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What is Camtasia?
Some video solutions on the market are super-easy to use, but deliver lackluster results. Others deliver professional quality video, but the learning curve is extreme. Camtasia aims to enable anyone to quickly start creating pro-quality videos in minutes with no video experience needed.
Camtasia can capture everything happening on the screen with just a few clicks, and offers drag-and-drop editing and visual effects features to transform screen recordings into polished software demonstrations, online lessons and tutorials, sales presentations, social media content, and walkthrough videos.
To jumpstart video projects, Camtasia offers pre-built templates that help users craft a variety of video content with drag-and-drop. Starting with a template, users can then add animations, still images, video clips, transitions, music, and effects to create polished, professional-looking videos that help them to excite, explain, engage and educate audiences.
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| Deployment Types | On-premise |
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| Operating Systems | Windows |
| Mobile Application | No |
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Camtasia starts at $299.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 9.
The most common users of Camtasia are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Camtasia is a versatile software that offers a wide range of use cases, allowing users to create professional-looking videos with ease. Users have found Camtasia to be intuitive and user-friendly, making it effortless to integrate videos quickly into various market and client-facing activities. This software proves particularly useful in creating instructional and promotional videos, as well as editing camera-shot videos.
One notable feature of Camtasia is its audio tools, which users appreciate for correcting soft voices and reducing background noise. For organizations with new users who need to quickly edit training videos, Camtasia serves as an ideal solution by providing screen recording and entry-level video editing capabilities. Additionally, web design companies utilize Camtasia to create videos for clients, showcasing website interfaces and providing training on website management.
Camtasia's applications extend beyond training purposes as it proves beneficial for marketing efforts. Users leverage this software for creating instructional videos for YouTube channels and communicating detailed bugs with developers. The versatility of Camtasia allows it to cater to a variety of needs, such as creating screencasts for trainings, product demos, animated slides from PowerPoint presentations, and basic audio recordings.
With its wide range of features and ease of use, Camtasia is widely adopted by small companies, educational institutions like the University of St. Francis, and even healthcare organizations. Its ability to produce professional videos with annotations, transitions, animations, and more has made it the go-to program for creating training materials, marketing videos, internal communications, and customer demonstrations.
Overall, Camtasia empowers users across different industries to easily create high-quality videos that effectively deliver information, enhance training efforts, and engage audiences.
Users have made several recommendations based on their experience with Camtasia. Firstly, they advise taking the time to learn Camtasia's features and recommend it for course creators, screen recordings, and video editing. Many users have found Camtasia easy to use and appreciate its extensive range of user-friendly features. They suggest trying the free trial before purchasing a license to get a feel for the software's capabilities.
Secondly, reviewers recommend considering Camtasia for video recording, creating how-to videos, and editing screens. Professionals in the e-learning industry have particularly praised the software, considering it a game-changer for businesses. Users highlight that Camtasia has taken their training programs to the next level.
Lastly, some users suggest starting with Camtasia to learn video editing, especially if budget is a consideration. They believe that Camtasia is worth the investment and find it easier to use and more flexible than Final Cut Pro for Mac users. Some reviewers even recommend having both Camtasia and Final Cut Pro for more creative video editing.
Overall, reviewers highly recommend using Camtasia for screen capture, course creation, video editing, and how-to videos. They find it user-friendly and packed with useful features. However, they do advise waiting until the software is updated and the website provides clearer information on software differences before making a purchase.
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April 08, 2021
The best entry level video editing software for Windows
Camtasia is being used in two ways at our organization. First, for screen-recording, which is what it is probably most known for. It has become the industry standard for screen-recording over the last decade. Second, and probably most important to our organization, it has become our solution for entry-level video editing. Camtasia is a powerful video editor and it has filled a big need in our organization by allowing new users to quickly begin editing training videos. We are producing a large number of videos each year, but we only had a couple of people with editing skills using software like Adobe Premiere Pro, which has a high learning curve. Camtasia is more affordable and allows us to spin up additional editors on our team that create quality videos.
- Screen Recording - Camtasia has all the tools that you need to create a professional screen-recording for your company.
- Video Editing - Camtasia is a very competent video editor, especially for entry level users.
- Training - Camtasia has a large online library of training videos that will get new users up and running quickly.
- Video Editing Shortcuts - Camtasia does video editing so well that you quickly want to use more advance functionality like that found in Adobe Premiere Pro. However, Camtasia does not have some of the speed editing feature that you find in the more advance programs.
- Stock Content - Camtasia comes with some stock music, titles, and transition, and although the library has grown over time, it still isn't up to some of the competitors.
- Multi-track Timeline Functionality - Camtasia does have multi-track editing and it does work well for what it does, but it hasn't advanced much over time.
- We have saved thousands of dollars on outside video editing fees by using Camtasia in-house.
- We have saved hundreds of dollars in licensing fees by using Camtasia instead of subscription based licensing from Adobe.
- We have increased our training output by enabling more of our trainers to begin editing videos using Camtasia.
Our advanced editors use programs like Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, but we only have about 5-6 employees that have that skill level. That isn't enough to support our video output. Camtasia allows everyone that is not at that level to create quality videos with a much lower learning curve.
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Our primary user group for Camtasia is our Learning & Development department. However, we also have users in I.T., Sales, and H.R. The latter three groups use it less often. Our training department is using it on a weekly basis to edit videos that are being released to our internal team of Sales and Service.
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I am the point person for our Team license for L&D and all other areas have individual licenses. We have several users that are advisors when questions arise about using the software. However, Camtasia has such a robust library of video training that there really isn't much support that needs to be done once it is deployed.
- Screen Recording
- Video Editing
- Training Asset Creation
- Basic Screen-recording
- Basic Video Editing
- Basic Video Transitions
- Sound Editing - Just not enough there to really make much of difference
- Speed editing once you have been using the program for a while
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February 04, 2019
Camtasia/TechSmith Relay is a basic, easy to use screen capture program which has its pros and cons!
Camtasia, now called TechSmith Relay, was used to record presentation videos for our faculty to share with their students. We switched from using it, after all these years, to Panopto.
- It's very easy to learn and use.
- Uploading of videos was straightforward and easy.
- Integrated well easily with our video storage service.
- Both a pro and a con of it being easy to use is that it has limited features.
- Better video editing abilities.
- More enhancements on creating videos. Added webcam in the video would be nice while presenting.
- Automated closed captioning would be great!
- Many faculty members used it because it was easy to use and accomplish what they needed.
- No need for a lot of training or follow-up training due to it being very to use.
- Account management within our system and assigning permissions required a few steps when granting access.
Camtasia/TechSmith Relay is easy to use. Its features are limited in comparison to Panopto though. Panopto offers a lot more in regards to the video editing features, quiz insertions in a video, auto closed captioning, etc. For an easy to use and basic screen capture program though, Camtasia/TechSmith relay is great.
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Faculty sharing presentations with students.
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Technology and online learning professionals.
- Recording Powerpoint presentations with audio narration.
- Recording instructional videos for navigating and using programs on a computer with audio.
- We've also had users re-record presentations online that were streamed on their computer to be able to save.
- We had class conferences that were not downloadable and had a 14-day time limit on how long they would be viewable and Camtasia was able to record them as they were being played back on their computer and saved as a file to keep permanently.
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It was easy to use and integrated into our video storage services.
We have switched from Camtasia to Panopto. We needed more features.
- Recording your computer screen and giving an audio presentation of what you are doing over on the screen.
- Uploading to our storage servers was very easy.
- This isn't difficult or cumbersome, but the features are limited.
December 21, 2018
Camtasia Gets You Up and Running Quickly
Our company uses Camtasia mainly for internal training videos; however we have recently started using it for external training videos and webinar recordings as well. Although I have the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite including Premiere Pro, I prefer Camtasia for its ease of use. You can watch their useful training videos and be up and running with recording and editing in less than an hour.
- Internal employee software training videos. This is where Camtasia really excels, as you're able to record all your screen activity and add highlights, call-outs, etc. to your video during the editing phase.
- External pre-recorded webinars or training.
- Editing post-webinar recordings for later distribution.
- I haven't yet come across something I've wanted to do and haven't been able to do.
- Even when it takes you a bit to figure out how to do something, or where to go to find it, there's probably a training video or other help files available.
- We've been able to provide our employees with timely training information. For example, teaching the basics of using Salesforce in our organization.
- We've been able to provide training videos for clients that are more polished than just recording a presentation. The ability to edit audio and video, add transitions and fades, add call-out boxes and text... all add to a nice finished product.
- Our marketing team is always juggling multiple projects... Camtasia's ease of use translates into quicker project completion.
Camtasia is much easier to use, and more importantly much easier to learn. If you're needing to learn video editing quickly or are looking for a screen recording solution, Camtasia is a clear winner. While not as in-depth or feature-rich as Premiere Pro (which is a wonderful product, don't get me wrong), it has more than just the basics to give you a finished product you'll be proud of.
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Our marketing team is the primary user of Camtasia. We create both internal training videos (for example, to teach our sales team how to use Salesforce) as well as training videos for our clients.
Our IT team also uses Camtasia to create internal and external videos on how to use our proprietary client-facing software.
Our IT team also uses Camtasia to create internal and external videos on how to use our proprietary client-facing software.
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There really is not a need for in-house support of Camtasia. There are plenty of tutorials and help files available on Camtasia's website in addition to add-ons such as images and video snippets. Other than possibly needing an IT staff to install the software because of company policy, an end user would not need in-house support.
- internal training videos of proprietary software
- external training videos of proprietary software
- external training videos of content
- internal training videos of general software such as Salesforce
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It's much easier to get up and running with than Adobe Premiere Pro, which is part of the Adobe Creative Suite we subscribe to. Camtasia allowed us to get up and running... and get to a final product... much quicker because there was less time required to learn how to use the software, and the tutorials were very easy to follow.
We would not change the process.