Camtasia Studio 7.1 - Create Tutorials, Demos, Courses and Online Videos Today
When it comes to producing professional-looking movies and demos from your computer screen, TechSmith's Camtasia Studio continues to strike the right balance between a powerful toolset and ease of use. Version 7.1 adds even more features without making the app any more complex to use.
The feature-packed screencast app--which includes HD production settings--does have a learning curve, but the user-friendly interface and front-and-center icons for most-used tools go a long way toward lowering the intimidation factor a notch. Plus, TechSmith povides a useful online help center that includes several video tutorials that do a nice job walking users through the main functionality of the software.
Even better, when you first launch Camtasia Studio 7.1, you're greeted with an integrated tutorial video that helps get you acquainted with the software. The main window features a content area in the upper right that showcases a variety of options. Here, you can view the clip bin, access your content library, and tweak features such as callouts, zoom-n-pan, audio, and transitions. TechSmith populates a variety templates, music, and outros supplied from a third-party vendor known as Digital Juice, with additional content available for purchase.
As for feature updates, there are quite a few for such a relatively minor boost in version number. Camtasia now includes the ability to record system audio, as well as automatically resize windows during recording. Plus, you get the option to "smartfocus" on key frames and add close captions to your presentation. Additonally, the app offers speech-to-text with a voice training feature; auto output to more formats, such as the iPad; and the ability to overlay text and search within Flash video.
Beyond these additions, Camtasia Studio remains largely the same powerhouse for creating and producing screencasts for the Web, mobile phones, and DVDs. Well-rounded production settings continue to present presets for novices; additional applications, like an audio editor and the CD MenuMaker, round out the features.
At $300, the price of a creative screencasting license is steep, but if the 30-day trial leaves you wanting more, Camtasia Studio is a worthwhile investment for frequent screencast producers requiring a lush feature set. Users looking to develop skills with prolonged use should start here, too.
Camtasia Recording
Camtasia Recording - With Camtasia Studio's flexible recording options, you can choose to capture full screen, window or region. Add in music tracks, microphone, your computer's audio plus picture-in-picture with your video camera, and you've got a world-class screencast
Top Camtasia Studio recording features:
PowerPoint plug-in
Give your PowerPoint presentation once, share it as many times as you want. The toolbar inside of PowerPoint makes it one-click-easy to record your presentations, either live or from your desk.
Turn your PowerPoint into a video with ease by capturing onscreen activity, your voice, even webcam video with Camtasia. Edit to perfection and produce into a variety of formats... it's easy!
Your PowerPoint presentation becomes HD-quality video video with Camtasia Studio 7. Produce your video into a HD-quality H.264 MPEG-4 file for viewing within any Flash-enabled browser and upload directly to a video sharing site. You can also generate the files needed to put your video on a webpage, Apple device, or send it to iDVD.
SmartFocus
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.
Camtasia SmartFocus™ is ideal for videos where the source clip or recording dimensions are large (ex. full screen recording) and you want to produce the final video at smaller dimensions (ex. for the Web or an iPod). If you produce at dimensions smaller than the dimensions of the source clip, the content in the video may be too small and difficult to view.
SmartFocus allows you to quickly change the video dimensions for different destinations. SmartFocus automatically generates Zoom-n-Pan keyframes to optimize viewing at any dimensions.
SmartFocus collects data about the actions completed and the cursor movement in the recording. SmartFocus predicts where to add zoom effects, saving you time to manually find and insert all the frames to zoom or pan.
Camtasia Studio 7 Editing
Camtasia Studio 7 Editing - Once you have your content recorded, polish it up and turn it into a professional screencast.
Top Camtasia Studio editing features:
Callouts
Add a graphic over your video to direct the attention of your viewers. You can even link to an external webpage or jump to a part of the video.
SuperCallouts - 365 Super Graphic Callouts to use directly in your Camtasia Studio 7 videos
- Check out SuperCallouts
Cursor effects
Highlight cursor movements and mouse clicks to help viewers follow the action.
A nice, new feature in Camtasia Studio 7 is that you'll be able to help viewers follow along by enlarging the mouse pointer, making it a spotlight, or visualizing clicks... while you're in editing mode. The cursor now has it's own track on the timeline. You control how (and whether) the cursor appears at any point on the timeline!
Library
It comes stocked with professionally-designed assets you can drag-and-drop into your video. It's also the perfect place to store your callouts, title slides, and other assets for re-use and sharing.
Title clips and transitions
Walk your audience through your content easily with title clips that introduce or divide your video. Move smoothly between clips with over 20 transition options.
Captions
Display the text of your screencast as an overlay or below the video.
Quizzing
Ask your audience what they got out of your video. Easily add Flash quizzes to any point in the screencast.
Import media
Digital video clips, photos, music, animations—Camtasia Studio makes it a cinch to pull them into your project.
Camtasia Studio 7 Sharing
Sharing - The final step in creating a screencast is sharing it with your audience - and Camtasia Studio makes that a snap.
Top Camtasia Studio sharing features:
Share to YouTube and Screencast.com
With just one click, your video is on its way to YouTube or Screencast.com, TechSmith's video hosting service.
Produce to a variety of formats
* MP4/FLV/SWF - Flash player compatible
* M4V for iPod/iPhone/iTunes
* AVI for CD/DVD/lossless export
* Silverlight-compatible WMV
* MOV for QuickTime
* RM - RealMedia
* Animated GIF
* MP3 - Audio only
Table of contents
Camtasia Studio makes it easy to create an interactive table of contents within a single video.
How Customers Use Camtasia Studio
How Customers Use Camtasia Studio
Every day, thousands of people around the world use Camtasia Studio to create videos that train, teach, sell, and more! It's the easiest way to demonstrate a process, product, or idea.
The Smarter Way to Train
With Camtasia Studio, you can create interactive training and support videos that are on-demand for instant viewing. Screencasts are quick, easy, and inexpensive to produce. They’re perfect for rolling out new software, orienting new staff, showing customers how to use your product, or establishing a “self-help” desk.
Training digital sculptors with Camtasia Studio
Martin Knapp uses Camtasia Studio to train digital artists in the film and video game industry on ZBrush, his company’s 3D sculpting and painting software—then easily outputs his video tutorials in multiple formats to meet viewers’ needs.
Giving People a Second Life
Torley, from Linden Lab, has used Camtasia Studio to create more than 225 video tutorials teaching people how to use Second Life—Linden Lab’s virtual world.
Your Teaching, Multiplied
Record a live presentation or lecture and give learners a rewind button for class. Help them learn at their own pace…or catch up from an absence.
Instructor Narrows the Distance in Distance Ed
Instructor Jean Kent uses Camtasia Studio to produce videos that help students succeed in her online course. With video, she orients students on the first day of class, helps them through the technical learning curve, introduces new concepts, and delivers individual feedback on projects.
"I've got a nice collection of movies that I can often reuse. And instead of downloading a lifeless PowerPoint file, students experience something much more like a live presentation." – Jean Kent, emeritus, North Seattle Community College
Kids Teaching Kids—Mathtrain.com
Eric Marcos teaches 6th Grade Math at Lincoln Middle School in Santa Monica, California. There, he operates Mathtrain.com, a website where he posts Camtasia Studio created video lessons. Sometimes, he even lets his students do the teaching.
Camtasia Studio and SCORM in the online classroom
Professor Richard Campbell of Rio Grande University uses Camtasia Studio in his online teaching. To introduce students to the class, he provides an interactive video syllabus, created with Camtasia Studio.
Look Like a Million Bucks…Without Spending a Fortune.
Camtasia Studio makes it easy for anyone—even a multimedia novice—to produce a slick, professional-looking video. Just record a product demo, or sales presentation. Then put the video on the web and make it available to people on-demand, 24/7.
A More Beautiful Desktop with Stardock
Stardock needed to show off their desktop theme software in a way that would capture its glossy, rich, visuals. Camtasia Studio and Screencast.com formed the perfect combination to get the job done.
Broadcast Your Ideas
Whether you blog for fun or profit…hope to become the next YouTube sensation…or simply enjoy creating online videos…Camtasia Studio will make your ideas come alive
Demogirl Uncovers Cool Websites & Apps
Blogger and screencaster Molly McDonald (a.k.a. Demogirl) uses Camtasia Studio to create videos that introduce subscribers to useful web applications and sites.
Speed Painting Gets Nearly 1.2 Million Views on YouTube
Watching Nico Di Mattia create a painting in Photoshop is an art form all to itself. Using Camtasia Studio, Nico shows hours of work in just four minutes.
Always more than a simple screen recorder, Camtasia Studio will help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster, easier, and with more consistency.
Enhanced Captioning Support
Easily create 508 compliant closed and open captions, and help viewers with hearing disabilities or language barriers better understand the content in your video.
- We need hover text for 508 compliant
- Captions will be 508 compliant by default. Section 508 of the Workforce Rehabilitation Act requires that a multimedia presentation have its transcript of the audio synchronized with the presentation with captions.
Speech-to-Text Transcription of Captions
By utilizing Windows Speech Recognition, Camtasia Stuido can automatically turn what you say into captions! You can fix anything missed in the transcription. And the more you use it, the better it gets!
Import/Export Captioning Files
Now you can export your audio and get it transcribed into a caption file, then import the transcription back into your video. It’s perfect if you ever need to translate your captions and localize your videos.
Create Searchable Video
Produce videos in Flash or send to Screencast.com and let your viewers jump directly to the content they need! All it takes is a quick search of a word or phrase the presenter said or displayed on a slide in the presentation.
Integration with Camtasia Relay
Harness the editing power of Camtasia Studio in Camtasia Relay! Edit Camtasia Relay videos in Camtasia Studio, then send back to Camtasia Relay for distribution. They play nicely together so your content flows seamlessly from one Camtasia to another.
iPad Output
Produce your Camtasia Studio videos for the iPad with a brand new iPad production preset. Your viewers will thank you while they watch in high-quality, on-the-go.
64-bit Codec Support
With both a 32-bit and 64-bit TSCC codec in Camtasia Studio, you’ll be able to export your recording files to a wider range of 3rd party applications, and keep the high-quality look you love.
What’s New in Camtasia Studio 7.0
Camtasia Studio has always been more than a simple screen recorder. Now, with Camtasia Studio 7, we’ve redesigned and rebuilt it to help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster, easier, and with more consistency.
Library
Save editing time and achieve consistency by storing callouts, title slides, or an entire intro sequence for later reuse.
Copy and paste
Reuse transitions, zooms, and other effects—just copy and paste to a different spot on the timeline or add it to the library.
YouTube upload
Get in front of millions! Produce and upload HD-quality videos to YouTube without leaving Camtasia Studio.
Grab attention with new callouts
Enhanced callouts
Give your screencasts a visual makeover with new callout styles and an easy way to make your own—now with support for image transparency!
Keystroke callouts
Make keystrokes visible to viewers! Camtasia Studio takes note of any keyboard shortcuts used during recording and shows the keys as a graphic overlay.
Sketch motion callouts
Call attention to the important bits with animated shapes that appear to be hand-drawn right onto the video.
Enhance with powerful editing
Precision volume controls
Fade the volume of an audio track up and down at any point in your video, using simple controls built into the timeline.
Editable cursor effects
Help viewers follow along by enlarging the mouse pointer, making it a spotlight, or visualizing clicks.
Smarter SmartFocus
TechSmith’s SmartFocus technology places smoother, more accurate zooms and pans so your content always looks sharp —a huge time-saver!
Always look amazing
Sleek, new interface
Find and use more of the product’s features…and get projects done faster.
Optimized screen recorder
Our capture engine now boosts frame rates by up to 50%—for smoother motion when recording things like 3D design software, real world video, or Flash animations.
Eye-grabbing media assets
Your library comes stocked with professionally-designed media assets from Digital Juice …with the possibility to add more.
