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Camtasia

This all-in-one solution offers screen and webcam recording, video editing, and chroma key features, producing stunning HD-quality content easily shareable on platforms like YouTube and Screencast.com. Designed for training, presentations, and more, it supports H.264 format and compact file sizes.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Mac
  • Windows
  • Online
3.0
Fair12 reviews
233likes
16comments

Features

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  1.  Screen Recording
  2.  Built-in Screen Capture
  3.  Built-in editor
  4.  Capture Video
  5.  Image Annotations
  6.  Interface Overlay
  7.  Video Converter
  8.  Support for HD videos
  9.  Swiping from all window edges
  10.  Graphical component
  11.  Chroma Key / Green Screen
  12.  Live Streaming
  13.  Dark Mode
  14.  Ad-free

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Comment summary: Camtasia is praised for its user-friendly design, making it suitable for users with varying video editing needs. It offers robust features for creating tutorials and screencasts, but some users find it resource-intensive and less suitable for professional-grade editing seen in software like Adobe Premiere Pro. While some appreciate its full feature set, others are wary of its high cost and stability issues, such as resource intensiveness and occasional crashing.
Top Positive Comment
handleystech
2

I started using the latest version 9 recently and I guess I may have gotten too used to the older one but I gotta say I feel like it was a lot simpler and easier to use. Anyways...Great software in general but a little expensive for me personally.

Top Negative Comment
ugackminer
0

When still in grade school, I saved $200 over the course of a year to buy a copy of Camtasia in 2018.

The program worked well enough, but always seemed to be lacking features for what I wanted to do. It's a decent program for what it does, but that's really just cutting clips together.

Since I bought it, I've been constantly pestered to upgrade to the "new" Camtasia, which is entirely priced on subscription models, with no option to buy it. After opening my copy today for this review, I found that it had entirely locked me out of the "lifetime" copy I bought. Not worth it. Use an alternative.

javiergil
0

It was always absolutely overpriced, but they're getting greedier: Currently, they're only promoting their subscription plans, which are totally insane. There are far more capable video recorders and editors out there which are reasonably priced and some of them are actually free: Don't feed this greedy company.

spame
-2

Non-free software

aaronchalker
0

I rate it 3.6, not great not terrible! Yea, don't bother running this on a <600 PC, it's helluva resource intensive. The GUI could have been better. But from what I've tried, It hangs a LOT. Sometimes rendering it unusable

PlasticHead
0

It fells great! I use it many years and totally happy with the software!

Jon
0

Love this product -- have used it for over 5 years and do the upgrades when they come out. This makes creating Youtube tutorials fun. Prior to using this tool, I'd not done any video editing. Since then, I've created a couple dozen tutorials. Highly recommended if you are interesting in making how-to videos.

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What is Camtasia?

Produce videos for the web using the industry-leading H.264 format. No tweaks or technospeak, just sparkling HD-quality video with compact file sizes...every single time. Two existing production presets (blog and web) and three new presets (YouTube, HD display, and Screencast.com) take advantage of the new format.

Create eye-catching training, presentation and demo videos…the easy way. Camtasia screen recording software is streamlined, intuitive and makes you look like a pro. Easily record onscreen activity, Keynote slides, camera video, microphone or system audio – all with sparkling clarity. Record in front of a live audience or at your desk. Edit to perfection. Turn it into a stunning, HD-quality video at the perfect size to share on popular video sites, Apple devices, your website, blog or anywhere you like.

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Camtasia information

  • Developed by

    US flagTechSmith
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.
  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $17 and $47 per month + free version with limited functionality.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3 (12 ratings)
  • Alternatives

    268 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 16 comments and reviews about Camtasia, and it has gotten 233 likes

Camtasia was added to AlternativeTo by russell160295 on and this page was last updated . Camtasia is sometimes referred to as Camtasia Studio