The final product can be anything from a video tutorial to a commercial or PSA, to a voice-over-PowerPoint style lesson. You can do one quick take or edit many tracks of video, audio, music, and effects together. One may then edit the video into a professional quality “screencast” with transitions, effects, animations, call-outs, etc. GIFs, aside from being popular with “the kids” these days, can be really useful for showing simple animations and workflows and are easy to add to a website or share through email, chat, or social media.Ĭamtasia is a tool that’s designed to let you capture any combination of video from your computer screen, narration from a connected microphone, and video from connected webcams or mobile devices. One new thing that stands out to me is the ability to record a short video and create an animated GIF image. The new Snagit versions get an updated and modernized user interface, improved customization, and several new features such as the capability to capture an entire scrolling web page.

When it’s time to share you can save your image or send it to straight to Word, PowerPoint, email, Dropbox, and other services. annotate with circles, arrows, or stickers.Snagit also includes an easy to use image editor to allow you to quickly tackle working with your images. You can use it when it in situations when it is simpler and more effective to communicate visually rather than trying to describe something over the phone or in an email. Snagit is a great tool for quickly capturing images or short videos of your computer screen. 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.

Two popular desktop capture tools, Snagit & Camtasia, have recently received major updates and improvements in the form of new versions.

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