High Quality, Low Cost Video Production
Updated January 09, 2020
High Quality, Low Cost Video Production
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Camtasia
In our organization, we use videos to deliver information about changes to products, processes, and tools. On the training side, we also use videos to deliver training to our sales organization. These include tutorials, informational videos, or engagement videos. Camtasia has allowed us to broaden the number of users creating videos - allowing us to increase the volume of videos we produce as well as remove a bottleneck in the process.
- Camtasia comes with a set of "library assets" which are templates, images, motion graphics, and audio files that fit together to create an overall style for a video. Without a lot of experience working with video, these help novice designers develop a more polished product more rapidly.
- The interface itself is very intuitive. The tools provided with Camtasia allow users to do a lot with video and the way in which a user would accomplish various tasks is pretty easy to understand and execute.
- Compared to more robust software platforms, like Adobe Premiere or Final Cut, Camtaisa lets people who don't need that level of software deliver high-quality video products quickly. Camtasia isn't basic and it isn't robust - but it certainly meets the need for the price point.
- Camtasia could do better on their keying performance. By that, I mean the ability to remove a specific color - for green screen execution. In my experience, it takes a little bit of time to fine-tune the settings to get a good quality color removal without seeing grainy edges.
- The ability to manipulate the video with motion or rotation is slightly limited in Camtasia. Other programs such as Adobe Premiere or Final Cut have a lot more flexibility with video manipulation that isn't always necessary in Camtasia; however, it would be nice to have a few more options in this area.
- Actual video editing - color correction, for example - is very limited in Camtasia. If you don't have a quality team filming your videos, then live action can become troublesome without the ability to adjust the footage since the tools are so limited in Camtasia related to that side of post-production.
- We have been able to produce a larger volume of video since the learning curve for Camtasia is relatively short.
- The quality of work with video has increased since implementing Camtasia.
- After implementing a detailed style guide, we have been able to create a consistent look and feel for our video projects.
- Snagit and Articulate 360
With some recent updates to Snagit, TechSmith (the parent company of both products) has done a great job adding features and functions to allow Snagit users to create simple screen capture videos. If you need to actually edit the footage, then Camtasia is the way to go. If you're looking for simple screen capture without editing - Snagit is great.
I've also worked with Articulate Replay, the Camtasia equivalent of the Articulate suite of solutions. The Replay interface is not user friendly or intuitive at all. It's much easier to complete video projects in Camtasia and export them for use in other eLearning solutions.
I've also worked with Articulate Replay, the Camtasia equivalent of the Articulate suite of solutions. The Replay interface is not user friendly or intuitive at all. It's much easier to complete video projects in Camtasia and export them for use in other eLearning solutions.