I'll share my actual I'll, let's say, record.
Fine.
Share the dangerous entire screen.
I will record as well.
Cool.
All right, so we are here doing snag
2025 update.
For those of you who have used Snagit
before, specifically snag it 2024.
You will see that the bar looks exactly the same.
Nothing has really changed here.
There's one new capture change,
and there is a,
some of the new features are actually buried
inside of the, editing tool.
So for those of you
who are new to snag it, there's actually two parts to the software.
One is this capture bar and the other is the editing software.
And it will launch right when you capture something.
So one of the things that I want to show, which is actually an old feature,
but some of you may not know this.
If you turn on so in your snagit capture bar, you can do an all in one
which allow you to capture either video or image.
If you go to the image capture and a lot of the new features
are actually only for static capturing, not for video.
So I'm starting in the image area,
and I want to make sure that capture cursor is turned on.
And the reason for this is if I hit capture
and I need one more feature there.
Hold on one second.
I also want to turn on the time delay.
And I think it was Carleen had a question about this.
Someone had a question about this recently about,
no, it wasn't Carly.
But anyway, so Uncap emailed me about capturing,
the cursor in a specific place in the software.
So if you're trying to show
someone how to pull a pull down menu or something like that,
make sure you have time delay turned on.
And if you click this little tiny arrow here, you can set what the time delay is.
I find five seconds to be fine, but if you need longer, you can go longer.
So I'll hit capture and I get this countdown.
And so I can position the cursor exactly where I want it to be.
And then when I get the capture screen, you can see my cursor is still there.
So I'll go ahead and snap this.
So I'm clicking and dragging a region to then take a picture.
And there's the cursor.
So the first thing I wanted to show you
is actually if I click let me go back to
there.
It doesn't really matter if I click right on top of the cursor.
It doesn't do whatever the tool was, but I can actually move this.
So let's say I wanted the cursor in a different position.
I actually wanted the cursor up here, not on the actual sample data down here.
I can do that just by clicking directly on it.
I'll get this box and I can move it around.
The other thing I can do is make it way bigger.
So if you want to like take a screenshot and have that cursor be very, very large.
That's how you do it.
So you make sure that you have capture cursor turned on,
have your time delay turned on, and then click directly on that cursor.
And I can just click outside of it and you can see it
kind of gives me those handles now.
And I can click right on it and resize it and move it around as, as needed.
I can't change the cursor, but I can at least do something with it.
If I wanted to.
The next thing I want to show you,
actually, I'll skip ahead for one thing on my list.
There's two different ways of kind of blocking things out.
There was an old feature
under more called simplify.
And what simplify does is
kind of change things into color boxes.
Let me actually go to this, this capture here.
So I've got this
interface that has the red blocks and the white blocks with the red text.
So if I choose,
simplify
and I'll turn auto simplify on.
You can see what it does
is it gets rid of all the text and just turns it into boxes.
So makes everything color boxes.
This was an old way of getting rid of some information, but it's really clunky.
So the new way of read is is called an auto redact.
So obviously this is not real data.
But if I were to have information I need to send a screenshot.
And this is where it's
especially handy for those of you in purchasing accounting or, or even for
it doesn't really work for grade books because it doesn't block out names.
It would do faces, but if you have any sensitive information
that you want to hide, you can go to the blur tool.
So up here at the top right corner. Okay.
And then the new feature is this Smart Redact.
So instead of blurring out each number
I can go to Smart Redact and it scans the,
the image of the screenshot
that I took finds any sensitive information in there.
And using the power of AI.
Just kidding.
It does use AI, but then it blocks out all the sensitive information.
What's cool is it gives you toggles
so if for some reason you wanted the phone numbers to show,
you can just toggle this off and it would let the phone numbers show.
I don't see that it actually captured a phone number.
So let's do the Social Security numbers.
Why isn't it doing it?
Because it hates me in live demos.
It usually toggles those those things on and off.
Let's try it again.
Of course, when I try it on my own, it works the way I want it to.
And then.
See if it does it now.
Nope.
It's supposed to toggle those on and off.
So you could see the numbers underneath.
But I don't know why it's not working.
The other thing that you can do is let's say you don't want the black bars.
You can change it to a blur
or pixelate, depending on what you want it to look like.
So the defaults, the black bars, just because it's, it's, the most secure.
And then you can see here it didn't quite get it.
If for some reason it's not completely accurate, you can grab these handles,
make them bigger and smaller.
Move them around or you wanted to show a specific one.
I can just click on top of it and hide it.
Yeah I think I did this exact same thing earlier.
So that's why there's
two boxes on top of each other.
Or it was seeing the phone numbers as Social Security numbers
and blocking that twice.
But so now you can see it.
It'll toggle them on and off as I as I needed to.
There.
That was the key thing.
I love features that when they come out that they're new,
that there's really like two steps to it.
It's really handy on my end.
Any questions on this auto redact?
Good.
It's pretty clear.
Again, like, for myself, I probably won't use this a whole lot,
but folks like Tania and Ali, you might find yourself using this
fairly often for even an internal communications.
Yeah.
When you're done, you can just hit done.
But it really just toggles off.
You don't have to do it.
The other thing to keep in mind is when you want to
copy this out, these are all separate objects.
So when you copy it
sometimes it'll only copy the background image.
So make sure you do edit copy all or Ctrl shift C.
I never remember that keyboard command so I just use the edit copy all.
So it makes sure that it grabs all of the little boxes that are that are there.
So then I paste this into an email.
Or you can simply do a save as and save it as a Jpeg,
so you don't really have to hit done.
It just gives you it kind of
locks in the options as far as the blur and the blocks
and all that kind of stuff.
Okay.
Good.
Can you do numerous pages if they're long?
You can do a scroll.
Yeah.
So if you have a single long
document like, word document or Google document
when you're doing the capture in the image settings here,
I had it set to region, so I was I was dragging out a region.
But you can change this to a, scrolling, window or an automatic scrolling.
So it'll capture a long thing.
But what it's going to do is take those,
you know, 3 or 4 pages and turn it into one giant image.
Okay.
So you might want to have it be separate.
You can always separated out later,
but depending on what you're using it for, you might want to
actually have those as separate screenshots.
Okay cool.
Yeah a lot of questions there.
Cool.
I am going to you have this I'm sorry Rob
you have this as a
there's some documents that we can just go over.
Yeah. And I can send it.
Like I said, we'll, when we're done here,
we'll do a little mini demo of, like, kind of getting started with this.
Okay, so you and Rebecca, but we have a training from last year.
Okay. That goes over a snag at 2024.
So it'll show you everything except for, like,
the two new things we're showing you today.
Okay. Okay.
Thank you.
And I know, like, Duane and a couple of others
that are in here, I've used snag it for a long time. Say, say.
And Jeff and I have been using Snagit for years and years and years.
One of the things I like about their software
is when they come up with a new version, they don't change everything.
So it's very much looks the same way it did five years ago.
They just kind of add features and toggles and things.
Okay.
Let me take over. Yeah. Go for it.
All right.
And I think you, I just, Yeah. You did.
I just didn't want to interrupt you. If you had anything important to say.
Yeah. Good.
All right, so I'm going to show you is,
two ways of doing steps inside of snag it.
There's the old way that some of you will already be familiar with.
And that is what you will do, is you'll come up to snag it.
You can come. Oops.
Let me get this out of the way.
All right, so there we go.
So what you can do is I happen to be on a mac.
So my snag is up here, and then I can choose which of these areas I want to use.
Just like Rob had has shown I'm in the image image.
So in this particular case I will come in and then I will oh sorry.
If I do it right I will say I want region.
And I click on capture.
Then I will click hold my mouse down drag if I want to.
As soon as I let go of that mouse, it will take that image.
Then what I can do is I can come up here
to this little steps icon, and this may be different.
What I am showing you on mine
may be different than what you see on yours,
because you can move these around and set this up how you want, which I have done.
You can do that just while I'm here by going to more and then customized toolbar.
It'll be down there and there are more tools available for you.
There.
But we are going to look at steps.
So what I'm doing is I'm clicking on steps so I can see this activity a little bit.
It has blue fill versus the gray.
So and then I can tell students for example the first thing you want to do
is go to grades.
And then after you take a look at grades come back to this page,
make sure you read the announcements, and then you're going
to work your way down the to do list on the important items.
You can see here that I am, as I am clicking.
What's happening is it's creating a shape and it's adding the one, two,
three and four and it's building those in for me.
Now, if I wanted to, I could come in and resize these
and then the next time I click, it will also resize that shape.
It will continue what you've done before.
And so this is a way and I'm just hitting the delete
key on my keyboard to kind of clean this up.
So this is a way to easily create steps.
And this is with snagged pre 2025.
This is an older feature.
Now for example, if you happen to be working on a background
and you wanted to change different colors or shapes, you can do that.
We can see that I have squished the shape.
The original shape was more like a teardrop.
And somewhere when I was working on something,
I probably was in a cramped little space the last time I use this.
And so I, reshaped it and it had snag
it has a memory of the last time I used this shape.
If I wanted to, I can also change the colors here.
Or I can go shopping for colors right there.
I can choose whether I want to have a red color.
Now it's very that is not accessible, right?
The red and the purple backgrounds are not accessible, but it's text color.
So you can choose whichever colors you want a little higher contrast range.
And of course you have your shapes available very quickly for you here.
Plus, if you want to use drop shadows to make it
feel like it's coming off the surface, you can do that.
Any questions on steps?
Go up.
Question. Yeah.
Say that you realize that step one is not step one and you need to go and change.
But you already have step one, two, three and four.
If you remove step one to step two automatically become step one.
No. Okay. So you have to go back.
You go to like oh my step one is actually going to be here.
My moving
I'll have to
grab my step to move it over here and just kind of move things around that way.
But if I do find that like for example, I'm all of a sudden, let's say
I want to do two different things.
It's a really great point that you have there.
Let's say that I really want this to be step one and this to be step two.
We can see like I'm using two different, you know, shapes.
I'm using two different colors. And I can move those around.
So you're not stuck with always consistently going 1234.
I can also come in I believe
and change that to A, B and C, which would even make it more clear.
Thank you.
I forget, can you double
click and change the letter or a number that's in there too?
Yeah, I can change it to like a G.
So you can auto change it.
I mean you can you can manually change it, but you can't automatically change it.
However,
in the new stuff that C is going to show you,
it does change it.
To a point. Yeah.
To apply it in a way, in a way, in a way, you know.
Okay.
So these are steps I find these if you if you've ever received emails from us
and we're like, these are the steps you need to do, this is how we've done it.
You know, these are the steps one, two, three, four.
We found it to be very, very quick.
And we in the FRC, I know for myself, I use it every single day
I'm in the office like every at least once, probably more like 12 times.
And I will always throw out that caveat, because there is a lot of faculty in
the room too.
If you're using this for creating instructions
or going on our website or in your canvas shells, you have to caption it, right?
So make sure that you have all those text things.
If it's a single email going to a single student
who you know is sighted and doesn't need a screen reader,
you can just send off that one off. If it's,
between colleagues, like
we're sending you guys emails, we don't caption every single step, right?
But just know that if it's something that's going into permanent documentation,
going under our website
or going somewhere else, we do need to make these accessible. And
being completely visual, this wouldn't be accessible as is,
especially with that color.
Say, yeah,
I did forget to point out.
One thing is that you see this little green handle right here.
This allows you to rotate if you're using this.
So if you're using, for example, a point you're like, I am,
but I really want to point out syllabus.
It's just not quite working.
I can always come in and grab that little handle,
push this.
And then if you're like me, you got to get your shadows go in the right direction.
I know Rob doesn't like shadows that much, but, you know.
Oh, like so you're thinking of Jason.
I like I like shadows.
Jason from Text Smith is the one that's like anti.
Oh, I know Jason.
I thought you were on.
I thought you're on Jason from Texas.
But answer no, it depends.
It depends.
All right. Any other question?
Like I said this, there's a very simple thing.
A lot you can do with it. I'm happy to go into any details.
If anybody needs anything further on this one.
All right.
We're going to show the new new one.
All right.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to come back up here
to my snagit in my little snagit, capture window.
What I'm going to do is I'm going instead of choosing region,
which is where I clicked, held my mouse down, drag out the region.
Region I wanted to capture and let go, and that created it.
I'm going to come down to where it says steps, right there steps.
And then I'm going to click on this little capture.
I will capture my cursor because I do want it to choose my cursor.
There are some things that you can choose up here, and that's one of them.
If you want to do a time delay, you can do that
as Rob is shown and you can change those seconds.
All right.
We're going to capture.
It's letting you know basically capture and steps continue
down here I want to bring you down to the lower left hand corner.
This is a pause button.
So as I'm capturing steps, if for some reason I need to pull up
another document and I don't want to have all those steps, me pulling something up.
Thank you.
Then, what I can do is click on this little pause button right there.
This is the stop button.
This tells you how many steps you have captured.
If you capture too many steps, don't worry about that.
Just keep going forward because it's very easy to fix in post, right?
And if you just need to restart your capture completely,
you know, capturing your steps, that's your restart.
And if you just want to cancel and just start again, that is your trash can.
So we can see I am at zero steps right now.
I'm going to click on this little area just to kind of get my,
I'm activated in this green that I'm working on.
And I want to tell students how to look at grades.
So I am in as a test student right now,
and we see that I've captured the first step,
but that didn't actually cause anything to happen.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to point and where I capture is important
because if I cover up grades, that might not work out.
So what I'm going to do, knowing that I can't move this little, step later
or my, my cursor later like you can in the other, capture software.
I'm going to make pay attention to where I'm capturing.
And if I need to do it twice, I'll do it twice. It's not a big deal.
So I'm going to tell students that they need to go to grades.
And of course, because I am in a live shell, it's going to open up to them.
Open up for the students, I should say.
And then I might say that students would then want to make sure
that they see the comments,
and then that they can close the comments up here in the upper right hand corner.
And then they might come in and want to view rubrics.
And so that's good.
And you know, I'm just kind of looking at this and going,
okay, is there anything else I want now this is this is it.
I'm done. So I've created five steps.
Then I go ahead and hit that square.
The square inside of
snagit is, considered the stop button.
And as I was saying before, I can't move this.
If I was doing a region capture with Snagit, I could move this.
I could resize it like Rob has shown.
But in this, this is where it lives, right?
It is embedded in that image.
And so that's why I was saying, you know, you want to be careful with your capture.
Let me make this just a wee bit bigger for us so we can see more.
And so just to be clear, every time I say clicked the mouse,
it took a screenshot of whatever the active window was.
Yeah, active window.
And so I'm just going to work my way from the top and then go on down here.
So this oops. Let me, get Amit.
You can add.
Yes, you can add the old capture to it.
So what I'm going to do here is
I usually have a favorites, but I will go into section and.
All right.
So now if you wanted to I could change the name of this.
Or I can come in and choose to delete it.
And that will get rid of that header command or control Z will bring it back
if you want.
I can also get rid of this section here.
I'm going to hit that delete right there.
And if I want to get rid of the date I can click that or change it.
These little blue bars allow me to expand or contract the area.
So if I needed a bigger area and then for example, I wanted to
for some reason create a call out that all this is important stuff right here.
I can do that and fix that drop shadow right there.
So these are
some easy things that you can look on this document
now as I am going to get rid of this distraction.
Hit that delete. Bring this back up here.
You can see this is just really fast and easy and simple.
We can see my capture I've got capture one, capture two three.
And you can see as we go down it's very predictable.
Those are my five captures.
This first one is a mistake.
It's not going to work for me because this is really where I want
students to start. Is that grades.
And so what I'm going to do, let me just make that
a little bit bigger for you, is I can see that this is one,
and it's telling the student or whomever I'm giving this document to to click here.
That's the direction I can also, if I go into, let me just go and selection
or I'm sorry move tool, I can also change the direction.
Click here and wait. Right.
So whatever it is that you want to type out.
But this one is not correct.
This click is not good.
So over here on the right hand side is the trash can.
So what I'm going to do is I'm going to trash this notice at this stage one
it changes it move that click grades because it saw that I was clicking a link
that was called grades.
It moved everything it basically took that was say it's a slide
and just got rid of it and moved everything up.
So now as I come over here and I will go all the way down, I don't have five steps.
I've got four steps.
And so basically it's just a very fast way
to clean up what you don't need before you start working.
So as I was saying before, if you accidentally click a couple spaces
and you're like, oh, I don't want that, just don't sweat it.
All you have to do is just come over here to the trash can
so we can,
as I was saying, we can increase and decrease with this blue bar.
And if you want to add call outs or other information, you can.
Another thing that I can do is hit this little plus button right here.
And if I wanted to add a header, I could add a header.
If I want to add an image selection I can do that.
Let me just move this off to the side.
And we can see here that I've created a space to drag an image into.
So if I come in and I drop this treasure map right here,
we can see that that will fill that space.
And so that's very handy.
I can also give directions right here.
Or I can choose if I want to delete it.
When I did that when I hit this little plus button know
that this says to click on end three I hit that plus.
And this time I'm going to add a text selection that moves that down.
And that gives me the space.
So that if I want to add additional directions on what step
two would be in between one and, three at this point, I can do that.
Am I going too fast?
Is everything good so far?
Any questions?
I got a couple more things to show you.
All right.
So, also, as we will continue working over here
on the right hand side, you have three dots.
The more dots, if I wanted to move this click in three up.
I can do that by just clicking in three.
So it moved grids down and it moves in three up right.
I can also come back and I can say move that down.
Not a problem.
And of course if I wanted to duplicate it, if I needed two of these
I can click on duplicate. And that'll do the same thing.
So that's what's hidden under those three dots.
I can also do what's called a swap.
And I'm going to make this just a bit smaller so you can see it.
So right now you can see that as I bring
my cursor home I use this red one because it'll be easy to see.
As I bring my cursor over I get this drag to swap.
So I have currently up here I have this click on Ian three.
I can click hold my mouse down, drag here, let go.
And what it will do is it will take the red.
Put it at the top and click Ian three down.
So if you need to and it doesn't have to be next door,
it can be you know five I can swap this with five.
It will just swap positions which I find to be really fun and handy.
Also,
another thing that I really like about
this is, it's interesting.
One of the things that you can do is.
I'm sorry, I was getting, something in here.
It's. This looks a little bit different
than I wanted, but let me just double check here.
I'll go. That's our page. Okay.
So, one of the things you can also do is you can double, double click.
And let's say that I want to move this over here.
So students are able to see everything they want.
All I did was click and I'm gonna click out of that.
It's just double click inside the box.
That's what makes it active.
If I need to resize this I can resize it.
I can even make it smaller than I need to.
Or I can make it larger, just by grabbing those corners and resizing.
And again, all I have to do is click out of it and that'll work.
Again. Double click this over here.
Click like that. Any questions?
I might
be getting ahead of you as well, but as you're hovering over it as well,
there's those two little plus and minus in the corner.
Yeah.
Let's do click on those to zoom in.
It'll zoom in on the screenshot, but it kind of centers the highlighted
click area.
So it kind of keeps the click area right right in the middle there
which is really nice.
You can see it. You saw and we undo that.
This one's a really great example because it's off to the side.
Doesn't matter if I hit the plus or the minus.
As Rob says, it puts it right back in the center.
Thanks, Rob.
Yep. And you were not getting ahead of me.
I would have missed those altogether.
All right.
This camera was literally brand new.
We started playing with this last week,
so yeah, we're all learning new stuff in here.
I know it's it's always good to go to these, so it's always
good for us to go to these because we learn new things all the time.
One of the things, and this is Jason Hobb,
who works at Tech Smith, who works with Snagit.
He is all about the rounded corners.
We can see that that was locked. Whoops.
Let me get out of that.
That was a locked corner.
And now that it's unlocked, there is a diamond.
And if you are on Team Round Corner, you can change that into a round corner.
And if for any reason you want to again, I'm on double click in here.
Move this around and you need this to be round or a circle in some way.
You can also do that.
You can add a little I don't know where I'm a drop shot
keeps going the wrong way, but
you can also add little rings around it
and just kind of play with it and change shapes and sizes right there.
You also get that, option is on how thick of a border you want.
You can really make things look bad very, very quickly.
And I'll let you play with this one on your own.
That, that. Oops. Sorry. Let me get rid of that.
It's it's own thing.
Now, like I said at the beginning, you can get lost in the details
like I use the defaults for 90% of the stuff in here.
Don't. Yeah.
Don't feel like you have to change all these settings.
It's like the beauty of something like Snagit is that you can just snap away
and you're done. Yeah.
I'm kind of going deeper than you really you need right now, but I'm pretty excited
about the things you can do.
And then I'll just settle down and just do what?
Rob doesn't go at the defaults.
It's all about playing with the new toy.
All right, so now that you're done with this document, you might want to like
give it out to someone.
You can come down to file save as if you want to
and that'll save it to your document.
Or you can choose to export it.
And then when you're going in to the export, you can choose
whether you want to be a king Jpeg, tiff, GIFs, PDF,
anything like that, cancel, and one of the other options.
Again, if I went too quickly, that was file
and I came down to export, clicked on export
and that just came up with this window, I would give it a file name
and then let's say I want it to a PDF, and then I choose my file location.
Right now it's going to videos.
I'm just going to throw it on my desktop, click open and then export.
And it
is now this little file right here on my desktop.
If I double click on that it will show like this.
And reader.
So it's just a nice quick little PDF inside of reader.
So one thing on our notes that you,
missed there is what if I wanted to add a paragraph of text
to one of these screenshots, a paragraph text do you want to add?
You can see what's going above.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you're coming in, you make that little area a little bit bigger,
you can hit the text and you can start typing like this.
And that will allow you to do that.
You can also, if you choose to change the color of your text,
I'll let you play with that.
For example, something like this.
And then you click out of it.
So that would be a very easy way to add additional text.
If I needed to, added up here, then I might,
well, actually, I guess I can grab this.
Oh. So fun.
Move this down, grab my text and put it on top.
You can play around with it.
One other way that you can export
inside of this is in the upper right hand corner of Snagit.
If anybody's played with these before I was saying it before, you
probably know about this little downward facing arrow,
and you have all of these opportunities to export,
to different locations as you want, or you can export it as a file
on your computer in case, for whatever reason,
you can't get to the file, up here and export at the same time.
Any questions?
Wow. Is I either stunned? Or.
And I'm thorough.
I don't know, a little bit of both.
Hey, say it's Michael.
Invite me.
Hey, Michael.
Hey. Sorry, I don't have my video on.
I can turn that on, but just real quick.
I always have a problem on the export to YouTube to to and,
you know, just exporting it to YouTube.
I always seem to get an error message.
Is that something common, or is that just something in my computer?
I need to check some more along the way.
Maybe something on your computer that you need to check along the way.
You're obviously exporting a video, correct?
Not a screen capture. Right.
And then you have have you previously gone in
to let me remember Snagit settings.
And then when you go to settings,
you come here to share and then go down to YouTube
and then put in your YouTube, signed into YouTube this way.
Right. You done that?
Let me think for a second.
No, I just generally hit YouTube after
I've created a video and yeah, with the error message.
Okay.
So let me just do that one more time because I was moving pretty quickly there.
Underneath snagit is settings like your settings, how you want to set things up.
It's going to be this blue share button right here.
And then this is how you're actually linking Snagit
to whichever of these you want.
You have to have an account obviously. Right.
You'll click on your sign in.
You can't see this. But let me bring this over here.
It's having me sign in to my YouTube account.
I'm just clicking on continue.
Make sure you check this little button off right here
that allows that conversation to, or the exchange to happen.
And then once you click done that go ahead and click continue.
And then it can supply any errors and always allow.
And then I do an always allow.
So I don't have to keep reading.
Re re logging in my password.
Great question.
Thank excellent.
Thank you.
And now now I can upload to YouTube again
because I'm on a different computer.
It's a great question.
Anybody else?
All right.
I'm going to stop my share. I'll let Rob take over.
And he's going to give the overalls on.
Basics on.
Snag it.
Rob, can you steal the screen?
Because I can't find.
Oh, that's where I hit my block. Here we go, here we go.
There you go.
All right.
Any any other questions on the new stuff?
So the primary two new things is that I don't read that.
And then the, the, the new step by step document creator.
So those are the two big things.
So I'm just going to go through some like super basics things in, in Snagit.
So if you be using snag it for where you feel comfortable, feel free to take off.
No hard feelings at all.
And then as I'm demoing, just kind of snag it.
In general, if you have questions, just feel the feel free to pull it out or,
raise your hand or put any questions in chat
as well.
And go back in here and Rob has put on silent Rob I'm sorry.
Jeff has put a link to the silent workshop.
If anybody wants that, it's in chat.
It was a previous one, but.
Yeah, and that snag it one will show a lot more details
than than what I'm going to do here.
So one thing I'll note is that I can't really show it to you
when you first install.
Snagit.
And it's going to ask you, and I'm trying to remember where.
Oh, here it is.
It's this thing right here.
It's going to ask you whether you want to install the full capture window
or what they call the capture widget, which is the little thing up here.
I hate this with a passion.
It gets in the way of everything else I'm doing on my computer.
So I'm like, I always want it to just go away.
But if you find that to be handy, you can always,
have that there and do a skirt.
Start a capture.
I prefer to just launch the software every time.
So if you have this pop up window that appears
or doesn't appear when you want it to, when you're in the capture window,
you can go to view and then hide capture widget
and just turns off that little pop up thing.
I just find it personally annoying.
If you I mentioned earlier, there's basically two parts to snag it.
There's the capture and then there's the editor.
If you open the snag it capture, which is orange, you can
then open the editor right from here, which is the blue software.
So you can see down in my taskbar down here
I've got the orange snag it and the blue snag it.
So if I close both of these at any point in time,
I can just click on the blue, snag it, and it'll open the editor.
And then vice versa.
If you open the editor
and you want to go to the capture window and you're like, where was that again?
You can actually just hit capture up here in the upper, left hand corner
and that'll open the capture window.
So they're kind of like two separate software that are, that are interconnected.
By default
you have this all in one and I never know what's net what's zoom is going to show.
So bear with me a little bit so I can do this preview and editor,
which if I turn this off, what it's going to do is when I do
my capture, it's not going to open in the editor 99% of the time.
I want it to open the editor.
So I just leave that turned on.
You can have it copied to the clipboard automatically.
So if you don't want to edit the screenshot at all, you can just do that.
Copy the clipboard and then paste it into your email
or wherever you want to go.
The delay
I talked about earlier, which just gives you that five second delay.
What I
found for myself is I would rather go to the image
capture directly or the video capture directly,
because you get more settings and you can kind of check
and make sure things are set up the way you want it to go.
I'm just going to go to image.
Let me open up my web browser here.
Wrong web browser.
This one.
Here's my class I bring up snag it.
The thing about school, about Snagit as well, is
it hovers over everything on your computer,
so it automatically works with any software.
Anything that's open, it'll even take screenshots and video.
I know a lot of our accounting folks are in here.
Do, use VDI a lot as well, so it'll just capture
whatever's on the screen at the time.
If you hit
capture, I get my little countdown down here in the bottom
right hand corner because I have that five second delay on,
and then I get, which what you may or may not see
is my capture window, but I forgot I had steps turned on.
So let me stop that
and change this back to region.
Region is the default, by the way.
So I'll hit capture again.
And if you're doing a lot of screenshots
where you don't need the cursor, you might want to turn off that five
second delay too so you can snap things quicker.
This is the part that you probably can't see,
but I've got a little crosshairs and I'm clicking
and just dragging a box around whatever I want to capture.
Could you see that? Say or not,
you can.
Okay, cool.
What I'm capturing, it freezes zoom completely.
Y'all go black and white and it can't see anything.
So it's it's very interesting.
Once you're in the editing software,
this is where you can do all kinds of stuff and like, say mentioned.
I try and leave my bar pretty much standard.
But the order might be different because I use blur
a lot and I use steps a lot, and I use arrows a lot.
Many of you are in the room have gotten emails from me.
You can see I use different colors
and say there's there's no rhyme or reason to it.
It doesn't matter.
But if you want to point something out,
the nice big arrow is is always my friend, right?
Controls the undo.
And if you want to change
your colors in here, this theme
they pull down from here.
There's all kinds of different color sets in here.
So you can go to ugly theme, you can go to industrial theme,
and you can get more themes on on line if you want to.
This kind of the standard,
color set,
you can again, you can go crazy in here.
You can change the opacity, opacity.
You can change the width of the arrows, you can change the start size.
What's your name?
Cindy Rogers in accounting was like, I need purple arrows.
She just needed help. Purple arrows.
I helped her find purple arrows.
You can get whatever you want, right?
There's all kinds of things you can add on here.
But just know that everything, like, lives on top of it.
So if I put a couple arrows in here,
and then I switch to steps,
I'm basically adding
pieces to
the document.
If I go back and just kind of click off of here,
I can click on and we get off the steps though
I can click on any one of these objects and move it around.
Nothing's permanent as long as you're in snag it.
Once you copy this or save it as a Jpeg that it's locked.
But as long as you come back to snag it, you can move these
objects and things around as, as needed.
Right? So it's it's kind of a nice,
way of building, tutorials and things like that.
Blur is nice.
I use this a lot. You can see it's one of my favorites.
So I can drag a box of something.
Why is it being so funny?
Let me click on the little blur thing there.
I can blur out items.
Anything that you choose, you get a gray star.
If you click on it, it becomes one of your favorites.
So then if I go to favorites, you can see.
Here's the thing I just added.
But here's my blur.
Here's my steps, here's my arrow, here's my circles.
This is 90% of what I do, so I don't bother going into the menu
to find the things.
Once you kind of find the things you want to do, star are the ones that you want.
So then that way and if I just start from there
and I'll just go back, go away again.
You can find everything you want in one toolbar
as opposed to going, oh yeah, which one was that in that again?
The only difference, right.
The things I showed you, like the redact, is in the blur menu.
It's not something that you could star.
The simplify is its own tool.
There's not really something you can,
star on that.
But the other individual tools inside of there are all,
things that you can put in the favorites menu
and get from one one location.
Like I said, there is a ton of things inside of here.
If I go to more, you can crop an image, you can do
selections, you can get really crazy in here.
There's an eraser tool.
So if I come in and I want to take something out,
I can literally erase from the document
that little checkerboard means there's nothing there behind it.
If I control Z, I'll bring it back.
Going back under more, I can go to the highlighter tool.
Some of you might find this helpful
so you can draw over things and highlight it where it's still legible,
and you can change the color of that highlight as needed.
So that might be handy for some.
I don't use it, but it's something that you might find
handy depending on what you're using it for.
And then you've also got this magnifier tool.
And the magnifier tool
is very interesting because what it does is it highlights
a certain area of the of the document, but squishes the rest of it down.
Again, that's something I use a lot, but if there's something that you find
that is unclear and small in a screenshot.
So let's say I wanted to zoom in on this date here.
Right.
I can recenter this a little bit.
Right.
So that I can kind of more easily call out this date and point
those big red arrows.
This is the date that this thing is due.
Why aren't you understanding? Right?
You can get really kind of crazy like that.
The more things you add, the more distracting it is in my opinion.
So having 2 to 3
things on a screenshot is usually more than enough.
I don't find that magnified to be as clear as, say, a steps or just a smaller crop.
You also don't have to crop too much and snag
it and make it a rid of a couple of these big old areas here.
Because when you're in here, you've also got these little squares at the corners.
If I drag this in, I'm going to kind of auto crop.
So I don't need to even go to that crop tool to to make the image
tighter.
Yeah, I will try and show that as well.
My goal.
And then the other thing I always want to point out is what they call call outs.
Shapes are kind of self-explanatory. They're shapes.
Call outs are shapes with arrows that point
to something that you can give instructions about.
I can put a call out here
very easily. Really?
What's going on?
There it goes over.
I want that call to be and
click here and choose that or that.
Right you can.
You have this pop up menu that gives you font sizes and everything else.
Highlight the text first and then you can change the font.
You can change the size.
You can add as many instructions in there as you need to, can make it bold.
You can do whatever you want inside of there, resize it, and then what
it kind of looks like is a box with an arrow,
where you can then add instructions on top of it, right.
Then there's different formats.
Inside of here there's boxes with double arrows.
Click here, them there, whatever you want to do.
Again, I find this.
If you're making a paper documentation, this might be valuable.
I find it to be slower than just doing the steps and then typing out step one.
It's there. Step two is that that okay.
So it just depends on how you want to do it.
Just a brief overview of a bunch of tools.
Also back in the capture window,
one of the things
that Tanya was asking about is like a scrolling capture.
So this window is, is bigger
than everything I can put on a screen, right?
So if I go into the capture and I change the selection
to scrolling,
and I'm going to turn off the time delay,
I'll hit capture.
I want to capture the middle of my screen here,
where I want to capture everything below it.
So I capture and then I'm scrolling with my mouse.
So I'm scrolling down to the bottom of that screen, and then I'll hit done.
And so what it does
is I didn't make the capture of the big enough to capture my browser,
but then it captured everything in that screen, even the things that were off.
And it gives it to me in one document.
So if this was 4 or 5 pages long, it's just going to get
a big, tall image that you can then zoom in and out of.
Down here,
the bottom of the viewing window is also a magnifying tool,
so you can zoom in and zoom out while you're working.
You can hit fit to screen and it'll actual size then fit the screen.
So it'll kind of let you zoom in and out as you're as you're working.
Back over in the caption window,
I think, or capture window.
I think that is mostly what I do,
but 90% of time I just leave this on on region,
effects,
you can automatically add borders and edges and things like that.
I don't bother with any of that.
Again, feel free if you have free time to play with those things.
They're in there.
And then let's talk about video really quick.
So video.
But the other thing the snag it does is it allows you to capture,
a video so I can hit capture again.
I can say I want to capture my cursor, preview an editor,
if you want to record system audio or not.
So if you're playing a video or if there's music or tones in the background
that you want people to pick up on, again, make sure your microphone is on.
If you click on this little arrow here,
you can choose and make sure you have the correct microphone.
Like any video capture software, especially if you're not used to capturing
videos, you don't do a lot.
I can't tell you how many times I've captured a video with no audio.
Do a short video that's like two seconds long,
just testing to make sure your microphone is actually working,
and then go back and record your whole video.
So I just hit capture
very similar to
screen capture a still image.
I'm going to select an area of my screen to capture in video.
And this is my recording window.
Are you seeing this?
Okay. So.
Yes we are.
Thank you. Cool.
So I've got different options inside of here by default.
Well, I think
I don't know if it's default anymore, but the the cursor highlight is on,
you can change those settings down here.
So under the arrow I can turn off the curse cursor
highlighting or the click animation which lets
let the visual indicator that I clicked on something.
Those kinds of things you can.
This is just an indicator of your, your settings that you have.
I've got the webcam turned off right now.
I would say most of the time I capture and snag it.
I have the webcam off, but I have the microphone on.
So that's what all these different things are while you're in here.
This happens to me a lot.
I'm recording a video and I go, I don't want to record a video.
I just wanted to capture snapshot.
If you just hit the image
camera picture here, it'll take a snapshot of whatever's on the screen.
You've got an image. You're good.
This little
box over here is what Michael was asking you about.
And this is the ability to draw on top of what you're capturing.
To be able to do this,
it's nicer to have a bigger monitor.
And in any case, capture a smaller region of the screen
so you can see this little box that pops up.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit record.
It'll give me a nice little countdown.
My region that recording is inside of this yellow box.
So then if I scroll inside here and of course it's recording
my voice as I talk.
But then let's say I wanted to annotate on top of this.
This is a little annotate or drawing tool here.
So you click on this and you've got again,
just so you know, we cannot see though, you just described. No.
Yeah.
It's off to the side. Okay.
I will take a screenshot of it.
Maybe I don't I can do that either.
But you should be able to the 123.
Right.
Yes. We can see that.
Yeah.
So there's a little gray box off to the side with a,
cursor inside of like a little a box with the line inside of like a pencil.
There's three options. The color.
So I can choose a different color.
And then I've got numbers so I can click the numbers.
The numbers automatically fade over time.
I'm not do anything to make those numbers go away.
I also have a square where I can draw a box around something so I can highlight.
You can click here next and this will take you into the reply whatever that is.
And then you've got arrows as well.
So I've only got those three little options inside of here.
So it's it's called
drawing but there's not really like a free drawing tool.
It's really the steps the square or the arrows.
And then those just fade out over time.
After you draw.
So the Michael, the one thing that you might be having an issue with
is if your capture window is too big, that little, screen
draw thing off to the side is probably hidden.
That's probably it.
So by making it too large, give me a you mean the full page or.
Because I usually guess if you're if you're capturing the full screen.
Right.
I try not do full screen, but, I'll look for that little box.
Maybe that's what I'm missing.
Yeah, I'll see if I can find a little picture of it. Really?
Quite sure.
And so now I've got the video in here.
I'm not going to play it, obviously, but you can see it.
It's captured the videos.
And then after you capture the video, let's say, oh,
you know what, I really wish I had this as a screenshot right inside the editor.
I can just click this little camera and get a screenshot of that particular thing.
So I can say, now I want an image.
Is that so? Here's my video.
It has the time.
And then this is the screenshot version of it.
Yeah.
It's pretty much it's it doesn't have I can't notice.
Also, for those of you, you need to snag it
when I click on an image.
I've got all this cool features.
When I click on,
video
zero features, it's not really a video editing tool.
It's just a simple capture the video.
I can then upload this to YouTube or email somebody.
Mp4 please don't email mp4 videos.
If you want to find out where this video is on your computer
or one of these images, right click on it
and choose Open File Location.
It'll take you right to that folder
and highlight the video.
And then you can click and rename this.
And then it's kind of ready to go.
And in a nutshell that's Snagit.
I can sit here and demo more and more features, but it's really
one of those things that you're better off just kind of playing with,
and trying out yourself.
Last thing I want to show you,
you have this screenshot.
I want to email this to Tanya.
I'll go edit copy. I'll
go to my email,
which is chaotic.
And I can start emailing it to Tanya.
And then I just click in my message.
Hi Tanya, blah blah blah blah.
Hit paste and there's the image.
You don't need to save it out. You can just copy and paste it in.
There's all my highlights and then I it's hit send and then I send it away.
So that's how we use this really, really closely for answering questions.
Especially like student goes, oh, I'm confused.
How do I how am I doing this.
Take a screenshot, couple couple clicks, send it out.
Videos are very helpful as well.
The only trick to videos is again, having to upload it to,
YouTube or somewhere else.
So it's hosted so you can send it out.
Any general questions?
So if you hit, it's Michael.
If you hit the share link now, unless I did it with with with
say showed earlier.
That would I'd have to set that up first.
Don't. Yeah.
So if I come in here
and I like if I click on this little arrow and I want this to go to YouTube.
It's not going to work because I haven't signed into YouTube.
Okay.
I just sign in with my pipeline and connect it, and I can send it that way.
Okay.
If you hit this, just share link button
there.
There is a hosting service from snag it.
So if I do have an image and I hit share link, it's
going to require me to, to make a, screencast account.
And I can upload that image there and send it that way.
We usually say this for
a more advanced type of thing.
You can have as many images up there as you want,
but you can only have 25 videos.
So that's part of why we we encourage you to use YouTube because
especially for instructors, you probably want that video to be there for a while.
You're welcome. Tracy.
And it's the captioning part too.
Yeah.
Because the the the share link right from here that would share it with text.
If that's not going to caption anything.
Just a friendly reminder for all of you that are already using snag it.
And a heads up for those are going to use snag in the future, especially videos.
Clear out your videos on your computer occasionally. Yep.
Especially if you're like us, where things change all the time.
The more videos you capture,
the more space it takes on your computer.
And then your computer starts not working as well.
One of the nice ways to doing that again is just right click
on any of your files in here and go to this open file location.
And when you install snag it, it actually
makes a folder called snag it in your documents area.
And these are all of my captures.
Back to 2023 on this computer.
But what you'll see is I don't have a lot of videos in here
because I taught, I toss them out over time.
I'll keep the screenshots, but I toss those videos out because they,
they definitely, add up and space over time.
So as you find that you don't need to need things anymore, come in here.
You know, if you're doing a lot of videos, come in here fairly often
and take out your videos.
Otherwise come in here at least like once a year.
I'm just going to do it right now.
Since we're talking about it,
I'll go ahead and highlight this little chunk and just hit delete.
Is there something in there I probably want to hold on to you.
Maybe.
Guess what?
I can recreate it in 10s
because it's that fast, so no big deal
and I'll just empty that recycle bin so there's no point of no return.
It's all gone.
But that'll keep your hard drive empty and keep your computer running.
Very nicely.
Good point. So.
Any other questions?
Yeah. So I.
I didn't realize I could
download other quick singles.
Thank you.
So. But, are we only able to download those this free starter ones or.
I thought we had a subscription.
I thought we could, like, maybe do some of the other nicer colors.
They're not.
They don't have, like, the free ones that have a lot of high contrast.
And of course, you know, the premium ones are the ones that.
Yeah, we do not, we do not have a subscription if there is,
a bunch of
stuff you want to download from there.
Let's talk, because let's say if the FRC buys a subscription,
for the assets, we can download as many things as we want to it.
Just subscribe
for a month, download anything you want, and then add your subscription.
And they even tell you to do this.
I'm not saying that's secret text.
The fuzzies do this all the time.
But since we don't have a subscription, say, for example,
I wanted to, recruit a tutor to help me
make, some of my training videos, but I whatever.
If they're using a staff computer, can we downloads and,
snag it on that computer and upload the key and we'll.
Fine.
I'm not taking a seat from anyone from being able to use it.
Yeah, we have a site license now. So.
But it only includes faculty and staff.
But in that scenario where you're, you know, you're giving work to a student
or for a student worker, I would say that that counts.
But, students don't have access in general to just get through us.
Right.
Like I'm thinking of adding it to, a shared staff computer.
Yeah, that's completely fine. Okay.
And but let's say they're signed in, I doubt it.
Would that mean it's not.
It is now only available when they're signed in.
Or should it now be available to anyone who's logged in to that computer.
It should be available to everybody on the computer.
All right.
All right. Thank you.
And in case you weren't here at the beginning, I did.
I did, request from it
to add the new version of Snagit to all of our images going forward.
So as images get, as the computers get updated,
or if you get new machines that should have the new version of Snagit on it.
Or anything else?
Duane, you've been using this
for a while, right?
Yeah, I maybe just I only used it really kind of one time,
but I was cut off version two when Jeff showed me, so,
fascinating, though. It worked out.
It's worked out really good for my class.
Like, I did a little video and,
just kind of gave an overview instructions on what to do.
And I feel like a lot less emails and confusion and stuff.
So it's really helpful on that part.
And then reminders for like, midterms and finals and seems to work pretty decent.
And I'll be doing that for summer school too. So yeah.
Update that.
Yeah. Very cool.
Very cool stuff. Yep.
Yeah. I've staying on my home computer.
So when I'm grading photography and things for students,
I will actually give them feedback.
Like I'll put polar photo up on the screen
and then I'll tell and I'll bring it up in Lightroom.
I'll show them how to make things better.
And then I send them the link and they're just like,
oh my gosh, I can't believe you did that.
I understand so much better than typing.
And I'm like, yeah, I just saved myself.
Like a tunnel and 20 minutes of typing versus a five minute video.
And so it's a cool tool.
Yeah, absolutely.
All right.
Well, let's get started with things. Definitely.
Let us know if you have questions.
I know I think,
for those of you in the accounting side, I think,
the payroll side has started to use it a lot as well.
So you guys can collaborate on
on your favorites and all that kind of stuff as well.
There are ways to save out favorites and like, share tool.
I mean, like, there's so many things you can do and snag it.
It's it's it's pure insanity.
So keep it simple.
Like I tell my students, just keep it simple.
Don't overthink it.
Just play with it.
All right I'm going to start.