Hi Sw_tester

We apologize for the late response, in case we have not yet replied to your email. (usually we respond within 2 business days, but often within few hours) It would be very helpful if you could send us the crash report so that we can analyze and help you resolve the issue. We look forward to your mail with crash report and any other additional info regarding Voila crashing on launch.

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Thanks for your comments. I have been pondering buying Viola because right now I have LittleSnapper and the performance is horrible. Viola's performance seems to be better.

Like you said you can do most of these things on 10.6 but having it all in one place is worth the money, IMHO. FTP in the finder is fine for browsing public ftp sites but it is READ-ONLY and you cannot upload using the finders built-in FTP. All in all if Viola goes on sale for a good discount I would probably buy it.

hi Neox,

if you mainly want to capture web pages on the fly Devonthink Personal is outstanding. it costs $50 though, but it can do many things and is a great organizer. and on their site they give away about 5 software titles whether you buy anything from them or not. Tasty Apps has a $15 Web Snapper and a $15 Videobox —together they capture web pages and videos. they do depend on a hack somewhat like SIMBL called SpiceRack but you don’t have to install it for them to work — it is very optional. iTubeX looks promising for $15 and i’ve been meaning to give it a try but haven’t yet.

i see you have Transmit which is one of the premiere FTP apps for the mac. With Transmit all your FTP needs are well taken care of. i got Interarchy in a macbundle and it’s pretty good too but has more of a learning curve than the great Transmit.

i’m not knocking Voila and i want to like it, but the first time you click on an mp4 and Voila opens it, i think you might be taken aback. the thing i think is so great about Voila is it doesn’t try to do anything sneaky or overly complicated. what i mean by that is that apps like Videobox and iTubex look for the video/image/document/sound/etc./ url and try to download from that. Voila just bypasses all that and simply uses a set of crosshairs to let you choose what you want to record as if you were recording with a video recorder/ camera. this is Voila’s strong point, how it bypasses everything and turns your mac screen into essentially a video recorder/ camera and then neatly organizes it all and throws in some cool editing features.

for capturing pictures Voila’s hotkeys are the same as Mac OS’s, but the rest are not — so overriding the OS system defaults is the only real drawback i can find with Voila. i could think of quite a few more abilities i wish it had but that’d be a few more paragraphs :)

all in all i’m saying the one drawback of Voila is a big one. you might be able to accept it. i would reccomend dling the trial of Voila and checking it out for awhile, along with the alternatives i’ve mentioned, some less expensive than Voila, some more, and looking around on your own. Voila’s strongest, unique point is the fashion in which it records/captures. its weakest point is it overrides the system defaults and the option to turn this off doesn’t stick, for me at least.

as a side note, Voila’s highest record capture rate is mp4 high quality, 25 frames per second, single pass encoding. so that’s for consumer use only and not for professional use. for professional use you want to capture whatever it is you are capturing in its raw format and convert it with a more professional program or at least QuickTime with x264Encoder 1.2.19, Handbrake, iSquint or something of the like.

one thing i haven’t tried with Voila is manually changing the hotkeys. maybe if i did that and then unchecked “Override system defaults,” it might stay unchecked through relaunches.

anyway i know i’ve been wordy for a forum like this but i’m just trying to help — some insight, some ideas — before you spend your hard-earned money.

Hi Andreas. S.

We are currently testing and bug fixing Voila for Lion OS. We will definitely look into this issue. We know you have written us few mails and we tried couple of troubleshooting steps, but it did not give us sufficient info. If you come across any useful information such as when does this happen, does it happen when only Voila is running or it occurs in the presence of a specific software, please mail to our support team. Thank you.