Product Tour

Record
Camtasia Studio captures video of anything on your screen, with no compromise between quality and file size. Call it magic, call it our secret sauce, but TechSmith compression technology gives you perfect-quality recordings and compact file sizes.

Get started faster
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! <br> <br>

Add audio now or later
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.

Convert PowerPoint to compelling video
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!

Edit and Enhance
Not a multimedia expert? Don’t panic. Camtasia Studio’s editing studio will make you look like one...

Preview the final result before its final
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!

Take control with zoom and pan
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.

Put the presenter inside or beside
Give your video a personal touch by displaying the presenter with the presentation. Webcam video can be embedded in the screen capture video (picture-in-picture) or placed next to it (side-by-side).

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...we'll make it easy on you.

High quality video...every time
Looking good has never been so easy. 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!

Produce in virtually any file format
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 todays (or tomorrow's) popular formats! Right now, the list is:

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

What’s New in Camtasia Studio 7

Camtasia Studio has always been more than a simple screen recorder. Now 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 a consistent look across projects and team members by storing callouts, title slides, or an entire intro sequence for later reuse.

Eye-grabbing media assets
Your library comes stocked with professionally-designed media assets from Digital Juice…with the possibility to add more. These animated backgrounds, lower third callouts, and music tracks are an easy way to make your screencast shine!

Sketch motion callouts
Call attention to the important bits with animated shapes that appear to be hand-drawn right onto the video.

Keystroke callouts
Make keystrokes visible to viewers! Camtasia Studio automatically takes note of any keyboard shortcuts used during recording and can show the keys as a graphic overlay in your video.

Enhanced callouts
Give your screencasts a visual makeover with snazzy, new callout styles and an easy way to make your own custom callouts—now with support for image transparency! <br>

Editable cursor effects
Help viewers follow along by enlarging the mouse pointer, making it a spotlight, or visualizing clicks. You control how (and whether) the cursor appears at any point on the timeline!

Smarter SmartFocus
TechSmith’s exclusive SmartFocus technology now places smoother, better-timed, more accurate zooms and pans so your content always looks sharp at any size—a huge time-saver!

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.

Sleek, new interface
Find and use more of the product’s features…and get projects done faster.

Copy and paste
Spent time tweaking a transition, zoom, or other effect? Now you can use it again—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.

Optimized screen recorder
Our capture engine now harnesses the power of multi-core processors to boost frame rates by up to 50%—for smoother motion when recording things like 3D design software, real world video, or Flash animations.

How It Is Used

Train
Call it e-learning, call it on-the-job-training, call it enhanced customer support...just don't call it inconvenient and boring.

With Camtasia Studio, you can produce interactive training and support videos that travel anywhere and are ready for instant viewing by staff or customers, day or night. Screencasts are quick, easy, and inexpensive to produce. And people like watching them. So they're perfect for rolling out new software, orienting new staff, showing customers how to use your product, or establishing a "self-help" desk.

It's a little bit like cloning yourself. Which is why you'll call Camtasia Studio the smart way to do training.

What features will I use for training?

• Capture PPT presentations as video and audio 
• Record interaction with websites or software apps
• Engage viewers with callouts
• Measure retention with Flash quizzes
• Show the action clearly with auto zoom & pan 
• Save as any popular video format
• Produce scaled-down version for portable devices

Educate
Put video to work in your teaching! Give your presentation once—share it as many times as you want.

Record video lessons that demonstrate visual or technical subjects. Record a live presentation or lecture to give learners a rewind button for class. Help them learn at their own pace…or catch up from an absence.

Camtasia Studio software is smart, quick to learn, and feature rich! Easily record the activity on your PC screen…plus audio and webcam. Record live during class or in advance. Edit for polish, or keep it simple. Add self-quizzes and callouts. Share crystal-clear videos in all the formats students want: iPod/iPhone, web, blog, and more.

What features will I use in teaching?

• Capture PPT presentations with a click
• Record & highlight interaction with websites or applications
• Emphasize and elaborate with callouts
• Measure retention with Flash quizzes
• Collect quiz results via email or SCORM-compliant LMS
• Make content accessible with closed captioning

Sell
Imagine demonstrating your product or service in front of thousands or even millions of people in a way that's clear, eye-catching, and persuasive. Now imagine that it costs almost nothing to do it.

Camtasia Studio makes it easy for anyone—even a multimedia novice—to produce a slick, professional-looking screen video on a shoestring budget. Just record a product demo or sales presentation, put the video on the web, and it will make money and generate leads while you're sleeping. In fact, a screencast video is the perfect way to show the unique features and benefits of your product in action.

So why pay thousands of dollars to have an outside firm produce your video...when you can do it yourself!

What features will I use in selling and marketing?

• Incorporate camera video & photos
• Add polish with transitions, titles, and tilt effect
• Show the action clearly with auto zoom & pan
• Brand videos with your own logo and colors
• Let viewers take action with clickable hotspots
• Produce web-ready videos with HD quality & quick load times
• Produce for web, disc, YouTube, iPod, and more...with a click

Blog and Beyond
Whether you blog for fun or profit...want to show off your mad skills at gaming (or digital scrapbooking)...hope to become the next YouTube sensation...or simply enjoy creating online videos...Camtasia Studio will make your ideas come alive. After all, showing your audience is much better than telling them!

With Camtasia Studio, it's easy to produce clear, fun-to-watch screencast videos at any size, and share them any way you like. We put the basic tools at your fingertips, so your videos will look great right out of the box.

What features will I use to inform & entertain?

• Record & highlight interaction with websites or applications
• Include webcam video as picture-in-picture
• Engage viewers with callouts
• Show the action clearly with auto zoom & pan
• Produce for web, blog, YouTube, iPod, and more...with a click