New in Camtasia 5.1

Focus attention with Spotlight and Highlighter callouts

You have two new options for drawing attention to areas of the screen. Spotlight dims everything on the screen except for the part you want to emphasize. Highlighter is like applying a bright, bold highlighter pen to the screen. Both callouts grab attention...and look great!

Add callouts faster, edit them easily

Now you can add callouts with fewer clicks and edit them more intuitively. And if you want to add a lot of callouts with the same style, one after the other, that's much easier, too.

Set the mood with a music track

Open and close your screencast with a theme...or use music to segue between sections. With a third audio track now available on the timeline, it's easy to add background music to your videos.

Put your screen recordings on the iPhone

Steve Jobs plans to ship 10 million iPhones this year. Now you can produce your videos for iPhone and iPod Touch users, at just the right dimensions, using a simple preset. Your viewers are on the go, so let them bring your videos along!

Customize FLV videos with ExpressShow

The Flash FLV format is best suited for longer screencasts that contain more motion or camera video. You can now wrap FLV videos in the sleek ExpressShow template. They'll look fantastic...and benefit from full-screen playback, a floating table of contents, custom "about" box, and more.

Organize and present Flash videos with Camtasia Theater

Have a handful of related videos? Here's a great way to present them online! The rebuilt Camtasia Theater makes it super easy to create a customizable Web menu for any of your Camtasia Studio-produced Flash videos. ExpressShow, SWF, FLV, with or without quizzes or hotspots—Camtasia Theater can handle them all! And your viewers will appreciate how easy it is to jump between videos using the table of contents.

New in Camtasia Studio 5

Streamlined recorder for swifter capture

The streamlined Camtasia Recorder makes selecting an area to record both fast and easy. There's just one button, no confusing choices. And the clever, new crosshairs makes it child's play to select a region, object, window, or the whole screen.

SmartFocus: freedom to capture now, decide later

Don't worry about the final product, just relax and record your whole screen. Camtasia SmartFocus keeps track of where the action happens during your recording. It automatically creates editable zoom-n-pan points that keep the important parts visible with razor-sharp clarity...even if you produce the video for iPod-sized screens. Fully automatic, very freeing. You've never seen anything like this.

ExpressShow: sleek Flash + simpler sharing

Kiss supporting files goodbye. TechSmith ExpressShow creates a single, beautiful Flash SWF file that can be easily embedded into any Web site, blog, or multimedia project. With a glossy thumbnail image, full-screen playback option, and floating table of contents, this is Flash video that makes you look good. Very good.

Predictable, surgically precise editing

Camtasia Studio 5 projects are now edited at 30 frames per second. With more frames to choose from, it’s easier to cut—and keep—precisely what you want, and with greater project stability.

Easy output for bloggers

Camtasia Studio 5 lets bloggers record and publish to Screencast.com, and blog about it in minutes. Or using the built-in FTP support, moving videos to your own server can be just as painless.

An experience you can count on

Now with Project Settings and an accurate preview, you can edit your video and see exactly what it will look like before you produce it. And the new AutoSave protects your edits in the event of a crash.

Buy Camtasia Studio 5.0 here!

Compare Camtasia 4.0 vs 5.0

Camtasia Studio Features	5.0	4.0
Streamlined Camtasia Recorder
Snap-to-App windows sizing tool
Cross-hairs region/window selection
Inactive area dimmed during recording
Mouse returns to same position after pause
Customizable toolbar
Power-saving features of operating system can be disabled
Refined task list
Project settings with real-time preview
Industry standard 30 frames per second
AutoSave feature
Improved FLV production
Additional production presets
Right-click naming for callouts
Crop to selection option in the context menus
Camtasia SmartFocus™
Seven additional transitions
3D Edge callouts
Screen targeting option for zoom-n-pan
Optional automatic transition insertion
Precise zoom-n-pan control
Onyx controller for Flash video
TechSmith ExpressShow™
FTP output
File uploading to Screencast.com or FTP site
SCORM 2004 compliance
New Recording Bar for Recorder
Flash-based closed captioning
Production previews & preview manager
Produce a segment of the video (in/out markers)
Publish multiple files simultaneously
Much higher quality Windows Media Video
Publish for iPod
Publish as MP3
Surveys & Quizzing
Markers with text-entry boxes
Faster audio rendering
Blur Callout
“Freeze frame” while doing voice narration
Equalize different audio levels
Remove background noise
New volume controller for PowerPoint add-in
Audio Recording Wizard automatically adjust recording volume
Consistent audio recording between all applications
Enhancements to Flash production with support for Flash 8 and FLV output
Enhancements to QuickTime compression with support for H.264
Section 508-compliant Captioning
Side-by-side presentation. Place webcam video next to screen video so that the camera video does not obscure the screen recording.
Picture-in-a-Picture
Quizzing
Significantly smaller Flash files
Introduced Total Recording Kit, which includes Logitech webcam and TechSmith lapel microphone.
Production Wizard for easier video sharing
Web hosting for video files
More audio and video tracks
Audio editing toolbar
Interactive callouts
Title screens for video introduction or credits
Use the PowerPoint toolbar add-in to record presentations from within PowerPoint.
Downloadable background templates for PowerPoint
New and improved Callout workflow
Create linked submenus in MenuMaker
Record system audio from applications
Use "Help Me Choose" in the Production Wizard
SCORM 1.2/e-learning compliance
Add interactivity with Flash Hot Spots to create application simulations and navigation within your videos.
Add personalized video introductions and digital video recordings to your screen videos.
Native support for WMV, AVI and MPEG source files.
Produce screen recordings as true streaming Flash files (FLV).
Use Zoom-n-Pan to playback perfectly at any size.
Preview your edits and transitions in real-time.
Add callouts at any time in the production process, with the integration of Producer and Effects.
Narrate an entire timeline - across multiple clips.
Add any of 18 new video transitions between clips.
Preview your audio levels prior to recording narration.
Enhanced Flash Controls when producing Camtasia Studio SWF videos
Downloadable Theater for Camtasia Studio
Downloadable Converter for Camtasia Studio
Downloadable Templates for Camtasia MenuMaker
Production results available.
Edit still image audio
Audio editing shortcut keys.
Enhanced volume control.
Macromedia Flash (.SWF) output.
Components for Macromedia Flash MX.
Add a second audio track.
Audio editing built-in.
Add annotations after recording.
Camtasia MenuMaker
TSCC Codec built into Camtasia Player.
QuickTime (.MOV) output
Capture layered windows.
Hotkeys to zoom in and out.
Time-lapse recording
Highlight and alter cursor with onscreen visual effects.
Record smooth mouse movement with Quick Capture.
Add a Watermark.
Cycle through ScreenPad layouts with Hotkeys.
Add Text Notes While Recording.
Add and change text in ScreenPad shapes.
Record annotation drawings with ScreenDraw.
Save movies as standard AVI files.
Add time stamps and text captions to videos.
Capture single frames for still image AVI slideshow.
Record all or any portion of the screen.
Record mouse clicks and keystrokes.
Zoom or Pan the capture frame around the screen.
Record audio input from microphone.
Use TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC) to get high performance video compression for fast and smooth recording.