The eighth version updates to Camtasia have eliminated some of the prior release issues including excessive rendering times and excessive consumption of system resources during production:
- Enhanced multi-track video/audio editing capabilities compared to v7
- Improved handling of embedded hyperlinks compared to v7
- Higher quality screen action capture compared to v7
- Integrated audio-clip enhancement
- Integrated tutorial for both Camtasia and PowerPoint plug-in components
- Large library of tutorial material
- Good support resources, both online and via text chat. Options for in-person telephone support available for fully licensed versions
- Educational discount license for students and instructor K-12 or university use
- Rotation of objects is applied via a dialog rather than interactively, though many lower-priced video editors do provide interactive rotation and manipulation of objects such as text and video frames
- Recording live from a DV camera is not supported
- Still potentially overwhelming for the introductory user, tempered by the tutorial material available. NOTE the V8 release is a complete rewrite so much of the prior tutorial material written for the popular Camtasia v6 and v7 software for Microsoft Windows is not usable with this release.
- Audio handling has minimal capabilities and no integration with other packages compared to some competitors in this price range
- Lacks any video-clip manipulation or integration with other packages that have such capabilities
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