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Camtasia Screen Recorder Software 10 Year Anniversary

peter — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:38:54 +0000

This website is mostly about Snagit. I don’t talk much (here) about other great software titles. In many ways, especially video recording, the big brother of Snagit is really Camtasia Studio. Well this post is a tribute to that big brother.

If Snagit is the ultimate tool to take any kind of screen shots, copy text, images and what-not from your screen, then Camtasia is the ultimate tool to record video from your screen. This is excellent when you want to create tutorials or any kind of instructional videos related to computer or internet use. Perfect to do software presentations, demos and so on.

Our all time favorite Screen Recording / Screencasting software Camtasia Studio is growing up. Camtasia was first released at Comdex 1999. Camtasia has come a long way in these last 10 years and are now available both on Mac and PC platform.

Techsmith compiled a cool timeline below that shows Camtasia milestones, advertising and logos, reviews, feature releases and technology milestones. Check it out:

To celebrate Camtasia’s 10th birthday, SoftwareCasa has a sale on Snagit Screen Capture and Camtasia Screen Recording software!

For a limited time, save an extra 10% on already-discounted volume licenses of Camtasia Studio, Snagit, or both in a bundle. Offer ends December 7, 2009. SoftwareCasa is also doing a special price on Snagit Single user - $47.00.

You find the Anniversary Specials here:

Snagit Single User $47.00
Snagit Multi User Discount (10% 5-users and upwards)
Camtasia Multi User Discount (10% 5-users and upwards)

Until next time
Peter – Your Snagit Guide

Recording Video with Audio in Snagit

peter — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:15:23 +0000

Hi There,

Did you know that Snagit not only captures images but that you can also record Video with Audio?

Yes Snagit keeps getting better and better always one step ahead of all the Screen Capture Software out there.

However please note that this feature is only a small subset of the powerful screen recording and editing capability of Camtasia Studio. Camtasia Studio will allow you to record, edit, annotate and produce videos in all of the standard multi-media formats. It uses an optimized screen capture codec so the resulting files are small and highly compressed.

Back to Snagit, most of the time I notice that first time Snagit users usually ask whenever they record a video from player, website or application, why the audio is missing once playing the videos on the editor.

I encountered the same problem but I soon discovered how easy it is to fix the problem and make it work. I will share with you the steps below. Although it may look long winded don’t give up, if you follow the instructions step by step its very easy and you only need to do it once.

How to record a video with audio in Snagit:

Click on the Light Blue Round button with an arrow beside the Capture button and choose Video Capture. See image above.

Make sure that under the Options area, the Microphone is highlighted or on.

Now click on the tab Output with an image written “None Selected” , then go to Properties, on Audio options, make sure that the Audio capture device is set to your sound card, click Apply then OK.

Once done with setting up the necessary functions on Snagit, proceed to configuring the recording input in your Window Record Control.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio tab. In Sound recording area, make sure that your sound card is set as the Default Device, click Apply then OK.

Now, under the Sound recording area, click on the Volume button, this will open the Record Control box. Once there, choose Options > then Properties.

Put a check on the box beside the following options: Stereo Mix, Mono Mix, What you hear, Mixer, Wave out mix and Wave in, then click OK.

Back to Record Control box, put a check on the Select button corresponding to each property that you checked earlier, then close the box.

If you follow these steps and it fails, you may want to update your sound card or if your sound card does not support recording audio-generated applications, you may use a jumper wire. Just place the jumper wire between Line Out and Mic In on the Sound Card, making the Line In as the recording source.

Alternatively you may own an older version of Snagit that needs upgrading to the latest version Snagit 9.0. You may request upgrade for Snagit here.

If you find this article helpful please feel free to share with all the Snaggers and give us your comments!

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Snagit Guide

Screen Capture for Mac – Voila

peter — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:50:13 +0000

Calling all Mac users out there!

Are you one of the millions of Mac users who have been waiting all this time for a great screen capture software for your computer?

Good news! Your waiting is finally over, here comes, Voila! Yes, you read that right, it’s Voila Mac Screen Capture. Global Delight have released a MAC compatible Screen Capture software that makes Image Capturing a Pleasure!

Voila also made a mark at 2009 Macworld Awards Finals – Voila was nominated for Macworld Editor’s Choice Awards: Best Consumer Software, and Readers Choice Awards: Best Software.

Voila is your flexible, user friendly, MAC-workin’, screen capturin’ software. It is the first-of-its kind Image Capturing and Annotating tool on the Mac platform. It allows you to capture anything or everything on your desktop, from your iSight camera or you could snap a whole webpage as well. You can capture, annotate and share the pictures with everyone.

Here are the exciting features of Voila:

• Capturing Features:

Capture the way you decide: Voila is the first tool to offer to capture any shape such as:

Circular, Polygon, Triangular or a Freehand capture, all simultaneously. Rotate, resize, switch between captures or undo a selection before capturing. Voila can also capture menus, objects, fullscreen or timed captures.

Snap from iSight and webcams: With Mac’s built-in iSight camera or any third party Web cams you can take a single snap or multiple snaps and add fun elements to it.

Browse and snap webpages: Type the URL in the built-in Voila browser and snap the complete web page or multiple areas within the current page, even import the web address to snap without leaving your browser!

Save time with multiple capture: A unique feature that lets you capture multiple screenshots simultaneously. Select different portions of the screen; adjust, rotate or undo a selection; snap simultaneously and save time.

• Powerful Image Editing Tools:

Vector Annotations: Add fun elements to your capture and make it more enthralling with our variety of annotation tools like Text, Arrow, Line, Shape, Callouts, Blur, Brush and Stamp.

Image as annotation: Add creativity to your work by dragging images onto the workbench as your annotations.

Blur sensitive information: We care for your privacy and confidential information, blur tool lets you aesthetically hide any portion on your image that needs hiding.

• Get organized:

Build snaps database: Voila saves all your snaps in a central image Library and helps you retrieve your creative works at a later date. If you want to group snaps which are alike, simply create custom collections and drag images into them.

Tag and Describe: Voila lets you add metadata to your snaps. Add titles, relevant tags and describe the information for each of the snaps. Enjoy the freedom to edit or update the metadata associated with your snap at any time.

Smart Collections: Voila’s Smart Collection feature lets you tidy up your images by arranging them under various categories. Use the predefined folders or apply rules and let the images automatically fall into the appropriate collection.

• Instant Sharing:

Mail and iPhoto: Send or share your images via Apple Email or Microsoft® Entourage or export images to iPhoto, Eitherway, it’s easy and fast.

FTP and Flickr: Have a Flickr account? Uploading your creative images to FTP and Flickr is easy and just a click away. You don’t need to open a browser to do so.

Grab your own Voila now or surprise a friend and we can assure you that you will be satisfied and have Voilariffic experience!

In the meantime don’t forget to stay updated on the progress of Snagit for MAC.

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Snagit Guide

DISCLAIMER: Please note, Voila is not connected to the Trademark Snagit or the Trademark TechSmith.

Snagit OneNote 2007 Output

peter — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:05:38 +0000

A new output for Snagit was just released, for Microsoft OneNote 2007.

With one click you can send your Snagit scren captures over to your OneNote application.

If you are a OneNote user this is a must have application. callkathy has pointed out several excellent uses for this Output function. For example:

- You can now output long and wide pages to OneNote
- You can now annotate your captures and send them to OneNote

You can download the Snagit output from Techsmith here.

You find information about Microsoft OneNote 2007 here.

Until next time

Peter, Your Snagit Guide

The Jing Project

peter — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:38:31 +0000

Techsmith has just released the Jing Project.

The Jing project is an experiment about how to share images and video online in a more fluent way. For example when you are chatting, or want to do a quick screen cast for your blog.

And it’s free…

Techsmith, the maker highly regarded Snagit Screen Capture software and Camtasia Screen Recorder software has just launched a new “project” called Jing. It’s all very web 2.0 and nice looking.

What is the Jing Project?

Here’s what Techsmith says about Jing:

The Jing Project is our journey to discover how we can improve everyday conversation. Think of all those IM chats, emails, blog posts and comments you’ve made over the years. Now imagine a more visual world where integrating screen captures and screencasts into those took nothing more than a matter of seconds. Can you imagine it? I can – I’ve seen it, I’ve lived it – it’s Jing.

Our goal is to explore this with all of you and together see how we can bridge the visual world and our daily conversations into a richer, more effective way to communicate.

And yes it’s free!

You can freely download the software from the Jing Project website. The software runs on your computer and you can grab anything you see on your screen. You can capture both images and record a part of your screen (max 5 minutes).

Here’s an overview of how Jing works

Jing = Snagit for Mac

One cool thing about Jing is that it works on both PC and Mac. This is Techsmith’s first move into the Macintosh market and I can tell you this is highly anticipated. We get people asking for Snagit for Mac almost daily.

More Jing Resources

The Jing Project Blog
Download Jing
Techsmith
Camtasia Guide
ScreenCast.com

Jing Blog Comments

LifeHacker
LockerGnome
Techcrunch
Geeknews
Disruptive Conversations

That’s all for now folks, see you soon I hope!

Peter – Your Snagit Guide