T101.9 - Screen Capture |
A picture is worth 1000 words. The ancients used hieroglyphs for a reason.
Screen Capturing refers to 1) taking still screen shots of all or part of your screen and 2) recording videos of your screen while doing something (often referred to as Screen Recording).
Learning to very quickly take screen snapshots, learning how to annotate those very quickly is essential for communicating faster in the digital age. A picture is worth a 1000 words and when you can make pictures with a few notes with a few clicks, your efficiency increases are astounding. Then multiply that by 10 or 100 if you can quickly and efficiently take a video of your desktop and share it.
This sections includes:
Tools for Screen Recording
When something like Screencastify becomes main stream, our ability to help each other with technical issues and with learning is going to skyrocket.
Please see the Knowledge Base the Tech Section of The Soul Proprietor Guide for more on this info. The details related to this information was included there because we broke out many of the offerrings into their own pages for some more detailed tutorials, and we expect our covering of the offerings in this area to grow significantly with time.
Screen Capturing refers to 1) taking still screen shots of all or part of your screen and 2) recording videos of your screen while doing something (often referred to as Screen Recording).
Learning to very quickly take screen snapshots, learning how to annotate those very quickly is essential for communicating faster in the digital age. A picture is worth a 1000 words and when you can make pictures with a few notes with a few clicks, your efficiency increases are astounding. Then multiply that by 10 or 100 if you can quickly and efficiently take a video of your desktop and share it.
This sections includes:
- Screen Capture
- Screen Recording
Tools for Screen Recording
- There are a ton of tools for screen recording. There are free tools and there are paid tools. One popular one is Camtasia. I personal own BB Flashback recorder. One of the problems with screen recording is editing and others are related to sharing and storing the recording due to file size. Google Chrome has been working on something called Screencastify which looks incredibly promising and integrates very well into Google Drive.
When something like Screencastify becomes main stream, our ability to help each other with technical issues and with learning is going to skyrocket.
Please see the Knowledge Base the Tech Section of The Soul Proprietor Guide for more on this info. The details related to this information was included there because we broke out many of the offerrings into their own pages for some more detailed tutorials, and we expect our covering of the offerings in this area to grow significantly with time.
1) Screen Capture
Tools for Still Screen Shots include
All three major OS systems have keyboarding shortcuts for taking screen shots. Windows allows for a full screen shot. Mac allows for the same and they may also have a tool that allows for a partial screen shot built into the OS. The Chromebook can take a full screen or partial screenshot built into the OS. You need to learn this various keystrokes and memorize them or make notes for them near your computer until you have them committed to memory.
Screen shots are great. But they are often times MUCH BETTER with some annotation. PC now supports a little scribbling with their screen grab tool, but not full annotation. Chromebooks do not support annotation. Not sure about Mac. The standby for the last 20 years for a screen grab and annotation tool has bee Snagit by Techsmith. Without doing a lot of research, it seems they've gotten a Monopoly on things one way or another with time. Such a simple tool should have had some reasonable competitors.
Explain and Send Screen Shot - Google Chrome App
With the advent of the chrome book, a lot of apps came about to take both screen shots and screen recordings. All of them seemed to be missing a piece in an illogical manner. Finally came a google chrome extension called "Explain and Send Screen Shots". It's a free tool that does a LOT. To remove the water mark you need to make a donation. the one drawback to this tool is that it can only snip what is in a browser window... so I can not take screen shots of my desktop for example and I can't take images of browser windows. However, you can take images of application windows or entire screens, and then crop those, so it fills most needs with an extra step.
This writer spent the better part of 6-8 hours over a few years trying dozens of offerings looking for an alternative to Snagit for the browser, so this one tip alone that you just got in a minute was the culmination of hours upon hours of trial and error.
- Options Built into Windows , Mac and Chromebook
- SnagIt By Techsmith
- Chrome Apps/Extensions (and finally a winner here! as of 2019)
All three major OS systems have keyboarding shortcuts for taking screen shots. Windows allows for a full screen shot. Mac allows for the same and they may also have a tool that allows for a partial screen shot built into the OS. The Chromebook can take a full screen or partial screenshot built into the OS. You need to learn this various keystrokes and memorize them or make notes for them near your computer until you have them committed to memory.
Screen shots are great. But they are often times MUCH BETTER with some annotation. PC now supports a little scribbling with their screen grab tool, but not full annotation. Chromebooks do not support annotation. Not sure about Mac. The standby for the last 20 years for a screen grab and annotation tool has bee Snagit by Techsmith. Without doing a lot of research, it seems they've gotten a Monopoly on things one way or another with time. Such a simple tool should have had some reasonable competitors.
Explain and Send Screen Shot - Google Chrome App
With the advent of the chrome book, a lot of apps came about to take both screen shots and screen recordings. All of them seemed to be missing a piece in an illogical manner. Finally came a google chrome extension called "Explain and Send Screen Shots". It's a free tool that does a LOT. To remove the water mark you need to make a donation. the one drawback to this tool is that it can only snip what is in a browser window... so I can not take screen shots of my desktop for example and I can't take images of browser windows. However, you can take images of application windows or entire screens, and then crop those, so it fills most needs with an extra step.
This writer spent the better part of 6-8 hours over a few years trying dozens of offerings looking for an alternative to Snagit for the browser, so this one tip alone that you just got in a minute was the culmination of hours upon hours of trial and error.
2) Screen Recording
Tools for Screen Recording
There is a relatively new Google Chrome App called Screencastify which looks incredibly promising and integrates very well into Google Drive.
Click a button on the extension, start recording and the recording goes straight to your google drive or youtube, without needing to be saved on your machine. From there you can quickly share a link to it. This has been fabulous for quick sharing. There is an editing option in beta that is not seemingly very friendly at all, but the idea in general is promising.
When something like Screencastify becomes main stream, our ability to help each other with technical issues and with learning is going to skyrocket.
- There are a ton of tools for screen recording. There are free tools and there are paid tools. One popular one is Camtasia. I personal own Blueberry Flashback recorder (an odd name).
- One of the problems with screen recording is editing. It requires skill and time with a given software
- Another problem with screen recording is then publishing and/or sharing and/or storing due to file size.
- It's hard to slip into this stuff lightly without falling head in and hitting a lot of hurdles (if you are not previousl trained in video creation, editing and management).
There is a relatively new Google Chrome App called Screencastify which looks incredibly promising and integrates very well into Google Drive.
Click a button on the extension, start recording and the recording goes straight to your google drive or youtube, without needing to be saved on your machine. From there you can quickly share a link to it. This has been fabulous for quick sharing. There is an editing option in beta that is not seemingly very friendly at all, but the idea in general is promising.
When something like Screencastify becomes main stream, our ability to help each other with technical issues and with learning is going to skyrocket.