Snag It and Camtasia I like their Snagit tool and Camtasia. I find them both easy to use, especially for those who need only intermediate capabilities. I use Snagit to capture screenshots and instruction graphics for our help center and Camtasia to do basic editing on webinar recordings. Works for my needs although their programs do crash occasionally and have bugs, I find I just need to exit the program entirely and restart it on my computer and that usually does the trick.

Is great for creating video tutorials which are vital in a hand over situatio Is great for creating video tutorials so that knowledge gained over the years by valued employees is not lost when they retire. Love the product and the easy access to their help desk.

Unstable software As a QA tester, I have used the overpriced Snagit video recorder for over a year on a daily basis. The software is unstable, random crashes, and more recently incompatibility issues with high-end PCs blocking me from recording simple videos. With each updated they f….k something up. I need fast and stable screen recording software without any fuss!. We will be ditching this software and the supplier. There are alternative solutions that do a better job.

The "support" side of the website is… The "support" side of the website is horrible - no clue if your ticket went through - an email saying "Welcome to TechSmith Support. In order for your ticket to be responded to by a support agent, you must click the link below to create a password and login." (even though im already logged in and the link doesnt do anything - the my ticket option doesnt show any live tickets - the "chat" support widget doesnt even work, just keeps "loading", and im using chrome horrible support website

I've been a Snagit customer for years I've been a Snagit customer for years; it is a great alternative to more expensive products (like Adobe) if you don't have heavy graphics demands. I primarily take screenshots and draw system architecture diagrams for tech docs, so I'm not doing intensive photo editing by any means. Never crashed. I've used Camtasia for the past two years. It does seem a little buggy - I get a wierd black screen randomly when I clip video segments, and the file size it produces seem unnecessarily large. Also, the media directory isn't relative to the project, so if you move a project around you have to relink all your media. But I would still recommend it as a product for video production - again, not a power user by any means. Customer support is just fine - sometimes they can help, and sometimes they cant!