Snagit vs. Camtasia: Which Screen Recorder is Right for You?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Looking for the best tool for capturing your screen, but not sure which one to choose? TechSmith makes two screen recorder products that help you capture what you see on your computer. Which one suits you - Snagit or Camtasia - depends heavily on whether you want to create pictures or videos.
And in this video we'll help you decide which screen recorder is right for you!
Learn about the differences between Snagit and Camtasia and how you can decide which one works best for your project.
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I like all 3. Snagit, Camtasia and Erin!
lol
I have never used "Erin". Is that part of a bundle?
I love all of Erin's videos, but this one could have dug a bit deeper into the video capability of SnagIt vs Camtasia. For instance, mentioning it's easy to create GIFs, and do basic edits of a a video in SnagIt. It would have been nice to include a comparison chart or link to one, since there is some overlap.
Thanks Betsy! There are a lot of things we probably could have dug deeper into, but we wanted to make sure this was more of a high-level, easy for anyone to understand comparison of the two pieces of software. Thanks for your comment!
Di@@techsmith
Ok.. she's literally the best presenter. 🙌🏼
Just the details I was hoping to find. Thanks for the short, but informative video!
So glad it helped!
Erin is GREAT! Most TechSmith videos are pretty darn good, but she has hands down the most personality and on-screen presence.
We agree! She's pretty dang great! Thanks Andrew!
so you want software with promoters with a great personality
instead of software that works. nice
@@hamidmazuji are those concepts mutually exclusive? Camtasia works great AND they have good promoters #winwin :D
You need to "farm" this young lady out for promotions. She is great!
Why not just combine both because most of the functionalities are same in both. Just call them Snagtasia or CamIt. if you would like ..... :)
You can have best of both worlds and get rid of unnecessary duplications. I have used both and so had this confusion in mind, thanks for clarifying.
Great videos! Concise - full of very relevant useful info!
For Snagit, is there a limit as to the length of the video you can record?
Not a set limit, no, however we recommend Snagit recordings don't exceed 15 minutes to ensure best results. If you regularly need longer recordings, that's when we'd recommend considering Camtasia.
Oh dear... there's so much you DON'T SAY that my questions are far from clarified and I'm still confused.
I'd like to record activity on the screen, using it as a kind of whiteboard, moving the mouse around, highlighting salient features, etc. and then have a video for editing elsewhere. If I don't want to use Camtasia editing software then what is the difference between Camtasia *screen capture* and Snagit *screen capture* (I'm not interested in static screen capture coz PrtSc does it already, and I just copy the image into Paint or GIMP and extract the bits I want.)
Crucial features do include the "highlighting" tools (I'm not sure of the terminology). I'd like to encircle text or images on the screen, while recording a voiceover or the soundtrack already playing on the computer, or just have a mouse pointer pointing to things - and be able to quickly change the pointer to a circle or highlighter blob (maybe quickly adjusting the size to suit the detail required) or to an LED pointer dot, say.
Trimming and cutting out of unwanted frames can be done elsewhere with a video editor. So can Snagit do all of that, or has Camtasia got recording features that Snagit doesn't? If so then is there a version of Camtasia that does NOT have the video editing facilities, coz I really don't need them.
Thanks.
Snagit does not have the circle or highlight features in video so you would need to do that in Camtasia or another video editor. I hope this helps!
🤔😩 such a complicated mind are you a AI 🖨🖨?
Great video, right what I need it :) thank you
I like snagit but you should let users set the frame rate or at least give an advanced setting. I record headshots 25p. It would be nice to have screen recordings match.
While Snagit is good for recording your screen, if you want customizable video frame rates, Camtasia might be the better choice for you.
Still doesn't tell me what's in Snagit that's not in Camtasia. Why would I want both? Really could use a feature list between both with check marks so I could see what's in each package. Sounds mostly like Snagit is good because the extra features of Camtasia are not in the way but it's not clear what I wouldn't be able to do with just a Camtasia license. This information is not on the TechSmith website either. At least not that I could find.
Snagit was built first and foremost as a screen capture tool. Now you can also use it to record videos.
Camtasia was built first and foremost as a screen recorder, and now is a great video editing tool with many effects.
Snagit is not a video editor and has no post-editing features.
Camtasia doesn't take screenshots.
We don't have lists including every feature inside of each product as comparables to one another, but we do have free trials so that you can download them and see for yourself.
Big Thanks for this video !
snagit will not record since last week October 4, 2019 there are not good reviews on trying to to get the system back up. I am stupid and I cannot find a way to get my system back. Please help.
Sorry to hear this! The fastest way for us to get you back up and running is for you to open a ticket with our technical support team so that they can look at your software more in-depth. Follow the link here: bit.ly/ts-gethelp
@@techsmith thank you I will try ...
Is live streaming on youtube possible through camtasia? Thank you
Nope, Camtasia is for screen-recording or video editing, but is not a live streaming app. When you're done producing a video it does make it easily shareable to TH-cam, but that's obviously not the same.
Hey! Great video! I wonder, does Snagit and Camtasia work together on the same project? Lets say, if a client records something in Snagit and sends me the video files, will I still get the same results as if I did everything in Camtasia, even the recording? When I`ve worked in Camtasia earlier, it seems like the zoom tool makes some kind of magical adjustment to the frame, and avoids pixelated images, even on the places where I zoom like 300%. Will this work with Snagit exports, that are imported into Camtasia - edited and exported again?
I wouldn’t expect exactly the same results but in principle this should work. However, when you record with Camtasia the cursor is recorded in its own track that you can later turn invisible or scale up. Snagit doesn’t do this so you’d have no cursor control. I don’t think scaling SHOULD be crystal clear zooming into 300% so I would advise doing that with either video file, but if it’s working for you, more power to you! :)
Lastly, Snagit doesn’t have any render time. When you’re done recording your video it is an MP4 automatically in your tray and you can drop that straight from the Snagit tray into Camtasia.
Thank you for the video, is there a way to export Snagit video to Camtasia that's on a separate computer? I produce training videos using Camtasia on my personal computer, but the work computer only has Snagit.
You can export it to a shared cloud location such as Screencast.com, Dropbox or Google Drive, then from your personal computer just pull it off of the shared location and edit away!
@@techsmith Thank you for responding, however that won’t work in my situation due to enterprise (DoD) restrictions on where files can be stored.
1:20 u see that lag in the timeline cursor? i have a really good pc and i have the same problem (and a lot of more camtasia lag problems), u, camtasia devs, u should try to reduce somehow this annoying lag ;)
Nice video, except it does not answer the one thing I wanted to find out... what is the duration limitation placed on Snagit videos?
Officially there isn't a limitation because it's dependent on a variety of your computers' factors (processing power, storage capacity, et al). We used to suggest you not use Snagit for videos over 15 minutes, but in more recent tests, it does fine on modern computers much longer than that, but we'd hate to promise it and then find out someone was using a less powerful computer and it failed on their longer recordings.
Because Snagit is encoding videos AS it records, it uses more processing power than most recorders. (When you're done, no exporting, just drag and drop your video wherever you like it).
Thanks for this video!
We hope it helps!
Can CC be added to Camtasia? People watch more on mobile and need writing on video instead of volume.
Absolutely! You'll find Captions under the Audio Effects tab.
@@techsmith do i need to give my credit card for the trial? ty.
DEFECTO: SANGIT no guardar el movimiento del cursor, al compartir a CAMTASIA
Necesario!
If you're sharing to Camtasia, why did you record with Snagit? Just record with Camtasia, and this will solve your problem.
I have got a camtasia 2020. Can I upgrade to 2021 free when its available?
If you added Maintenance with your purchase then YES, and you will be notified when Camtasia 2021 is released that you have a free upgrade!
If you did not, then it will cost the usual Upgrade price ($99.95), but you can add Maintenance to that Upgrade and the following version would be included.
Would I be able to use snagit to record up to 50 hours of content. We are doing training through teams and I have a horrible memory so I would like to record the training sessions to review again later. So basically I just want to record what is on my screen, the training is going to be on teams software which will be running on my laptop. Thx
Does Snagit and Camtasia produce same quality screen recording outputs? I am talking about video quality, not features
That all depends on your pixels and aspect ratio, but both have the same recording capabilities and can create MP4's when you're done. Does that answer your question?
tienen un ROADMAP?
Are you asking if we have a roadmap/plan for future software releases (we do, but not publicly), or are you talking about an animated roadmap asset to include in a video?
Also, feel free to combine all of your questions into one and we can address them all at once.
I think Camtasia is way better than snagit. camtasia provides great options for me to edit my videos.
Probably not at taking a quick screenshot and marking it up though, right? It all comes down to what you're using it for. Definitely a significantly more powerful video tool. We're glad you like Camtasia!
Very nice and useful software
CAMTASIA deberia tener "pasos" y mejores anotaciones con flechas
While we don't have the same Step Tool as Snagit, there are LOTS of free assets in the Camtasia library that are animated annotations and much more. Click on the Media tab on the left, then check both the Library and Assets tabs.
Does Snagit have the caption option? If it does, is it possible to select a foreign language? Thanks
Snagit does not, no.
I'm trying to figure out how to blur videos in snagit. That option is greyed out
You can't edit videos in Snagit. If you're looking for video editing, including the blur effect, you'd need to use Camtasia. One trick in Snagit is to make a video from images (under the "Create" button) and use images that you've blurred information out of already. Like this: th-cam.com/video/E_k1EZtc5Ow/w-d-xo.html
what is the best way to render video and import it into a video editing software like DaVinci resolve? Is there a specific rule for how to do this?
There are a lot of variables to this question. First, we aren't DaVinci and can't answer questions for Resolve. But if you're recording your screen and don't want to edit using Camtasia then you have some options. Snagit doesn't require rendering after you're done recording. It's just done and ready to be drag-and-dropped. That also means you have fewer options outside of your recording size/aspect ratio. Camtasia does take the time and offers a few more exporting options when you're looking to render.
@@techsmith do I need to make sure I record it using AVI format?
AVI is becoming a dated format. I would actually encourage you make sure it's an .mp4.
I don’t need to produce my own videos with my own content. What I do need to do is record video and sound from a library of many already made instructional videos so I have access to them offline. The only editing I think I might need is to edit out parts of the video that are irrelevant. Would Snagit be perfect for that or is there a benefit for Camtasia? Lastly is there a limit to the length of video and or number of screen recording videos you can record and save with either Snagit or Camtasia? Thanks everyone!
Both programs could probably do that well. Really with a large library you're larger concern is storage space on your hard drive. As long as you have plenty of hard drive capacity, both could work. I'd probably recommend Camtasia if they're LONG videos (an hour). Otherwise, you may be able to do it without any issue with Snagit.
@@techsmith it seems that Snagit takes a while to save a video over an hour in length. Is that mp4 save time significantly faster with Camtasia? Thanks.
@@RJ_Chicago Snagit really is meant for much shorter video uses. While it sometimes can handle longer recordings, it's not something we recommend since it can be dependent on many variables. BUT one of the great benefits of Snagit is that it doesn't have any render/export time. When you're done recording, it's ready to be watched. Whereas when you record with Camtasia, you will need to export the video as an MP4, and that will definitely take longer.
Is there a OBS type software from Techsmith? I want to stream things live
Good question, but no there is not.
Can you do everything in snag it in camtasia?
No, Snagit is a powerful image editor and screen capture tool that has MANY features not included in Camtasia. It can create multi-page documentation. It can simplify images at the click of a button (Auto-Simplify), it can remove the background from images, it can extract text, etc.
great video, i like it
Hi,thank you for this comparison! Can I move the camera on camtasia while I am recording? Or is the camera fixed on one spot while I am recording? I want to be able to move it around during recording in case it is covering something on my screen I am recording. Also can you see your camera on the screen as you are recording? Thank you
You can choose the region of your screen to record but select a custom size (1920x1080 or similar) or you can record the entire screen all at once and then zoom in on it after you're done recording. All of the zooming and panning is done after you record though, not live as you record. So the 'camera' is fixed on one spot, but that spot can be your entire screen. Nothing will be hidden from view if you don't want it to be. But there is not a camera per se, so no camera will show up in view. Just your screen as it appeared while you were recording. I hope that answers your questions!
@@techsmith thank you but what I meant is if when I am recording with my face camera on for some reason I don't see my face camera window in any of the corners when I am recording, it only appears once I am done. So sometimes it could cover content on the screen. I would like to know if you can see that little window with your face camera and move it around if you need to just as you do with Screencast-O-Matic.
I see now, yes, once the video is done recording, Camtasia sets the camera view in the bottom right over your screen recording as a picture-in-picture look, however you can customize that and put it wherever you like, and move it around throughout the video (or even turn it off for a while and bring it back on). Maybe you want to go full-screen with the webcam? That works too! Totally customizable once it's recorded.
But since it's not a live stream, you don't customize it until after you're done recording, then it can go wherever you like. I hope that helps!
@@techsmith thank you, I love the option of being able to customize it once the video is recorded but I also like to be able to see my camera window while I'm recording. That way I know if I am in the camera or if I'm coming out of the frame.
So this whole time I have been paying for the wrong software lol great news lol. I have snagit and have been paying every year for upgrades but just realized that camtasia is the correct software. I was doing electrical engineering videos solving equations and problems snagit can do the job but its not as sleek as camtasia. I did read the review for camtasia and the main complain is that it either crashes, does not have enough futures for what you pay and that you also need to buy other software to render the audio for better quality.
It depends how involved you wish to get with your video. If you want to do more high-quality, in-depth editing, then Camtasia is probably right for you. But if you want to record and upload, then Snagit is a great tool for that. You could always check out the free trial with Camtasia and see if that is more aligned with what you wanted: www.techsmith.com/download/camtasia/
@@techsmith yeah i did install the free version of camtasia and its really good at recording and the sound is better than snagit. Still snagit does a very good job at recording.
You may want to ask for a discount. Right now, you have a "no" for an answer; why not ask for a "yes"?
Thank you for this video . When i used snagit can me made zoom When recording a video screenshot ?
Not sure I fully understand the question, but if you're asking whether or not you can video record a Zoom call with Snagit, the answer is yes. However, we recommend nothing too much longer than 15 minutes for best performance.
@@techsmith Thanks for the reply, I apologize for my English, I mean, can it make zooming to specific places on the screen to clarify an option from the list, for example
No apologies necessary, I want to make sure I get you the correct answer.
You cannot zoom in Snagit though. Snagit really is just for recording your screen and webcam, but editing is almost non-existence (except for trimming the ends and cutting sections out).
For editing and zooming, we recommend Camtasia.
I hope that helps!
TechSmith thank you it’s was helpful
Has anybody tried either one for recording a livestream concert?
If you can see it and hear it on your computer, Camtasia and Snagit can record it. For longer recordings we recommend Camtasia, but both should work fine.
Thank u for,this information. Dawn Spro
first i don’t copy your content. if unintentionally any snap or something like that you found on my video, tell me i will remove that.
but believe me i don’t copy your content.
I think it would better to show the differences rather than the similarities cause Camtasia still feels like the better option and Snagit sounds like "Camtasia Lite" or a "Camtasia Browser Add-On". I've seen other videos that highlight the library and the 1-2-3 premade templates for how-to guides. And there's probably more but I haven't seen a full side-by-side comparison so I'm still a bit lost on whether it's worth the investment. I'm not blaming this video, I get that it's a brief overview. I'm just on the fence and was hoping for more info.
Update: I ran across this guy who explained how he uses SnagIt along with Camtasia to speed up his workflow: th-cam.com/video/J4qmgULureQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=dottotech
I gotta say he has some great points on how best to use SnagIt.
I appreciate that feedback Erskin! (Andy here). We know there's a lot to explain and often we try to avoid overwhelming the viewer, but sometimes more would be better.
If it helps, I think of it as Snagit being for images with a touch of video capabilities (picture-in-picture now, as well as simple walk-through explainer abilities). But you can't edit videos out of Snagit. You can only remove sections. But no true non-linear editing. Camtasia is a fully featured video editor AND screen recorder. If you want effects, transitions, text-on-screen, the ability to animate, etc, go with Camtasia. If you have specific questions, ask away!
@@techsmith That "update" comment about the workflow video sold me on the bundle w/ Snagit. So I Snagged It (purchased) last night. I also got a sweet discount code so I'm very happy. I've been meaning to get Camtasia for a long time... I've been a fan for a long while, but today I'm a whole air conditioner. Thanks for your additional feedback, you've been very helpful. Happy Holidays!
@@erskinhansen1715 HA! "A whole air conditioner." That's awesome! Thanks for replying Erskin! Great timing to be able to 'snag' the bundle on Cyber Monday! Love hearing this, and remember to check back on our channel here (or our website) if you need any tutorials, have any questions, or just feel like joining us here in the comments again!
My camtasia recorder is so laggy! I spent all my money on it so I cant buy snagit help!!!
Is it an older version? There are two options I would think of as possible solutions:
1. Open a ticket with our support teams to see what is making Camtasia run so poorly (if it's only a few iterations old it shouldn't be bad) - bit.ly/ts-gethelp - they'll be able to look at crash reports and file dumps to help assess the problem.
2. Go to screencast.com in the meanttime, login with your Camtasia/TechSmith user ID, and use the free recorder there by selecting "Launch Recorder" from the top of the screen.
Let us know how it goes!
@@techsmith I think its because i have a very slow laptop I'm going to try your second solution
When you say laggy, does that refer to the sound not correlating with the video? When I made several recordings, my voice was lagging behind the image. Does this happen because it's on old laptop?
@@patishmano796 Tip for low spec pc`s users "onetab" browser extension to save tons of memory bleed when browsing could be the reason your pc lag .
Snag it is not available for iPad pro
That's correct, it's a desktop-only app. We do have our screen recording app TechSmith Capture in the App Store, but we're really a desktop-focused company.
I have Both... 😎👏
An even better solution! :)
The background music distracts you from listening and is annoying.
Camtasia is best
it didnt work
What didn't work?
wrong video lol
one day your techsmith software will fail. when that happens and you don't get tech support, you'll be tempted to reinstall the software. when you do that, your snagit database will be overwritten with no hope of getting it back
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You could NOT be more BIASED.
OBS is an impressive alternative to the ones you mentioned. This does not mean yours are bad, just different. I was not BIASED.
Thumbs down for your bias alone.
This wasn't a comprehensive review of all software, it was a comparison of the two TechSmith screen capture options.
i did research... obs is good and free but quite resource heavy and for me the learning curve is fine - since I was a game steramer in the past but for someone completely new its harder to manage