SnagIt Screen Capture and Image Editing All the screen capture and editing you need, in one simply powerful program
Showing someone exactly what you see on your screen is sometimes the quickest and clearest way to communicate. With SnagIt, you can select anything on your screen – an area, image, article, Web page, or error message – and capture it. Then, save the screen capture to a file, send it to SnagIt’s editor to add professional effects, share it by e-mail, or drop it into PowerPoint®, Word®, or another favorite application.
Side-by-side comparison of version 8.2 versus 7.2 (Link)
Fantastic tool for those doing technical software documentation. I love the ability to capture the entire contents of a scrolling window. While not a heavily used features, it does come in handy.
LuckyGuy98 said: Anyone care to offer any quick insight why this is better than the typical print screen then paste as used in xp?
I used to use snagit when it only 2 or 3 versions old. But I started to use winXP print screen instead to reduced the number of installed programs.. My main guess to your question is that most people don't know about it.. so..
try this FWers..hold down shift or Ctrl(depends on keyboard) and hit printscreen (usually upper right hand conrner) Now go to MSpaint(find it in the accessories folder or start->run->type mspaint) Now hold ctrl and "V"...magic! you can now save it as a file.. I recommend saving it as a jpeg file..
This is a great program. I bought it years ago for it's abilities to take movies of your onscreen actions. This is great for showing someone exactly how some operation must be done. I'm sure there are free tools out there now that do the same thing, but 4+ years ago Snagit was da shit
SnagIt isn't simply a screen capture utility. It will capture videos w/ audio as well. You can capture video of a specific area or the entire screen. I use it to create tutorials for users on several different programs. If step-by-step instructions won't do it, a video of me performing the same tasks usually does the trick.
LuckyGuy98 said: Anyone care to offer any quick insight why this is better than the typical print screen then paste as used in xp? this shows how asking the right question is so important.
pixelking
Member
posted: Jun. 4, 2007 @ 1:40p
jooksing82 said: LuckyGuy98 said: Anyone care to offer any quick insight why this is better than the typical print screen then paste as used in xp?
I used to use snagit when it only 2 or 3 versions old. But I started to use winXP print screen instead to reduced the number of installed programs.. My main guess to your question is that most people don't know about it.. so..
try this FWers..hold down shift or Ctrl(depends on keyboard) and hit printscreen (usually upper right hand conrner) Now go to MSpaint(find it in the accessories folder or start->run->type mspaint) Now hold ctrl and "V"...magic! you can now save it as a file.. I recommend saving it as a jpeg file..
It's actually always Alt-PrtScn, but there are several advantages to SnagIt: 1. You can show your mouse in the capture 2. You can show a drop-down list such as choices in a menu-bar 3. You can capture movies do demonstrate several steps in sequence 4. Cropping is much easier 5. Highlighting areas is *much* easier - not really doable with MS Paint
The new Snipping Tool in Vista gets around many of these problems, but #1, #2, or #3
According to TechSmith's website, v8 is Vista compatible, but I have no real-world experience with SnagIt and Vista.
jaxidian said: lovebeta said: Is this compatible with Vista? thanks. I also want to know. I run exclusively Vista on all work PCs and all but 1 home PC. -Jax If you read and you will find " SnagIt 8.2 is now certified for Windows Vista " This means $19.95 for Vista support. For XP is free. Im really not sure why this software is so big, just for screenshot. I had some screen recorder, and they are only about 4mb- 9mb. It does FLV and AVI for outpot. For just jpg output, I think it should be smaller.
pixelking said: It's actually always Alt-PrtScn, but there are several advantages to SnagIt: 1. You can show your mouse in the capture 2. You can show a drop-down list such as choices in a menu-bar 3. You can capture movies do demonstrate several steps in sequence 4. Cropping is much easier 5. Highlighting areas is *much* easier - not really doable with MS Paint The new Snipping Tool in Vista gets around many of these problems, but #1, #2, or #3 According to TechSmith's website, v8 is Vista compatible, but I have no real-world experience with SnagIt and Vista.
It's "actually" alt OR ctrl + print screen. Alt + print screen captures only the window you're viewing while ctrl + print screen will capture your entire screen visible including the taskbar. I do see the advantages of snagit in #2 and #3.
Applications such as snagit, camtasia, Adobe captivate are not just screen capturing tools. They are also used for training purposes. For example it allows you to create small videos on "how to" for a given software (i.e. excel, powerpoint, how to register for a site), while capturing your mouse and keyboard actions. I've never used snag it but camtasia and captivate allows you to insert questions, and create interactive pages with narration.
I am currently downloading the snagit (boy its very slow) and hopefully this will solve my need instead of buying the $400 captivate.
LuckyGuy98 said: Anyone care to offer any quick insight why this is better than the typical print screen then paste as used in xp?
slythe777
Thrifty Member
posted: Jun. 4, 2007 @ 2:39p
as far as I know, you can capture anything on the screen whether it be animated, streaming or static.
fatwes
Member
posted: Jun. 4, 2007 @ 2:40p
valleypoboy said: pixelking said: It's actually always Alt-PrtScn, but there are several advantages to SnagIt: 1. You can show your mouse in the capture 2. You can show a drop-down list such as choices in a menu-bar 3. You can capture movies do demonstrate several steps in sequence 4. Cropping is much easier 5. Highlighting areas is *much* easier - not really doable with MS Paint The new Snipping Tool in Vista gets around many of these problems, but #1, #2, or #3 According to TechSmith's website, v8 is Vista compatible, but I have no real-world experience with SnagIt and Vista.
It's "actually" alt OR ctrl + print screen. Alt + print screen captures only the window you're viewing while ctrl + print screen will capture your entire screen visible including the taskbar. I do see the advantages of snagit in #2 and #3.
The "CTRL + printscreen" does the same thing as just pressing "printscreen" in Windows XP (and I think Win98 also)
In any case, this utility's a good find, for small video grabs
the images are sized well, the highlight tools are second to none,and people like pcmag use this tool to show images of examples in the magazne publication.
valleypoboy said: pixelking said: It's actually always Alt-PrtScn, but there are several advantages to SnagIt: 1. You can show your mouse in the capture 2. You can show a drop-down list such as choices in a menu-bar 3. You can capture movies do demonstrate several steps in sequence 4. Cropping is much easier 5. Highlighting areas is *much* easier - not really doable with MS Paint The new Snipping Tool in Vista gets around many of these problems, but #1, #2, or #3 According to TechSmith's website, v8 is Vista compatible, but I have no real-world experience with SnagIt and Vista.
It's "actually" alt OR ctrl + print screen. Alt + print screen captures only the window you're viewing while ctrl + print screen will capture your entire screen visible including the taskbar. I do see the advantages of snagit in #2 and #3.
I love Snag-It, Following features can not be achived by Win-XP Print Screen.
(1) Capture with Custom Scroll (Very useful to take screenshot of chat, it scrolls intelligently and accumulates capture) (2) Capture Text (It access on-screen-control object and retrives text from it, like try to copy text from Windows error message box.) (3) Capture and then add tags, arrow or ready made shapes on image. (4) Capture by setting Timer, Generate File names automatically with custom patterns.
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