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Snagit 11 Adds New Tools to Its Bag of Screen (and Video) Capture Tricks

Think that there's no way to improve the world's best image- and video-capture program? You're wrong. The new version of Snagit adds video-capture and video-output tools and a variety of other more minor features to its already considerable set of tricks, and the result is an even better program that anyone who needs to capture images or screen animations will want to use.

Snagit 11's video capture is easy to understand and use.The biggest news is the ability to capture video from your screen, and then upload them directly to YouTube, or else to any other site using a simple built-in FTP upload tool. So if you need to capture a sequence of events on your computer, such as for creating a tutorial on how to use a particular piece of software or accomplish a certain task, Snagit does it for you.

Capturing video is exceptionally easy. Use a hot key combination, or else right-click the Snagi-It icon in the System Tray and select Capture Video. Then select the area of the screen you want to capture (or capture the entire screen), and begin recording. Press a hotkey combination, or click a button to stop capturing. You can also pause and restart recording.

Once you're done, you can upload the video to YouTube from directly inside Snagit. (You'll of course need a YouTube account to do this.) The built-in FTP tool also makes it easy to upload the video to any site that uses FTP.

There's more than just that, though. Vendor TechSmith has added more "stamps," such as new starbursts, to Snagit's editor. You can also download free add-ins from the Snagit site so you can easily share screen captures with others via Facebook and Twitter. There are also new tools for image capture and editing, including easier resizing of screen captures.

Snagit clearly bests lower-cost competitors Screenshot Captor and FastStone Capture. Free/donationware Screenshot Captor's interface is more confusing than Snagit's, and it requires more work to capture and annotate screens. It also won't let you capture video. FastStone Capture ($20) lacks the full complement of screen annotation tools that Snagit has and doesn't have as many capture options--for example, you can't automatically capture images from a Web page. Neither of those two programs allow you to set up profiles for quickly capturing screens or videos--for example, one profile for capturing video, another for capturing a scrolling page, and so on. And they don't have all the tricks in Snagit's advanced tool set, such as the ability to convert graphics formats between one another; nor does either have a library that displays all of your previous captures, letting you browse through them and annotate and edit any you want. On the other hand, you can't beat Screen Captor's price--it's free. And FastStone Capture, at $20, is less than half the price of Snagit's. But if you're more concerned with features than price, Snagit is the one to get.

As with previous versions of Snagit, you can capture specific regions, windows, a full screen, scrolling windows, menus, entire Web pages, and videos. Pretty much whatever you see on your screen, you can grab. It includes many options, such as a capture timer and the ability to choose whether to include cursors. And there are plenty of editing tools as well, notably tools for annotating screen captures.

One returning feature I especially like is the time-saving "All-in-One Capture" feature . Rather than setting up the type of capture (full-screen Web page, window, and so on) in advance, you can instead use the "All-in-One Capture" hotkey or icon, and then decide on the fly what to grab.Another perennial favorite feature is Snagit's "transparency," which lets you capture and use graphics without their background colors so you can blended them more easily into your projects.

That's not to say that everything is perfect with Snagit 11. It records video in the MP-4 format, which although it is a common standard, does not play in Windows Media Player.

Still, that's a minor fault. Snagit is still the screen capture program to get. And if you already have a previous version of Snagit, it's well worth the upgrade.

--Preston Gralla

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Straightforward Screen Shots With FastStone Capture

Have you ever tried explaining over the phone or in an email what exactly isn't working on your computer? Or are you the one that's usually on the other side, trying to get the user to find and click the right button? In either of these cases, being able to share a quick screenshot can save valuable time and get your point across much more clearly. If you're looking for a straightforward and capable screenshot application, FastStone Capture ($20, 30-day free trial) just may be it.

My yardstick for screenshot applications is industry leader Snagit. Snagit is very powerful, but at $50, it costs more than twice as much as FastStone Capture (not to mention powerful free alternatives such as Screenshot Captor). Running, Snagit takes up just under 16MB of RAM on my system. That's over ten times as much as FastStone Capture takes (700KB to 1.5MB with no image loaded in the editor) .

FastStone Capture offers a minimalistic, no-frills interface that takes up very little screen real-estate.Given its modest price and diminutive memory footprint, FastStone Capture delivers an impressive set of features. You can capture the full screen or the active window, just like you can do without any third-party application, using Print Screen and Alt-Print Screen. But you can also capture an individual interface element, such as a toolbar, button, or content area. By holding down Ctrl while capturing, you can take a single screenshot with multiple screen elements (for example, all of an application's toolbars, even if they are floating around the screen). By default, FastStone doesn't include the mouse cursor in the default, but this is easy to change.

FastStone Capture also offers a Freehand Capture mode in which you can quickly draw an irregular outline around anything you want to capture. In the many years I've been using screenshot applications, I have never found a need for such a mode. Another sophisticated mode, capturing scrolling areas, is far handier. This mode lets you capture a long document or webpage into one seamless file: Simply click in the content area and FastStone Capture will scroll it down, bit by bit, eventually producing one long image showing the entire content.

Total Commander also offers a scrolling capture mode, which I tested on a long webpage in Google Chrome. It was much slower than Snagit's scrolling capture, but handled animated GIFs better: Whereas Snagit produced multiple instances of the same GIF one after the other, FastStone Capture produced a single image that blended several animation states. It wasn't perfect, though: Ideally, it should have just picked one state and stuck with it. It also didn't do too well with a playing video, producing strange artifacts composed of several frames instead of capturing just a one frame. Still, if you need to capture a long page of static content, this option saves lots of manual labor.

When it comes to capturing screenshots, the biggest difference between FastStone Capture and Snagit is that Snagit features a complex profile system for setting up specific use cases: You can configure a profile that always applies a certain effect, produces images of a certain size, and so on. You can set similar defaults for FastStone, but not on a per-profile basis.

Once you capture a screenshot, you may want to annotate it. FastStone Capture provides a powerful and intuitive screenshot editor that lets you overlay the image with arrows, highlight areas in color, draw circles and rectangles, and generally get your point across. You can also easily blur parts of the image containing sensitive information, and apply border effects such as "torn paper." You can open any image in the editor by simply dragging and dropping it on the FastStone Capture toolbar.

FastStone Capture feels like a utility, and I say this in the best sense of the word. It stays out of the way, doesn't steal the show with graphical pizzazz or a flashy UI, and gets the job done quickly and effectively.

--Erez Zukerman

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