Hello 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.

Internet’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!

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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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

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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.

The 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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Time 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.

So Lisa, take it away, do you have any funny Snagit stories to share?

I have so many good stories from working with our customers. I received a call one day from a parent whose son was using SnagIt (and Camtasia Studio) for their project for the science fair. The judges of the competition were so impressed that the student not only won hands down but his project went off to be judged in the National Science Fair in Washington, D.C.

That’s a winner to me!! I’ve got many funny stories as well. Recently our VP of Business Development went to China for a business trip. Some of the ladies there told him on numerous occasions that he looks like Colonel Sanders. We think not. However, I couldn’t resist the urge to snag his head and place it over the snagged image of the face of Col. Sanders on a bucket of chicken and send it to him and select coworkers! He was glad we didn’t see the resemblance!

I also recently doctored up a photo for a friend who was in the dating scene. He had a picture from a camping trip at waters edge with his shirt off. He had a bit of a pot-belly (from too much beer) but wanted to use that photo. Well, thanks to SnagIt my friend now looks like he has a trim stomach! He’s a devoted SnagIt user now.

That’s cool. I agree there are plenty of fun things you can do with the Snagit Editor. So what about funny client stories?

I had a husband call me one day to order a second license of SnagIt a few days after his first purchase. He said that he and his wife were fighting over whom could use the license because they both wanted to use the software. They knew that only one person could use the one license.

Well, she got early the next morning, grabbed the software box and ran off with it to work! I guess the early bird really does get the worm!

I also had a customer contact me from Iraq. He was a Marine stationed over there; his family was here in the states. He wanted to email photos of him and his fellow patriots having fun and playing sports in the camp but they were too large and some details were not allowed to be transmitted. He was able to purchase a license to use SnagIt, doctor the photos, blur out some details and send a much smaller file home to his family. They have since recommended it to other soldiers and their families for this purpose.

And, by the way, I have used SnagIt SIX times since completing this interview!

Thank you so much for sharing this with us Lisa.

Always my pleasure to work with you, Peter.

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Lisa 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.

So here we go…

- Lisa, can you tell us a little bit about yourself?

Wow, this is a loaded question. Where do I begin? I know the list is long so pick out what you want to use…

Professionally, I have been around technology for 10 years in sales and account management roles.

I’ve sold it all – software, hardware, professional/consultative services, training, and website design to commercial and government customers.

I work for TechSmith Corporation, makers of world renowned software including SnagIt (my favorite). I also own a small local pub, open only in the evenings. I work there 5-6 evenings a week and simply love interacting with the people.

- Lisa, that’s just amazing. You sure are an energetic person. So how long have you been using SnagIt?

I’ve been using SnagIt everyday since I started working for TechSmith Corporation in March 2006. Sometimes I use it multiple times a day. I’m sure I’ll use it several times before this interview is over.

- What’s so good about SnagIt?

Another loaded question with too many answers! Just like our website states, you can capture, edit and share anything with a few clicks. Maybe I’ll just start a small list:

1) The ease of use – it is very user friendly! It didn’t take me very long to figure out how to use it.

2) The editing features are too numerous to mention. I can do anything to an image right down to the very pixel. From photos to documents to web content – it helps me to perfects them all.

3) It has a small footprint on my computer and doesn’t eat up a lot of resources.

4) I can share any of my images with one click of a button – email, IM, online photo sharing to Flickr.com, etc.

5) I can capture small videos to view at a later date or to share with friends or coworkers.

6) The quickness in which you can capture data and edit. Sometimes it takes me only seconds to capture an image and email to the person(s) I want to view the image.

7) The price is right! For all the features you get, management has still kept the price low.

SnagIt never argues with me and is so loyal. All my friends love SnagIt, as SnagIt is good to them too. I’ll be faithful ’til death do us part! Do you think my Husband is jealous?

- What’s your favorite ways to use SnagIt?

I love to use SnagIt to communicate with my customers all the time. I’m always taking snags of their account information & instructional documentation for their records.

I send snags of sales leads to our partners, snags from event photos to coworkers, snags of questions about something I might have to my boss, and instructional snags to coworkers who need to understand a particular procedure.

I use SnagIt for my pub as well. I create ALL of my event flyers and menus with SnagIt. I also use it to make notes on electronic documents like scanned purchase receipts and snags of cleared check images.

Some of my favorite ways to use SnagIt are for fun. I can take and doctor a picture and make it look silly, or send comparison snags of funny things that make people laugh.

- Who do you think would really benefit from using SnagIt?

Everyone, of course! Every profession in every market can use SnagIt in its day to day activities. Every stay-at-home parent, every student, and every volunteer can use SnagIt.

From children in middle school to retirees, doctors, police and everyone in between, they all call me to find out how to better use SnagIt. It just makes communication so much more clear and colorful.

- Any secrets ways to use Snagit that you could share?

There are no real secrets to using SnagIt as the possibilities are only limited by someone’s knowledge of the product functionalities. I enjoy using the “Images from Web Page” capture profile to instantly capture all the images on a particular webpage.

This saves me from having to capture one at a time and saving independently as well. I also love to take two photos, cut the best from one and overlay on the other. I’ve created some really wonderful pictures by doing that type of editing.

Lisa had so much to share about Snagit that I had to split it up into two separate articles.

Stay tuned for part two

Peter – Your Snagit Guide

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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

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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

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