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    Mastering Camtasia: Mastering Software Series, #5
    Mastering Camtasia: Mastering Software Series, #5
    Mastering Camtasia: Mastering Software Series, #5
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    Mastering Camtasia: Mastering Software Series, #5

    By Peter Adams

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    Camtasia has many uses in education, training, and marketing because it makes it simple and quick to capture computer screen activity, web cam video, and audio in order to produce and edit videos.

    While the basic software has remained fairly simple to use, it has many features that make it a full-service video capture and production tool. Camtasia can turn almost anybody into a video producer.

    At a time when video making is becoming increasingly popular Camtasia provides all you need: it can provide the amateur filmmaker with sound, you can add any type of audio, you can add external images, you can add animations, you can add text and dialogue. In short, with this book and Camtasia you can do anything a professional film maker can do!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherShaharm Publications
    Release dateNov 30, 2015
    ISBN9781519963413
    Mastering Camtasia: Mastering Software Series, #5
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    Peter Adams

    Peter Adams is a self-acknowledged, full-blown geek! His love of computers and software began at a very early age (back in the 80’s!) when he learnt to program on a ZX Spectrum personal computer.  For over 20 years, Peter has taught thousands of courses and classes, for both the young and old, to get the most out of their software and computers. From Mac to PC, from creating websites to creating apps, Peter’s range of books leave no stone unturned in his endeavour to share his knowledge in a fun and easy to comprehend manner.

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      There was no useful content, only some definitions and explanations of some functions of camtasia. Wasted a book credit on this. Very disappointed.

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    Mastering Camtasia - Peter Adams

    INTRODUCTION TO CAMTASIA

    Camtasia has uses in education, training, and marketing because this software makes it simple and quick to capture computer screen activity, web cam video, and audio in order to produce and edit videos.  During editing, other multimedia files in dozens of different formats can get integrated into the video seamlessly. While the basic software has remained fairly simple and intuitive to use, it has many features that make it a full-service video capture and production tool. Camtasia can turn almost anybody into a video producer.

    With some practice, users can produce very professional videos without the assistance of a video production studio. Many users can install the program and begin creating their first video within a few minutes. In fact, one common reaction is the expression of how simple Camtasia is to master.

    Originally, the software was only meant as a tool to capture screens for use in video, but it evolved into allowing these screen captures to get integrated with a large variety of post-production tools. Videos can get presented live for a screen cast, and they can also get recorded to share over a network or the Internet, and this process can get repeated again and again. This added functionality allowed Camtasia to evolve from a tool that was mostly used for software training into full video production software with hundreds of different uses.

    TechSmith, the company behind this software, has versions both for Microsoft Windows and the Mac. The company offers a free trial, and they also market paid versions. The software comes with two major components:

    Camtasia Recorder: This is the portion of the software that captures screen displays, video, and audio.

    Camtasia Studio Editor: This is the authoring component with many features for video editing and integration.

    In the past, there were some complaints about the amount of system resources that this system used. Also, rendering times were considered very long. However, the latest version of Camtasia has addressed these problems to most user's satisfaction. The program runs more efficiency and renders videos quicker than it used to.

    To be fair to the producer of this software, TechSmith provides a lot of help files, documentation, and tutorial. Not surprisingly, most of these tutorials are videos, and these make it very easy to follow along while using the software.

    However, there is so much information provided by the company that it can be a bit overwhelming for new users. That is why Mastering Camtasia was created as a helpful resource to help folks learn about the major features and get started quickly.

    GETTING STARTED WITH CAMTASIA

    Before installing the program, a user should always make sure that their computer system has the resources to run it well. These are the basic system requirements needed to run Camtasia on a PC:

    Operating system requirements: Microsoft Windows versions XP, 7, or Vista

    Hardware requirements: 1.5 to 3 GHz processing, 1 to 2 GB RAM, 200 MB disk space

    Monitor display: 1024x768 screen resolution or better

    Other resources (optional): Sound cards, speaker, microphone, web camera, QuickTime (for iPod)

    These are some tips to get started with

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