Documentation:CIS/Camtasia

Tips

Camtasia crashes often - mostly due to lack of memory. 

Workarounds:

• Save often.
• Do not import Medias that you will not use on your timeline as it takes up memory space.
• Avoid having several other applications running in the background, especially if you’re rendering.

Double check:

• Font consistency
• Font size consistency
• HD quality exports (especially for Kaltura in Connect)

Split & Stitch

You can use this trick for some great transitions. If you split a video at a certain point and alter the size, position, rotation, etc. of a piece of it, you can stitch it back together. Camtasia then automatically adds a transition which can be really handy. A sample is the side by side close-up and long shot in the clinical skills lab videos.

To split a video, hit “S” on your keyboard or right click on the track.

To stitch back together, right click on the media on the track you’d like to stitch and choose “Stitch”.

Crop

Cropping comes in handy if you’d like to remove a certain part of a screen you accidentally recorded or fit in multiple videos on the screen. To do this, click on the left most icon on the top right of the playback screen in Camtasia. Adjust using the toggles throughout the blue outline and click on the same icon to turn off cropping.

Freezing the Screen

One thing the Mac version of Camtasia supports that the PC doesn’t is freezing a part of the screen. A work around that have worked in the past is to create a still image of the time you’d like frozen and overlaying a cropped version of it on top of the actual video. 

1. This doesn’t always work depending on what you’d want to achieve but it’s worked a few times for me and no one even noticed.
2. Create two copies of the video – one on top of another on the tracks.
3. On the top layer copy, hit “E” on your keyboard which extends the part of your video you’d like frozen. Type in the number of seconds you’d like to extend and hit enter.
4. You will see a stitched version of the video. Right click on the video and “Unstitch” the video from the image.
5. Now crop the image to the part you’d only like frozen.
6. If the video is right, you’ll see that a part of the screen is noticeably frozen.

Boosting Volume

Camtasia can only boost volume by 150%.

Use Audacity to edit audio.