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The University of Portland has a site-license to make the newest apps available to UP faculty and staff for use on work computers (both Mac and PC). These are tools that can be very useful for educators and support staff in higher ed to communicate using images, video, and sound. Snagit has more features than most people will ever need, but if you capture screenshots regularly and create still image or video tutorials, it's pretty much perfect.Two popular desktop capture tools, Snagit & Camtasia, have recently received major updates and improvements in the form of new versions. How useful many of these will be is questionable, but many are ideal for everything from marking up documents (when captured as an image) to critiquing web pages, and all are much easier to add than with a standard image editor. Just about every conceivable option is available here, including highlights, arrows, flashes, text captions, hotlinks to web sites and a variety of special effects.

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Export services for Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, PDF and others can be added from the Snagit site, too.Ĭaptured images, however, can be used with Snagit’s wide array of editing and annotation tools. With text and video, there’s little to do here other than add tags to make it easier to find saved captures, or send the capture directly to a suitable installed application or service such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, YouTube or an FTP client. Whatever the content of the capture, it appears in the Snagit Editor, along with any previous captures, in a gallery running across the bottom of its window. Even so, this simple video capture is still an ideal way for making quick tutorial videos for informal tech support purposes, particularly since clips can be uploaded to YouTube from within the program. System or microphone audio can be recorded too, but there’s a 1GB file-size limit and no way to edit the video within Snagit - that requires TechSmith’s costlier Camtasia Studio, or a suitable third-party application.

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Video capture mode records whatever happens on all or part of the screen (if a portion is selected using the crosshair) as an MP4 file. Unfortunately, the text capture mode lacks OCR for cleanly extracting text from Flash-based sites and PDFs. The only snag here is that Snagit preserves the columnar layout of the captured text by spacing lines across successive columns using tabs, rather than reformatting it into one column, so some editing is needed to make it usable. Text mode is intended for web pages where text can’t be directly or properly selected, but its crosshair selection is also useful for extracting text from layouts that use multiple columns. In addition to images, Snagit can also capture text and video. This has options for including the mouse pointer in the captured image, capturing multiple screen selections sequentially and specifying a destination program for the captured image other than Snagit's own editor. The flexible All-in-One capture mode used here should suit most requirements, but Snagit’s capture behaviour can be fine-tuned in the Settings window. Clicking one of these scrolls the window automatically as Snagit captures the appropriate sections, which are then all stitched together to make a seamless whole. A web page that’s taller and/or wider than its browser window, for example, causes Snagit to displays yellow scroll buttons on the window's bottom edge, right-hand and bottom-right corner, as required. So far, so straightforward, but Snagit’s strengths come to the fore when capturing the content of a window that won’t all fit into one screen. The entire screen can then be captured by clicking the crosshair anywhere, while clicking and dragging it captures the selected area - something that’s assisted by the crosshair’s pixel-level magnification. Once installed, Snagit overrides Windows’ default Print Screen key behaviour (though the shortcut can be changed) and, when pressed, this instead pops up a crosshair on the screen. Now on version 11, Snagit has been around since 1990, but the program has long since expanded to include all manner of screen capture and subsequent image-editing features.