and Open Audio each go to their own folder, instead of one button guessing from whatever you did last, and audio has a folder of its own: Music\KAM Capture Tool\Audio.
One progress indicator for updates. The download shows on the gold button, with its percentage, and clicking it cancels. The bar that also appeared across the top said the same thing and was being cut off.
Nothing cut off. A new check, --layoutcheck, lays out every window offscreen at its real size and its smallest, in the states that stretch it, and fails if anything is drawn outside its space. Its first run found three real problems: the installer's Browse button pushed 15 px off the edge, six Settings controls cut at the minimum width, and the annotator's last four tools hidden at its minimum height. All fixed, and it now runs in CI. Long device names end in an ellipsis rather than being cut through a letter.
Smaller fixes. Two screenshots taken in the same second no longer overwrite each other. A screenshot taken without the annotator no longer pulls the home window in front of a call. M4A is now AAC at 128 kbps, so it really is the smaller one. A OneDrive recordings folder you chose and confirmed is now honoured by the recorder too.
Install: download KamCapture.exe below and run it. It asks where to install — per-user, never as administrator — or runs where it stands. The .NET runtime is inside it, so there is nothing to install first. Recording, video or audio, also needs ffmpeg: winget install Gyan.FFmpeg
Updating: 1.2.x and later offer this by itself.
It is not code signed, so SmartScreen warns the first time: More info, then Run anyway. Get-FileHash KamCapture.exe should match:
8D617770BFF411E04C5884C43F24DE8D32976639CBD9FAF3F2FF390F4DFA30D9 KamCapture.exe
Full Changelog: v1.3.1...v1.4.0