Category: Snagit Uses

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construction2Hello There!

If you are internet marketer or if your job heavily involves effective communication with others  then you can benefit substantially from SnagIt.

Consumers don’t usually go for products with words alone. Most people have limited time and by use of just images “A Picture Says a Thousand Words”, which also applies to effective internet marketing.

With the help of the screen capturing functions of Snagit, marketers have been able to deliver only what their clients and customers need. Thus, making both parties expectations met.

capturewindowInternet’s growth has been unstoppable since the start and its still rocketing upward. In relation to this growth, it has brought huge benefits to internet marketing. As a result, there are many Internet marketers who have succeeded into venturing their businesses successfully  online and still counting.

Internet Marketers can use Snagit to capture images that they want to include in Blogs, Websites, Newsletters, Email Campaigns and much more.

With Snagit 9 you can catch your staff/ co-workers  off guard by how quickly you can respond to their questions with a professionally marked up image. Snagit speeds up communication tremendously!

Internet Marketers can be  able to quickly capture the precise images they needed and export the captures to .JPG by simply pressing  predefined Hotkeys. Without SnagIt, it can take you considerably longer to create effective email campaigns, blogs or newsletters. SnagIt is a program that all Internet Marketers  should not work without.

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With Snagit you can get a whole range of Stamps  to enhance your documents which include Education Stamps, Map Stamps, Time Stamps, Keyboard Stamps and the top ranking one for Internet Marketers is SuperStamps .

Snagit is a very effective tool in marketing. It helps the marketers to sustain a close connection between customers and clients, which in turn fuels satisfaction and word of mouth marketing for businesses.

Give your business a face lift and start Snagging today!

Until Next Time ;-)

Peter – Your Snagit Guide

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snagitvideoHi 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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Hi There

Most people I speak with agree that Snagit is the best screen capture software around.But I would also have to add that Snagit is more, it’s a great tool for collaboration work as well. It saves so much time and makes everything much clearer!

Please share any comments, ideas or stories you have about using Snagit in collaboration work in the comment section below. I would love to hear these stories.

Are the following scenarios perhaps familiar to you?

Have you ever experienced chatting with your teammate about an error you see on a web page that he can’t see when in fact both of you are on the same page?

Have you ever tried teaching a teammate how to do certain steps on a software or a website but they don’t seem to get the same end-result you do?

Yes, that can be annoying. Good thing, Snagit can solve these problems between you and your teammates. You can do this with Snagit, by simply taking a shot of those things you have on your screen and a little edit, you can instantly send it to your teammate via instant messaging, email, etc.

To me, as a user working with a team, SnagIt has been very helpful in sending and sharing my ideas, thoughts and instructions to my teammates. Misunderstanding almost never happens and it serves as another layer of added clear and concise communication between the team.

snagit-in-email1The team primary use email and skype internet messenger to collaborate and Snagit enhances both these tools. I paste in instructions in emails as in the example (see image). Then I enhance the images with arrows, comments using the drawing  tool. Please note, for this to work you need to have your email set to html, not txt format.

To easily share when chatting with Skype I also use the Snagit Skype Add-on. This makes it possible to immediately send captures to anyone on my skype chat list. You find the Snagit Skype Add-on here. (Require that Skype is installed on both parties computers.)

I’d love to hear your stories about Snagit as a collaboration tool below.

That’s  all for now until next time ;-)

Peter – Your Snagit Guide

PS. If you aren’t using Snagit yet, please read more about Snagit here.

If you are already using Snagit but haven’t upgraded to version 9.0 yet go here to: Upgrade Snagit

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LisaTime to publish the rest of the interview with Lisa. She sent me a suitable picture for halloween :-)

In the first part Lisa was telling us some Snagit secrets. If you haven’t read part 1 yet, that’s the place to start.

Today Lisa will share some funny experiences she has had related to Snagit.

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LisaLisa is working for Techsmith, the maker of among several other software titles, Snagit. Lisa is by her own admission a “Snagit fanatic”, and that got me curious.

I really wanted to know more about how a really experienced Snagit user utilize the software. Not that it is difficult to use, but I am sure there are ways we don’t know about.

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SnagittoOneNoteA 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.

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I just came from the mysterious website of cjmcqueen (the about section is empty so I don’t know who this person is, but I believe he/she is a technical writer).

She (queen) tells us that she just returned from STC, Society for Technical Communication and the SnagIt praising just had no end. She heard “I love SnagIt” more time than she could count :-)

That’s very nice and I can only but to agree. How easy it is to use SnagIt to capture exactly what you want if you are doing a tutorial or presentation and need certain captures in an already preset mode, you can’t go wrong with SnagIt.

I will definitely return to this subject and am going to hunt down some technical writers to see why they like to use Snagit so much, how to best use SnagIt for technical writing and so on.

Until next time ;-)
Peter

Snagit as Notebook

SoftwareCasa has this interesting tutorial on how to use Snagit as a Notebook.

Click here to read on how to use Snagit as a Webinar Notebook!