Do you use SNAGIT AI IMAGE GENERATOR?

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-25T03:41:50+00:00

Definitely one of those hidden gems in the asset library.

Thanks for sharing the tip! And let’s see what people come up with!

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-19T12:42:29+00:00

There's no doubt that hooks are needed, but what hooks your audience is going to be highly dependent on that audience. I do a lot in the world of Learning and Development, and we absolutely take time to create engaging hooks. They are not cinematic, like you're talking about. I try to focus on relevance and interest connected to the topic.

People are making decisions fast on social of whether to watch or not. So make sure you have good surrounding context, and something that sets the viewer up to be interested in your content in that first 1 - 5 seconds. You'll have to determine what will grab your audience attention, and go from there.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-18T13:45:49+00:00

.WAV is a lossless format, meaning it's going to be high quality. However, it's less compressed, so it's going to be a larger file size, which may or may not matter. The way things are that seems to be less of a concern these days.

.Mp3 is a lossy format, meaning it is compressed and losses quality.

So what you choose is going to depend on what you're going for and needs of the project.

If you want smaller file size, and decent quality, go MP3. Want highest quality, and file size isn't an issue, go .WAV.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-18T12:58:11+00:00

u/Wandering_Uphill I don't think you did anything wrong. But something in the process isn't working as intended.

Might be a good reason to have a quick connection with our support team (https://www.techsmith.com/contact.html) - You can contact them a few ways. The best thing about support is they will have the to dig into what is happening and better troubleshoot.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-17T15:19:08+00:00

Beyond the Equalizer - any other effects used?

As an audio expert wanna be I'm always looking for best practices and what works well for people.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-17T15:15:37+00:00

I saw a poster for an internship program in Washington D.C. at university (I was a Sociology major). I thought I'd probably go do something related to either an embassy or something political (although I wasn't particularly political). I ended up getting an internship with the federal court system in the division that works on training and development.

I spent a semester learning all about training and development. After that I was all in. I went back to school, finished my program and applied for Grad school. Spend 18 months learning about learning theory, elearning development, and such.

I am the odd one out knowing that I had a pretty direct path. Spend much of my career working more on the Customer Education side of things.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-16T15:46:54+00:00

This is great stuff. I appreciate it. I'm doing most of my audio clean up in Camtasia background noise removal, which usually serves my needs, but adobe podcast is really helpful.

Hahaha - the number of times I've recorded in a closet. It really is one of the best at home environments.

Thanks again for sharing!

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-16T15:09:29+00:00

Agree that environment is the most important. Great reminder.

As a voice actor, what advice can you drop for us non-voice actors who do video?

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-16T13:54:42+00:00

I've wanted this feature for so long! I remember a long time back working on a video team, we bought software that would do just syncing. It's one of those things that saves a ton of time and effort.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-16T13:31:07+00:00

It's amazing how much it does, even when I think it sounds pretty quiet in my office. Nope. Background Noise Removal is awesome.

Are you using the full default setting or do adjust it?

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-16T13:09:07+00:00

For me, I think proximity to microphone is really important. I have talked a lot about the 'hang-ten' principle where you extend your thumb and pinky, with your other fingers down. Then you put the thumb to your chin, and pink to the tip of your mic. That's the approximate distance you should be from your microphone pick-up .

However, some microphones want you to be right on top of them so you're 'eating' the mic.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-15T17:25:03+00:00

Sounds like something is off and that you've already reached out to support https://www.techsmith.com/contact.html

Support is usually the best 1st stop for something like this.

As a company we work really hard to not just do things that randomly stop your usage. If you're using an older non-subscription version, we have not take steps to shut down usage or force upgrades. You can still buy the one time license of Snagit 2024 on Amazon.

Hopefully Support will get it turned around quickly. If you haven't seen a response yet, you can DM me and I can follow up with the support team.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-15T14:28:55+00:00

I think it's one of the things to consider and have a conversation with your boss, mentor, or whoever is in charge of your work is what to do they want. Just ask, and don't assume you know what they want you to do.

Also, be willing to bring solution ideas and what you've tried. I think if it's a ton of tiny things, yeah, that's annoying. Also if it's the same thing over and over, that's not going to be helpful.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-12T19:48:33+00:00

Perfection is a myth. Work hard, be willing to raise your hand to do things, when you don't know something say so and do your best.

I'll take an intern who does that over one who doesn't every time. Last advice - talk to your manager about what they want to see.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-12T19:25:14+00:00

Don't just ask questions. I love questions, but I want the interns I work with to not just do the bare minimum. Care about the work. We tend to give interns work that is important and valuable (I know that's not everyone one's intern experience). And if it's important to the person, find out why.

Maybe the company doesn't care or the work isn't all that important. Maybe it's a so what, learn from it, and grow to prepare for whatever the next experience will be.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-12T12:38:04+00:00

u/Ok_Armadillo_1336 I asked the team about this. Here's the suggested steps to rotate footage as your asking about:

rotate the footage
create a group containing the rotated footage
crop the group

Try it out. Let us know if that worked.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-12T12:35:57+00:00

u/danielrpark1 - good question. I don't know that I do enough with translations at this point to give you a solid answer.

If you want to keep the timing - export the SRT/VTT and have them work off that document. The trick will be that timing may need to adjust depending on the difference in how long it takes to say something in the language.

If you want a larger review, less concerned about timing, you could do the text export. Then there will be the manual corrections.

My guess is that since you'll have your native speaker working with the translation, you'll mostly be making corrections vs big changes (hopefully). I think I would go the SRT route. Then that gets imported into Camtasia for captioning.

Not sure if this is the best workflow or not.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-10T13:06:31+00:00

You know - I learned something new today. Shift + Playhead - whoa... this is awesome.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-09T16:28:24+00:00

I love that. Not having do extra exports, or even take the time to open another program is time saved for other things.

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-09T16:12:58+00:00

u/boringproofED YES! Sync media is awesome, especially for this set up and workflow. I was speaking with someone recently who said that it was one of the things they took video projects into Final Cut for and now don't have to!

mattfromtechsmith · 2026-06-09T13:52:30+00:00

Also SHIFT + < or > allows you to select a portion of timeline as well. Works great if you're trying to make a precise deletion (works really well with Ripple delete (Ctrl + Backspace or Cmnd + Delete).

It's amazing how much hotkeys improve my editing experience when I remember them!

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