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February 8, 2013
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Screen Capture Software

  • February 8, 2013
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I notice that the ZScreen homepage shows that development has stopped on this software.
Is it still a good bet for screen capture, or is there a later and better, free program?

Cheers,

John


John Wayman, C.Eng, FIED
Senior Mechanical Engineer

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    JoseResendis6-Contributor
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    February 8, 2013

    Hi John,

    The snipping tool in Windows 7 works very well. If you need something with
    a bit more functionality, SnagIt.
    Its not free, but not very expensive at all.

    Best Regards,

    Jose M. Resendis
    Mechanical & Optical Engineering Center (MOEC)
    Raytheon - Space & Airborne Systems (SAS)

    "Great execution requires discipline"


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    JWayman1-VisitorAuthor
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    February 8, 2013
    Windows XP here, by the way...

    John
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    rrich1-Visitor
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    February 8, 2013
    Many different ones on the market. We use snagit here at the office low cost but very robust and versatile. But I have used some of these other freebees.

    Hypercam - more for video screen capture but I think there is still screen capture also.
    Photoscape - has decent screen capture and you can get it portable so put it on a flash drive and take it with you anywhere. Along with decent photo editing.

    These freebees have decent ratings but I have not used.
    ScreenHunter
    PicPick
    Gadwin PrintScreen
    Photobie
    XnView

    Ron
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    iceblink11-Visitor
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    February 8, 2013
    I'm using v3.32.0.1 rev 1757 and it works perfect for me, never had any
    need for an upgrade or other software.
    So I'd say just try it and see if you like it. It's free anyway.

    Best regards,
    Patrick Asselman

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    sjancarek1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    February 8, 2013
    There is also the Google Chrome app, Screen Capture. It will capture
    anything on the screen, but you must have Chrome running to use it.
    It's pretty basic but you can't beet the price, free.

    I use Snag-it for most of my captures, do to it's annotation capabilities.

    Steve
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    BrianKrieger10-Marble
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    February 8, 2013
    I'll third plunking down the $50 for Snagit. Annotations are nice and easy. That said, I haven't used the others in years now, so the freebies could possibly have all of the same functionality (though I do love the other tools associated with Snagit, not just capture.).

    And, in a related subject, I would also recommend Techsmith's other product, Camtasia Studio, for desktop video (and bundle it with Snagit to have both). Though it's a little more of an investment.

    Regardless, screen capture tools are indispensable as everyone knows.

    Brian Krieger
    Peterbilt Motors
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    nrollins2-Explorer
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    February 8, 2013
    I have to weigh in here as well. I used Snagit (version 8, I think.) for
    years and loved it. Moving to Win 7 about a year ago caused me to look at
    moving to another screen capture package (ver. 8 did not work well w/ Win7
    64 bit) and I searched for an open source (free) utility. I tried many and
    always found something I did not like. So, I dropped the $50 on the latest
    Snagit and I can't live without it.



    Custom Hotkeys for various types of snags (region, fixed size, text, with
    cursor, without, video.etc.)

    Annotations - customize them and save them for quick access and consistency

    It saves all your snags in a searchable library for a history of what you've
    done

    It retains the vector format so you can go back to a snag you took before
    and edit the annotations

    Snagging text is really convenient sometimes when you cannot select/copy -
    it also can select across multiple cells in XLS and lump all the text
    together for a paste into Word, etc.

    Snagging video is a great way to communicate designs - I set the region to a
    small rectangle and the frame rate to really slow and choppy - it gets the
    point across well, but creates a small file to email. No sound, I think you
    need Camtasia for that.

    It works directly w/ MS Office, so I can hotkey snag a shot that opens and
    inserts into PPT automatically.








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    pmichalski1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    February 8, 2013
    I use FastStone Capture. It's not free but is not expensive (~20 $). Application can capture whole window, subwindow, region (regular or freehand), screen or scrolling window. Captured data can be sent to MS Office application or to editor. In editor you can add some annotations or effects and sent to Word, PowerPoint or ftp. Portable version work perfect.
    You can try this applications for 30 days for free.

    Przemyslaw Michalski



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    ptc-19327451-Visitor
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    February 8, 2013
    For inexpensive (free with watermark) screen capture and video desktop capture try Screencast-o-matic.
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    agaribay1-Visitor
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    February 8, 2013
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