Camtasia (; formerly Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac) is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating and recording video tutorials and presentations via
screencast (screen recording), or via a direct recording plug-in to
Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program, developed by Microsoft.
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. Other multimedia recordings (microphone, webcam and system audio) may be recorded at the same time or added separately (like background music and narration/voice tracks). Camtasia is available in English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Chinese versions.
Features
The features are structured around the three main steps of the program workflow: recording, editing and export/sharing.
Camtasia Recorder
In Camtasia Recorder, users can start and stop recording with
shortcuts at any time, at which point the recording is halted, and Camtasia Recorder can render the input that has been captured into the TREC format. The TREC file can be saved to disk or directly imported into the Camtasia component for editing. Camtasia Recorder allows audio (and webcam) recording while screen recording is in progress, so the presenter can capture live narration during a tutorial or presentation. Camtasia also supports dubbing in other audio tracks or voiceover during post-capture editing. Windows users may also install an add-in for Microsoft PowerPoint that will allow them to initiate recording of a presentation from within PowerPoint itself.
Camtasia
In Camtasia (also known as the Editor), the Media Bin is where media (screen recordings, voice-overs, etc.) for the current project are stored. The Library stores reusable media across multiple projects. On the Timeline, overlays of various types like annotations may be added, including user-defined settings, such as when and how to display the
cursor and pan-and-zoom effects such as the
Ken Burns effect. In order to provide localized versions of the produced videos, subtitles can be added with the
captioning feature.
The Editor allows import of various types of video, audio and image files including
MP4,
AVI,
MP3,
WAV,
PNG,
JPEG
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, and other formats into the Camtasia proprietary TREC format, which is readable and editable by Camtasia. The TREC
file format
A file format is a Computer standard, standard way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. It specifies how bits are used to encode information in a digital storage medium. File formats may be either proprietary format, pr ...
(using TSC2 Codec) is a single container for various multimedia objects including video clips, images,
screen captures and audio/video effects. On computers where Camtasia is not installed, you can download the TSC2 Codec for free
to play TREC files.
The produced video can be exported as a local file:
MP4,
animated GIF
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,
AVI (Windows version only),
MOV (Mac version only), or uploaded directly to a media or file-sharing platform (YouTube, Google Drive, etc.).
By default, Camtasia projects are stored as standalone projects in format (cross-platform file format).
See also
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Comparison of screencasting software
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Distance education
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Instructional design
Instructional design (ID), also known as instructional systems design and originally known as instructional systems development (ISD), is the practice of systematically designing, developing and delivering instructional materials and experiences, ...
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Podcast
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References
External links
* {{Official website, https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html
2002 software
Screencasting software
Shareware
Windows multimedia software
MacOS multimedia software