Camtasia

RATING:

4.5

(393)

About Camtasia

Camtasia is a screen recording and video making solution designed to create, edit, and share videos. It can help users create content for lessons, tutorials, product demos, plus more. Users can record desktop screens or use webcams to create videos. With Camtasia, users can use various video templates as well as add annotations and effects to recordings. This solution is compatible with Mac and Windows devices. The platform includes a built-in library with music and sound effects that may be added to videos. Or, users can upload audio clips. Using Camtasia's editing tools, users can insert video transitions, animations, and customizable quizzes to screen recordings before publishing. Videos can be shared directly to YouTube, Vimeo, Screencast, or other online site...

Awards and Recognition

FrontRunner 2023
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Camtasia Pricing

$299 one-time fee

Starting price: 

$179.88 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

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Camtasia Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4

Value for money

4

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Camtasia

1 - 5 of 387 Reviews

HEATHER

Insurance, 10,001+ employees

Used less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

Reviewed October 2021

Easy To Use

User Profile

Emerson

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2024

The greatest editing app of all time

PROS

It's extremely easy to create videos, capture the screen, and edit the results of them. I've been using Camtasia since version 6, and the improvements have truly addressed my daily challenges. I've tried using other editing apps, but I couldn't find anything like this one. It's really comprehensive, focusing on features that truly matter. There are no unnecessary features. If you want to create informative, instructional, short marketing, or budget-friendly videos, then this is definitely your best option.

CONS

There are some memory limitations in projects that use a lot of effects or large video files. Therefore, when I have to edit a large video, I usually split the editing into parts and produce them separately. So, if you want to make videos longer than 10 minutes frequently, on a computer with less than 16GB of memory, Camtasia may not be the best option for you.

Casey

Education Management, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed April 2024

New Changes from 2022 to 2023 Frustrating

I really loved it at first and promoted it to others to start using it. Now, it drives me crazy that it takes me longer to create than it ever did before because of these design and UX changes.

PROS

It was pretty easy to learn and could do the basics with no problem.

CONS

The additions of Proxy and other editing features made it cumbersome to get the normal editing completed that 2022 had.

Reasons for switching to Camtasia

Wanted to try something better and more robust.

Jesse

Online Media, 1 employee

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

1

EASE OF USE

1

VALUE FOR MONEY

1

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

1

FUNCTIONALITY

1

Reviewed April 2024

Camtasia stinks and will be replacing it

Terrible, slow, expensive for what it is, doesn't get good updates.

PROS

Being able to separate screen, mouse, and voiceover.

CONS

Extremely poor editing software. No way to play at 2x speed, program runs insanely slow, worse than After Effects, and each project gets worse the more edits you make. No way to do rolling edits, or select future clips easily. Sets-up projects at the incorrect aspect ratio by default, and then when you notice that further in your project, it's a pain in the butt to fix on each individual edit.

Reason for choosing Camtasia

I'll be switching back. Camtasia has become far too much of a pain.

Anonymous

1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed January 2024

Capture your fantasy screen

I enjoyed creating my video course and used most of Camtasia functionalities, and even though I had a very low memory RAM size I got a good and smooth product at the end.

PROS

Well, I started the use of Camtasia about ten years ago and I was astonished how easy was to learn the use of. Besides, upon a few clicks anything were set just out of the box and I could create my first course about video-editing. It's a great software to create a video from a high quality screen capture.

CONS

The price it's the mayor con! If you can afford it and the updates then the cost value the quality. The second con is that you need a lot of memory to get a smooth work. If do you have 32 GB RAM can work fine without problem. No other con from my experience.

Reasons for switching to Camtasia

To test another software but I decided to use both because they have different features