The profiles for capturing are managed through the Manage Profiles window. I removed the print screen button as a hotkey for the global capture and was able to assign the hotkey to the profile I needed. I played around with the preferences and found out that Snagit’s global-capture option is the “other program” in question. Select a different keyboard combination for the hotkey. The Snagit capture hotkey is in use by another program. When I tried to assign the print screen button as a hotkey for the new custom profile, I got a message: I found an article explaining that I had to create a new capture profile. The global capture – for some unknown reason to me – does not capture the cursor, so I was looking for a way to capture the cursor. So in summary, they took a nice program, made needless GUI changes to make idiots happy, made it work very, verrrrrry slowly, and charged an update fee.įortunately, TechSmith is good at providing refunds.The print screen hotkey is assigned be default to the global capture option of SnagIt (version 12). (And gee whiz, who doesn't want the SnagIt Editor running at all times?) Without that option enabled, I found it absolutely maddening. Even if you enable that option, the editor is aggravatingly slow. That delay is only partially mitigated if you configure the SnagIt Editor to run in the background at all times. Then, if I had it set to open the capture in the editor, there would be another extremely aggravating delay while the editor opened.

By contrast, version 8 works smoothly for me.) Finally, SnagIt would kick in, and present me with the option to choose a window (or region, as the case may be) to capture. (I'm not exaggerating-each time I wanted to capture, I had to wait almost half a minute to do so. What I immediately noticed was not improved features, but having to deal with annoying GUI changes, and incredibly ssssssssssssslow program operation.įor example, I would click capture, and then have to wait literally 20 seconds for anything to happen. I updated (note that I do not say 'up graded') from version 8. And it's completely unnecessary (objective). It's ugly (a subjective point), but also much slower (objective). However, I completely despise the skin garbage they've added to it. SnagIt was among the very best in this genre.

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