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Musicvid wrote on 11/16/2017, 3:50 PM

Vegas is not screen capture softwareand does not include any special tools for doing what you want.

samc wrote on 11/16/2017, 3:55 PM

If I have the screen captured is it still better to use Snagit?

 

Thanks

john_dennis wrote on 11/16/2017, 3:56 PM

Use Open Broadcaster Software for screen capture.

Here are some pointers and arrows that you could use on your video after the capture is done.

JohnnyRoy wrote on 11/18/2017, 5:45 PM

@samc I use Camtasia for that kind of work. It is designed for annotating video and it makes it effortless and has a very easy to use interface for editing and lots of annotation options.

~jr

ByronK wrote on 3/17/2018, 3:06 AM

Camtasia is a great screen capture program but the trial is only for 30 day and then you have to purchase it.

I also use OBS. It is FREE and is one of the most powerful production screen capture and live streaming softwares out there. It can do basic screen capture but also if you want a full production suite and team it up w/ Vegas you can have a heck of a production.

It can do multiple scenes w/ multiple layers w/in each scene. So you can have intro, outro, select different cameras, different overlays, windows screens, scrolling text, built in chroma key and a whole bunch of other features.

You can even cue or stage the next scene before it "goes live". The production features are to many to list here.

Check out this link that shows some of the production capabilities of OBS:

samc wrote on 3/17/2018, 6:23 PM

Thanks for all of the help. I decided to use Camtasia with Vegas...so far all’s good!