5 Reasons Why I Think Camtasia Rocks

Camtasia Studio 7 is an excellent video production tool, both simple and feature rich

Back in January I did a series of posts focused on finding free tools that would enable me to create video tutorials. While it was easy to find tools like Jing and Windows Movie Maker that could help me do this, these free tools did not meet some of my criteria.

To efficiently produce video tutorials, you really want to be able to record clips and edit them together, and while you can do this with Movie Maker, I was unable to do so without a loss of quality that I found unacceptable. I learned that this was a case of “you get what you pay for”, and ultimately decided I would need to purchase a product like Camtasia to do what I wanted.

I procured and installed Camtasia Studio, and went to work. One little hiccup I encountered along the way was that Camtasia upgraded from release 6 to 7 while I was learning it [Read More]