Camtasia Studio Alternatives for Linux

Alternatives to Camtasia Studio for Linux with any license

Open Broadcaster Software

OBS Studio (also known as Open Broadcaster Software, or OBS) is a screen-casting and live-streaming software available across multiple platforms including macOS, Windows and Linux. Boasting features typically only found in commercial screen recording apps, OBS also provides one of the simplest workflows with an intuitive and easy-to-learn interface that makes recording and streaming a breeze. It's also totally free and open-source.
- I installed OBS. It simply records the display, but doesn't allow any annotation and several other features that Camtasia Studio, FlashBack and others provide. Its purpose is different, since it is a broadcasting software. gautambjain • Mar 2016 • 23 agrees and 12 disagrees
- Very fast screencaster, tons of features, but not so straightforward, 100% free! Guest • Apr 2018 • 2 agrees and 1 disagrees
- at least do not have problems i had with other tools Guest • Feb 2019
- It's simpler, no arbitrary video editing software included. Guest • Dec 2016 • 6 agrees and 6 disagrees
- Great open source with useful features! Niittymaa • Feb 2017
- Used it for recording screen activities with commentary. Guest • Jul 2015 • 5 agrees and 5 disagrees
- OBS can record in full screen mode Guest • Aug 2015
- Camtasia Studio is more then a video recording software Guest • Jul 2017 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees
- OBS is recording software not editing software. Guest • Jul 2017 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
- OBS is good for broadcasting software, but for editing video it is not ideal. I don't think you can edit the webcam video separately from the screen capture, and it just doesn't have a ton of features that are good for video editing. Guest • Mar 2017 • 1 agrees and 2 disagrees
- Open Broadcaster Software is a recording and live streaming software. Camtasia Studio is a video editor. ianbogue • Jul 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Live Broadcasting Game Streaming Media Streaming Twitch integration ... Capture Video Audio Recording Custom overlays Customizable FPS counter Gaming-focused Hitbox support Live recording Night mode/Dark Theme Record desktop activity Restream.io integration Capture Screen / Take screenshots Share your screen Stream Capture Video Casting Youtube Gaming Integration Add a feature

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OpenShot

Our Features Cross-Platform OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor, with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Get started and download our installer today. Trim & Slice Quickly trim down your videos, and find those perfect moments. OpenShot has many easy ways to cut your video. Animation & Keyframes Using our powerful animation framework, you can fade, slide, bounce, and animate anything in your video project.
- Camtasia is for recording screen activity. but openshot is video editing program Guest • Jul 2017 • 23 agrees and 19 disagrees
Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Chroma Key / Green Screen Ad-free Animations Cutting ... Fast motion No Watermark Non linear editor Edit screenshots Track multiple packages Add a feature

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Kdenlive

Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor compatible most recent video technologies. It is completely free, and open-source as defined by the GNU foundation.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD KDE
Keyframe animation Ad-free Chroma Key / Green Screen Engagement analytics ... Glitchy effect Support for MOV files Multiple timelines MultiTrack Non linear editor One click battery optimizer Realtime filter effects Specific for 64-Bit Tabbed interface Visual Editing Add a feature

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Shotcut

Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform, non-linear video editor. Supports hundreds of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg. No import required which means native editing, plus multi-format timelines, resolutions and frame-rates within a project. Frame accurate seeking supported for many video formats. Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring. Screen, webcam and audio capture. Network stream playback.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Chroma Key / Green Screen Keyframe animation Lightweight Non linear editor ... Video filters Visual timeline Cutting Do not disturb mode Drag n drop HTML5 Support Low CPU usage Multitrack editing No Watermark Portable Normalize Volume Add a feature

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DaVinci Resolve

Complete suite for editing, color correction and professional audio post production, all in a single application. Originally designed for Hollywood’s elite colorists, DaVinci Resolve has been used on more feature films and TV shows than anything else because it lets you create images that are simply impossible with other tools.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux
Color correction Colour grading Node Based Advanced Trimming ... Built-in editor Chroma Key / Green Screen Color correction Colour grading Controller support Facial recognition Hardware Accelerated Integrated compositor Keyframe animation Multi-Screen Multicam Editing Multitrack editing Nodal Compositing Non linear editor Stabilizing Subtitles and captions Support for VST plugins Add a feature

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SimpleScreenRecorder

SimpleScreenRecorder is a Linux screen recorder that supports X11 and OpenGL. It is easy to use, feature-rich, and has a Qt-based graphical user interface. It can record the entire screen or part of it, or record OpenGL applications directly. The recording can be paused and resumed at any time. Many different file formats and codecs are supported, and easy to add more. Created 2012-13 and currently maintained code: https://github .
- It has tons of settings and works reliable. Guest • Feb 2018
Free Open Source Linux
Lightweight Google Chrome Extensions Support for gestures Capture Screen / Take screenshots ... Capture Video Record videos Add a feature

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Natron

Natron is an open source, cross platform nodal compositing application. It is built around industry standard open source tech such as OpenFX, OpenEXR, OpenColorIO and OpenImageIO. The feature set includes realtime playback/RAM cache, multi-threaded rendering, 2d tracking, rotoscoping, grading, animation via f-curves and 3rd party OpenFX plugin support. All contained within a familiar, intuitive interface with an XML based project file format.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Node Based Keyframe animation Open FX Support Portable ... Video filters Add a feature

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Lightworks

Lightworks is an editing powerhouse, delivering unparalleled speed and flexibility, fully integrated with the other members of the Complete Collaboration family. Lightworks is an Academy and Emmy award-winning professional-grade video editor with over 20 years of history in the film and broadcast industry.

Freemium Mac Windows Linux
Chroma Key / Green Screen Color correction Keyframe animation Non linear editor ... Capture Video Watermarking Add a feature

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Kazam

Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format. Optionally you can record sound from any sound input device that is supported and visible by PulseAudio.

Free Open Source Linux
Webcam overlays Add a feature

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recordMyDesktop

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder for GNU / Linux that attemps to be easy to use, yet also effective at it's primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturing and encoding and an interface that exposes the program functionality in a usable way.
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.3.8.1, released in December 2008, can be still downloaded from SourceForge.
Free Open Source Linux BSD
Record desktop activity Capture Video Record videos Add a feature

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Olive Video Editor

Olive is a free non-linear video editor aiming to provide a fully-featured alternative to high-end professional video editing software. Olive is making rapid progress and users are already producing videos with it, but it's still currently in alpha meaning it is incomplete and not fully stable. Regardless we invite you to download the latest build and try it out for yourself. New features are being added every day.

Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux
Keyframe animation Non linear editor Multitrack editing Non linear editor Add a feature

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NUKE

NUKE is a powerful compositing application that delivers unparalleled speed, an efficient multi-channel scanline rendering engine, and a first-class feature set that is unrivalled in the desktop market. If you are in the business of creating high-quality digital images Nuke is a production proven visual effects tool that brings speed, functionality and flexibility to your VFX pipeline.

Commercial Mac Windows Linux
Color correction File Versioning Motion tracking MultiTrack ... Node Based Real time collaboration Add a feature

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Screencastify

With over 5 million installs, Screencastify is the most popular screen recorder extension for Google Chrome. First, choose what you want to record. You have 3 options - your current browser tab, entire desktop, or just your webcam. Include your microphone audio to narrate over your recording, or embed your webcam into a corner of the screen to add a personal touch. During your recording, use the annotation tools to spice up your video.

Freemium $ $ $ Mac Windows Linux Web Chrome OS ... Chrome
Capture Screen / Take screenshots Record videos Sync with Google Drive Record desktop activity ... Share Videos Upload directly to Google Drive Upload directly to YouTube Capture Video Video narration Add a feature

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Wink

Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users. Multilingual support: Works in English, French, German, Italian, Danish, Spanish, Serbian, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified/Traditional Chinese.
- Discontinued No longer updated. Last version, version 2.0 build 1060, released in 2012, can be still downloaded from the official website.
Free Windows Linux
Multiple languages Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature

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ScreenStudio

ScreenStudio is an easy screen recording that will let you create screencast or live streaming of your desktop. It does support multiple desktops, multiple webcams and text labels. Latest versions do support special tags in the text labels to display the current time or content from external files. The main goal of ScreenStudio is to run on almost any hardware.

Free Open Source Linux
Audio Recording Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature

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VokoScreen

A small program to create screen videos including sound recording. Although this program is really small and inconspicious, it includes exceeding capabilities to generate training videos, installation videos, browser and Skype recordings.

Free Open Source Linux
Audio Recording Record videos Add a feature

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Krut

Krut is a screencast tool that is written in Java and well suited for making video tutorials (instructional videos) on most platforms. Krut records movie files, including sound, of selected parts of your screen. The files use the quicktime mov format. The program has an intuitive and compact user interface. In addition to a movie file, the program also records separate files for audio (wav) and video (mov), which easily allows encoding to any movie format using an external encoding program.

Free Open Source Windows Linux
Portable Record videos Add a feature

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Green Recorder

A simple yet functional desktop recorder for Linux systems. Built using Python, GTK+ 3 and ffmpeg. It supports recording audio and video on almost all Linux interfaces. Also supports Wayland display server on GNOME session. The following formats are currently supported: mkv, avi, mp4, wmv and nut (And only WebM for Wayland's GNOME session). You can stop the recording process easily by right-clicking the icon and choosing "Stop Record".

Free Open Source Linux
Capture Video Record videos Add a feature

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ViewedIt

ViewedIt provides a super simple way to record your PC desktop through a Chrome extension. More than that, lets you share your creations then get notified when people watch them. FEATURES - One click screen-recording - Send video in email - Get notified when people watch

Free Mac Windows Linux Chrome
No features added Add a feature

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Istanbul

Istanbul is a desktop session recorder for the Free Desktop. It records your session into an Ogg Theora video file. To start the recording, you click on its icon in the notification area. To stop you click its icon again. It works on GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. Why the name Istanbul? I named it Istanbul as a tribute to Liverpool's 5th European Cup triumph in Istanbul on May 25th 2005

Free Open Source Linux GNOME MATE
Record desktop activity Capture Video Add a feature

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Tibesti Screencaster

Record your desktop, speaker output and microphone at once, then output it to WebM, Ogg, or Matroska files. If you have the necessary codecs, you can even output to an AVI file or Matroska and h264. Control the size of the capture area, get a visual countdown to the start of recording, or just record a screencast of your favorite game.
- Discontinued The project is no longer developed. Last version, 1.2.8, released in April 2011, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.
Free Open Source Linux
Record desktop activity Add a feature

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xvidcap

A small tool to capture things going on on an X-Windows display to either individual frames or an MPEG video similar to tools such as Lotus ScreenCam or Camtasia.
- Discontinued The latest release was the 2009-07-14 https://sourceforge.net/projects/xvidcap/files/xvidcap/
Free Open Source Linux
Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature

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RecordItNow

RecordItNow is a plugin based desktop recorder for KDE SC 4.

Free Open Source Linux
Capture Video Add a feature

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eidete

A simple screencasting app for the elementary project

Free Open Source Linux
Capture Screen / Take screenshots Add a feature

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ffscreencast

ffscreencast is an ffmpeg screencast/desktop-recording tool for the command-line with video overlay and multi monitor support. FEATURES - Config file for default configuration - Screen recording - Camera overlay - Audio support - Allows to manually (parameter) or interactively choose monitor - Allows to manually (parameter) or interactively choose camera - Allows to manually (parameter) or interactively choose sound device - ffmpeg command generation

Free Open Source Mac Linux
Capture Screen / Take screenshots Capture Video Record videos Add a feature

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