Share & Engage (Share Link)
Quickly get a shareable link to your content to paste anywhere. Gather feedback from your audience or start a discussion with your team.
In this tutorial:
- Share a Link with Others
- Engage Your Audience with Your Content
- What to Do If Share Link Is Disabled
- If You Don’t See Share Link
The Share Link button uploads your image or video to Screencast, TechSmith’s online content hosting service, and copies a link to your clipboard to share with anyone anywhere.
Screencast’s built-in conversations let you quickly gather feedback on your content, start a discussion, or brainstorm further with your team.
Can’t find Share Link?
Share Link is available in Snagit 2023. Learn what version of Snagit you have.
Get Snagit 2023Share a Link with Others
- Click Share Link.
Snagit uploads the file to Screencast and copies a link to your clipboard. - Paste (Ctrl+V for Windows or Command+V for Mac) the link into any application to share with your audience.
Note: Click the Share dropdown to share to other destinations. See Share Captures.
Engage Your Audience with Your Content
Anyone you share the link with can view your content and comment in the conversation – no account necessary.
Paste the link into a web browser to view your content on Screencast.
Note: Although the Screencast website is only available in English, it supports content, titles, descriptions, and conversations in other languages.
To learn more about how to engage your audience and manage your content in Screencast, see these and other Screencast tutorials:
- Tips for Content Engagement
- Manage Conversations
- Organize & Share in Collections
- Sharing & Privacy in Screencast
Note: Share Link uploads your content to a new version of Screencast at app.screencast.com. If you are an existing Screencast user, you may also have content in the Screencast Classic Library at www.screencast.com. To learn more about your Screencast Library in each version, see Where’s My Screencast Media?.
What to Do If Share Link Is Disabled
The Share Link button may be disabled for a variety of reasons.
Windows
- No file is selected. Select a capture in the recent captures tray or the Snagit Library.
- Multiple files are selected. Select one capture at a time to upload to Screencast.
- A share is currently in progress. Wait for the share to finish and try again.
- Screencast is not enabled as a share destination and you are on an outdated version of Snagit 2023. Update to the latest version to replace the disabled Share Link button with a functioning Share button. In Snagit Capture, select Help menu > Check for updates.
Mac
- The selected file format is not supported. Save the file to a supported format and try again:
- Images: SNAGX, PNG, JPG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, and WEBP
- Video: MP4, MOV
- No file is selected. Select a capture in the recent captures tray or the Snagit Library.
- Multiple files are selected. Select one capture at a time to upload to Screencast.
- The system administrator has disabled sharing to Screencast. Contact your system administrator.
If You Don’t See Share Link
Share Link was introduced in Snagit 2023. Snagit shows a Share button instead of Share Link if:
- You are using Snagit version 2022 or older; or
- You are using Snagit version 2023 for Windows but Screencast is not enabled as a share destination. To enable Screencast, download the Screencast plugin from Download Snagit Share Destinations or contact your system administrator.
Note: This tutorial is for Snagit version 2023. Previous versions do not include this feature or functionality.
- To check your version, select Help menu (Windows) or Snagit menu (Mac) > About Snagit.
- If you have a previous version of Snagit, consider upgrading to the latest version.
- For unexpected behavior with Snagit, visit the TechSmith Help Center.
