This has two implications-one good, the other bad. Second, Camtasia doesn't leave an edit mark like a split at the deletion point-if you cut away a section from a single video, you're left with a single, shorter video. First, there's no way to preview what the edited video will look or sound like after the cut you can preview, but the playback stops at the out point, which can make it hard to see or hear if you're cutting at the right place. This is an excellent idea in concept, though operation could be improved in a couple of ways. To delete the "um" you see on the audio timeline, set the green marker where you want the cut to start, set the red marker where you want it to end, and then right-click and choose Cut (or click the scissors icon). Here, operation has been enhanced by the ability to easily set in and out points via in and out markers on the cursor. You can see this in Figure 5, where the green marker is the in point, and the red marker is the out point. In most projects, I start by cutting away unwanted sections of the screencam. With the recording done, let's move to editing.Ĭamtasia Studio has a three-window interface comprising a timeline, a preview window, and a utility window that serves as the repository for all content as well as configuration options. But if you've got the disk space and can live with 854x480 resolution video, Camtasia can capture a very good quality stream. Obviously, I don't advocate illegally copying and distributing streaming video. Captured file sizes were quite large, however, with a 90-second file consuming about 1.3GB in disk space at the lower resolution. The ideo was still smooth enough for casual viewing, but some stutters were evident. There were occasional dropped frames that likely related more to synchronization than capture performance because Camtasia can't sync its precise 30 fps capture rate to the frames displayed by YouTube. Then I captured at 1280x1024, and Camtasia captured only about one in three frames. I recorded first at 854x480, and Camtasia captured most frames.
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For this release, TechSmith claims that capture rates have been boosted by up to 50% "for smoother motion when recording things like 3D design software, real world video, or Flash animations." To test this, I recorded a 720p video from YouTube that had embedded timecode so I could easily see if any frames were dropped during capture.
But I captured my test project at 1280x720 at 15 fps, which isn't all that demanding.
During recording itself, I found the operation unchanged from previous versions.