New to Camtasia 3 are Behaviors, which are essentially some Keynote-esque animations that can be added over text, callout graphics, or almost any other imported media. Users can either host the video on TechSmith’s, or export the various html and javascript files to host on their own platform. For any of this to work, however, the video must be played through TechSmith’s proprietary Smart Player. Questions can be fill in the blank, multiple choice, short answer or true/false, and can offer scoring/feedback within the video, as well as score reporting through the Camtasia Quiz Service. In Camtasia 3, there is now the option to export to Windows/Mac, which zips the project, maintains your edits, and can be opened by any other current version of Camtasia.Īmong features brought over from Camtasia Studio is quizzing and interactivity.

In the previous versions, both software could share the raw media files but any editing of those files was not cross-compatible. In this update, they’ve combined the two to simply Camtasia, which mostly means a value increase for Mac users. They were similar, although the Windows version was much more robust with features (and more expensive). Up to this point, TechSmith developed separate software for both Windows and Mac. The most notable change is the meshing of Camtasia Studio and Camtasia for Mac. Not only is this our preferred tool for screen capture in the courses we produce for Online Duke, it is what we recommend to instructors who wish to make videos on their own but don’t want to get into the more complicated interface of Final Cut or Premiere. TechSmith recently rolled out the newest iteration of their screen recording and editing software Camtasia.