Editing - Earn points for creativity in editing.
Once you've got your content recorded, it's time to put it all together and bring your vision to life. Simply drag media onto the timeline, layer as many tracks as you want, and slide clips around to achieve perfect timing.
Adding transitions, motion, and visual polish is also drag-and-drop easy. And with dozens of ready-made effects to choose from (along with the ability to tweak their properties) anyone can now make a video that is nothing short of dazzling.
Edit your video
After stopping the recording. Camtasia adds the recording file (.cmrec) into Media Bin and onto the timeline. Arrange media on the timeline , edit video and audio, position clips and media on the canvas, and add effects, shapes, or text to enhance your video
Media file import
Create a theme or support your brand by adding a logo image, title slides, or music track. Most standard video, audio, and image files can be imported and put into the mix.
Timeline
Drag media onto the timeline, layer as many tracks as you want, trim or slide clips around to achieve perfect timing.
Multiple overlaid video tracks
Timeline tracks correspond to the visual “layers” of content in your final video. Content on the top track overlays content below, and so on. This provides creative flexibility to set up a picture-in-picture or side-by-side look, do cross-fades, or even “patch” a project with updated visuals when a logo, interface detail, or presentation slide changes.
Flexible editing
Trim or remove clips without displacing items further down the timeline. Leave empty spaces on the timeline and fill them in later. Or use “ripple delete” to fill the gap left by cutting out part of a clip. Decouple visuals and narration that were recorded together, making it easy to trim out a cough or an accidental click.
Move items as a group
Multi-select clips, shapes, text, and other objects on the timeline and move them around as a group…keeping your timing intact.
Canvas
It's your hands-on preview window. Click anything you see on the canvas—a video clip, shape, or text box—and manipulate it directly. Rotate an arrow. Edit some text. Crop to show only the contents of the foreground window or a region of your choice. What you see on the canvas is what you get in your video.
Guides and snaps
As you move an object into place on the timeline or canvas a faint line appears, helping you snap it into perfect alignment with other objects or center it on the screen. This cuts out a lot of the time spent on fiddly stuff.
Preset and custom sizing
Right-click outside the canvas to set the overall dimensions of your video. Choose from standard sizes, destination-specific presets like iPod and YouTube…or enter a custom size.
Text and shapes
Overlay shapes and text—alone or in combination—to draw the eye, label something on screen, or segue between segments. Animate and change the appearance of these objects using action and filter effects.
Camtasia SmartFocus®
Saves you a ton of editing time by automatically zooming in to follow the action—keeping text legible and details sharp, even when you shrink your video to fit on an iPhone! Can be applied to an entire clip or a specific point on the timeline.
Transition effects
Fade clips in and out, slide them on or off the screen, transition through a zoom, and more.
Filter effects
Alter the appearance of your visuals by adding a drop shadow, glow, reflection, or color change. To apply a filter, just drag it onto any video clip, imported image, shape, or text on the canvas or timeline. Customize it via the properties panel.
Action effects
A video with some motion and dynamism is more interesting to watch. With Camtasia for Mac, it’s easy to apply a fade, flip, spin, or zoom at any point in your video.
Custom video actions
Put together some seriously cool on-screen choreography! Also known as keyframing, custom actions give you a way to alter one or more properties of a clip, over a duration of your choosing. Want to make a window slide over to one side, while it shrinks, tilts away from the viewer, and becomes partially transparent? No problem.
Audio effects
Adjust the overall volume of a clip, fade it in or out, and bring the level up and down at certain points during your screencast.
Properties panel
Adjust the size, opacity, rotation, and position of any element in your screencast. Changes can be applied either to the entire clip or as part of an action effect.
Save Frame As…
Wish something in your screen recording would remain visible for just a second or two longer? Save a frame of the video as an image, then add it back onto your timeline and extend its duration to fill your gap.
Open and edit multiple projects at once
Work on one project while another one is being exported. Or open a project on each monitor to compare and match up details.
