Tag Archives: Editing

Zooming: the often misunderstood half-holy grail of screencast quality

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"Zooming" is one of the things that many, many Camtasia users--ourselves included--want to do with their screen recording, and rightly so. It allows us to record everything to show context, but then get in close to show details (kind of the best of both worlds). Knowing how important it is, we try to cover at least the basics soundly in the Getting Started series for both Camtasia Studio (06: Apply SmartFocus to Zoom and Pan) and Camtasia for Mac (6: Increase viewer understanding: Zoom, Pan, Bam). Continue reading

Camtasia for Mac: Meet The Mysterious but Heroic “Global Edit Mode”

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This is one of those features that you probably would never find on your own, and even if you did there's a good chance you'd have no idea what it did or how amazingly useful it can be when you need it--at least that's how it was for me at first. Here's the scoop: Can't see the video? View it on Screencast.com. Continue reading

Rethinking How You Use the Canvas and Timeline in Camtasia Studio 8

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Camtasia Studio 8 was released to the world at large last week, and WOW what a release it is! Having spent hundreds of hours in previous versions (from v.4), version eight is absolutely the best and most enjoyable I've used. Two of the biggest changes in this version are the revamped canvas and timeline--and those are where the best changes are. We think both veteran and brand new users alike will want to take a moment to figure out how they can take advantage of the new flexibility and power Continue reading