Recommended alternative to Snagit

Paul wrote:

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:49:22 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Char Jackson wrote:

On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 15:23:51 +0000, Terry Pinnell
wrote:

Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term favourite
screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many but
I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.
I use Snipping Tool. It's free, built into Windows since at least Win 7,
and very easy to use. Not sure about the hotkey support since I don't
use it that way. Checking its menus just now, I see that some of the
most used stuff does indeed have hotkey support.
Thanks. I did try that and agree it's sweet to use. But where are the
hotkey settings you mention please?
In the menus. Take a dummy snapshot so that the full window appears,
complete with menus, File, Edit, Tools, and Help. Just poking through
there, I see hotkeys for New Snip and Save As. There's one for Copy to
Clipboard, but that option is enabled by default so you don't need the
hotkey.

"...and allow a wide range of hotkeys,"

That is not possible with Snipping Tool.

Could you bind a hot key to a command line invocation ?

For example "nircmd" mentioned on this page, does screen snapshots.

https://superuser.com/questions/7561...ine-in-windows

And if you're actually working on a tutorial, I've used a
Windows build of ffmpeg and the GDIgrab to collect a movie at 1FPS.
I can work then, click a button, wait a second or two (to ensure there's
at least one frame in my movie with a clear snapshot), then do
my next step.

Later, in AVIdemux 2.5, I can scroll along and pick out the shots
I like from there. I can save a single frame as a BMP ot JPG.
AVIDemux will work with a folder of JPGs (considered
to be a "movie"), or it will work with a real movie (.avi).

Thanks Paul, interesting suggestions. For now I'm trying FastStone
capture (trial) and Greenshot (freeware), and also hoping Techsmith fix
familiar Snagit.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

Terry Pinnell wrote:
Since updating Windows 10 to version 1709 recently several of my
programs are behaving unreliably. One is Snagit, my long term
favourite screen capture tool (used mainly for images).

I'd like to try a few free or inexpensive alternatives that are simple
to use and allow a wide range of hotkeys. A brief search found many
but I'd much appreciate recommendations from existing users please.

Terry, East Grinstead, UK

For screen shots I use MWSnap 3.0.074. When I want video (which I seldom
do) I use CamStudio 2.7.2. Both used on Windows 10 Pro.
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Bill

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"Franklin" wrote

| The slowdown of start-up and initial menu painting of PSP (and, for
| me, UltraEdit - both getting slower and slower the longer the Windows
| session, quickly getting to the intolerable level) was fixed by one of
| the updates on 31 Jan. Either KB4058258, cumulative update, or
| KB4074608 "servicing stack".
|
| Back to "normal" now.
|
| Guessing - something they did to improve Edge had unintended
| consequences.

Maybe. But I'm running PSP16 on XP. It's
a pig.