Window inputs
A Window input takes one window of another app on your Mac, such as a slide deck, a browser or a video call, and treats it like a camera: it has a card, goes to Preview and Program, can be framed and colour-corrected, sits in the multiview or a Composite, and can be recorded with your inputs. It brings in that app’s sound too.
Allow screen recording
macOS asks InterDirector for the Screen Recording permission the first time you add a Window input. Allow it in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Screen & System Audio Recording, then quit and reopen InterDirector: macOS applies the permission from the next launch. macOS may ask you to confirm it again from time to time.
Until it is allowed, a Window input’s card says so, and how to allow it.
Add one
Press Add Input… and choose Window. Every window open in your other apps is shown with a small picture of it; choose one. Its name starts as the app’s name; type another if you like.
- Bring in its sound: the app’s sound goes to the mixer like any source’s, with its own fader, routing and effects. InterDirector’s own sound is never captured, so Program cannot feed back into itself.
- Show the pointer: whether your mouse pointer appears in the picture.
The window is captured as the app draws it, so other windows on top of it do not show, and it can be on any display.
What it remembers
A window is remembered by its app and its title. When the Show opens, or the input starts again, InterDirector looks for that window. If its title has changed, as a browser’s does when you switch tabs, it takes the app’s main window instead.
If the app is not running, or has no window open, the input’s card says so and it tries again by itself, so a window you open later, or an app you start after the Show, comes up on its own. The same happens when the window is closed during the show.
To capture a different window, open the input’s settings and press Choose Another Window….
Next
Framing a source and colour correction, which work on a window as on any picture.