I thought this was a bit hard to find, because all of the other stylistic elements are contained in libraries that are accessible on the upper left section of the interface, not via a menu. You create a theme in the Theme Manager, which you access from the File menu (File > Manage Themes) ( Figure 3). The first is the addition of themes, which will prove extremely useful to any producer working on numerous projects with different color, font, and similar requirements. TechSmith made two major editing refinements to Camtasia 2018. In addition, for $199 a year, you can access more than 500,000 royalty-free stock assets from TechSmith Assets, although the company couldn’t arrange a look at the content before my deadline, so I can’t tell you about quality or selection. You can use all of the elements from previous versions in Camtasia 2018, and TechSmith also added some new ones. In Camtasia 2018, TechSmith added libraries to the Mac version, simplifying access to those media elements ( Figure 2).Ĭamtasia now includes content libraries for the Mac, a welcome addition. In the Windows version of Camtasia 9, you could access these elements from an internal media library, but on the Mac, they had to be separately imported and applied. This may sound trivial, but those all add polish to any production and help grab and retain the seemingly shrinking attention spans of web video viewers. In our last review of Camtasia 9 we discussed the content that TechSmith provided with Camtasia, which included animated backgrounds, icons, motion graphics, intro and outro titles, and music. You can share them as you would any other MP4 files. Otherwise, the Camtasia editor can output MP4 files that you can upload to various places-your organization’s content management system, an online video platform like Brightcove or Ooyala, and usergenerated content sites like YouTube and Vimeo. You can also add quizzes to Camtasia videos, though the video must be viewed in the TechSmith Smart Player for the quiz or survey to function. In addition to screen capture, Camtasia includes an increasingly functional editor for actions like trimming and organizing multiple clips, plus it handles annotations, special effects, cursor effects for captured computer screens, and gesture effects for iOS capture. The Mac version also lets you capture iOS screens. Both the PC and Mac versions of Camtasia capture the screen and a webcam and offer a selection of presentation themes.

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