The Bottom Line
TechSmith's Camtasia Studio is a powerful suite of integrated tools with everything you need to produce interactive screen demonstrations, video tutorials, and movies of any kind of desktop activity.
Pros
- Integrated suite to record, edit, & distribute
- Quick start tutorial movies; 300 p. User Guide
- Free technical support
Cons
- For Windows only
- Expensive
Description
- Create video demonstrations for customer support, employee training, and product presentations.
- Record any on-screen activity and edit, annotate, and enhance the video. Includes 5 applications:
- Camtasia Recorder captures everything you see and do on your PC screen: mouse movement, menus, etc.
- Camtasia Producer for editing and enhancing your videos with transitions, audio, and more.
- Camtasia Effects for adding text boxes, call-outs, shapes, arrows, and highlighting.
- Camtasia MenuMaker for creating auto-run CD-ROM front-ends for distributing videos and other media.
- Camtasia Player, the small, freely-distributable player, allows others to watch your presentations.
- Output popular media formats: AVI, Flash (SWF), GIF, QuickTime (MOV), streaming video, and more.
- New Audio Editor component in Producer for adding voice annotations and sound effects to video.
- Zoom, pan, and draw on-screen as you record. Record narration, highlight the cursor, add watermark.
Guide Review - Camtasia Studio 1.1 for Windows
Camtasia Studio is an integrated suite of applications for producing professional videos of on-screen activity. Camtasia has been repackaged as Camtasia Studio with a new LaunchPad for navigating between the five tools that make up the suite. Each of the 5 tools has been enhanced in this release, with the most notable improvement being the addition of Shockwave Flash (SWF) output support. In addition, users can download several free extras: Theater for presenting multiple Flash movies with interactive menus; Converter for adding additional digital video file formats to your screen recordings; and over 100 templates for MenuMaker. Camtasia Studio is probably the most complete and well-supported screen recording package available for Windows.
