Camtasia 5.01
Posted on January 9, 2008
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A new maintenance release for Camtasia Studio 5 has just been released - maintenance release 5.01.
This is a minor release with some 34 minor bug fixes. I have used Camtasia Studio 5.0 a lot so far and have come across very few problems, but it’s always nice to see that TechSmith is on top of things and are releasing these minor upgrades.
Read on to find out what the upgrade is about.
The upgrade is free for all Camtasia Studio 5 users. You can simply access the upgrade interface through your software. Just choose “Check for Upgrade” and follow the on-screen instructions.
The upgrades included are:
General:
- Fixed an issue that could display “fatal error” during install on Windows Vista.
- Fixed an issue where the Audio VU meter was not working as it should with the Samson CO1U USB microphone.
- Fixed an issue that would cause audio to be recorded and not use the correct mono or stereo setting.
Recorder:
- Fixed a window focus issue with the main Recorder window.
- Added a new hotkey option for “Last Recording Area”.
- Improved the method used to “Force popup dialogs into the recording area.”
Studio:
- Fixed an issue that would cause produced Flash SWF files with MP3 audio played in the the newest version of the Flash Player to sound garbled or have a high-pitched “chipmunk” sound to them.
- Fixed an issue that would cause Apple iPod produced files to fail when trying to transfer them to an iPod using Apple’s iTunes with QuickTime 7.2 or later installed.
- Fixed an issue that would cause an iPod production created with the production presets to not upload to Screencast.com.
- Fixed an issue that was causing Screencast.com uploads to use the name of the .camproj file instead of the output video name.
- Fixed an issue that would cause non-HTML output to not upload to Screencast.com properly.
- Fixed an issue where the Flash TOC link during production preset creation would display the incorrect settings tab.
- Fixed an issue where teh custom TOC dimensions would not be remembered for an ExpressShow production.
- Fixed an issue with some Polish characters not working correctly in Callouts, Captions and Title Clips.
- Fixed an issue with old projects imported into version 5 would have garbled audio.
- Fixed an issue with double clicking on a zoom-n-pan keyframe on the timeline would cause the keyframe to go to full screen.
- Fixed an issue with some Flash playback media not beginning playback on initial load in the browser.
- Fixed an issue with long .camrec files failing to produce and causing Camtasia Studio to lock up.
- Fixed an issue with F1 not launching help within the Production Preview Manager.
- Fixed an issue that was causing the PiP opacity slider to not respond properly when using a mouse scroll wheel.
- Fixed an issue that would cause a watermark to appear in the preview window after cancelling a production.
- Fixed an issue thatouwould cause custom callouts to not be imported correctly when importing a zipped project with custom callouts.
- Fixed an issue that would cause FTP profiles to disappear if production was cancelled.
- Fixed an issue with custom callout names getting messed up when selecting and deselecting items in the custom callout manager on Windows Vista.
- Fixed an issue that would cause the production wizard to act strangely when producing over a one hour WAV file.
- Fixed an issue in Voice Narration with timeline audio becoming silenced incorrectly.
- Fixed an issue that would cause callouts to become fixed in size in certain combinations of callout and captions use as well as scaling the timeline.
- Fixed an issue that would cause Hotspots to not work as expected when used in ExpressShow productions.
- Fixed an issue in Title Clips that would cause the green resize rectangle to disappear after adding a video to the timeline.
- Fixed an issue that would cause FLV productions created with Split at Markers to not seek properly during playback.
- Fixed an issue that was causing zoom keyframes to not be placed on the timeleine after extending a frame in a zoomed clip.
Audio Editor
- Fixed a crash that would occurr when trying to open a PNG file in Audio Editor.
Powerpoint Add-In
- Added an option to turn off/on the ability to record layered windows with the PowerPoint Add-in.
Theater
- Fixed an issue where the video controls would be obscured by the scroll bar in the produced video.
Let me know if you have any comments to this latest release by posing below.
Until next time 
Peter - Your Camtasia Guide
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