Are you experimenting with creating tutorial or lecture videos for your students? Maybe moving towards a flipped classroom? How about creating Professional Development videos? Camtasia Studio is the tool you need to bring all your graphic sources together to easily create a quality end product you will be proud of. It's also easy to use for students if you want to involve them in a video creation project.
Camtasia Studio helps you quickly create professional quality videos and share them with anyone, on nearly any device – without formal training.
Whether you need to train an audience, give a presentation, explain an idea, share knowledge, or offer feedback, Camtasia Studio makes it easy. Use Camtasia Studio to record onscreen activity, PowerPoint slides, and more or import camera video. Then enhance your videos with Camtasia Studio’s powerful editing tools, and easily share them with anyone, anywhere.
With multiple video and audio tracks, an extensive asset library, and the ability to animate content, Camtasia Studio allows you to create interactive videos that engage your audience. Plus, Camtasia Studio’s built-in quizzing lets you discover if your viewers are watching and learning from your content.
New in Camtasia Studio 8
TechSmith Smart Player- Share high-quality, HD videos that your viewers can watch anytime, on nearly any device. The TechSmith Smart Player is intuitive and detects if your viewer’s device or browser supports Flash. If their device or browser doesn’t support Flash, the TechSmith Smart Player will playback the content using HTML5 – helping ensure that your videos will play. Upload the videos you make in Camtasia Studio to our free hosting site, Screencast.com, and easily share the link or embed it in your blog. The TechSmith Smart Player also helps you engage with your viewers by supporting interactive elements of your videos like hotspots or quizzes.
Quizzing- Discover if your viewers are watching and learning from your content by adding quizzes to your videos. With help from the TechSmith Smart Player, quizzing supports both Flash and HTML5, which allows quizzes to now be taken on iPads, Android tablets, and most Android smart phones. Quiz results are sent automatically to your email and let you know how much of your video was watched by the viewer. Plus, it does the grading for you.
Multi-track Timeline- Construct more interactive and engaging videos faster with multiple video and audio tracks. The ability to easily manipulate items on the canvas helps you create professional quality videos, while encouraging you to use your creativity. Stack different media elements on top of each other, and group content together for cool effects that you can save and reuse.
Asset Library- Intrigue your audience by adding a variety of new music tracks, callouts, buttons, banners, and motion backgrounds to your videos with drag-and-drop ease. Designed with assets that work together, the wide selection of themes help your videos look more professional – while you look like a design genius.
Animation-Grab your audience’s attention and keep it with animated content that helps guide them through your video. Easily add an animation to callouts, images, videos, and more. By animating content, you can highlight important parts of your videos and make your production more appealing.
World-class Screen Recording Technology- Record high-quality videos faster with Camtasia Studio’s advanced screen recorder. Whether you’re recording HD video, a game, or animated content, you’ll get smooth playback – that’s blazing fast, too.
Camtasia Studio 8 System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista, or Windows 7
Microsoft DirectX 9 or later version
Microsoft .NET 4.0 Client Profile (included, except with MSI installer)
Dual-Core Processor minimum, Quad-Core Processor or better recommended
2GB RAM minimum, 4GB RAM or greater recommended
2GB of hard-disk space for program installation
Display dimensions of 1024x768 or greater
Dedicated Windows-compatible sound card, microphone and speakers recommended
Feature-specific Requirements:
Camtasia Studio Add-in for PowerPoint requires PowerPoint 2007 or 2010 (32 bit)
Import of .mov and production to .mov and .m4v requires Apple QuickTime 7.2 or later
Camera video recording requires a USB Web Camera. Recording live from a DV camera is not supported
Integration with Camtasia Relay requires Camtasia Relay Client Recorder
GPU acceleration requires DirectX 9 compatible video adapter with 128 MB of video memory or greater and Pixel Shader 2.0 or later
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