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Set Up Your Capture > Capture Modes > Video Capture

Video Capture

Video Capture Mode allows you to create a movie of what is happening on your screen. Any movement on your computer screen can be captured with SnagIt.

Some ways to use Video Capture

Create Windows program demonstrations that show the movement of the cursor, selection of menus, and interaction with programs, such as entering text or commands. Use these demonstrations to illustrate the high points of a program and how the program can be used.
Add audio to your videos. You can record sounds through a microphone in real-time while capturing video from the screen.
Add video captures to make a Web site more dynamic and dramatic by adding elements of multimedia.
Record program actions and reactions to remind yourself, or show colleagues, how to perform a task.

Important Information

When you make a video capture using SnagIt, you are actually saving a series of bitmap graphics, that, when replayed quickly in sequence, show movement. These captures are stored as AVI files.

Note: The maximum size of an AVI file produced by SnagIt is 2 Gb. If you pass this size limit, the entire capture will be lost.

Video files can be placed in other Windows programs and in all Microsoft Office programs. The file shows the video viewer where you pasted the AVI file. The viewer is stopped on the first frame of the captured video. The user can view, pause, stop, replay, and close the video by clicking the controls on the viewer.

AVI file size tends to be quite large for long, complex videos. AVIs over one megabyte in size are not uncommon. Keep the size to a limit by:

Limiting the size of the program window being captured. Do not bother adding more content than is necessary (size or length).
Hint: Use SnagIt's Region input selection to select a smaller area to capture and then "pan" across the screen while capturing, thereby making a much smaller video file.
Limiting the speed at which video frames are captured.
Limiting the length of the video capture sequence. SnagIt captures video sequences in real-time seconds and minutes. The shorter your sequence, the smaller the AVI file.
Changing compression. By default, SnagIt selects the best compression to use for your capture and system. Experimenting with the settings is also possible.

Tip: Rehearse your video capture sequences to get the best results. Practice the sequence slowly, and then speed up as you go. By viewing glitches and correcting them, you can make a professional-looking video sequence that can be saved and shown.

Tip: A frequent complaint about videos that include cursor movement is that the program reacts before the viewer can see where the mouse is. To prevent this, practice precision movements of the cursor to the menu or button you must click, pausing for a fraction of a second over the element, then clicking. On the video capture, the cursor travels smoothly to the menu or button and stops there briefly before movement happens and a different screen or menu attracts the viewer's eye.