TechSmith® Camtasia® Studio
What is Camtasia® Studio?
Camtasia® is a solution for recording, editing, and publishing your screen videos. You can easily create software tutorials and demonstrations in Flash and streaming video formats for your global audience. Camtasia® records all activity, including narration from a Windows PC screen, edits clips, and then outputs files to RealMedia, Windows Media, Flash, Quicktime, or other formats. Captions, text boxes, and graphics can be added after the video is produced.
Is there a cost associated with Camtasia® Studio?
Clemson does not have a site license for Camtasia®. You can purchase Camtasia® on the TechSmith® Education Pricing Online Store for an educational discount. You may also have additional expenses for the following items:
- A microphone
- A webcam or digital video camera
- A video capture device
- The cables to connect your video camera to your computer(ex/firewire)
To see the differences between versions, use the Camtasia Studio Version Comparison Chart.
Can I download Camtasia® Studio?
Yes. You can download a 30 day trial version of Camtasia® from the TechSmith® website.
How do I use Camtasia® Studio?
Listed below are several tutorials on how to use Camtasia® Studio.
Camtasia® Studio 6 |
Camtasia® Studio 5 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Review the TechSmith® User to User forum, the Camtasia® Studio 6 FAQ or the Camtasia® Support Site for assistance with frequently asked questions.
Do we offer Instructor-Led training for Camtasia®?
Yes. CCIT currently offers instructor-led training for employees. Please view our training calendar to register for these available classes.
Camtasia® Studio 6 System Requirements
Review the Camtasia® Studio 6 System Requirements.
Additional Camtasia® Resources
- What's new in Camtasia 5.1
- Video Codecs Overview
- Understanding Video and Audio Codecs
- Camtasia Tutorials - Learn to Edit with Camtasia Video Editing Program
- TechSmith® Screen Capture Codec Overview
- Better Quality, Smaller File Size
- Project Settings Overview
- Backup Project Files Automatically
- Create and Share Production Presets
- Importing Camtasia AVI's into Adobe Premeire
- Getting Great Sound in your Camtasia Recordings
- FLV versus SWF
- Download Video Codecs
- Black or Blank Video or Image Captures
- Recording Media Players
- Camtasia Toolbar Options
- Converting AVI's to SWF
- Quick Camtasia Overview
- Audio Codecs Overview
Research & Articles
- Shifting Teaching and Training to Online Learning: PSPICE through Camtasia by Khalid S. Al-Olimat, Ph.D., P.E. from Ohio Northern University for the 2008 American Society for Engineering Education North Central Section Conference.
- Redefining “Distance” Education: Increasing Diversity, Accessibility, and/or Classroom Participation in Engineering Courses on a Time, Financial, and Technology Shoestring by Tom Walker for the 2007 American Society for Engineering Education Southeast Section Conference.
- Camtasia Studio: A Teaching Tool for Academicians and Clinicians by Gretchen Schumacher, PhD, CRNP, NP-C and Mary Ann Thurkettle, PhD, RN for CIN: Computers, Informatics, Nursing. May/June 2007 - Volume 25 - Issue 3 - pp 130-134.
- "Rev Up” Learner Satisfaction in Distance Education: Tips & TricksUsing Audio Commenting by Jodi Olmsted, RDH, PhD from the University of Wisconsin~ Stevens Point for the Association for Career & Technical Education Conference 2008.
- Personalizing the Online Classroom Using Tech-Smith’s Camtasia or Microsoft’s Windows Media Encoder by Steven R. Mark, Ph.D. for Online Cl@ssroom.
- Using Camtasia to Develop and Enhance Online Learning by Lon A. Smith and Elizabeth Turner Smith from University of Louisiana Monroe for the Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges. Volume 22 , Issue 5 (May 2007). Pages: 121 - 122.
- Using PHStat and Camtasia Studio 2 In Teaching Business Statistics by Ranjna Patel and Carla Feinson of Bethune-Cookman College for the Journal of College Teaching & Learning – September 2005.
- Pen-based Computing in Distance Education - the Pharmaceutical Science Programme in Sweden by Mikael Sjoberg, Sofia Mattsson, Annika Tengvall, Martin Burman from Umea University for the First International Workshop on Pen-Based Learning Technologies - Enabling Advanced Graphical, Multimodal and Mobile Learning Interactions. IEEE Computer Society. Publication Date: 4-5 May 2007. Page(s): 1-3.
- On-Line Class Presentations to Enhance Distance Engineering Degree Programs by Hossein Salehfar, John Watson, Arnold Johnson from the University of North Dakota for the 2002 North Midwest Section Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering.
- Video Modeling: Camtasia in the ESL classroom by Nicolas Gromik from the Center for the Advancement of Higher Education, Tohoku University.
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