Oddly, this is omitted from the Mac version, which is otherwise identical. Because it’s simpler than a video file and plays instantly, it’s popular for sharing very short clips via social media, websites and text message. An animated GIF is an image file containing a sequence of images that plays back like a video. This also introduces – as an option – the enhanced animated GIF-export feature. Two more ‘Fun Edits’ cover freeze- frame title sequences, where you stop the action on a face or location to tell viewers more about it and ‘bounce back’, an effect sometimes applied to You’ve Been Framed-style clips, where the action speeds up and rewinds. Makes editing your home movies, GIFs and action clips easy, but lacks 360 degrees Another helps you prepare clips for social media by adding moving titles and subtitles, so you can tell viewers what’s happening and let them follow what’s being said even if they’re watching with the sound off. SNAGIT 2018 review: Gives users creative control over their capturesįor example, one of four new edits – there are now 18 in total – is aimed at footage from GoPro and other action cameras, which tends to have ‘fisheye’ wide-angle distortion, camera shake, and lots of sections where nothing much is happening between the exciting moments.The key to this is ‘guided edits’, which walk you through the steps to create videos for popular purposes.