Camtasia Studio 9 Video Editing Download

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Forwhat it is, Camtasia is a great program BUT (and this is a very BIG BUT) it is absolutely NOT the right software for MOST video editing projects, although it has gotten more robust over the years.

A question from a reader the other day really drove this home. He is in the cooking niche, and he wanted to produce a cooking show, kind of like Emeril. He bought a bunch of video equipment, including Camtasia for editing. Problem is, for him, Camtasia is essentially worthless.

But my reader who wanted to edit his cooking show was out of luck because Camtasia is NOT designed to edit an entire show out of video you shoot with a regular video camcorder. It is primarily a screen capture program.

You can add a little bit of camera video, but it is recommended that you use that video as a small inset, a picture-in-picture (PIP) display. In this way, the video shot with a camera video is designed to be an adjunct to the screen capture video. The screen capture video (or PowerPoint video) makes up the bulk of your show.

If you want to make a show out of video you shoot with a standard video camcorder, then you really need a standard video editing program, like Windows Movie Maker, Sony Vegas, Adobe Premier or Final Cut, to name just a few.

Those video editing programs are for editing camera video. Unlike Camtasia, they can not record a screen capture shot. So if you wanted to show your computer screen in a video you are editing with Windows Movie Maker, you would either have to use a jpeg or you would need to videotape your computer screen using a video camera and then capture that video into Movie Maker in the same way you captured your vacation video. Or, you could use Camtasia to record the screen capture and then import that into your other software.

Whether Camtasia is right for you depends entirely on what kind of video you want to make. Is your video going to be full of computer screen shots or is it going to be full of video you took at the beach?

BUT, if you want to edit videos that consist primarily of video you take with your camcorder, i.e. live action video, then you need something other than Camtasia. Even as Camtasia becomes more robust, the fact remains that it is primarily a screen capture program. Standard video editing programs are going to give you much more creative control while editing. The differences between the two types are pretty big.

I felt real sorry for my reader the chef, who completely misunderstood this vital distinction before he bought his video editing software. $300 is a lot to waste when many free programs would have served him better.

Hi Jack.

Sounds like you have done a great job teaching yourself camtasia. To answer your questions, there is no difference as far as uploading to YouTube. Once you are done with a video, no matter what program you edited it on, you can upload it to YouTube assuming it is in one of the many standard formats that YouTube accepts. (flv, mov, mpeg4, wmv, etc.)

Where you put it on the web depends on which hosting solution you have decided upon. YouTube offers free hosting so many people go with that. However, you will not have total control over your videos and YouTube has features many people do not want to put up with so sometimes that is not the best solution unless the need to be free is your overwhelming criteria. I use Veeple as my primary host although I also have videos on this site hosted on all the various video sharing sites. It is indeed possible to put a URL back to your website from your video. You can do it one of several ways. With Veeple it is particularly easy and you can embed it right in the video. I hope this helps you. Thanks for reading Video Production Tips.

Lorraine Grula

Hi Jack.

A Bundle means it the main software program (in this case Camtasia) comes with other software programs. I am not sure what comes with the Camtasia 7 bundle, when I bought Camtasia it was just the stand alone program.

Hi Jack.

The learning curve for ANY video editing program is indeed steep, but then once you get it, it seems easy! Plus, most programs have quite a bit in common and are often are more alike than they are different. So once you learn one, learning another one will not be as difficult. No doubt version 7 will outperform version 3. More bells and whistles, easier to use, all that good stuff. Have fun with it.

Thanks

Lorraine

Hi Jack.

Thanks for signing up for the free course, hope you enjoy it. You COULD put the program on a thumb drive but to use it on more than one computer you are supposed to pay a separate licensing fee.

Lorraine

I have created some animation in Camtasia studio. When I copy paste them into another camtasia project everything gets messed up, animation effect, start n end position, size etc. I tried to match the resolution size still the same issue.

When I started my weekly vlog I was using Camtasia to edit my video footage. Looking back at that first few episodes I didn't do much with the footage at all, I might have added a logo (or tried to) and maybe cut off the beginning and ending of me setting up the camera but there was no fancy intro graphics, or outro, or even any lower thirds.

As I gradually grew familiar with Camtasia I did start to add stuff and make things zoom out and in of the screen to help highlight points I was talking about. And I did put together a bit of an outro but nothing that would have any professional video editor worried about me taking over the job.

However, as I started to get into creating the video and editing it, I found over time I wanted to try something I'd seen someone else do in their editing and struggled to get Camtasia to do it. Everything I seemed to want to do or try to do required Adobe Premiere Pro.

The turning point came when I came back from Seattle in February 2020 and had some video filmed from one of the professional video booths that we have within the Microsoft Campus. The footage I had created had two video angles of me talking. And trying to edit and join that together within Camtasia, just seemed beyond the footage.

I often film multiple angles of me, even if I am just sitting at my desk talking to the camera. Or sometimes I'll have my camera on me and also be recording my screen for demos etc. So having those multi camera feeds and being able to pull them into Adobe Premiere Pro, have the software sink them and then edit with great ease saves me a lot of time. The tutorial that I really found helpful in figuring out the basics for this was Barnacules Nerdgasm's video talking about it.

Now this point could be debated, but for me I found Adobe Premiere Pro easier to use and figure out compared to Camtasia. This is maybe because I've used a ton of Adobe software in the past from Dreamweaver back in the day to Photoshop. I just found the interface so much easier to navigate and much more intuitive but I totally get that this is a subjective one and everyone will be a bit different on this point.

There is a host of tutorial, blog posts, YouTube videos both from Adobe and the community on how to do things. I always struggled to find material on Camtasia and how to do things and used to give up.

A lot of people spend time making the audio just right before recording and can probably just go with whatever they have recorded, for me, I like to tweak things just a little after recording. For a home office studio I think my audio sounds good, but I still have some things I want to tweak. For a while I did that in Audacity, which was a bit of a process when I was using Camtasia, taking the audio separately, editing it then pulling it back into Camtasia and editing it and then trying to sync it up with the original and bringing it all together.

Adobe has a great bit of software for audio editing, [Adobe Audition] and I often use that as a separate program but there is some powerful audio editing features built into Adobe Premiere Pro you can leverage without leaving it, so it helps to quicken up my workflow.

However, when I was using Camtasia this would mean I would have a back log of footage to edit and then render and that took a long time as I would edit something, render it and then have to wait before I could edit the next footage. Or I would edit it all, then render the first one, go away, come back render the next one. It just took a long time.

But in Adobe Premiere Pro there is a batch rendering feature. So I edit all the footage I want and save them, then I queue them up within the Adobe Media Encoder and let it render away. I've got into the process of setting this up at the end of the day and letting my machine render the videos while I go and have my dinner and watch TV and check on it before I go to bed. I'm finding it a much easier process to manage.

ScreenRec is a simple yet powerful screen recording software that allows you to record your screen in full HD and take & edit screenshots with the use of a simple hotkey (ALT-S). The moment you finish capturing, your pics or vids are automatically backed up to the cloud. Plus, a unique sharing link is created and copied to your clipboard to allow you to share your videos anywhere.

However, OBS has a steep learning curve as its many of the editing features are difficult to learn and get used to, and even a bit overwhelming. Luckily, there are many video tutorials available to help set you off on the right foot.

EZVid is a great app to use when recording video tutorials. Allowing you to record your screen, webcam, and voice simultaneously, your videos will be YouTube ready, the moment you finish recording. It also has video editing tools that cover the basics like cutting, splicing, audio mixing, and screen drawing.

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