Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com Today I'm going to do a video that
talks about the differences between TechSmith Camtasia and TechSmith Snagit so I'm basing this a
little bit on the questions I often get asked and I think the first key difference you need to keep
in mind is that you cannot have a video done in Snagit where you have both the screen capture and
the webcam on at the same time which is exactly what you're experiencing at the moment in Snagit
what you can do is jump between having the webcam to then jumping over to screen capture so you can
jump between one and the other but you can't have both on the screen at the same time now sometimes
I like to do a video where I introduce myself so I'm on the screen and then I jump to the screen
capture in that case I might use Snagit if I want to have both the screen capture and myself on the
screen like now then I'm gonna use Camtasia now one other benefit I've been able to have both
the screen capture and the webcam on at the same time is that you can do the technique that I'm
using now which is what we call green screen and it allows me to cut out the background of
the recording and we get that effect that there's actually nothing behind me and I can kind of add
my own background now an absolute fundamental difference is that Snagit offers image capture
it actually was originally an image capture tool that allows you to capture images on the screen
and then you can edit them and do a lot of things with them it's actually a very powerful image
capture tool the screen capture video capture was added later and so obviously fundamentally when
you buy Snagit you're getting two things because you get both image capture and you get screen
capture or screen casting now with Camtasia it was specifically for screen casting right from the
start now an absolute massive difference between Camtasia and Snagit and very fundamental to me and
the way that i work is that when you work with Snagit you can make a video and it's just one
video and then you can edit it along you can do in the editing is cut off parts of the video scene
cut parts out from the middle or from the ends but you can't augment the video you can't then bring
in images etc etc to augment the video you are limited just to doing the capture and then being
able to kind of cut parts of the video out now when we're working with Camtasia we can actually
have multiple videos multiple screen captures that we've created and then bring them into Camtasia
editing suite stitch them all together and then edit them and so that is a massive difference so
for example the video that you're seeing at the moment is not one video it's actually many videos
all stitched together and obviously I can't do that in Snagit now the number of editing options
are available to you in Camtasia keeps growing as the tool develops so for example these days we
can pan in and pan out we can add subtitles we can have transitions from one video to the other we've
got different ways of introducing professional kind of openings and professional endings we
can do green screen which is a lovely feature we can have call-outs coming onto the screen which
is something that I'll use all the time we can even bring real video in real video footage and
combine it with screen capture footage and images as well so we can bring images onto the screen so
the number of editing options has grown and grown there are particular ones that I make a lot of use
of one of them of course being the green screen and never been the use of call-outs and the other
thing that we can do is we can edit audio we can have numerous audio tracks as well so if
we want background music which I often do when I'm producing content for our organization so there's
lots of editing opportunities Snagit doesn't offer that and that's why the tool is so much cheaper
because you don't have the same editing facilities that you have when you're working with Camtasia
one of the ones that people always ask me about is the yellow curse and now unfortunately when
you work with Snagit you can't have the yellow cursor yes you can record the cursor but you don't
get the highlight around it in Camtasia you could choose any color and have the cursor highlighted
via that color and a lot of people often ask me about that so you might think yourself well
then Camtasia sounds a better tool than Snagit well not necessarily because it always depends
of course what you want to do I use Snagit for a long time to make quick clear videos that I ever
wanted for YouTube or I will in and put them onto my Google Drive or save them onto my computer or
put them up onto Moodle training videos talking over PowerPoint presentations etc if you just
want to make one video and you want to produce it quickly and you're not planning on doing too much
sophisticated editing so you might be a teacher you might be producing content that you want to
put into your Moodle or your ed model then Snagit can do the job if you're looking for something a
little more professional you're producing videos perhaps for other companies or you are planning
on having a YouTube channel where you want to get up high quality video with both the video and the
webcam and then you're going to make the choice of Camtasia obviously there's a big difference in
pricing so I actually use both tools Snagit if I'm doing a quick video and I just want to get
it out there very quickly and I'm not planning on editing or of course if I want to do image capture
and Camtasia I when I'm looking to do something a little bit more professional perhaps like what
I'm doing now where I've got green screen and where I want to bring call-outs onto the screen
then I would use Camtasia I really hope that video was useful if you've got any questions
then please leave them in the comment section if you come to teacher training videos com there's
loads more free videos on using both Camtasia and Snagit I actually have specialized sections
on both so just click here for Camtasia and click here for Snagit and look out for the courses and
the offers in those two sections because I run online courses in both Snagit and Camtasia if
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if you'd like to contact me either to come to your organization and do some training one-to-one
or one-to-many very happy to do that or if you want online training I have a number of clients
that for example work with me learning Camtasia I have a special virtual classroom that I can use
to train people in Camtasia and Snagit and Moodle and Ed model and lots of tools again that can be
one-to-one one-to-many then please just contact me from the website and thank you very much
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