Editing+with+Camtasia

I’ve been using Camtasia for nearly ten months now. Overall, Camtasia is a very good and easy to use editing software and I would recommend it to other video editors. It was quite easy to learn how to use, however I did encounter a few problems as listed below: · I do not recommend using Camtasia on a laptop as laptops do not have the performance that desktops do. On the laptop I found that the video often had trouble keeping up with the sound which made editing tricky at times. · If you rename or move a file once you have used it to create a Camtasia project, Camtasia will not be able to find it the next time you open it. You will have to manually find the file and reteach Camtasia its position. This can be especially tricky and time consuming. THEREFORE ensure that you think carefully about file and folder names before you create a project. · It is vital that you remember to save your project file before you create a final output version. I forgot once and this meant I no longer had the ability to easily go back and make any revisions to the produced video. · We wanted to create live links in the videos and podwalks. Camtasia does have a hotlink option that enables this. However at present, after much consultation with other people, we still have not managed to get one to work. It seems that the hotlinks will only work if the video is put online so it makes it inconvenient to check it. It also seems it only works on certain formats and even then some online platforms do not support these functions. · Originally we uploaded the videos straight to Screencast (which is part of the Techsmith company) and embedded them onto our wiki. However halfway through the year, the wiki had an update and stopped recognising Screencasts HTML code. After much investigation our IT department determined that the Screencast HTML code was out of date. At the time of writing this it had not been rectified, so we had to go and upload all the videos to youtube. · After a few months Camtasia started crashing all the time which meant I had to save the project every two minutes! Also on a couple of occasions, I had projects that had somehow replicated themselves several times within one project with the subtitles spaced out over several copies. Strange stuff! No idea why this happened, but hopefully it won’t happen again! (Check out all those exclamation marks!) This could be due to the fact that Camtasia needed an update, but I have no idea. · Despite all of these problems I do like the Camtasia interface. But then I have never tried anything else, so what do I know!
 * Some Comments from Ian **