TechSmith Camtasia 2022 - Review 2022

Some eLearning authoring tools are designed to let you create effective text-based courses. TechSmith Camtasia 2022, on the other hand, is more than focused on letting you create robust video courses. TechSmith Camtasia 2022 (which begins at $249) is a solid offering, even when compared to Editors' Choice winners Articulate Storyline ii and Trivantis Lectora Inspire. TechSmith Camtasia 2022 may not have all of the templates you'll observe in those competing platforms, but information technology is still corking for creating and editing video.

Pricing and Plans

Comparing TechSmith Camtasia 2022 to other eLearning authoring tools is a bit like making an apples-to-oranges comparison. After all, there's a lot that separates it from others in the field. For case, TechSmith Camtasia 2022 doesn't offer costless-grade quizzes, it won't let you embed webpages into courses, and y'all won't be able to create customized activities such as a "Choose Your Own Risk" learning path. Notwithstanding, given TechSmith Camtasia 2022's relatively low price tag of $249 for one license (with big discounts coming after the 5th license purchased), it'southward virtually as expensive equally it should be compared to the remainder of the eLearning authoring tools we reviewed.

For example, Shift eLearning offers a client-friendly pricing model that starts with a barebones gratis trial, which can be used by one person to create i grade of up to 120 HTML5 screens. Or y'all can get as high as its Enterprise programme, which gives y'all access to three users, 30 reviewers, an unlimited number of courses, and nigh countless scalability for a whopping $8,500 per yr.

If you think Shift eLearning's expensive, then Elucidat will blow your mind. For $seven,500, you'll get 3 seats and a comprehensive and capable tool, but nothing so revolutionary that you lot'll start signing a check the first time you demo the tool. Articulate Storyline 2, which is one of the best tools on the market, offers 1 version of its solution for $1,398. H5P is a gratis, open up-source tool, which is smashing for one-off content creation, but it lacks the rich multimedia functionality you'll experience with most of the eLearning authoring tool competition.

TechSmith Camtasia - Edit Existing Video

Features and Functionality

TechSmith Camtasia 2022 is an fantabulous tool for creating software demos and content that tin be shared via webcam. For example, if you're creating a course to teach someone how to use Netflix, and so you tin easily spring back and along from recording your cursor movements on the Netflix user interface (UI) to a video taken from your webcam in which yous're speaking directly to the learner. Dissimilar some of the other tools we reviewed—which force you to record video and screenshots in third-party tools—all of this can be done directly within TechSmith Camtasia 2022.

Screen recording is especially easy. The tool lets yous choose whether you desire to record the full screen or just a zoomed-in area. This is helpful for small demonstrations that take place in specific corners of the screen. Rather than zooming in while editing a larger canvas and creating a pixelated concluding product, TechSmith Camtasia 2022 will zero in on where yous demand video captured in order to deliver a crisp recording. You can also add cursor highlight effects to show exactly how and where the mouse is moving or, like in Articulate Storyline 2, yous tin remove the cursor entirely by adjusting its opacity.

For greater instructional emphasis, you can utilize the tool to animate, pan over, zoom into, and move things effectually later on you've recorded video in gild to assist demonstrate important points during your lesson. For example, if you lot've recorded a child playing with a ball, then you can zoom in on the kid'due south face to see his or her smile, without altering other aspects of the video. Animated callouts let you draw squares or arrows around specific aspects of your video to highlight singled-out elements. You can also pause one side of the screen (for example, when a talking head has finished his or her lecture) while the other side plays (for example, when the talking head'south cursor moves forth the screen).

TechSmith Camtasia - Video Editing and Adding Callouts

For those of you lot who take never shot video, TechSmith Camtasia 2022 tin can tape a Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow and turn it into a video. More impressively, it volition automatically create a table of contents with the titles of every slide. To plow the slideshow into a quiz, you can interject a question or a serial of questions between each slide. The tool also integrates with TechSmith Snagit, which volition let you lot elevate and drop images from the web or external programs into TechSmith Camtasia 2022. If you don't want to brand your learners scout an unabridged grade video, and then you lot can insert jumps by creating an action within the video (for example, "Skip alee to the section on bees" or "Press Play to learn more most butterflies").

What too makes TechSmith Camtasia 2022 a bully eLearning authoring tool is its basic only useful quiz functionality. Y'all tin insert a quiz at any point during a video. This won't be a rich experience similar the quizzes you'll detect in Clear Storyline 2 or Elucidat as quizzes in TechSmith Camtasia 2022 are limited to multiple selection, backup-the-blank, brusk respond, or truthful or false. Simply the quizzes volition be powerful enough to assistance y'all decipher whether someone gave right or wrong answers.

To pull analytics from your quizzes, you lot'll need to publish your video to Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) and pop it into online training software; this is an added expense you lot'll want to consider before making a buy decision. If yous're not concerned about analytics and you trust your employees to learn and primary the content in your videos, then you lot can share video from TechSmith Camtasia 2022 directly to a number of sites—such equally Vimeo and YouTube—from directly inside the software.

Unfortunately, TechSmith Camtasia 2022 can only handle video files up to 1080P and at 30 frames per second (FPS) so, if your coursework requires college-definition video or intense and rapid graphics, so you'll probably want to purchase heavier-duty video editing software. All the same, amongst the eLearning authoring tools nosotros reviewed, there's no improve solution for building, capturing, and editing quizzes through video than TechSmith Camtasia 2022.

The Bottom Line

All eLearning authoring tools are non created equal. Some are built for heavy-duty HTML5-based interactive content, some are designed for extremely templated course creation, and others focus on a specific media format. TechSmith Camtasia 2022 falls in the latter camp. It'southward non an eLearning authoring tool that does video well, but rather, it's a video tool that'south versatile enough to serve as your company's eLearning authoring tool.

If your desire is to create courses quickly, without worrying about interactivity, templates, dorsum-finish analytics, or gamification, then TechSmith Camtasia 2022 will help you get the task washed. Just don't expect TechSmith Camtasia 2022 to produce the same run-of-the-mill training content you're used to seeing when you get a new task or when compliance reviews are due. That'southward what we like about it.