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It may be more than you want by I swear by

https://www.techsmith.com/screen-capture.html

I use it for screenshots, demos, bug reports and other software dev tasks.

For other work I think the capture functionality is great but if I really need to edit video I will load it into Adobe Premier.

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Thank you for the suggestion, but I would file this under too bloated for the job in terms of features and size. I mean LiceCap is less than 1MB in size and it does a third of what's needed, Snagit is a 300Mb+ download!

How does the bloat really affect you?

I don't have a rational answer for this, it just seems that such a simple task, would need a simple solution.

Just downloading and installing this took minutes and kind of stressed my computer and when I finally tried to launch it, it asked me to sign up before I can use it, so I abandoned and uninstalled it.

I can't recommend this to someone else, when it has such a barrier to entry.

I see it as a valuable tool I use for my work.

I paid for a license when I was self employed and my current employer has a procurement deal with TechSmith and bought me a license for my work laptop.

SnagIT is a great tool - I just found it myself this year.

Hands down recommend SnagIt. It works like a dream has integrated cloud storage options, so save on 1 machine and edit on all others instantly, plus with SnagItX all your file formats are editable across windows and mac. It's a no brainer.

https://www.techsmith.com/snagit-workplace-communication.htm...

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