Camtasia is a great application that allows you to make a movie from content you record off your computer screen. Theres no easier way to create videos that are effective and fun to watch.
Camtasia can be used to make training videos, marketing demos, on-demand presentations and how-to screencasts.
Key features...
- Record and import rich content - Fire up the application, webpage, or Keynote presentation that you want to appear in your screencast movie. As you interact with it, everything that happens on screen is recorded. Its like pointing a camcorder at your Mac—only much higher quality.
- Put yourself in the scene - Connect with viewers by letting them see and hear you. Plug in a quality microphone (or use your built-in mic) and narrate while recording your actions on the screen. Capture video from an iSight or a DV camera connected via firewire. Record the sound coming through your speakers.
- Want to create a theme or support your brand? Add a logo image, title slides, or music track. Most standard video, audio, and image files can be imported and put into the mix.
- The SmartFocus advantage - As you record the screen, our proprietary SmartFocus technology keeps track of details like window size and location, typing, and mouse clicks. During editing, SmartFocus can save you a ton of time by automatically zooming in to follow the action—keeping text legible and details sharp, even when you shrink your video to fit on an iPhone!
- Simple Capture - Just select the audio and camera devices you want to capture along with the screen.
- Earn points for creativity in editing - Once youve got your content recorded, its time to put it all together and bring your vision to life. Simply drag media onto the timeline, layer as many tracks as you want, and slide clips around to achieve perfect timing.
- Adding transitions, motion, and visual polish is also drag-and-drop easy. And with dozens of ready-made effects to choose from (along with the ability to tweak their properties) anyone can now make a video that is nothing short of dazzling.
- Click, Drag, Done - The clean, clutter-free editing area lets you interact directly with anything you see.
- Adding Polish - Give flow (and sparkle) to your content with motion and visual effects.
- Canvas - Arrange the elements in your video by simply moving them into position.
- Adding Text & Shapes - Use graphical objects to point something out or elaborate for the viewer.
- A canvas for your imagination - Its your hands-on preview window. Click anything you see on the canvas—a video clip, shape, or text box—and manipulate it directly. Rotate an arrow. Edit some text. Crop out distracting elements. What you see is what you get.
- Call out the important bits - Apply shapes and text—alone or in combination—to draw the eye, label something on screen, or segue between segments.
- Properties Panel - Enjoy precise control over an elements size, opacity, rotation, and more.
- Here, there, share anywhere - Upload directly to a video sharing site or generate the files you need to put your screencast on a webpage, Apple devices, or send it to iDVD.
- - Send your screencast straight from Camtasia to your account. We even hand you the hyperlink and embed code needed to share your video right away.
- Screencast.com - We built Screencast.com to remove the hassle of posting videos to the web. Our servers never compress your content...so the quality you upload is the quality viewers see. And with four levels of privacy controls, you get to decide who sees what.
- Mobile devices - Choose the device you want to target and Camtasia produces a file with the correct dimensions and format for that destination. Any options supported by QuickTime are available here, too.
- Web - Export an HD-quality file, along with the HTML needed to put it on a webpage, for viewing within any Flash-enabled browser.
System Requirements:
- Recommended: Mac computer with an Intel processor (dual core 2.0GHz or faster)
- Quartz Extreme support
- 1GB of RAM (2GB of RAM or greater recommended)
- Approximately 4GB of available disk space (At least 4GB of disk space available for subsequent recordings recommended)
- QuickTime 7.5.5 or later
- CD drive required for installation