About Camtasia

Camtasia is a screen recording and video making solution that allows users to create, edit, save, and share videos. It is designed to help businesses create tutorials, demos, webinars, or other types of instructional videos. Users can record Mac and Windows device screens or webcams to capture software functionalities, video calls, and other content. Camtasia allows users to add annotations, effects, templates, and other editing tools to help increase viewer engagement.

With Camtasia's editing tools, users can zoom in or out of video content, insert transitions, and add pan animations to screen recordings. Customizable video quizzes can also be added to measure viewer learning and engagement. Users can record audio clips or add music and sound effects from the Camtasia library. This solution provides a variety of pre-built video templates including unique designs for projects that require more efficiency.

Videos created within Camtasia can be shared on online platforms including YouTube, Screencast, or Vimeo, and can also be embedded into online video courses.

Pricing starting from:

US$299.99/one-time

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Typical Customers

  • Freelancers
  • Small Businesses (2-50)
  • Mid-size Companies (51-500)
  • Large enterprises (500 and more)

Deployment

  • Cloud-based
  • On-premise

Markets

United States

Supported Languages

English

Pricing starting from:

US$299.99/one-time

  • Free Version
  • Free Trial
  • Subscription

Images

Camtasia Software - Camtasia recorder
Camtasia Software - Camtasia add effects
Camtasia Software - Camtasia save or share
View 4 more
Camtasia video
Camtasia Software - Camtasia recorder
Camtasia Software - Camtasia add effects
Camtasia Software - Camtasia save or share

Features

Total features of Camtasia: 29

  • Animation
  • Annotations
  • Audio Capture
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Content Management
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Templates
  • Drag & Drop
  • File Sharing
  • Interactive Content
  • Media Library
  • Multi-Screen Recording
  • On-Demand Recording
  • Privacy Options
  • Screen Capture
  • Screen Recording Software
  • Social Sharing
  • Templates
  • Text Overlay
  • Text to Video
  • Video Call Recording
  • Video Capture
  • Video Creation
  • Video Editing
  • Video Management
  • Video Streaming
  • Video Support
  • Voice-Over/Audio
  • YouTube Uploading

Alternatives

Filmora

4.5
#1 Alternative to Camtasia
Filmora is a video editing software that helps businesses create and distribute white-labeled marketing videos....

Adobe Creative Cloud Express

4.6
#2 Alternative to Camtasia
Adobe Creative Cloud Express enables businesses to quickly create standout content on web and mobile using beautiful...

Adobe Creative Cloud

4.7
#3 Alternative to Camtasia
Adobe Creative Cloud is a graphic design and video editing suite that enables businesses to publish print layouts, edit...

ScreenFlow

4.8
#4 Alternative to Camtasia
Screenflow by Telestream is a screen recording and video editing platform. Designed for educators, product developers,...

Reviews

Overall rating

4.6 /5
(267)
Value for Money
4.2/5
Features
4.4/5
Ease of Use
4.5/5
Customer Support
4.2/5

Already have Camtasia?

Software buyers need your help! Product reviews help the rest of us make great decisions.

Showing 5 reviews of 267
Matt
Overall rating
  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A fast and easy to start way to edit videos

Reviewed on 24/03/2022

For small-scale needs it strikes the perfect balance between price & feature set.

For small-scale needs it strikes the perfect balance between price & feature set.

Pros

Someone recommended me this app years back and never switched to any other solution. Camtasia is very easy to pick up and gets the job done for simple and moderately advances tasks (for me a tleast, I;m an amateur).

Cons

It lacks some advanced animation & tracking features - if heavy editing in modern style (think YouTube clips) is needed, I'd probably look elsewhere.

Alfredo
Overall rating
  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The best editing software for educational videos

Reviewed on 27/01/2022

Camtasia is a program that helps me enormously in my work, although there are very powerful video...

Camtasia is a program that helps me enormously in my work, although there are very powerful video editors, they become complicated to use and have a very high cost. Its ease of use allows you to obtain quality results without being an expert in the area of video editing. It includes the screenshot tool which works perfectly. The cost-benefit ratio seems very good to me. I definitely recommend it.

Pros

It is a very easy program to use, but at the same time, it is full of tools that make your work easier and allow you to obtain very good results.
Among its best features are:
- Easy to edit videos, take part of them, make cuts, speed up or slow down and manage layers
- You can easily add shapes, arrows, texts and graphic elements, and it is very easy to define their duration and position in the video.
- Its screenshot tool is great, it has the correct and enough options, it allows to capture the screen and the webcam at the same time and edit them in separate channels.
- It has audio effects, few but functional and well selected, noise reduction, fade in and fade out. No more is needed.
- Video pan and zoom tools are easy to use.
- The export is simple and different profiles can be handled.
- It has subtitle function
- Easily separate the sound from the video and you can easily control the volume
- Video documentation is very good

Cons

What I think can be improved is really little.
- The program takes a while to start, but once opened, it works smoothly even if you don't have a large computer, in my case, with 8 GB of ram I can use it correctly.
- Some things are missing customization options, but you rarely miss them
- The templates and elements that are included are limited, if you want more they have a cost that seems high to me if you have already paid for the software.
- It seems to me that it lacks an autosave option, I have already had to lose a few hours of work due to a power failure.

Alternatives Considered

Filmora

Reasons for Choosing Camtasia

High cost of Adobe license, very complex use of software, many features not used for our purposes.

Switched From

Adobe Premiere Pro

Reasons for Switching to Camtasia

Filmora is a good program, but you have to buy the screen recorder separately, Filmora Pro includes it, but the ease and speed of use required for our purposes is reduced.
Steven
Overall rating
  • Industry: Professional Training & Coaching
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10

Camtasia a once solid performer has really gone downhills

Reviewed on 16/12/2021

I use to consider Camtasia to be rock solid and then several months ago I bought an update to a...

I use to consider Camtasia to be rock solid and then several months ago I bought an update to a newer version. It has been a nightmare for me ever since. I have or had support but they are always gone and it is very difficult to submit a support ticket. Even then, I waited several days for them to return to work and all they did was find the same pdf I had already located which did not resolve my issue and close my ticket. It was all a complete waste of my time and money. The software crashes constantly now and I lose work with no end in sight. The updates never seem to improve anything anymore. They just seem to introduce more and worse crashing and lack of reliability. I don't feel the company is committed to this solution any longer. They just try to keep it out of the ditches and that is all.

Pros

It is fairly easy to schedule a recording although the constant updates lose your settings each time.
The output files as an MP4 are convenient to view although you have to fix settings every time you go to render.
Basic editing can be quick and easy but it can also get less than desirable results.

Cons

Support is unreliable for the product. Very limited hours and all they do is find what you can find yourself.
Updates are very obtrusive with this software. They tend to crash and I have to completely uninstall and reinstall the software to get it up and going.
Updates are short-lived. I apply updates to resolve feature issues and a couple of weeks later it is in trouble again and needs more maintenance.

Alaaeldin
Overall rating
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A computer program for making and editing videos and presentations

Reviewed on 21/01/2023

Camtasia software is used in making and editing videos, montage and effects, writing texts and...

Camtasia software is used in making and editing videos, montage and effects, writing texts and editing videos. And making educational and training videos, in addition to being an effective and powerful tool for screen recording, image and sound It is useful whether for professionals, students or amateurs because it is easy to learn and use

Pros

Rich in possibilities and options available to create great videos, easy to use, easy to learnIt contains a great library of assets, which is a powerful addition to creating professional content such as backgrounds, templates, music, and moreEfficient screen recording, adding texts, effects, backgrounds, and audioIt contains everything that any professional in the video industry and editing needs, and it can also be used by students for learning

Cons

The price is a little highProgram crashes often occur during work, which causes annoyanceFonts does not support some languagesNot all video and audio file formats are supported

Muhammad
Overall rating
  • Industry: Graphic Design
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

Overall rating

  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

As a YouTuber and a Freelancer you need Camtasia Software

Reviewed on 04/08/2021

I was not an expert in video editing and started using Camtasia. And now I am a graphic designer...

I was not an expert in video editing and started using Camtasia. And now I am a graphic designer and still, I am using Camtasia because of its highly friendly interface.
I used to create videos for my youtube channel, for my Facebook page, and for my clients. Each time Camtasia is going to help me a lot. I can create an intro I want, simply by using Camtasia templates. I can edit video without hesitation of lagging problem.
But I don't like its loading time, It often used to take too much time while exporting a video, uploading a video on youtube, or doing sharing with Camtasia.
But I am expecting that the Camtasias team is working on this and it is going to resolve very soon.

Pros

The best thing I like about Camtasia is the savings project as a file. You can stop working on your project anytime you want and may reopen it whenever you wish to continue. It is not going to crash like other cheap software. Once you complete your project, You can export this in any format which you want.
I like this feature because I am a freelancer and I used to work on 2 to e projects same time. Sometimes I need to stop my first project and need to continue another project. Here Camtasia saved project will help me a lot and it is never going to troubleshoot or crash.
You may import hundred of videos and it is never going to lag even a little bit. It is also going to work smoothly also on small systems e.g having 4GB ram or low on Hard disk-like 70GB.

Cons

Opening software takes too much time but it's okay, But there is no sense of loading again when I am going to opening my saved project. I like the software too much but I wish that the Camtasia team should have a look at this and need to improve this one. I can't afford so much patience that I will use to wait while it's being opening.
Another thing I want to mention here, It has limited access to templates. There should be an option of importing custom templates. The quantity of icons in the media library is also limited although there is an option of downloading from techsmith website but i am unable to do so.

Showing 5 reviews of 267 Read all reviews

Camtasia FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for Camtasia.

Camtasia offers the following pricing plans:

  • Starting from: US$299.99/one-time
  • Free Trial: Available

$299 one-time fee

Camtasia has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

Camtasia supports the following languages:

English

Camtasia supports the following devices:

We do not have any information about what integrations Camtasia has

Camtasia offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, Chat

Related categories

See all software categories found for Camtasia.