Camtasia Reviews

Summary: Still learning but finding that there are endless functions. Excited to continue to create impactful trainings.

Positive: End results are professional! Functionality allows for creativity and impactful trainings that keep engagement.

Negative: Challenging to learn to use but once it's mastered it's a fantastic platform.

Summary: I think Camtasia is a great software and I prefer it too more expensive video editing softwares like Premiere. I mainly use it for making instructional videos, I believe you can use it for a variety of purposes.

Positive: Very easy to use. Lots of training resources to help you use the software better. Easy to export files and share among colleagues. Easy to make high quality videos in little time.

Negative: Software occasionally has some weird quirks with audio. If you need to cut or rearrange a video you've already created, it can be cumbersome. There is a slight learning curve so it's not exactly a jump in and use right away software if you've never used video editors before.

Summary: I've enjoyed the product overall. The learning curve has a few bumps. Mostly, it was pretty smooth. I'd recommend the product.

Positive: I've found Camtasia fairly straightforward to use. As a Baby Boomer, I'm not quite as tech-savvy as my younger counterparts. With Camtasia, I've found that what I don't know I can find out fairly easily.

Negative: The files do take up quite a bit of hard drive space. I guess that's par for the course. I do feel like I get asked to upgrade quite a bit for free only to find out there's a time limit on that free.

Summary: I use it every day with very little issues at all. Simple to use, and effective. Makes pro looking output.

Positive: I love the simplicity of the of the software, especially the cut and paste workflow. I have access to virtually every video software, but this one is so simple, but makes pro output.

Negative: Could use webM compatibility. Would like a feature to merge files that have had segments cut out to handle them as one file.

Summary: It has worked quite well for me in creating video and screenshot videos that are informative, engaging and professional. It is easy to use for beginners and powerful enough for experts. It has many features and assets that can help you create the videos you need with minimal effort and time. It is also compatible with both Windows and Mac platforms, which is convenient for cross-platform users. For my recommendation this platform is very useful for anyone who needs a video and screen capture software that can do more than just record your screen. Whether you're a teacher, trainer, marketer, or content creator, Camtasia can help you create videos that communicate your message effectively and impressively.

Positive: Camtasia has a powerful and versatile video editor that allows you to edit your recordings with drag and drop ease. You can trim, split, trim, zoom, pan, rotate, or speed up your clips, as well as add transitions, annotations, animations, effects, subtitles, quizzes, and more. You can also use pre-built video templates or create your own custom templates to save time and ensure consistency.

Its interface is simple and intuitive that makes it easy to record from your screen, webcam, microphone, or any other audio or video source. You can also import PowerPoint slides, images, videos, or other media files to enhance your recordings.

Camtasia has a huge library of royalty-free assets that you can use in your videos, such as music tracks, sound effects, icons, backgrounds, motion graphics, and more. More assets can also be accessed with a subscription to TechSmith Assets for Camtasia.

The screenshot function is of high quality that records the screen in Full HD resolution with smooth frame rates. One can also adjust the capture area, resolution, frame rate, audio settings, cursor effects, and more before or during recording.

Being able to export is really flexible and reliable that allows you to produce videos in various formats and sizes for different platforms and devices. Videos produced on this platform can also be shared directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Google Drive, Screencast.com or other online destinations.

Negative: Camtasia is not cheap software. It has a high cost for a single user license, with an optional renewal fee per year to get the latest updates and support, these options should be considered when purchasing this platform if it is profitable to pay for updates.

Camtasia may not be suitable for advanced video editing or animation projects that require more sophisticated tools and effects. It's primarily designed for screenshots and how-to videos that don't need a lot of editing or post-production.

Camtasia can sometimes experience bugs or crashes that can affect recording or the editing process. I advise saving your work frequently and checking for updates regularly to avoid losing your progress or data.

Summary: I love using this for making videos into something special for youtube, with a nice intro, and editing out awkward parts. Like anything, there's a learning curve, but it's great once you get the hang of it.

Positive: Subscriptions can eat a business alive...I miss software that can be paid as a one-time payment - and thank goodness Camtasia is one of those softwares. Much smoother than iMovie.

Negative: It takes a fairly powerful processor, and even on my M1 iMac, it crashes occasionally, but that's video editing for ya (at least for a civilian like me...I'm not an editing pro).

Summary: Overall, I have enjoyed using Camtasia. It is a powerful tool that has helped me to create high-quality videos. The software is easy to use and has a wide range of features that allow you to create professional-looking videos.

Positive: I like the ability to easily create videos with Camtasia. The software is easy to use and makes it simple to add text, audio, and video to create professional-looking videos.

Negative: I didn't like that Camtasia was difficult to use and required a lot of time to learn how to use it properly. Additionally, the exporting process was often difficult and produced low-quality videos.

Summary: Its an amazing screen recorder tool integrated with the video editor. Overall I use Camtasia to record my screen for online tutorials. It gives a great video editing option to convert a normal video into a professional.

Positive: Here are the things I liked about Camtasia.
* Lots of video editing options to convert a normal video into a professional.
* It integrated with Screen capture option to record your computer screen for tutorials.
* Very easy and no difficulty in editing options.
* Easy to edit as compared to Adobe.

Negative: * It's an outstanding platform.
* No cons.

Summary: The video capture tool is very useful to demonstrate clients or co-workers. For this Camtasia is a reliable platform to record computer screen. It also gives me to edit the recorded video in the same platform.

Positive: Camtasia is very easy to start screen recording.
Video edit option is also available to edit recorded video in the same platform.
Voice narration and animation edit are just excellent.

Negative: I never encountered any problem with this platform.

Summary: Camtasia is powerful yet easy to use screen recording solution. It has a rich feature set and is ideal for any personal or professional screen recording & audio - video editing, especially if you are a content creator.

Positive: Pre-built video templates
Audio-Video recording & editing
Large number of import / export options
Upload directly to Youtube or Vimeo
Huge Library of sound effects & animations
Multi platform support - Windows & Mac
Free trial

Negative: Expensive license
Needs a better cloud storage support

Summary: Overall, I'm happy with Camtasia and I plan on continuing to renew my maintenance agreement. Over the past eight years or so, I've created about 500 videos and Camtasia is still the tool I use the most because I know exactly what it will do and I can access that functionality quickly.

Positive: Camtasia is a well designed product - there are many useful features and the interface is intuitive, very easy to use. The price is very good and the support, although rarely used or needed, has been excellent. I realize this is not a Snagit review however, the majority of videos I create include images I have captured and/or edited using Snagit.

Negative: I also use another video editor that is similarly priced and it has a few useful features that I wish were included with Camtasia. When using many tracks in Camtasia, the display, arrangement, and grouping of multiple tracks could be improved. The only other improvement I would like to see is a reduction in the time it takes to boot up - this averages about 40 seconds (and I am using a very fast CPU & video card and 64GB of RAM).

Summary: Camtasia has made it possible for me to have extensive video editing and screen recording in a very precise way within my computer, I am very proud to be using this platform, since it has made it possible for me to have a very professional recording, with a quality far superior to any other platform and it also allows me to have customization of the recordings, it allows me to record specific things located on my computer, it allows me to modify the recording scale, modify the audio of each recording and much more. Camtasia is quite a professional screen recorder and I recommend it without a doubt, mainly because it has provided a significantly good experience for my company, it has made it possible for us to create really professional Videos from our computer in very few steps.

Positive: The things I liked about Camtasia were:

1- Camtasia uses a fairly good video quality for each of the recordings that are made, the video quality of each recording is fully modifiable, the user can immediately modify the quality that he wants for each of the recordings that he makes within from your computer, it is also important to note that despite the fact that this platform records in a very good quality within the computer, its consumption in the background is not so high, the recording of any type of application that you are using.

2- Another thing that I liked about this platform is that it allows you to modify which application you want to record within the computer, this is very important since other platforms only allow full screen recording and not specific applications, this recording of specific applications it is very beneficial, you can use one and only record a part of that browser, or you can use a folder and modify the recording scale.

3- Annotations are very important within this platform, this function allows you to make annotations within the screen you are using, you can write any type of thing or do various forms within the monitor using this function, you can make unlimited notes during each recording.

4- Another thing that I liked is that this platform allows you to share each recording with various cloud storage systems as well as on social networks. It is important to note that this sharing of recordings is done in the original quality of the video, it maintains the quality, does not diminish it.

Negative: The things I didn't like about this platform were:

1- Using the platform is relatively complex, in general the platform is very difficult to use, since you have to correctly configure the recordings so that they run correctly, in addition, configure the video quality, the audio transmission, the device you will use to record the audio and much more, these configurations are quite complex, which means that not every user can use the platform correctly without having previous experience in video management.

2- It is not available for iOS devices, this application is only available for computers and Android devices, it is quite not available for my iPhone device, as this would help me to make much more professional recordings from my mobile phone.

Summary: It allows me to professionally prepare a lot of computer content that is very necessary when I am with meetings within my company or with clients. This software has given me the possibility of taking screenshots of everything I want and in different ways, either by window, screen or some section that I have marked in order to be able to easily use two screens in the one I am explaining and recording what I am being without compromising anything and on another screen simply performing private functions that I do not want to appear in the video.

I do not recommend Camtasia for very old computers as it has very high requirements, so if you plan to use this software to record screens on computers that do not meet the requirements published on their website, be sure that you will have to record in very high quality. low and the writing PC will be affected in terms of performance, so you have to make sure that the PC meets the requirements.

With this software, it has given me the facility to record short videos to be able to use them in my work environment when I want to explain things and share them with the interested parties, so I streamline the work process by having a tool that has established parameters that help to record videos according to user needs. Also being able to share videos with others has been the easiest, it also allows me to save videos in the cloud by synchronizing my Google Drive or Dropbox account.

Positive: * It has several templates of the different formats that exist in today's social networks. I found this very effective as it not only allows you to set the dimensions of a video, but also has the default direction of where the video will go, making this much easier both in video editing and at the time of recording so that the screen capture process becomes more convenient and automated. You can also share the screenshots taken directly on various social networks, such as YouTube or make a post directly on Facebook, this has allowed me to facilitate the uploading of all the screenshots in order to share them more easily with work colleagues or clients.

* I found it very useful on several occasions the way in which you can manipulate the text within a screenshot without having to make manual edits in order to replace or copy a text. This tool is wonderful, it seems like magic every time I use this tool to extract information from a screenshot, it not only works for the screenshots that I have taken but also for practically any video that may have legible text, that worked for me very useful for not having to transcribe the text manually but simply copied it and that's it, it is also practical to be able to make changes to the text of the videos without having to create a text box to change information but simply select it as any text and there their respective settings, all this from a screenshot.

* The Magic Wand allowed me to more easily remove unnecessary backgrounds and replace them with other images for much more convenient edits to footage. This was very practical for me since it works as if it were a Photoshop tool, so I don't worry when a recording has something that I don't want to appear in the video since with a simple click I can delete things inside the video and replace them with other items very easily.

* Being able to create gifs with the screenshots is great, it's easy to show examples in less than 20 seconds and in turn automatically convert these videos into gifts to make it easier to share something necessary but not too big and not necessary either use background audios so with this tool it has made it easy for me to create gifs very easily.

Negative: * It consumes a lot of resources when taking a screenshot, so you have to have a previous configuration to see if the performance of capturing the screen and using it on a computer without the system crashing or slowing down. So, I would recommend not using the recommendations of the default settings, but playing a little more with the video quality both in resolution and also how many FPS the final video will go once it is recorded, with that you avoid editing problems and you can also adjust the video quality without losing performance on your computer.

* Video editing is not as intuitive as it seems, you have to be fiddling with the tool to know what they do since its interface is not very visually pleasing and it seems that it was a professional video editor, causing me to switch to an editor simpler video template that loops through the wrong parts of a video and added few elements within my final video. I know that to record it is a walk, but to be able to edit an already recorded video there are few functions that are easy to handle, such as the time bar where various audio, text or video tracks can be adjusted, the preview and the section of files or elements, the rest is a bit complicated to use.

* I have another problem with the video editor and that is that it doesn't accept all types of video formats, this was a bit annoying at first before I didn't have a direct solution from Camtasia when adding video in certain formats, so I almost missed it. I gave up until several YouTube videos showed me that I had to install QuickTime to fix that codec problem. However, I never had a direct solution through Camtasia, I just had to resort to third-party software so that it could recognize all video formats without any problem.

Summary: Camtasia is a great business tool for the regular business user to support limited use cases for presentations, educational or instructional videos, as well as how-to's. Cost effective and easy to use. Continues to evolve, though slowly.

Positive: -provides just the right set of functionality to allow the regular business user to easily create videos for internal consumption
-easy to use
-strong community

Negative: -only for simple use cases, no upgrade to complex video scenarios
-limited evolution

Summary: Creates professional videos. Provides simple audio/video recording. Easy to use features. Pre built templates saves time. It allows everything to do while creating, posting or editing a video. Animations and effects are awesome. Instantly access to favorites. Free trial version is available.

Positive: Camtasia is all in one software from video editing to screen recording. It helps in creating Demos, tutorials, meetings recording, videos training and more. No video editing skill is needed, easy to learn. Just add few effects in the video and its ready to post. Allows instantly video uploading to YouTube. Easily customisable templates. Drag and drop editor helps in editing, trimming, adding and removing videos or audios. Perfect software for both beginners and professional.

Negative: Little pricy, else everything is perfect. Free trial is available. No cons.