I have been so busy putting the last touch to SuperCallouts because I wanted to have it ready as a bonus for you for the launch of Camtasia 7.

So I have only had a few minutes to play with Camtasia 7

But I have to tell you, my first thought after installing it – it’s just an amazing piece of new software. I find it sleeker, more fluid and filled with lots of great new stuff.

Check out more about Camtasia Studio 7 here!

What’s New in Camtasia Studio 7

Camtasia Studio has always been more than a simple screen recorder.
Now, with Camtasia Studio 7, Techsmith has redesigned and rebuilt
it to help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster,
easier, and with more consistency.

Library

Save editing time and achieve consistency by storing callouts,
title slides, or an entire intro sequence for later reuse.

Copy and paste

Reuse transitions, zooms, and other effects—just copy and
paste to a different spot on the timeline or add it to the library.

YouTube upload

Get in front of millions! Produce and upload HD-quality videos
to YouTube without leaving Camtasia Studio.

Grab attention with new callouts

Enhanced callouts

Give your screencasts a visual makeover with new callout styles
and an easy way to make your own—now with support for image
transparency!

Keystroke callouts

Make keystrokes visible to viewers! Camtasia Studio takes note
of any keyboard shortcuts used during recording and shows the keys
as a graphic overlay.

Sketch motion callouts

Call attention to the important bits with animated shapes that
appear to be hand-drawn right onto the video.

Enhance with powerful editing

Precision volume controls

Fade the volume of an audio track up and down at any point in your
video, using simple controls built into the timeline.

Editable cursor effects

Help viewers follow along by enlarging the mouse pointer, making
it a spotlight, or visualizing clicks.

Smarter SmartFocus

TechSmith’s SmartFocus technology places smoother, more accurate
zooms and pans so your content always looks sharp —a huge
time-saver!

Check out more about Camtasia Studio 7 here!

Always look amazing

Sleek, new interface

Find and use more of the product’s features…and get
projects done faster.

Optimized screen recorder

Our capture engine now boosts frame rates by up to 50%—for
smoother motion when recording things like 3D design software, real
world video, or Flash animations.

Eye-grabbing media assets

Your library comes stocked with professionally-designed media assets
from Digital Juice …with the possibility to add more.

Check out more about Camtasia Studio 7 here!

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Because Camtasia Studio 7 is close to the release date, anyone from now on who purchases Camtasia Studio 6 from SoftwareCasa, will be getting a free upgrade to version 7. This upgrade from Camtasia 6 to Camtasia 7 is automatic.

If you would like to buy Camtasia Studio 6 with Free Upgrade to Camtasia Studio 7, please go here.

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Some of the first beta tester comments about the new Camtasia 7:

“Camtasia Studio 7 is the absolute best”

“a great new look”

“The gold standard in screen capture videos gets even better”

“version 7 represents a major upgrade”

To celebrate this new version I have some really exciting news of my own. I will post it here tomorrow or Thursday because I need your help with a project I am working on. So stay tuned. Subscribe to the email updates to get the latest information on this news.

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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Hi There,

As I continue to master Camtasia Studio, I can describe it in a few words  Smart, Friendly and the most Powerful screen recording software I have ever used.

One of the frequently asked questions is a problem with the sound that some of you may  have already encountered after producing your videos.

Have you ever experienced this scenario?

You were recording and everything was going well until the video is produced, that’s when the audio suddenly starts to sound really weird. The sound goes faster and at times takes on a higher tone, more likely compared to a talking chipmunk.

If you have, worry not.

This problem is not related to Camtasia but by your sound device. This can happen mostly on computers running on Windows XP but can also occur in other operating systems. Some people experience the problem because the Sound scheme is by default set on  “Windows default”. Thus, during a recording process whenever a button is pressed, a Windows sound is being generated.

Wanna know how to resolve this? Well, read on…..

Simple turn off the default Windows sound scheme, to do so, please follow these instructions:

1. On your desktop, click on Start button.

2. Go to Control Panel

3. Click on Sounds and Audio Devices.

4. Go to the Sounds tab, this will bring up the Sound and Audio Devices Properties dialog box.

5. Under Sound Scheme, click on the drop-down arrow, then select No Sounds. See image below to clearly follow the instruction.

6. Apply

7.  Then Click on OK

Now, you are all set and chipmunk-talking-free!

As for recorded audio, sorry this  can’t be fixed, you could do the recording again or if not you can remove the chipmunk-like audio and add a newly recorded sound clip.

If you have been sitting on the fence undecided about whether to upgrade your Camtasia Studio I can tell you through experience the upgrade is well worth it. You can checkout the new features of Camtasia Studio 6 that simplify alot of tasks and make you look like a pro.

To proceed and request for the special upgrade price go here.

I hope this has been helpful to you!

Until Next Time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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All the new features in Camtasia 6.02

General:

• Added ability to produce a .FLV file.
• Added possiblity to set keyframe interval for .FLV and .MP4 file productions.

Studio:

• Fixed an issue that would cause .MP4 production settings to not be correctly utilized for productions using PIP video.
• Fixed an issue with dropping a transition over an existing transition causing a loss of sync between the Video 1 and PIP tracks.
• Fixed an issue that could cause quizzes to appear twice during the playback.

PowerPoint

• Fixed an issue that would cause an audio/video sync issue for some recordings with both audio and video.

Camtasia Recorder:

• Improved error handling.
• Improved the recording performance with applications with layered windows.

Go here to read more about Camtasia 6.0 and if you’re already a proud owner check out: Upgrade Camtasia

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

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