Camtasia Screen Recorder Software 10 Year Anniversary
This website is mostly about Snagit. I don’t talk much (here) about other great software titles. In many ways, especially video recording, the big brother of Snagit is really Camtasia Studio. Well this post is a tribute to that big brother.
If Snagit is the ultimate tool to take any kind of screen shots, copy text, images and what-not from your screen, then Camtasia is the ultimate tool to record video from your screen. This is excellent when you want to create tutorials or any kind of instructional videos related to computer or internet use. Perfect to do software presentations, demos and so on.
Our all time favorite Screen Recording / Screencasting software Camtasia Studio is growing up. Camtasia was first released at Comdex 1999. Camtasia has come a long way in these last 10 years and are now available both on Mac and PC platform.
Techsmith compiled a cool timeline below that shows Camtasia milestones, advertising and logos, reviews, feature releases and technology milestones. Check it out:
To celebrate Camtasia’s 10th birthday, SoftwareCasa has a sale on Snagit Screen Capture and Camtasia Screen Recording software!
For a limited time, save an extra 10% on already-discounted volume licenses of Camtasia Studio, Snagit, or both in a bundle. Offer ends December 7, 2009. SoftwareCasa is also doing a special price on Snagit Single user - $47.00.
You find the Anniversary Specials here:
Snagit Single User $47.00
Snagit Multi User Discount (10% 5-users and upwards)
Camtasia Multi User Discount (10% 5-users and upwards)
Until next time 
Peter – Your Snagit Guide
Recording Video with Audio in Snagit
Hi There,
Did you know that Snagit not only captures images but that you can also record Video with Audio?
Yes Snagit keeps getting better and better always one step ahead of all the Screen Capture Software out there.
However please note that this feature is only a small subset of the powerful screen recording and editing capability of Camtasia Studio. Camtasia Studio will allow you to record, edit, annotate and produce videos in all of the standard multi-media formats. It uses an optimized screen capture codec so the resulting files are small and highly compressed.
Back to Snagit, most of the time I notice that first time Snagit users usually ask whenever they record a video from player, website or application, why the audio is missing once playing the videos on the editor.
I encountered the same problem but I soon discovered how easy it is to fix the problem and make it work. I will share with you the steps below. Although it may look long winded don’t give up, if you follow the instructions step by step its very easy and you only need to do it once.
How to record a video with audio in Snagit:
Click on the Light Blue Round button with an arrow beside the Capture button and choose Video Capture. See image above.
Make sure that under the Options area, the Microphone is highlighted or on.
Now click on the tab Output with an image written “None Selected” , then go to Properties, on Audio options, make sure that the Audio capture device is set to your sound card, click Apply then OK.
Once done with setting up the necessary functions on Snagit, proceed to configuring the recording input in your Window Record Control.
Go to Start > Control Panel > Sounds and Audio Devices > Audio tab. In Sound recording area, make sure that your sound card is set as the Default Device, click Apply then OK.
Now, under the Sound recording area, click on the Volume button, this will open the Record Control box. Once there, choose Options > then Properties.
Put a check on the box beside the following options: Stereo Mix, Mono Mix, What you hear, Mixer, Wave out mix and Wave in, then click OK.
Back to Record Control box, put a check on the Select button corresponding to each property that you checked earlier, then close the box.
If you follow these steps and it fails, you may want to update your sound card or if your sound card does not support recording audio-generated applications, you may use a jumper wire. Just place the jumper wire between Line Out and Mic In on the Sound Card, making the Line In as the recording source.
Alternatively you may own an older version of Snagit that needs upgrading to the latest version Snagit 9.0. You may request upgrade for Snagit here.
If you find this article helpful please feel free to share with all the Snaggers and give us your comments!
Until Next Time
Peter – Your Snagit Guide
Snagit And The Curse Of The Black Screen
Have you ever tried to capture video with Snagit but instead of getting the video you end up with a black or grey screen?
The problem is actually not related to Snagit but usually due to graphics hardware acceleration being used to display the image/video.
Newer media players normally use graphics hardware acceleration on your system.
Read on to see how to solve this…
Output Snagit Clips to Camtasia Studio
TechSmith just released a new addon to Snagit. You can now output images directly from Snagit into Camtasia.
The Camtasia Output adds a button to the toolbar inside SnagIt’s Capture Preview window.
Just click the button and your image is sent directly to Camtasia Studio’s clip bin so you can easily insert it into your video.
Snagit OneNote 2007 Output
A new output for Snagit was just released, for Microsoft OneNote 2007.
With one click you can send your Snagit scren captures over to your OneNote application.
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