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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