A great video creation/editing experience at an excellent price point!
November 06, 2021

A great video creation/editing experience at an excellent price point!

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Camtasia

Camtasia is being used across our business, although I'm not completely sure on how many licences we have across the different versions of Camtasia. Three members of our central training team use Camtasia which helps us quickly put together screencast videos, whether that be training, product promo, or process reinforcement use cases.
  • Simple User Interface
  • Great features
  • Easy workflow
  • USB Microphones can sometimes cause a problem if they become accidentally unplugged during a recording session. This can corrupt some of the files that the Camtasia Recorder application uses to capture directly to .avi mode.
  • You'll sometimes get a message when you next try to record that .avi mode isn't available and the only way to fix this is by completely uninstalling and reinstalling Camtasia (with a reboot in the middle of these two actions).
  • This bug only manifested after Camtasia 8 was released, but still seems to cause an issue right up to and including Camtasia 2021.
  • I'd like to see more standard Annotation options. The existing ones are pretty good, but variety is a little lacking.
  • More 'Behaviours' would also be really welcome as these are a great feature and make Callouts a bit more interesting and lively. I've not seen any new Behaviours over the past few versions (since Camtasia 2018).
  • Excellent Price Point
  • User-friendly
  • Good feature set
  • Significant enhancements every new release
  • Easy workflow
  • Camtasia allows us me to quickly create videos showcasing product features, functionality or perhaps enhancements to some of our internal platforms user interfaces.
  • I can create a 3 minute promo video (where extensive editing is also needed) within a couple of hours. Creating something similar in other applications would be far more time consuming.
  • If I'm creating screencasts, the Camtasia Recorder is my go-to application for raw screen recording. It works really well and is extremely easy to use.
As with most software products, you'll always find pros and cons when making comparisons. Camtasia is always my go-to application when someone asks me to whip up a video on a very tight deadline. You can very quickly turn an idea into a finished video and be happy with the outcome. Adobe Premiere Pro is definitely a more premium experience, but the learning curve is much steeper. Saying that, there are a lot of free, amazing resources for this product than can take your video to another level entirely and that sets it apart from Camtasia. As I've already mentioned, if you are looking for something that is easy to learn, great value and can provide good results without too much effort and headaches, Camtasia is the best option in the marketplace, in my opinion.

Do you think Camtasia delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Camtasia's feature set?

Yes

Did Camtasia live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Camtasia go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Camtasia again?

Yes

Well-suited scenarios Camtasia is an excellent video creation tool if you are new to making/editing videos. Its definitely the easiest application to use and doesn't overcomplicate things. Once you are used to the way things work within Camtasia, coupled with applying some important, basic principles of making videos, you can produce some nice-looking videos. I've had lots of compliments on some of the product promo videos I've created using Camtasia. If you want to create something quick, simple, and eye-catching, you can certainly do that in Camtasia without a ridiculously steep learning curve. Not so well suited scenarios Camtasia wouldn't be my choice of product if I wanted to make a full-length feature film, but that isn't really its intended target audience. There are more powerful applications out there, such as Adobe Premier Pro, or Final Cut Pro (if you're an Apple user) for that type of thing.