Ashampoo are currently running a promotion for their screen capture software Snap 3 offering it for free to anyone visiting the promotional web page. Snap 3 is a comprehensive capturing software that can not only capture screenshots but also video.
It supports two video modes which can both capture the entire screen, a program window or a custom region defined by the user of the program. Both modes support microphone input.
The difference between the two modes is that one has been specifically designed for program demonstrations and user instructions. This mode captures everything on screen including mouse movements.
The screenshot taking capabilities leave nothing to desire, supporting full screen, window, custom rectangle, freestyle shapes and scrolling window grabs.
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Snap 3 places a hidden toolbar at the top of the screen by default. The toolbar becomes visible on mouse over so that the different screen capturing options can be selected.
Experienced users might prefer the keyboard shortcuts instead which speed up the process of taking screenshots and videos. The toolbar can be disabled so that it is not triggered accidentally which can be problematic when full screen applications are running. The system tray icon offers a third possibility to access the program’s functionality.
The settings can be used to make configuration changes like removing the toolbar from the desktop. Here it is possible to change keyboard shortcuts, output formats and locations or the position of the capture bar.
screen capture software
A fullscreen editor is opened after a capture. The editor contains basic image editing options like adding text or arrows to the screenshot, highlighting areas, rotating, zooming, resizing and adding effects. Various processing options are available as well, it is for instance possible to send the screenshot per email, print it or save it to a local directory.
Video captures basically work the same way as image captures. Options are available to create a video of a window, desktop, rectangular region or fixed region.
video capture
Snap 3 leaves little to desired when it comes to taking screenshots. The only two aspects that are missing are the ability to save screenshots directly without opening the image editor first and the availability of additional video formats that the video captures can be saved in.
How To Get The Free Copy Of Snap 3
Visit the promotional page to receive a free key of Ashampoo Snap 3. Just enter a valid email address and click Send. The first email that will be send to the email account is a confirmation email with a link that needs to be opened in a web browser.
This opens the product registration screen on the Ashampoo website. It is sufficient to simply click the OK, Send button at the bottom. Users who do not want to be part of the Ashampoo community can disable that option before they click the button.
A second email will be dispatched containing the product key for Snap 3. Snap 3.40 itself can be downloaded from Cnet. (via Techno 360)
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Cool. Thanks Martin for the info. Will try this out.
Question: how’s the resolution on the video capture as compared to using the Windows Media Encoder?
Dante you can pick video codec, frames per second and bitrate in the advanced options of the program. Snap 3 supports only Windows Media Video codecs, maximum fps is 25 and Bitrate 2.0 Mbit.
Not sure how this compares to Windows Media Encoder though, never used the program.
Trying it out now. Pretty good software – it’s free ;)
I found this offer a malicious one. After following all steps, mails, clicks and so on, I installed Snap 3, announced by you as “…for free to anyone visiting the promotional web page”, to find that it is TRIAL good for 15 days. I DO NOT INSTALL Trials, and it should be announced clearly as such, from the beginning, in your post, and in Ashampoo’s page too.
Now, it did not uninstall fine, either, leaving a full 13.4 MBytes “Windows Media Components” folder that I do not know if uninstall by hand, or leave there, or what.
Sorry folks; let´s us do a better, finner job the next time.
You did enter the serial number that was send to your email account, right?
No. Ran away as soon as saw the word Trial. Sorry if I was wrong…
Well you receive a second email that contains the serial that you can add to the program so that it becomes registered.