Screen Recording

Camtasia Studio 6.0

When it comes to producing professional-looking movies and demos from your computer screen, TechSmith's Camtasia Studio continues to strike the right balance between a powerful toolset and ease of use.

The feature-packed screencast app--which includes HD production settings--does have a learning curve, but enhancements like a refurbished interface and bringing user-friendly icons for most-used tools to the forefront goes a long way toward lowering the intimidation factor a notch, as do the online video tutorials and the program's help center.

There's a new content area showcasing like templates, music, and outros supplied from a third-party vendor known as Digital Juice, with additional content available for purchase. A more eye-catching screen recorder module is another improvement.

The rest of the changes to Camtasia Studio 7 address everything from more effects and cursor customizations to links for sharing more videos with viewers, to an enhanced production wizard for uploading completed videos to YouTube.

Beyond these additions, Camtasia Studio remains largely the same powerhouse for creating and producing screencasts for the Web, mobile phones, and DVDs. Well-rounded production settings continue to present presets for novices; additional applications, like an audio editor and the CD MenuMaker, round out the features.

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HyperSnap

HyperSnap is a fast and easy way to take screen captures as images and capture editable text (TextSnap) from any part of Windows screen. Combines the power of a first-class screen capture application with an advanced image editing utility--wrapped into one easy-to-use tool. It is perfect for capturing images that you want to include in your Help system, online tutorials, manuals, training handouts, presentations, marketing materials, Web pages, and e-mails. Use HyperSnap to quickly share a picture-perfect representation of anything on your screen, or copy text from error messages, program screens, system folders etc. HyperSnap is versatile and extremely easy-to-use. You can quickly customize menus and toolbars to fit your needs. Assign your own keyboard shortcuts, create instant toolbars, and even control HyperSnap with voice commands.

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