Capture Delay!?

[TaoPhoenix]

Unless this was fixed in V 4.8 or higher,

There seems to be a delay when I can click the SC icon vs when it "wants to" capture the screen. In a key movie scene, that's important because a 3 second delay kills a .5 second scene! This leads me to "guess" the scene about 17 times to get the "screen capture right". Any advice?

[tomos]

Questions:

• 1) do you mean you are using an older version?
• 2) when you say click on the SC icon - which icon do you mean?

My advice would be to use a shortcut to take a screenshot - even then there is slight delay, but only a fraction of a second.
Or pause the film?

[cmpm]

Set the memory use higher.
See if that helps.
+ maybe don't show the quick capture bar
or use it, as it seems to capture quicker then the tray icon, i think...
i use quick capture bar for last active window and it's pretty quick...

[mouser]

First, check to make sure you don't actually have the delay option enabled.
You can find that in the tray menu under Capture Options -> Use Delay.

Assuming not, see if it's only the FIRST capture that is slow, after not having used SC in a long time, with subsequent captures being fast.  If so, you should try the option that cmpm mentioned about changing the "Inactive Memory Use".  In this case it could also be a hard disk that's sleeping, for which there is no easy fix.