Camtasia Studio 6 - Create Tutorials, Demos, Courses and Online Videos Today!

Camtasia Studio 6 will slash your editing time, provide more editing control, and make you look great with HD-quality video.

People don’t want a long, drawn-out explanation. They want to see what you’re talking about. With Camtasia Studio 6, you can record your PC screen and create professional-looking videos that clearly demonstrate a process, a product, or an idea.

With the smartest screen recording tools on the planet, Camtasia Studio makes everything from training videos to PowerPoint presentations to lectures look better, reach more people, and pack more punch. Which makes you look even smarter, too.

Connect with your audience by creating interactive video tutorials, training, software demos and presentations. With full-motion recording capability that records the screen, webcam video and voice, you can produce professional-quality video presentations with small file sizes to post on the Internet, burn on CD-ROM, or deliver any way you choose in all the popular file formats.

The smart, friendly screen recorder and more.

Some call Camtasia Studio the world's smartest screen recording software. Why? Because it adapts to your workflow, not the other way around. Here's how it works:

Camtasia Studio 6 Features

Record

Edit and Enhance

Share

Record simply - Capture perfect-quality screen recordings

Camtasia Studio captures video of anything on your screen, with no compromise between quality and file size. Call it magic, call it our secret sauce, but TechSmith compression technology gives you perfect-quality recordings and compact file sizes. Relax and record with Camtasia SmartFocus®

Don't worry about the final product, just relax and record your whole screen. TechSmith's exclusive SmartFocus technology keeps track of where the action happens during your recording.

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Testimonials

"I used to spend hours showing my students how to get small videos that retained their high quality. Now Camtasia Studio 6 does this automatically—right out of the box! "

– Chris Austin, MasteringCamtasia.com

"If I could give only one piece of advice to technical marketers everywhere, it would be this: Show me, don’t tell me." -

Jon Udell, Web expert

"My initial thoughts are ... WOW! The PowerPoint integration is fantastic." -

- Andrew Rush, Instructional Technology Specialist, University of Mary Washington

Get started faster

Camtasia Recorder puts all your options in one spot, to get you started faster. Grab the whole screen. Dial in your dimensions. Or select a window or region. Recorder can even lock onto an application window, providing a pixel-perfect fit between your subject matter and the recording area. And it remembers the dimensions and location of your last recording, so your next one will be consistent...and faster, too!

Add audio now or later

A picture’s worth a thousand words, but even a video is helped by a little narration. With Camtasia Studio you can capture audio while you’re recording...or add narration and music later.

Convert PowerPoint to compelling video

The Camtasia Studio toolbar inside of PowerPoint makes it one-click-easy to record your presentations, either live or from the comfort of your desk.

And you get much more than just a slideshow. Camtasia Studio captures everything—exact slide timing, animations, sound effects, narration, webcam video, and any webpages or applications displayed onscreen during the presentation. It's the next best thing to being there!

Connect with your audience

Forge a stronger connection with viewers by letting them see who's talking. Simply aim a webcam at the presenter, and Camtasia Studio will capture and synchronize that video with the screen recording. Or import video files captured with a digital camcorder!

Record podcasts

You don’t need a separate tool to create podcasts. Use Camtasia Studio to record high-quality standalone audio, and then publish it in MP3 format. Upload to iTunes. Talk to the world.

Make your point

Draw on the screen to illustrate or point something out. Highlight cursor movements and mouse clicks to help viewers follow the action. Set markers to indicate section breaks or rough spots that need editing.

Edit powerfully

Preview the final result before it's final

Before you start editing, let Camtasia Studio know where you intend to share your video—web, blog, YouTube, CD, iPod, etc.—and you'll see a live preview of the final result the whole time you're editing. No surprises!

Edit to perfection

Camtasia Studio makes it easy to cut the sections of your video you don’t want and rearrange the sections you do. Add, cut, splice, join, and move sections of video or audio. Decouple the audio and video tracks to edit them independently. Zoom in on the timeline to edit each track with frame-by-frame precision.

Take control with zoom and pan

ou can always tweak the zooms and pans created automatically by Camtasia SmartFocus. Or simply add your own from scratch. Zoom in to show details, pan to move vertically or horizontally across the screen, and apply a tilt perspective to add depth and sizzle.

Delight viewers with photos and music

Don't limit yourself to screen capture video! Engage, inform, and delight viewers by importing other content. Digital video clips, photos, music, animations—Camtasia Studio makes it a cinch to pull them into your project.

Add professional polish

Title clips introduce your video with a splash, and are super easy to create. They also divide chapters, list closing credits, or provide contact information. Use any of the 25 transition effects to move smoothly (or whimsically!) between clips. Plus, Camtasia Studio gives you tools to enhance and optimize audio quality.

Embed closed captioning (subtitles)

Make your videos more accessible for hearing impaired viewers, or for those who speak other languages, by adding closed captioning (subtitles) on or below your video.

Put the presenter inside or beside

Give your video a personal touch by displaying the presenter with the presentation. Webcam video can be embedded in the screen capture video (picture-in-picture) or placed next to it (side-by-side).

Engage audiences with callouts and Flash interactivity

Add a spiffy-looking arrow to direct attention. Closed captioning Use a speech bubble to provide details. Shine a virtual spotlight on your content. Turn a static presentation into an interactive experience with clickable Flash hot spots. Jump viewers to a specific place in the video or to an external webpage. Not a Flash developer? No worries...Camtasia Studio makes it all drag-and-drop simple.

Measure impact with a quiz or survey

Want to know what your viewers think or how much they’ve learned? Ask them! Camtasia Studio makes it very, very easy to embed Flash quizzes or surveys anywhere in your video. Ask multiple-choice or open-ended questions. Responses can be sent to a SCORM-compliant learning management system or your e-mail inbox

Share widely

Camtasia Studio makes it a piece of cake to share video in the format and size your audience wants. Mac or PC, 24-inch widescreen or iPhone, here, there, anywhere...we'll make it easy on you.

High quality video...every time

Looking good has never been so easy. Want to produce a video at the right size and settings for YouTube? Just click the YouTube preset. Want video optimized for iPods, iPhones, or your blog? It's only a click away.

In fact, Camtasia Studio produces sparkling, HD-quality video with compact file sizes for the web and mobile devices...straight out of the box!

ExpressShow – The silver bullet for simple sharing

The TechSmith ExpressShow® template puts your video into a sleek package that can be easily embedded into any website, blog, or multimedia project. With a glossy thumbnail image, full-screen playback option, and customizable table of contents, ExpressShow makes you look good. Very good.