OBTW: I develop training materials for power plant operators and provide plant simulator training. Along with PowerPoint, these are the five tools that I have found meet the vast majority of my needs. Having said all that, I consider these as PART of my tool kit which complements Articulate and Storyline. Fortunately, this tool meets the vast majority of my needs without a huge budget or learning curve. Depending on how sophisticated you want to be, you can accomplish quite a lot. It has a lot of video and audio editing features that can get you into production mode very quickly. I get REALLY good detail captures like this.Ĭamtasia is a good tool to throw a nice video together. Then, grab what I need with SnagIt, and whittle away in the editor. I zoom in on the pdf until the part I want fills the screen. SnagIt is especially nice for zooming in on a fine resolution pdf file that has a graphic element that I want to focus on some small segment of. It also handles the issue of transparency for the image background and the ability to save in many useful formats. Mine is setup to automatically launch the SnagIt Editor, which offers many features that allow me to make whatever edits I choose, before I actually save the file to my library. It allows me to save all, or a selected portion, of the screen. I keep SnagIt in my startup sequence so that it is always sitting there, just waiting for me to hit the 'Print Screen' key. As 'a mac' pointed out, they are separate tools for different purposes. Both SnagIt and Camtasia are Techsmith products.

Snagit and camtasia