Camtasia Guide

This week I am featuring another Bill Myers video for Camtasia Studio. The video touches an important area, how to set up your Camtasia Videos to be viewed in HD on Youtube.

There are several reasons why I think this is important. One is of course the viewer experience is greater when showing your videos on HD. But there is more to it than that.

For one you get the Youtube HD logo on your video, which you will not get otherwise. People also tend to watch videos in full screen mode more and more, and stream videos to their High Definition television sets and for HD TVs it’s great if you have a higher quality of video.

I have included the important take-aways of the video below. My hope is that you can use the list as a quick reference when setting up your Camtasia settings for HD.

The video runs 4:40. OK take it away Bill…

Here are some take-aways from the video.

Before you record

1. Set your recording to save as .avi in your Camtasia Recorder Tools/General Options.
2. Set framerate to 30 (Tools/Options/Inputs)
3. Select area to record to 1280×720

After recording, when editing

1. Select HD in settings and if you don’t have this setting, choose the same size as you are recording in, in this case 1280×720.
2. Edit your video

Producing Video

1. Go to custom production settings
2. Choose other formats MOV
3. Under QuickTime options set H.264.
4. Set your framerate to 30
5. Set Keyframe to Automatic
6. Set Compression to Best
7. Data rate set to Automatic
8. Sound settings for production – Set it to 48.000, 16 bit and set it to Stereo so Youtube can recognize it as a HD file.
9. Check that video size is 1280×720

And then upload it to Youtube. Youtube should recognize it as a HD file.

That’s all there is to it. Now start creating lots of HD Camtasia files! Let me know what you think about this article/video in the comment area below.

Until next time
Peter – Your Camtasia Guide