Features

Record

Camtasia Studio captures perfect-quality video of anything on your screen, with no compromise between quality and file size. Call it magic, but TechSmith compression technology gives you perfect-quality recordings and compact file sizes. Relax and record with Camtasia SmartFocus® Don't worry about the final product, just relax and record your whole screen. TechSmith's exclusive SmartFocus technology keeps track of where the action happens during your recording. Then it produces a video that zooms in on the parts you need to show, keeping viewers mesmerised...even on iPod-size screens. SmartFocus is completely automatic and incredibly freeing.

Camtasia Recorder puts all your options in one spot, to get you started faster. Grab the whole screen, dial in your dimensions, or select a window or region. Recorder can even lock onto an application window, providing a pixel-perfect fit between your subject matter and the recording area and it remembers the dimensions and location of your last recording, so your next one will be consistent...and faster, too!

A picture’s worth a thousand words, but even a video is helped by a little narration. With Camtasia Studio you can capture audio while you’re recording...or add narration and music later. The Camtasia Studio toolbar inside of PowerPoint makes it one-click-easy to record your presentations, either live or from the comfort of your desk, and you get much more than just a slideshow. Camtasia Studio captures everything—exact slide timing, animations, sound effects, narration, webcam video, and any webpages or applications displayed onscreen during the presentation. It's the next best thing to being there!

Simply aim a webcam at the presenter, and Camtasia Studio will capture and synchronize that video with the screen recording, or import video files captured with a digital camcorder! You don’t need a separate tool to create podcasts, use Camtasia Studio to record high-quality standalone audio, and then publish it in MP3 format. Upload to iTunes. Draw on the screen to illustrate or point something out. Highlight cursor movements and mouse clicks to help viewers follow the action. Set markers to indicate section breaks or rough spots that need editing.

 

Edit

Before you start editing, let Camtasia Studio know where you intend to share your video—web, blog, YouTube, CD, iPod, etc.—and you'll see a live preview of the final result the whole time you're editing. No surprises! Edit to perfection Timeline What if I sneeze? Camtasia Studio makes it easy to cut the sections of your video you don’t want and rearrange the sections you do. Add, cut, splice, join, and move sections of video or audio. Decouple the audio and video tracks to edit them independently. Zoom in on the timeline to edit each track with frame-by-frame precision.

You can always tweak the zooms and pans created automatically by Camtasia SmartFocus, or simply add your own from scratch. Zoom in to show details, pan to move vertically or horizontally across the screen, and apply a tilt perspective to add depth and sizzle. Delight viewers with photos and music Don't limit yourself to screen capture video. Engage, inform, and delight viewers by importing other content such as digital video clips, photos, music and animations. Camtasia Studio makes it easy to pull them into your project. Title clips introduce your video with a splash, and are easy to create. They also divide chapters, list closing credits, or provide contact information. Use any of the 25 transition effects to move smoothly (or whimsically!) between clips. Plus, Camtasia Studio gives you tools to enhance and optimize audio quality.

Make your videos more accessible for hearing impaired viewers, or for those who speak other languages, by adding closed captioning (subtitles) on or below your video. Webcam video can be embedded in the screen capture video (picture-in-picture) or placed next to it (side-by-side). Engage audiences with callouts and Flash interactivity. Use a speech bubble to provide details. Shine a virtual spotlight on your content. Turn a static presentation into an interactive experience with clickable Flash hot spots. Jump viewers to a specific place in the video or to an external webpage. Camtasia Studio makes it all drag-and-drop simple. Measure impact with a quiz or survey Want to know what your viewers think or how much they’ve learned? Ask them! Camtasia Studio makes it very, very easy to embed Flash quizzes or surveys anywhere in your video. Ask multiple-choice or open-ended questions. Responses can be sent to a SCORM-compliant learning management system or your e-mail inbox

 

Share

Camtasia Studio makes it a piece of cake to share video in the format and size your audience wants. Mac or PC, 24-inch widescreen or iPhone, here, there, anywhere. Want to produce a video at the right size and settings for YouTube? Just click the YouTube preset. Want video optimized for iPods, iPhones, or your blog? It's only a click away. In fact, Camtasia Studio produces sparkling, HD-quality video with compact file sizes for the web and mobile devices...straight out of the box!

Maybe you have specific requirements or maybe you just love to tinker. Camtasia Studio lets you tweak production settings to your heart's content, and makes it easy to generate and compare a 30-second preview at each setting. You have the flexibility to produce videos in any of today's (or tomorrow's) popular formats! Right now, the list is:

• Web & blog (MP4)
• Flash (SWF)
• iPod/iPhone/iTunes (M4V)
• CD/DVD/lossless export (AVI)
• Silverlight-compatible WMV
• QuickTime (MOV)
• RealMedia (RM)
• Animated GIF
• Audio only (MP3)

Give your audience multiple playback options with no extra work. Simply choose the primary file format you want, then add on an iPod/iPhone, MP3, and/or PowerPoint file, and produce them all at once! The TechSmith ExpressShow® template puts your video into a sleek package that can be easily embedded into any website, blog, or multimedia project. With a glossy thumbnail image, full-screen playback option, and customizable table of contents, ExpressShow makes you look good. Blend your videos perfectly with existing websites and multimedia projects by customizing the start and end screens, backgrounds—even the About boxes—with your colors, text, or brand.

Camtasia Studio’s customizable playback controls and pre-loaders give you the flexibility to match your videos to a corporate image, or just give them a newer, cooler look. Choose from a variety of styles during production or delve into the source files to create your own styles from the ground up. Camtasia Studio makes it easy to create an interactive table of contents within a single video. Or, if you have a series of videos that you’d like to link together, you can use either Camtasia MenuMaker for CD delivery or Camtasia Theater for web delivery. These companion applications are included with Camtasia Studio. Screencast.com is a unique video sharing service—brought to you by TechSmith—that preserves the quality of your videos and gives you complete control over who sees your content. It even has built-in RSS and iTunes functionality, making it a snap to deliver videos or podcasts straight to your viewer’s computer or mobile device. From within Camtasia Studio, simply choose the Screencast.com preset to produce and upload an HD-quality video in one step!