As a “snagger” i’d obviously prefer to sum it up in an image (see below), but if I have to say it in 3 words i would have to say - fast, easy and slick…

I need a little more time to test all the new different functions and additions, then give you more of an in-depth Snagit 9 review at a later date, but so far I am very impressed.

Read more about the new functions below…

Snagit 9 Overview

It takes a little time to get used to the new ribbon menu, but when you do it’s easier and faster to work with.

A great improvement over older versions is that you have access to previous captures and can jump freely between them and copy and paste as you like. The annoying preview mode has also been removed, which is great.

In the image below I have pasted in Snagit inside the Snagit Editor so you get an overview of both.

And what do the critics say?

“5 reasons to love the new SnagIt 9… a familiar, intuitive, and much more varnished capture utility whose image editor has finally come of age.” –Jessica Dolcourt, C|NET Download.com

“SnagIt 9 - the ribbon edition! I’ve only used it for a couple of hours but I’m already finding the most useful new feature is how it auto-saves captures and allows you to retrieve them from the…panel on the right…in a click… it greatly simplifies working on more complex composite images.” –Robin Capper, RobiNZ CAD Blog

“The new multiple image capabilities and auto-storing of captures is going to save me huge amounts of time. Now I’ll be able to take several variations of screen shots and decide later which ones works best for the final product.” –Sue Chastain, About.com Guide to Graphics Software

Snagit 9 Resources

Buy Snagit 9.0

Upgrade to Snagit 9

Snagit 9 Pressrelease

Betsy Webers blog about new Snagit 9

I’d love to hear what you think. Please take a little time and comment below what your first impression is…

Hello Snagit User

In this post you’ll find answers to the most common license and download questions - I lost Snagit, what do I do? I want to install Snagit on a second computer, can I? I lost my license key, can I get it back?

In connection to the emails we sent out the last weeks we have gotten a lot of similar questions and I am guessing you also perhaps could benefit from the answers.

But first, a BIG thanks to everyone that contributed to the blog post “Snagit 9 Wishlist“. We have had a fantastic response with more than 70 comments and counting.

I will huff and puff for these ideas to the Snagit development team and hopefully they will listen and implement many of them in near future releases.

If you have more ideas you would like to see implemented, please don’t hesitate to comment on the blog post and I will keep pushing for them.

Read on for common Snagit license and download questions…

Common Snagit Questions

• Q: I lost Snagit, what can I do to get it back?

You can download the latest release of Snagit here. It’s in trial status, so you will need to license it using the license key you got in connection with your original order. If you have an earlier version of Snagit you can contact us for upgrade information.

• Q: I want to install Snagit on a second computer, can I?

Yes, you can. But you need to be the user on both computers. As long as you are the user you can install using the same license on a second computer.

• Q: lost my license key, can I get it back?

Yes, if you ordered from our partner SoftwareCasa, they keep your license information so you can just contact them and request your Snagit license key. If you ordered your software at TechSmith, you can request your key here. And if you ordered elsewhere you will need to contact the company you originally purchased the software from.

And if you don’t own Snagit yet, what are you waiting for - Buy Snagit!

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

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Help me improve Snagit…

In my humble opinion (but running this blog, perhaps a little biased) Snagit is as good as software can be. And I know many readers agree. But as someone once said, there is always room for improvement. That’s why I am curious as to what you would like to add if/when Snagit 9.0 is released.

I will send all comments to the Snagit development team so please include any additions to Snagit that you have thought about, are missing, you would like to add and so on. Please pour your heart out in the comment section below!

If you have colleagues, friends and family using Snagit, please ask them to put in their 5 cents here too.

The popular cliché “think outside the box” is perhaps true, but sometimes it’s easier to “think inside the box” so here is a basic breakdown of areas/functions you may have ideas about or want to change:

• Graphic interface. Is it easy to use, could it be improved, perhaps a complete new layout? Do you have any other software products that you think has a great layout that Snagit could benefit from looking at and so on. Share your ideas.

• Capture functionality. Are there any capture modes you feel are missing? Could there be other changes to the capture functionality. Is it easy enough to set up new capture profiles and so on?

• Editing functionality. What about editing your screen captures, do you use the Snagit Editor, what should be changed in the editor?

• Sharing functionality. Like to share your images with others, if so - how?

• Add-ons. Any software you would like to have an output available directly from inside Snagit.

• Other areas. Any other areas that you feel improvements would be helpful.

OK, I’ll go first…

Here are a few of the things I would like to see improved.

About the interface

I like the Snagit 8 interface, but I would like the software to remember my favorite profiles and steps I have taken to create a profile.

For example when doing screen captures for my blogs I often like to decrease the file size to 75%, set up a shadow and save it in png. After I have done this a couple of times perhaps the software can ask if I would like to make this a Capture Profile.

Editing Functionality

I dream of when will Snagit incorporate layers. If you have done any work with Photoshop you know what I mean. Let’s say you have worked with adding elements to your image, perhaps Text, Stamps or Callouts and you would like to remove one of the elements that you included earlier. Now you can choose to step back in the editor and remove everything that you added until you have backed all the way up to the element that you want to remove.

It would be lovely just being able to click on the element you wish to remove and remove it.

More Snagit Editor improvements

I work a lot with the editor and I love the new glassy callouts and similar effects released in I believe Snagit 8.2. It would be great to have more shadow and “button” effects could be added to the editor.

If you have looked at the effects in SmartDraw you know what I mean. The Image here show the SmartDraw shadow effects. Check out SmartDraw 2008.

Another great edit feature would be if I could save a number of steps when editing and perform them as one function. Kind of like the Capture profiles, but in a specific order.

So now it’s your turn, please comment below and let us know what improvements you are looking for.

Talk to you soon

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

Have you ever tried to capture video with Snagit but instead of getting the video you end up with a black or grey screen?

The problem is actually not related to Snagit but usually due to graphics hardware acceleration being used to display the image/video.

Newer media players normally use graphics hardware acceleration on your system.

Read on to see how to solve this…

Graphics hardware performs a “hardware overlay” of video on the screen, which bypasses the normal Windows display memory that Snagit captures.

Most video capture programs which capture video from a video camera use “hardware overlay” by default for their video preview. This problem affects all screen capture programs, and even the image put in the clipboard by the Print Screen key.

The solution is to disable any hardware acceleration in the application that is playing the video or disable hardware acceleration system wide. Because this affects all applications on the system, it may cause performance problems for some applications and some applications may not run at all.

How to disable graphics hardware acceleration globally for all applications

Windows XP or 2000: Right-click on the desktop and select Properties > Settings > Advanced > Troubleshoot. Set the Hardware acceleration slider to None.

On other versions of Windows: Select Control Panel > System > Performance tab > Graphics > Advanced settings. Set the Hardware acceleration slider to None.

I hope this little guide was helpful.

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

Normally Snagit is set to autostart when you start up your computer. This is a Windows function but you can also control it from inside Snagit.

If you want to turn it off (I wouldn’t imagine why, snagit doesn’t use much resources). Follow these steps…

1. Open the Snagit application (by doubleclicking the little blue Snagit icon)
2. Go to Tools / Program Options.
3. Uncheck the first option Run SnagIt when Windows starts.

After this you should be all set. But you will no longer have immediate access to Snagit. If you would like to have access to Snagit, but want to avoid seeing it run, open Snagit Program Options and uncheck Use tray icon instead.

If you haven’t yet - try the best screen capture software!

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

I received an email from a client trying to capture video in Snagit. But when trying to play the snagit video no sound was heard.

Hi Peter

I’m having a problem and wonder if you could offer some advice. The audio in

video clips with sound that I’m recording is not showing up any longer.

Until recently, the audio was just fine. I’m not aware of any changes I’ve

made in recording or settings. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks a lot

Mark

Read on to find the solution to this common Snagit sound problem…

Hi Mark,

Good to hear from you.

The problem you are describing is not related to Snagit, it is related to the settings of your sound card.

Often these settings are changed by different software without you changing any settings. Any software that works with sound on your computer can actually influence the settings.

What also complicates matters is that every brand of sound card work differently.

How to set up sound when recording video with Snagit

First off, make sure you have the correct Snagit profile “Record Screen Video” or if you have made your own profiles, one that activates the Snagit screen video recording.

Step 2) Make sure you have the “microphone” (symbolizes sound) active

Look at the bottom of the Snagit management window, the Options area and make sure that the Microphone is active. It needs to have a blue circle to be active.

Step 3) Record and test

Do a quick recording of something making sound and see if the sound is recorded in the video.

If not you will need to change the settings of the sound card.

Step 4) Go to Options

This is handled a little bit different in Vista and XP.

In Vista:

1. Choose Start > Control Panel > Hardware and Sound > Sound > Recording tab.

2. Right-click in that window and select Show Disabled Devices.

If you are still not getting sound after enabling devices, experiment a little bit with different settings to get it working.

In XP:

1. Choose Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio tab.

2. In Sound recording section, verify your sound card is selected as the Default Device.

Also experiment a little bit with different settings here.

Let me know how it goes.

Hope you had some help from this one too.

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

Snagit Guide is proud to be one of many websites that offer Snagit tutorials. I have made an attempt to put together a list of great places where you can get great tips on how to use SnagIt as well as help and Snagit support.

This list is by no means complete and if you have suggestions to more great Snagit tutorial sites, please include these in the comments below.

Read on to find out about great Snagit Tutorial Sites…

All links open in a separate window so click away

1) Help may be closer than you think. Just bring up Snagit on your desktop and press your [F1]-key. Up pops the Snagit help file. It covers many of the topics we get questions on a day to day basis.

2) TechSmith Forum - Excellent user-to-user forum. You can even find me here as often as I can.

3) TechSmith FAQ - Excellent FAQ where you find most the most common questions regarding Snagit.

4) SoftwareCasa Support - Excellent source for Snagit product support.

5) Snagit Guide - Not a complete guide if we didn’t mention yours truly We have a lot of plans to increase the content, especially with more Snagit tutorials and good stuff. Sign up to the newsletter and I will keep you posted.

6) Snagit Video Tutorials - Great resource with educational videos here

7) Digital Inspiration Blog - You find 10 excellent Snagit tips.

Homemade Tutorials - Showing many of the effects you can use in Snagit

9) Getting Started with Snagit download - This is an easy getting started guide in [pdf] format.

10) Technospot - with four video tutorials

11) Creating SnagIt Stamps in Photoshop - A detailed guide on stamps. You can also see our easy guide on Snagit Stamps.

And saving one of the best for last…

12) Betsy Weber’s Visual Lounge Blog - I met Betsy in Barcelona in October and she rocks. A must place to check out the latest news.

If you have any great Snagit resources, please share them with everyone, just comment below.

And if you just find this interesting, please do post as well And if you find this dumb, please comment about that too.

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

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TechSmith just released a new addon to Snagit. You can now output images directly from Snagit into Camtasia.

The Camtasia Output adds a button to the toolbar inside SnagIt’s Capture Preview window.

Just click the button and your image is sent directly to Camtasia Studio’s clip bin so you can easily insert it into your video.

This is an excellent way of easily adding graphics into your Camtasia Studio 5 videos.

A few areas you could use this addon: Add improved graphics into your Camtasia videos, add nicer texts and so on.

It took me about 1 minute to download, install and send my first Snagit capture over to Camtasia Studio. This is definitely a time saver.

If you haven’t heard about Camtasia Studio before it’s the worlds best Screen Recording (ScreenCast) Software.

You can download the new Camtasia Output here.

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

Yes, you heard me.

TechSmith is now offering their previous version of Snagit 7 as a free download…

Too good to be true, I think so, but still it’s true. So if you’re not using Snagit yet, I highly recommend you to grab this offer and run.

But wait, there is even more…

But first, let me tell you how you can get your hands on the full version of Snagit 7.

Follow these simple steps:

1) If you haven’t already, go sign up to our newsletter (see top right corner on this page: “email updates”)

2) Click here to download Snagit

3) Then click here to request a Snagit key

And to put some cream on this already fantastic offer…

4) In a few days I will send you information on how you can get your hands the absolutely latest version of Snagit - Edition 8.2 with 50% off, no kidding.

Until next time

Peter - Your Snagit Guide

Are you a hardcore Mac user? There is a rumor going on that there will be a Snagit for Mac software released.

Over the last few years we have gotten numerous questions about Snagit on Macintosh and so to make this information easy accessible we have set up a newslist where we will inform about any news regarding a Snagit Mac Software.

This list is only for that purpose. If you would like general Snagit news you should also sign up to the newsform on the right-hand side “Email Updates”.

If you would like to be informed about any development for Snagit on Mac, please enter your details below. After a few moments you will receive an invitation to your email address. You then need to confirm the subscription.

Subscribe to Get info on Snagit for Mac:

If you’d love a Snagit Mac version — Please let us know why by writing a comment below!

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