Camtasia Studio 5.1

Record

Precision Recording

• Record all or any portion of the screen.
• Record webcam video.
• Record voice narration and system audio.
• Record all elements of a PowerPoint presentation, including slide timing, animations and voice narration.
• Record mouse clicks and keystrokes.
• Record layered windows and application interaction.
• Capture single frames for still image AVI slideshow.
• Step through the recording process with the aid of a Recording Wizard.
• Use TechSmith TSCC Codec to get high-performance video compression for fast and smooth recording.

Add Emphasis

• Highlight and alter cursor with onscreen visual effects.
• Add multiple-choice quizzes.
• Draw on the screen with pens, highlights using ScreenPad.
• Cycle through ScreenPad tools and layouts with Hotkeys.
• Use Hotkeys to zoom in and out.
• Zoom in on a smaller portion of the window and have the video window follow the cursor.

Pre-Production

• Preview audio levels prior to recording narration.
• Record audio input from microphone.
• Use time-lapse recording.
• Add time stamps and text captions to videos.
• Record annotation drawings with ScreenDraw.
• Add text notes while recording.
• Add and change text in ScreenPad shapes.
• Add a watermark.

Edit and Enhance

Add, Cut, Splice and Join Clips

• Add video from digital video files, for personal video introductions, in WMV, MPEG and AVI formats.
• Add audio clips (WAV, MP3).
• Add still images (BMP, JPG, GIF).
• Select and cut portions of a video clip or multiple video clips.
• Select a single frame of a video to separate one video file into two.
• Zoom in and out on the timeline to edit with frame-by-frame precision.
• Select a single frame to export as a BMP file.
• Extend the duration of the exported bitmap file or video file to accommodate more lengthy explanation.
• Edit, review, cut and join AVI clips.
• Preview your edits and transitions in real-time.
• Resize and detach the video preview window.
• Chose from 18 new video transitions between clips.

Add, Edit Audio

• Narrate an entire timeline.
• Use microphone to record new narration while viewing video clips.
• Record audio from applications (sound card driver dependent).
• Add a second audio track, including background music or second language tracks for international audiences.
• Record and/or edit audio for a single image (BMP, JPG, GIF).
• Narrate a series of still images to create a slideshow playable in standard media players.
• Trim and attach WAV audio files from video clips.

Add Emphasis

• Add Flash Hot Spots to simulate applications and add onscreen navigation.
• Provide users with clickable areas to either continue video, jump to another frame or go to a URL.
• Zoom-n-Pan® in over time or cut immediately to a focused area of the screen to make full-screen recording playable on the smallest PC and handheld screens.
• Add callouts, annotations and text notes to AVI videos after recording.
• Customize the callout text, font face and size.
• Customize the callout color, shape and location.
• Customize the callout duration and speed of the fade in and out.
• Use timeline bar to choose where and when annotations appear in videos.
  

Publish

Versatile Publishing Options

• Publish in industry standard formats - Macromedia Flash, AVI, Microsoft Windows Media, RealNetworks RealMedia and QuickTime.
• Production Wizard with Help Me Choose feature.
• Output as animated GIF.
• Export as EXE file with Pack and Show.
• Publish multiple videos at the same time with batch production.
• Save a user-defined publishing profile.
• Select from a list of codecs to match your content.
• Select color depth and frame rate.
• Select audio quality.
• Resize video dimensions with smooth scaling.

Web & CD Menus

• Launch MenuMaker and Theater from within Producer.
• Create a Table of Contents for navigation within a video for the Web.
• Create a Theater Web pane for navigation between multiple videos.
• Create a CD-ROM menu (MenuMaker) of your videos and other files, including:
  • Video files
  • PowerPoint files
  • Word documents
  • PDF files
  • EXE files
  • Web pages
  • Submenus
• Customize your CD interface with over 350 custom background graphics from 30 categories.
• Customize the menu's text, alignment and font.
• Create headings for media groupings with static text.
• Use the Wizard to organize and deliver videos.
• Exercise font and color control.
• Save production info in project files.
• Create customized Web menus (Theater) for Flash movies.
• Select a single Flash file or complete directories.
• Order a group of Flash movies for sequential playback.
• Output as HTML.
• Use XML output for custom configuration.
• Apply an auto-sequencing option.
• Make use of the scrolling menu.
• Sort and rename movies.
• Send/post a link to a single video within the Web menu.

Plays Well with Others

• SCORM 1.2 compliance.
• Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional users can produce their screen recordings as true streaming Flash files (.FLV).
• Introduce these files into MX 2004 Pro via TechSmith's Components for Flash MX to enhance them with additional interactivity.
• Enables Flash MX users to customize presentation of Flash screen movies.
• Drag the Movie Loader component onto the Flash MX stage to easily reference the Flash movie.
• Create a menu for multiple Flash movies.
• Customize preloading animation.
• Use the Flash playback controls.
• Add a seekbar (aka "scrubber") to your movies for easy navigation.
• Customize the color and placement of playback controls.
• Customize presentation of movie duration and elapsed time.
• Files can be combined as part of a larger Flash MX 2004, Macromedia Breeze and/or Flash Communication Server presentation.
• Videos can also be edited and enhanced in Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects.