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This makes the Canvas, in particular, much easier to use and solves that ‘looking through a keyhole’ feeling that could sometimes result in the original version. However, the size of the Assets area has been significantly reduced in Camtasia 2 to the benefit of the more visually important Canvas and Timeline areas. To give you an example of uses other than recording activity on your computer screen, you could just as easily dump Photoshop or Illustrator images into Camtasia’s media bin and create videos showing how an illustration or diagram is built up over time, adding transitions, animations and annotation effects to guide the viewer through the process. Perhaps the best way to see what kind of output you can achieve with Camtasia is to look at TechSmith’s own Camtasia tutorials.

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Rather, Camtasia’s strengths lie in the ease with which you can produce professional, corporate quality videos that can demonstrate (rather than simulate) software products, provide tutorials, explain technical procedures or do pretty much anything else that you might to want to use the short video format for. That may not be a drawback as such it’s just not what Camtasia is for. Unlike Captivate, Camtasia does not allow you to create interactive software simulations. The emphasis with Camtasia is on video creation (where video includes, but is not restricted to, what we ordinarily called ‘screen capture’ and ‘screencasting’), and the output is, like most videos, a largely passive experience for the viewer. The main difference, however, is what you can do with the two programs. Although Captivate makes use of a timeline too, it is not central to the workflow in the way that it is in TechSmith’s Camtasia. Rather, like dedicated video editing software, it is primarily organised around audio and visual timelines that determine what appears on the screen, and when. Camtasia is not slide-based like Captivate. However, there are important differences.

You can import and edit audio files, and create and produce short videos that have nothing at all to do with the recording on your screen’s desktop, if you wish.Ĭamtasia’s rich feature set means it is often compared with Adobe’s Captivate or MadCap’s Mimic, and if you already have or use one of these you may wonder whether you need Camtasia at all. More significantly, it also offers a full-featured editing suite, including animations, transitions and annotation tools.

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Camtasia can embed video both from other sources such as QuickTime or MP4 files from your hard drive and from your computer’s iSight or webcam. It does all of the above and a whole lot more. While these products are fine for basic screencasting work, they lack the features to make really professional, corporate-quality videos. Like Jing, it includes the ability to share your screen capture online freely on TechSmith’s own site.

SnagIt also allows users to capture video, save it and share it, as well as add some basic annotations.

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It provides relatively little in the way of either editing or playback options, but does include free online sharing. Jing is a free product and ideal for making what are sometimes called ‘quick and dirty’ screen captures. There is no shortage of screencasting software on the market, so where does Camtasia fit in the grand scheme of things? Camtasia’s developer, TechSmith, offers two other screen capture products: Jing and SnagIt.

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