Anything newer than Camtasia 8 for screen recording in Windows?

[Patrick]

I have been using Camtasia 6.x for a long time and was considering getting Camtasia 8. There are some serious limitations to Camtasia 6.x e.g. no 1080i presets, trying to edit 1080 video causes crashes and etc. The somewhat obvious choice is to get Camtasia 8, export screen capture videos into Adobe.

I was price shopping at Amazon just to see the difference in pricing and the reviews were scary. I do not put much faith in Amazon reviews but it does not sound that much better.

Are there others people are using and would recommend instead?

 

[T_Minus]

I don't have any issues with it but I only do quick screen recording and exports.

(Using ver8 since 2014 it looks like according to my update/order history)

Edit; Hard to believe they haven't come out with another major version in such a long time :/

 

[Patrick]

Edit; Hard to believe they haven't come out with another major version in such a long time :/

That was something else I noticed. Camtasia 8 was released June 2012: Version History of Camtasia Studio

$300 is a lot to spend if a new 64-bit version 9 is released soon.

 

[T_Minus]

my e-mail record showed a transaction <150$ for the ver8, I assume it was an upgrade I was able to do... maybe something to look into, but even 150 is hard to swallow if a new version is coming out soon :/

I have some feelers out i'll let you nkow what others are using.

 

[Deslok]

I've used this before you can set your desktop as a "camera" and do recordings at the screens native resolution
iSpy - Open source camera security software
I'm not sure if it will let you do what you want however, no editing capacity in it.

 

[Patrick]

I've used this before you can set your desktop as a "camera" and do recordings at the screens native resolution
iSpy - Open source camera security software
I'm not sure if it will let you do what you want however, no editing capacity in it.

I use two HP ZR30w monitors so I need the ability to record only a portion of the screen. I wonder why Adobe does not have this?

 

[RobertFontaine]

Have you looked at OBS? The price is right there is a linux and a windows version. Has pretty much all the functionality of Camtasia

 

[Patrick]

I will check that out. I know Windows 10 has steps recorder but that is not a video. There is a new video game recording feature but I think that only works in-game. OBS will get a try. Any tip on which version? MP or the older one?

 

[badskater]

@Patrick I think the reason for Camtasia not being updated, is that SnagIT does the same stuff now. (I use it to capture videos/screenshots) on my PC and works quite well. Don't know if it would work with Adobe, but you can do a lot with SnagIT's video editor too.

Snagit: The Ultimate Screen Capture Tool for Mac and Windows

 

[Patrick]

@Patrick I think the reason for Camtasia not being updated, is that SnagIT does the same stuff now. (I use it to capture videos/screenshots) on my PC and works quite well. Don't know if it would work with Adobe, but you can do a lot with SnagIT's video editor too.

Snagit: The Ultimate Screen Capture Tool for Mac and Windows

That is really interesting. I just looked at the output formats and I did not see MP4 or AVI listed. Is video output SWF or SNAG only? File Formats Overview

 

[badskater]

That's what i see when i open. There's only a MP4 option. @Patrick

 

[Patrick]

That's what i see when i open. There's only a MP4 option. @Patrick

Well - Snagit seems to work, but has significantly less stability than running the full suite of Office on Windows ME. It crashes every single session post-recording. Glad I spent $50 with them not $300.