Camtasia Studio 8.4.2 Build 1768 is a perfect screen recorder and an excellent video editor. It can help you to create astonishing video tutorials and professional videos without being a professional. You can choose to record your screen activity or to use a web camera or DV camera to import the video signal. Then it will be like a game for you to edit all recordings, add professional effects to them and save them or export them in the easiest possible way. This software is paid, but a free 30-day trial version can be downloaded. It has no limitations whatsoever, so you can feel its full power in your hands.

Features

• Records full screen or region

• Records from web camera or DV camera

• Adds markers

• Applies lots of audio, video animation and transition effects

• Batch production

• Customizable flash controls

• Includes watermark

Camtasia Studio has serious system requirements, because it is a video recorder and a video editor. The faster your computer configuration is, the better this program will work. You can use it to capture your entire screen or only a custom region of it. When complete, you can save your recording using the unique program format or begin a new one. The recording process is smooth and uses just the necessary amount of your system resources. It has a multi-language user interface and a lot of audio, video, animation and transition effects. You can customize all recordings with many ready-to-use themes, animated backgrounds, graphics, callouts, etc.

Interface

Camtasia Studio is well-developed and provides a user-friendly environment to all users. Anyone can learn it in no time and just by looking at the provided video tutorials. There are six menus on top, followed by several tabs. The Clip Bin is located in the upper left corner of your screen and is used for various things, but most of all – for managing your files while you are inside the program. There is a built-in player located in the upper right corner. The timeline is placed at the bottom and allows you to manage as many tracks as you want. You can zoom in and out in order to find the exact moment of time when you want to apply a certain filter, transition or to insert a callout.

Basic Operations

Camtasia Studio 8.4.2 Build 1768 is a powerful program with many features. At first might be a little overwhelming but not worries, there is a very informative help file along with the provided step-by-step video tutorial. At the beginning, all users are advised to use the default application settings and when you become more experienced, you can start playing around with them.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, Camtasia Studio is a great piece of software that comes with many powerful features. It may take you some time to learn them all, but after that you can start producing great videos full of effects and animations. Camtasia Studio should be your choice for a screen recorder, video editor.