TechSmith Corporation is a software company that develops screenshooting, screencasting and video editing software for Windows and macOS, and licenses it to companies, educational institutions, government agencies and small businesses. The company was founded in Okemos, Michigan in 1987 by William Hamilton. In 1990 they created Snagit, their most popular and best-selling product.
TechSmith's products and services include Snagit, Camtasia, Jing, Screencast.com, Relay, Morae, and Coach's Eye.
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Jing
Jing allows users to record videos, take pictures, edit them, and upload them to various websites. Possible uses for Jing include sharing screen snapshots, recounting vacation photos, capturing computer bugs in action, and in the case of a teacher, showing students how to perform a task and commenting orally on a student's homework. Jing is freeware.
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Screencast.com
Screencast.com is a personalized image and video hosting service of TechSmith. A person can store their content on the server for personal or commercial use at no cost. This free site offers privacy controls, links to content URLs and embed codes, content display numbers, and allows other users to comment on videos. Free accounts receive 2 GB of storage and 2 GB of bandwidth, but they can buy more.
Snagit
Snagit is a screenshot and editing tool. It captures animations, graphics and text in the form of images or video. The app also allows users to enhance their images with special effects and multimedia features. Snagit allows users to take an entire desktop, region, window, or scrolling window. Features include the ability to combine images, blur and magnifying effects, arrows, callouts, tear edges, etc. In terms of sharing, final retrieval can be stored in multiple formats, URL or embed code can be produced, or it can be added to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, MindManager, or Microsoft OneNote directly from the product interface.
Camtasia
Camtasia is available for Windows and macOS. Both are used to record and edit video for internet and mobile devices.
Camtasia can create professional presentations, demonstrations, screencasts and training as well as marketing videos in HD resolution. Sharing capabilities include Apple's portable media devices and video sharing sites including YouTube. and TechSmith's Screencast.com itself.
Relay
Relay, (formerly Camtasia Relay, via version 4.4) is a presentation tool designed to streamline sharing processes, especially directed at educators at all levels of education. The recorder used in Relay allows anyone to create content from anywhere, and the server produces and publishes videos in multiple formats to the desired location.
Camtasia Relay 3 was released November 2010. The enhanced features of this version include text capabilities and video editing.
Relay 5 was released February 2015. New features include the ability to record speakers with webcam or other cameras and add recordings to the final screencast. In addition, users other than speakers or professors who record lectures can now provide video captions. Direct publishing to YouTube is also available.
Morae
Morae is an application for market research. It provides businesses, market research firms and academics the opportunity to perform usability, product design, hardware testing and prototyping, and focus groups as well as qualitative markets and educational research. This app is meant to help identify site and app design issues.
Morae 3.1 was released in June 2009. Some of the new features include highlights rolls in high-quality flash video, sharing and viewing across platforms, and the ability to share findings on Screencast.com.
The latest version is Morae 3.3.
Trainer
Coach's Eye is a mobile app for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and many Android devices that let users capture, analyze, and share videos. It's designed with the intent that coaches and parents can record athletes, analyze playback and share it with others. This allows the instructor to record video swings, throws, kicks, etc. And then add voice instructions and illustrate the video with a simple explanation. Trainers and athletes view the video in slow motion or rub through the video using the flywheel on the screen, pinpointing exactly what points need to be displayed. The completed video can be uploaded to a sharing site such as YouTube, emailed or sent via MMS, giving the instructor several outlets to share with other athletes or coaches. Launched November 2011.
Forge
TechSmith launched the web show in August 2010. Common topics include screen capture, screencasting, tools and techniques. Usually there are guests either via Skype or directly. The first guest was Jon Udell, a Microsoft Evangelist and an old screencaster who helped make the term screencasting. Forge is hosted on YouTube as well as TechSmith's Visual Lounge (blog site). Matt Pierce hosted the show. The format usually consists of interviews, promotions, and product reviews. Videos created from other users are sometimes displayed in the event as well.
ScreenChamp Award
TechSmith held an award competition in 2011, looking for top screencasters around the world. Entries are divided into three categories including education, industry and entertainment. A total of 15 finalists were selected and the winners were decided by "celebrity judges".
The ScreenChamp Awards are broadcast on The Forge (Episode 15) on January 19, 2012 through the YouTube TechSmith channel.
Reverse class
The reverse classroom is a concept in education (see Flip teaching). Clintondale High School, in Clinton Township, Mich., Was the first to fully embrace this concept in 2011 in an effort to raise the values ​​of failed schools. TechSmith products are used as their primary software, and the company also provides grants to schools to start the program. The teacher records online lessons for the students to watch at home and then the students come to the classroom to do their homework. Videos usually consist of an overview of lessons, content, and ending with a summary. Voices, video clips, images and annotations can be entered through TechSmith products like Camtasia to improve lessons. Camtasia and Relay give teachers the ability to share their content across multiple platforms. Students can see the lesson on any computer or mobile device. This gives students more class time with their teachers to solve problems than to try to do it alone at home.
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External links
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Source of the article : Wikipedia
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