12 Februrary 2025: What's New in Camtasia 2025.0.0
New Features
Audio Effects
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AI Noise Removal
- Isolate your voice with precision, removing unwanted sounds while keeping your voice crisp and clear.
Cursor Effects
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Cursor Motion Blur
- Provide a blur effect to cursor movement to create a more visually engaging appearance.
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Kinetic Cursor
- Add momentum to cursor movement to appear as if it is being pulled and pushed across the screen.
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Elevate Cursor
- Bring your cursor to the front of the screen over other onscreen effects, media, and annotations.
Feature Updates
Dynamic Captions
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Dynamic Captions Editing
- Expanded editing for dynamic captions including the addition and removal of words and spaces.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash when opening some projects with cursor edits.
- Fixed a crash when editing some media with cursor data.
21 January 2025: Camtasia 2024.1.5
Feature Updates
- Removed export option for Knowmia.
- Removed export option for TechSmith Video Review.
- Added a dialog to disclose the use of whisper.cpp for AI audio processing.
10 December 2024: Camtasia 2024.1.4
Feature Updates
- Camtasia now supports receiving and synchronizing updates from the brand new Generate Avatar feature in Audiate.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where certain AVI video codecs would fail to decode.
20 November 2024: Camtasia 2024.1.3
Feature Updates
- Added keyboard shortcuts: Copy Properties, Paste Properties.
- Added keyboard shortcuts: Copy Effects, Paste Effects.
- Camtasia Rev will now remain in front of the Editor window while it is open.
- Camtasia will now prompt the user to refresh their login when their login information is invalid.
- It is now possible to add a Transition before all Transition thumbnail previews have loaded.
- Removed the Legacy Local File export option and Production Wizard.
- Removed export option: Google drive.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Modern Exporter now respects deployment settings to disable hosted Smart Player.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where export could error out due to failed audio compression.
- Fixed a compatibility issue with some 3rd party applications that don't expect 64-bit fields in the MP4 header.
- Fixed a customer-reported issue that could cause proxy video frames to be rendered out of order.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when reading a malformed mp4 file.
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur if the license was in an invalid state.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent signing out if the license was in an error state.
- Fixed a bug that could cause recordings on Windows 11 24H2 and later to become corrupt if no differences were detected while recording.
24 October 2024: Camtasia 2024.1.2
- Fixed a bug that caused the Modern Exporter to ignore quality settings which could result in large exported file sizes.
22 October 2024: Camtasia 2024.1.1
Feature Updates
- Improved UI rendering when viewing transcription text on the timeline at different zoom levels.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated YouTube Integration section of the End User License Agreement (EULA).
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause large MP4s to be corrupted on export.
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur due to Camtasia launching with low process integrity.
- Users can now choose to enter a license key without restarting if they previously canceled the key entry dialog.
- Fix crash if required permissions are not selected when signing into Google Drive
- Exporting to SmartPlayer when offline works now
- Fixed a bug that could cause AI Noise Removal to have unexpected results on stereo files with inversely correlated audio signals.
15 October 2024: Camtasia 2024.1.0
New Features
- Allow user to assign a color to clips/media on the timeline, in order to more easily scan visually while editing.
Feature Updates
- Added the ability to view and fine-tune the timing of the dynamic caption transcript on the timeline audio media.
- Improved synchronization of audio with video when the recorder is paused while recording.
- Added support in the Modern Exporter for exporting AAC audio at 224kbps, 256kbps, and 320kbps variable bit rate (VBR) quality.
- Added playback speed indicator to Editor.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
3 October 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.7
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause the mouse position to be incorrectly recorded when using multiple monitors.
30 September 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.6
Feature Updates
- Added helper text for Closed Captions.
- Updated Support Tool to include Camtasia Audiate integration files in zipped bundle.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur while generating thumbnails for a project with a large number of media.
- Fixed a bug that could cause non-ASCII characters to render incorrectly on export.
25 September 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.5
Feature Updates
- Changed "Captions" label to "Closed Captions" and "Dynamic Captions Styles" to "Dynamic Captions."
- Added additional logging support for Camtasia Audiate integration.
- Added additional export options to the Modern Exporter for the "MP4 with Smart Player" file type.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Update libmp3lame from 3.100.2.0 to 3.100.2.16.
- Removed RestSharp dependency.
- Resolves a null pointer issue in mp4v2. Thanks to Chancen for reporting.
- Resolves an illegal address read issue in mp4v2. Thanks to Chancen for reporting.
- Resolves a double free issue in mp4v2. Thanks to Chancen for reporting.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause camera options to become unavailable after changing camera dimensions.
- Fixed drag-n-drop of .tscproj from Windows Explorer.
- Localization fixes.
- Fixed crash when making a preset with a shape callout.
- Fixed crash when clicking the add cursor keyframe button with Cursor Path Creator.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent projects from before Camtasia v2020 from upgrading.
- Fix start up crash with empty keyboard shortcut for "Show/hide quizzes" or "Show/hide markers."
- Fixed a bug that could cause medias' visual state to be temporarily incorrect after ungrouping.
27 August 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.4
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where the user may get black video when the system locale is set to Chinese.
22 August 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.3
Feature Updates
- It is now possible to switch user accounts from the trial dialog.
- Added unassigned shortcut for moving playhead to a specific time.
- Added a message to Background Removal effect UI when the selected GPU does not support the effect
- Added property to Dynamic Captions: Split captions by sentence
Bug Fixes
- Fixed crash where images and audio media in One Drive locations were getting proxied.
- Improved dialog when importing from Powerpoint.
13 August 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.2
Feature Updates
- Improved thumbnail for Background Removal visual effect.
- In the Dynamic Captions Tool, the height of the Transcription panel will be persisted across runs of Camtasia.
- New dialog shows when Camtasia needs to be periodically connected to the internet.
- Improved accuracy of caption transcription.
Performance Improvements
- Merged change to make Dynamic Captions hover over preview more performant.
Bug Fixes
- Improved error handling on startup when licensing errors occur.
- Fixed a bug that could cause unexpected resizing to take place when animating a cropped media.
- Fix the project name with double byte characters encoded correctly.
- Fix transition preview when hovering over transitions.
- Localization fixes.
- Fixed bug where the Tool Panel or Properties Panel would remain permanently closed until Camtasia is restarted.
- Fix a bug on adding downloaded assets to the timeline which can shift all other media on the track
- Cursor click sounds now are audible when applied to any media that click sound effects can be added to.
- Fix startup delay in Home window when using a business license key
- Improved visual consistency and usability of search bars in the tool panel
- Auto-proxying now happens for imports from Mobile Connect, Snagit, asset service and more locations.
- Improved an error dialog that appears when importing an invalid file to Camtasia Rev.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Scale to Fit to be calculated incorrectly.
- Added helper text to alert user when Dynamic Backgrounds are not available in Camtasia Rev.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent projects started in Camtasia Rev from being shown in Recent Projects.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the playhead region selector to collapse when showing the the context menu.
- Dynamic Captions from Audiate now use the properties and options available inside Camtasia when imported.
- Fixed a crash that could take place when initializing the recorder.
- Customer survey does not appear anymore if the survey has already been taken.
26 June 2024: Camtasia 2024.0.1
New Features
Editor
- Users can now change the current playhead time by clicking the current value beneath the Canvas and entering a different time.
- Added support for pasting images from the Windows clipboard into the Camtasia Editor.
Feature Updates
Dynamic Captions
- Users are now prompted to name their preset when creating a Dynamic Captions preset.
- Added Dynamic Captions to the Tools submenu within the View menu.
- The Dynamic Captions transcript now displays the name of the transcript's source media.
- Dynamic Captions styles will now be shown immediately in the Captions tool panel after being imported from a Camtasia Package.
Accessibility
- Improved text contrast for empty states in tool panels.
- Improved tooltips for the Captions tool panel.
- Added keyboard shortcut for accessing the Dynamic Captions tool.
Performance Improvements
- Fixed a potential performance problem by queuing audio transcriptions when needed.
- Improve performance of selecting a media with a large dynamic caption transcript.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Added support in the TechSmith Deployment Tool to restrict users from accessing Dynamic Captions.
Bug Fixes
- Deleting a word from a dynamic caption transcription no longer leaves a space in the rendered caption.
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur if a user's processor does not support instructions used for fast transcription. NOTE: Processors without that support will experience significantly reduced performance when transcribing speech to text.
- Fixed an issue which caused "Dimensions: 0 x 0" in the Media Bin hover tooltip for image files.
- Fixed an issue where long recordings could cause the UI to hang for several seconds when the mouse hovered over the clip in the Media Bin.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Captions tool panel from opening when a Dynamic Captions user preset is created.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent some ProRes MOV files from being decoded properly.
- Localization fixes.
04 June 2024: What's New in Camtasia 2024.0.0
New Features
Dynamic Captions
- Powered by AI, users can now show every spoken word on screen as it is spoken. Use one of the preset styles or use the properties panel to create unique ones. Supports many different languages.
Rev workflow enhancements
- Send both new and existing media through the Rev workflow for quick layout options.
Assets integration
- Find the assets you need right within the Camtasia editor to get your videos done even faster. Assets include titles, footage, callouts, dynamic backgrounds, music, audio visualizers, photos, and more.
New recording engine
- Capture higher frame rates and higher resolution screen recordings powered by a new screen recording engine.
Text Stroke
- Add an outline to any text. Change the color, size, and opacity of that outline.
Tiling visual effect
- Create custom animated backgrounds with a logo, image, or video repeated in a pattern across your screen. Added flexibility to change sizes and spacing.
Progress bars and timers
- Show time progression with easy-to-modify progress bars and countdown timers.
Feature Updates
Visual enhancements
- Dozens of new behaviors, dynamic backgrounds, and audio visualizers.
Cursor enhancements
- Make a static screenshot look like a video by adding a mouse cursor, then changing its position and adding clicks. Additional cursor effects include the ability to scale cursor clicks or add a glow around the cursor.
JKL editing enhancements
- Speed up your video editing. JKL brought the ability to play the video preview at slower (J) or faster speed (L) and now you can slow down (Shift + J) or speed up (Shift + L) without pausing (K) in between.
Editor shortcuts
- New shortcut options to speed up your video editing.
Toolbar reordering
- Click and drag to rearrange the items in the main toolbar.
Speech-to-text closed captions (Win only)
- New AI technology that turns the audio of your video into closed captions on your video.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue showing the wrong duration when adding an Extend Frame to the end of a media.
05 Februrary 2025: Camtasia 2023.4.10
Bug Fixes
- Camtasia will now prompt the user to refresh their login when their login information is invalid.
29 October 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.9
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur due to Camtasia launching with low process integrity.
- Fixed a crash that could occur upon importing certain MP4/MOV files.
- Fixed a bug where export would result in a hang.
- Fixed a crash when editing recordings with click effects on the timeline.
14 May 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.8
Feature Updates
- Updated Google Drive integration to meet increased Google security standards.
- Removed automatic adding of the Emphasize effect to audio.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated WiX to version 3.14.1 which addresses CVE 2024-29187, where a local attacker could elevate privileges when the Camtasia installer is running, and CVE 2024-29188, where a local attacker could elevate privileges to delete files when the Camtasia installer is running.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where video streams on certain MP4 files would not be recognized.
- Fixed a bug where uncompressed video in AVI files failed to decode properly.
- Fixed a bug where certain TSCC AVI files could fail to decode properly.
- Fixed a bug where video streams on certain MP4 files would not be recognized.
18 April 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.7
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding an animated GIF to the timeline.
16 April 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.6
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when saving or using Library Assets.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fix the issue that user cannot export to Panopto.
- Fix a bug where video stream would show all-black frames for certain MP4/MOV files unless proxied.
- Fix a bug where some MJPG video streams in AVI files wouldn't decode.
- Fixed a bug in Camtasia Rev that could cause effect titles to be truncated.
2 April 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.5
New Features
- Explore Assets Directly in Camtasia! Camtasia now offers the ability to browse assets by category or by utilizing search without ever leaving the Camtasia editor. Access titles, footage, music tracks, animations, images, callouts, and more. Create content in Camtasia faster than ever before!
Bug Fixes
- Localization fixes.
- Fixed a crash adding a media with multiple video streams to the timeline.
- Fixed an issue where Timeline navigation to next media would not always work on a keystroke callout.
- Fixed an issue where you might see a no connection message when changing tabs on the Home asset discovery control.
- Fixed a bug where some AVI files cannot be rendered and saved in the project.
- Fixed an issue with extra space appearing below tool panel tabs for certain DPI settings.
19 March 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.4
Feature Updates
- Improved keyboard accessibility in the Properties panel.
- Added Batch Export to the simplified Export menu.
- Added additional criteria for auto-proxying source files including large dimensions and known problematic file types.
- Simplified Export menu.
- Removed the glow effect on the rectangular recording region indicator to improve capture performance.
- Allow user to click through the Recorder 3-2-1 count down window.
Performance Improvements
- Fixed a performance issue that could result from using stitched media.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated WiX which addresses CVE 2024-24810, where a local attacker could elevate privileges when the Camtasia installer is running.
- Updated libexpat to version 2.6.0.
Bug Fixes
- Fix the crash when hitting Escape in the Batch Dialog
- TREC files will no longer be proxied by default.
- Fixed a bug that could cause proxying to fail for some source media.
- Fixed a bug that caused projects saved from Camtasia Rev to have an incorrect default name.
- Fixed a bug that could cause unexpected behavior when using Animations with Clip Speed.
- Fixe a bug that would cause the hover preview to stop working for MOV file in the Media Bin.
- Fixed an issue with media not behaving correctly after detaching the timeline.
- Fixed a possible crash when using Speech-to-Text with a selected stitched media.
- Fixed an issue with the Editor window not maximizing correctly on startup if closed while maximized previously.
13 February 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.3
Feature Updates
- Added Valentine's Day 2024 cursor pack.
- Adjusted Media Bin thumbnails to more accurately reflect the standard Canvas layout.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed Canvas preview of visual fx which could be rendered incorrectly on proxy videos and/or vector graphics.
- Removed deprecated link to Community Support from Camtasia Home.
- Fixed a bug in Camtasia Home that prevented Recorder from being launched when using accelerator keys.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent media from being added to the Library from the Media Bin.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent some source files from being reversed or proxied.
23 January 2024: Camtasia 2023.4.2
Feature Updates
- Increased the size of the webcam in the default Editor layout when importing a .trec file.
- Projects that are imported from Rev will not have a background applied automatically if the screen recording or camera recording fills the entire canvas, unless Background Removal has been applied.
- Added a tooltip to Camtasia Rev that displays details about Rev backgrounds.
- The Batch Exporter now accepts MP4 and TREC files as source media for batch export.
- Added option to Preferences: Automatically delete oldest proxy files when filesize exceeds a threshold.
- Source media that are detected as being in cloud-backed storage locations are now proxied by default. This behavior can be turned off in the Preferences menu.
- Camtasia will now warn the user when the temporary storage location is set to cloud-backed storage, which is not recommended.
- It is now possible to drag-and-drop projects and/or media into the Batch Export dialog.
- The Batch Exporter now supports "Create multiple files from markers."
- Improved the look of the Record button in Camtasia Home.
- Added a Camtasia Rev layout that mimics legacy Camtasia behavior with no background.
Performance Improvements
- Miscellaneous performance improvements.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging an AVI or WMV source file under the playhead.
- Fixed network security prompt not showing in the installed languages.
- Fixed a memory leak with timeline media
- Fixed a bug that could create an invalid caption when trimming the beginning of the project's first caption.
- ESC key back to work to exit sync caption now
- During Voice Narration and sync captions the downloads button and the record flyout button are now disabled.
- Dynamic Backgrounds and other shader-based media no longer skip after a Ripple Delete.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a trial dialog to briefly appear for users that already have a valid Camtasia license.
- Improved the default Background Removal quality to Accurate for users with discrete video cards.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash or other undesired behavior when editing cursors on stitched media.
- fix sometimes noise removal failed when clicking Analyze
- Fixed a bug that could cause some videos to flip when visual effects were applied.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent captions from scrolling properly while syncing.
- Fixed a bug in the Modern Exporter that could cause changed settings to be lost when switching tabs.
- Fixed issue where recording toolbar button tooltips could show up in the recording.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when saving to a standalone project.
- Improved consistency of visual effects between different types of source media including differences with Lottie files and proxy media in the Editor.
- Fixed a bug that could create multiple undo points when reverting while cropping.
12 December 2023: Camtasia 2023.4.1
Feature Updates
- Improved exporter progress reporting.
- The Emphasize audio effect is now automatically applied to microphone recordings.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Replaced Unity with DryIOC 5.4.3.
Bug Fixes
- Improved error handling when licensing errors occur due to permissions issues.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent importing of assets via the Assets tab in some environments.
- Fixed a bug that could cause media files to be missing when saving standalone projects to OneDrive.
- Fixed a bug that could result in cursors being recorded at an incorrect size.
- Fixed a bug that could cause exports to introduce a black line in projects with dimensions not divisible by two.
- Fixed an issue where audio volume tooltips would not show after splitting a media
- Users are now prompted to confirm the opening of project files containing network paths, addressing a potential security risk. Thanks to @gokuKaioKen_ for reporting this issue.
- Fixed a potential crash that could occur when launching help documentation during signin.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent proxying of MTS files.
29 November 2023: Camtasia 2023.4.0
New Features
- Improved Batch Video Export
- Introducing a new set it and forget it experience for exporting videos in Camtasia! With the improved Batch Exporter, you can now add multiple projects to a queue and export them all together. All of your standard and custom export presets are available, allowing you to export a series of projects in a variety of sizes and formats. Walk away and let Camtasia's Batch Exporter work through a number of projects, or keep working on a current project while your other projects export in the background.
Feature Updates
- Added a cursor pack with three new cursors (Christmas tree, candy cane, Santa Claus hand).
- Added the ability to resize the Tool Panel
Updates for IT Administrators
- Fixed a security issue where user interaction with a maliciously crafted project file could result in arbitrary code execution. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa (@RenwaX23) for reporting this issue.
- Fixed a security issue with the custom file handler protocol, which could result in arbitrary file downloads. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa (@RenwaX23) for reporting this issue.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a memory leak related to video decoding.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the video to flicker when transitions were applied to special annotations such as Blur or Spotlight.
- Fixed an issue with a label being cut-off in the Media Bin in certain locales
- Fixed a bug that could cause warnings when exporting from Camtasia Rev that did not apply to the Camtasia Rev recording.
- Fixed a bug: Recorder can initialize webcam improperly sometimes.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a detached Canvas to change size after an export is completed.
- Updates to mic volume in system settings are now properly reflected in the Recorder interface.
14 November 2023: Camtasia 2023.3.3
Feature Updates
- Added support for Dynamic Captions on audio that originates from Audiate.
- Improved scaling behavior when in Crop mode: it is now simpler to return to 100% scale when cropping.
Performance Improvements
- Improved performance of the Background Removal visual effect.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Removed dependency on XceedZip.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a discrepancy that could take place between proxied videos and the exported result when using Corner Rounding.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Editor to briefly be shown before Camtasia Rev is displayed.
18 October 2023: Camtasia 2023.3.2
Bug Fixes
- Fixed translated text in Offline Activation workflow.
17 October 2023: Camtasia 2023.3.1
Updates for IT Administrators
- Added Offline Activation option for users with restricted internet access.
- Updated TSCC Codec to use Zlib version 1.2.13
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that prevented selection tabs from reattaching to the playhead when selection duration is 0.
- Fixed a bug that prevented selection tabs from being dragged past one another.
- Fixed a possible crash if Camtasia is launched multiple times before the sign in workflow is completed.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when recording system audio when no audio was present.
2 October 2023: Camtasia 2023.3.0
New Features
- Camtasia Rev: Simplify Your Video Creation Journey
- Camtasia now offers an effortless video creation workflow called Camtasia Rev. Now a part of Camtasia, Rev is designed to help you make great content faster than ever. With just a few clicks, Rev enables you to seamlessly blend screen recordings, webcam footage, and audio into captivating videos.
- New recordings immediately enter the Rev interface where you transform the raw recording into a near-completed product with size, layout, background, effect, and filter selections. From here, you can send the video to Camtasia's non-linear editor for further editing and enhancements or export it immediately.
- To get started, simply toggle on the Camtasia Rev switch, and make your next video as fast as "Click. Click. Done!"
- Grab Your Favorite Assets Directly in Camtasia!
- Assets are now easier than ever to access and add to your projects! You can now browse over 20 million professional, royalty-free video assets directly in Camtasia. Add polish to your video with photos, videos, audio, and customizable digital content, without ever leaving the editor!
Visual Effects
- Added Visual Effect: Mask
Feature Updates
- Edit Faster and Sound Better with Audiate!
- Camtasia and Audiate now have improved syncing to help users edit video and enhance audio faster than ever. Seamlessly hop back and forth between Audiate and Camtasia to edit your video like text.
- Audiate has also added the ability to to sync Dynamic Captions with Camtasia so you can add exciting, bold captions to your videos.
Filters
- Renamed Sullen Siren to Sullen.
- Renamed Tasteful Goddess to Tasteful.
- Renamed Goddess to Citrus.
Recorder
- Added option to Recorder preferences: Mirror camera preview.
- Recorder streams for screen recording, camera, microphone, and system audio are now on by default.
Visual FX
- Updated Remove Background Visual Effect:
- Added Property: Quality
- Added Property: Feather
- Added Property: Opacity
- Added Property: Blur
- Added Property: Ease In
- Added Property: Ease Out
- Updated Border Visual effect:
- Added Property: Use alpha.
- Border thickness property now ranges from - to 50.
- Ease In and Ease Out are now supported.
Cropping
- Updated behavior while in Crop mode: moving a media moves it inside the constraints of the crop rectangle.
Performance Improvements
- Improved Canvas preview performance when changing the slider values of dynamic assets.
Bug Fixes
- Removed Beta badge from "Use GPU encoding" option in MP4 encoding settings.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when recording system audio on a silent system.
- Fixed an issue where drag to restore a maximized window could shrink the window.
- Fix a hang that could occur when changing the active timeline tab while the preview is playing.
- Camtasia's file picker dialog now remembers the location of the most recently used folder when opening a project.
- Fixed a bug that caused playback to stop when selecting a media on the timeline.
- Fixed a bug that could cause sliders for Dynamic Properties to move erratically when dragged.
- The correct error is now shown when trying to save to a file that exceeds the maximum file path length.
- Fixed a crash when assetproj has unknown font.
22 August 2023: Camtasia 2023.2.0
New Features
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- Attention content creators, podcasters, musicians, vloggers, and just about anyone wanting to inject an irresistible dose of expressive flair into their visual projects! Camtasia's new audio visualizers bring your voice, music and sound effects to life, synthesizing your audio tracks with dynamic graphics that excite and engage your viewers more than ever before! And just like Camtasia's dynamic backgrounds, they're drag-and-drop easy to use, and can be easily extended to match the length of your audio on the timeline!
Audio Visualizers
Feature Updates
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- It is now possible to sign out of Camtasia from Camtasia Home.
Camtasia Home
Performance Improvements
- Fixed a resource leak that could lead to increased startup time.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated Cairo to version 1.17.8
- Updated Freetype to version 2.12.1
- Updated FriBidi to version 1.0.12
- Updated Glib to version 2.76.3
- Updated Libpng to version 1.6.39
- Updated Pango to version 1.50.14
- Updated Zlib to version 1.2.13
- Updated Expat to version 2.5.0
- Updated PCRE to version 10.42
Bug Fixes
- Improved sync between video and audio streams in Recorder.
- Improved error messaging for licensing errors.
- Improved Canvas rendering when displaying the Canvas at a scale other than 100%.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent font ligatures from rendering properly.
- Fixed a bug that could cause minor artifacts to be shown on text when using Behaviors.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Fade Behavior from working correctly with special callouts such as Spotlight.
8 August 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2023.1.2
New Features
- Added user preference for Recorder: Automatically minimize recording window.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause an empty graphics card name to appear in the list of available graphics cards.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a recording to be removed from the project if recording took place with the Project Settings dialog opened,
- Fixed several issues that could cause the playhead to jump to the wrong time when editing captions.
- Fixed a bug that Export Asset doesn't work when changing temp folder to any drive not C.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent changing of audio properties after an Extend Frame.
- Fixed an issue where imported media would sometimes sort into the "yesterday" category in Media Bin.
18 July 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2023.1.1
Editor
- Added ability to filter typefaces by typing into the font menu.
- Added support for opening Mac projects that were zipped instead of being Exported for Windows.
- Improved hover preview performance for h.264 videos.
- Project playback will now pause when starting a media preview from the Media Bin or Library.
Dependency Updates
- Updated libexpat to v2.5.0.
- Updated Microsoft.Rest.ClientRuntime to v2.3.24.
- Updated Lua to v5.4.6.
- Removed outdated D3DX9_42.dll.
- Removed outdated Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable files from installation.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug that could cause Speech to Text to stop before transcribing an entire media.
- Fixed a bug that could cause auto-normalization settings for media to be out of sync with Project settings.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a user to be prompted for a license key when one had already been entered.
- Fixed a bug that caused images to be saved in PNG format when saved as a JPG.
- Fixed a bug that could cause flickering in some MP4 source files.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when online activation fails.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing from Google Drive after a reinstallation.
- Fixed a hang that could occur when closing the application while loudness calculations were taking place.
27 June 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2023.1.0
New Features
- Editor
- Variable Speed Playback
- Added Variable Speed Playback.
- Variable Speed Playback
Feature Updates
- Licensing
- Added option to purchase an individual subscription license.
- Visual Effects
- Added Reflection Visual Effect.
- Changed the Open Visual Effects Tab Shortcut from “L” to “X”.
- Updated tool panel previews for some Visual Effects.
- Exporter
- Added ability to Exporter Produce from Command Line.
- Added ability to Export and import exporter presets via campackage.
- Added ability to Show estimated production time in the progress dialog on export.
- Added a warning to warn users about the upcoming retirement of the legacy export option.
- Added a warning to warn users not to save projects on in cloud-backed directories.
- Editor
- Canvas Rulers
- Added ability to Hide/Show Canvas Rulers via right-click.
- Canvas Rulers
- Playhead
- Updated selection region behavior when interacting with the playhead.
Bug Fixes
- Performance
- Improved timeline performance when cursor keyframes are shown.
- Improved timeline performance when media contain stitches.
- Recorder
- Fixed a bug that could cause Bluetooth audio outputs to become silent when selected in the Recorder.
- Fixed a bug that prevented users from unassigning more than one keyboard shortcut in the Recorder.
- Speech-to-Text
- Fixed a crash that could occur if Speech-to-Text was canceled.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Speech-to-Text captions to be added at an incorrect time.-
- Miscellaneous
- Users are now prompted for a license key if Sign-In fails.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when zooming out of the Canvas.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if a system had a 32-bit version of WebView2 installed.
- Fixed a bug with clip speed that could cause distorted audio.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the active cursor to be displayed with the wrong color.
- Fixed a bug that could cause custom keyboard shortcuts to remain when Delete User Data was selected on uninstall.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the selection handles to be rendered incorrectly during playback.
9 May 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2023.0.2
Bug Fixes
- Increased timeout for Camtasia sign-in to reduce failed sign-in attempts.
- Improved error message when Camtasia sign-in does not succeed.
- Added Learn More button to the sign-in error message dialog.
- Added Edit in Audiate to the Edit menu.
- Added Quit option to the Sign-in dialog.
- Updated a graphic in the Trial Expired dialog.
- Removed "Use software-only mode" from the Hardware Acceleration dropdown in Preferences. When troubleshooting video driver issues, please use Microsoft Basic Render Driver instead.
- Improved performance for Background Removal (Beta) when using the GPU.
- Improved audio rendering performance in projects that contain captions.
- Launching an export from the command line or from Camtasia Add-in for PowerPoint will now utilize the modern export experience.
- Exporting to YouTube now uses the project dimensions when exporting instead of imposing a maximum of 1080p.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the digitaltrains Dynamic Background to render incorrectly on the canvas.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the expiration date for maintenance licenses to display incorrectly.
- Fixed a bug that could cause transfer of projects between Camtasia and Audiate to fail.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent some templates from being updated when upgrading Camtasia.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when Camtasia failed to show a toast notification.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during batch production if source media were unavailable.
25 April 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2023.0.1
Bug Fixes
- Added the Motion Path effect to the Animations tool panel.
- Added Continue Editing and Unlink from Audiate menu options to context menu for media that are linked in Audiate.
- Removed countdown timer from Camtasia Home for non-renewing maintenance subscribers.
- Fixed an intermittent startup crash.
- Fixed a bug that could cause license error messages to appear behind the related dialog box.
- Fixed a bug that could make the Motion Path preview thumbnail fail to play for some users.
- Fixed a bug that could cause cursor keyframe indicators to show incorrectly after changing the edit rate.
25 April 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2023.0.0
New Features
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- The new Cursor Color effect lets you instantly change the color scheme of any cursor on the screen. Tired of black and white? Us too. Simply drop the Cursor Color effect onto any media with a recorded cursor or Cursor Path Creator effect and use the color pickers to breathe new life into your cursors. Use bold color choices to grab your audience's attention, or map the cursor colors to your brand with this simple drag and drop effect found in the Cursor Effects tool bin.
Cursor Color Effect
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- The cursor is the lead actor of any video that has screen content. You know every hero needs depth and contrast to stand out in a scene. That’s where the new Cursor Shadow effect comes to the rescue. Simply drag the Cursor Shadow effect from the Cursor Effects tool bin onto your media and then adjust the Angle, Offset, Blur and Opacity to draw the cursor away from the screen and increase contrast.
Cursor Shadow Effect
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Cursor Packs
- Really want to stand out from the crowd? Need to put a smile of delight on your audience's face? Our visual designer CoCo has created two cursor packs that unleash a visual feast that’s sure to engage viewers. Replace any cursor in your recording using the drop down menu inside the Cursor Image Replace properties of any recording or media with the Cursor Path Creator effect applied. You won’t be disappointed.
- Neon Cursor Pack - (58 cursors)
- Hand Drawn Cursor Pack (25 cursors)
Visual Effects
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- Create a wide range of looks from warm and sunny to cool and moody. Whether you’re looking to achieve a cinematic color tone, give your footage a vintage feel, or lean into a futuristic look Camtasia Filters gets you there with a simple drag and drop effect.
- Thirty-two unique color Filters (Color LUTs) can now be found in the new Filters tab of the Visual Effects tool bin.
Camtasia Filters
- Create a wide range of looks from warm and sunny to cool and moody. Whether you’re looking to achieve a cinematic color tone, give your footage a vintage feel, or lean into a futuristic look Camtasia Filters gets you there with a simple drag and drop effect.
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- Add dynamic animation that flows and swoops along a path using the new Motion Path effect. This delightfully simple effect lets you add movement to any element in your video. Once applied, it’s super simple to add additional path animations just by context-clicking anywhere on the canvas and choosing Extend Path to Here. Looking for some EXTRA awesome sauce? Toggle on Auto Orient in the properties panel and make your media rotate as if it really is following the path. And that’s just the beginning my friends–dig into the effect properties for granular control over easing and line types.
Motion Path Effect
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- One of the most iconic and versatile effects in the photo / video world is now a simple drag and drop effect in Camtasia. The new Vignette effect makes it easy to create a cinematic look that draws viewers attention to the center of your content. Make your photos or videos appear as though they were shot using expensive, vintage glass, or just wash away unwanted details at the edges of your media. Vignette ships with a number of simple adjustments that let you refine and shape the effect.
- Control the intensity and black and white color tone of the effect using the Amount slider.
- Use the Size, Roundness, and Feather sliders to control the focus area.
Vignette Effect
- One of the most iconic and versatile effects in the photo / video world is now a simple drag and drop effect in Camtasia. The new Vignette effect makes it easy to create a cinematic look that draws viewers attention to the center of your content. Make your photos or videos appear as though they were shot using expensive, vintage glass, or just wash away unwanted details at the edges of your media. Vignette ships with a number of simple adjustments that let you refine and shape the effect.
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- Don’t have the time, patience or money to set up a green screen? No problem–let the robots do the heavy lifting. Fire up your camera, record yourself, add that video to your Camtasia timeline and then just drop the Background Removal effect onto the clip. Now place your footage in the perfect position over your screen content to get that modern streaming influencer look.
AI Background Removal (Beta)
Editing
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- Use the new Corner Pin editing mode to map an image or video to a 3d perspective. Found the perfect hand model photo? It’s now super simple to make a screenshot of your app appear as if it’s part of the original scene in that stock photo–just click on Corner Pin mode and drag the corners of your content to match the desired scene.
Corner Pinning
Assets
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- Hand crafted with love in the Mitten, the 2023 Camtasia Asset Library has been revamped from the bottom up. This year's focus has been on making the content easier to browse and even more customizable. There are a ton of new assets including the headliners of the Camtasia 2023 release–Dynamic Backgrounds and Dynamic Fills. Just dropping these assets on the Canvas will instantly elevate the style and appearance of your video. Camtasia’s powerful and flexible Quick Properties and Dynamic Properties make it easy to customize the assets to put your own personal spin on how your content looks.
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- Whether you’re looking for a stunning background or a sexy fill, Camtasia has you covered. These aren’t run of the mill video assets or stock footage, either. Need that background to last a few seconds or a few hours? No problem, just drag the length to match whatever you want. Need to scale things, but don’t want jaggies / softness? Again we’ve got you covered. Tired of backgrounds that eat up hundreds of megabytes or even gigabytes? Our Dynamic Backgrounds and Fills are insanely small–just a few kilobytes in size. Want that background to contain fluid, looping motion? Just drag the speed slider to set the speed of the motion in your background for the duration it appears on the timeline. Really want to have some fun? Every single Dynamic Background and Fill has its own set of dynamic properties that allow you to adjust color, speed, number of elements and much, much more. It’s as if Camtasia ships with an ultra slick set of expensive plugins that create beautiful motion backgrounds and fills. No extra cost. No plugins needed.
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- Looking for some inspiration? Need a beautiful layout to drop a title and a screenshot on? On the hunt for elegant framing that wraps around mobile and desktop screen content? Our new unstructured templates give you the perfect starting point without forcing a narrative structure that doesn’t fit your needs.
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- Looking for more inspiration? Facing a deadline and need stunning results immediately? A collection of customizable titling, lower thirds, animations, motion graphics and more is available via our cloud based asset service. Our content team is working hard to surface the best free, premium, and featured assets for use in your next video. And now, it’s easier than ever to discover these assets in Camtasia Home just below Recent Projects.
Portfolio
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- Captured the perfect screenshot only to discover that its UI elements are too busy for your video? No problem, simply context-click on the image in the media bin, choose Edit in Snagit, let the Simplify Tool there do its magic and then send it back to Camtasia. Even better, the Snagx image format is now supported, allowing you to perform roundtrip editing of annotations and adjustments made in Snagit.
Snagx Support and Roundtrip Snagit Editing (Mac)
Feature Updates
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- An all new state of the art rendering engine improves preview performance and export rendering speed. Those export coffee breaks just got a whole lot shorter.
Export
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- Share directly to Screencast and take advantage of all the feedback and collaboration features of our modern online video platform.
Screencast Export (Mac)
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- Camtasia's Lottie color support makes it easy to quickly customize slick animations to match your branded content. Quick Properties take this to the next level. Group any Lottie animation and color wells are automatically generated in the properties panel. The Quick Property Asset editor allows you to map Lottie colors to Theme colors making it incredibly easy to style elements from the Camtasia Asset Library and Asset Service.
Lottie Color Quick Properties
Lottie
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- Radial controls have been reworked from the ground up to allow precise, fluid control of angle values when dragging radial controls in the properties panel.
Improved Radial Angle Controls (Mac)
Properties
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Bug Fixes
- Edit All Animations now applies when making changes to media on the Canvas.
- Fixed a hang that could occur when updating a stitched media.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to all-black frames when reversing a video.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to a corrupt video when exporting a project with no audio.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a gap between media on the timeline when trimming a transition.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Themes to be missing in the dropdown for non-ENU customers.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error when changing the color of text-only annotations.
- Fixed a bug that could cause fx trackers to fail to properly scale down with small media.
4 November 2024: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.7
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated FFmpeg to version 6.0 which addresses CVE 2024-7272, in which a remote attacker could potentially exploit a heap-based buffer overflow.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur due to Camtasia launching with low process integrity.
23 July 2024: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.6
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated WiX to version 3.14.1 which addresses CVE 2024-24810 and CVE 2024-29187, where a local attacker could elevate privileges when the Camtasia installer is running, and CVE 2024-29188, where a local attacker could elevate privileges to delete files when the Camtasia installer is running.
16 January 2024: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.5
Updates for IT Administrators
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Fixed a security issue where user interaction with a maliciously crafted project file could result in arbitrary code execution. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa (@RenwaX23) for reporting this issue.
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Fixed a security issue with the custom file handler protocol, which could result in arbitrary file downloads. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa (@RenwaX23) for reporting this issue.
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Users are now prompted to confirm the opening of project files containing network paths, addressing a potential security risk. Thanks to @gokuKaioKen_ for reporting this issue.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could cause Camtasia to incorrectly show maintenance expiration date as 1/1/2001.
16 January 2024: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.5
Updates for IT Administrators
- Fixed a security issue where user interaction with a maliciously crafted project file could result in arbitrary code execution. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa for reporting this issue.
- Fixed a security issue with the custom file handler protocol, which could result in arbitrary file downloads. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa for reporting this issue.
- Users are now prompted to confirm the opening of project files containing network paths, addressing a potential security risk. Thanks to @gokuKaioKen_ for reporting this issue.
2 May 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.4
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could cause Camtasia to incorrectly show maintenance expiration date as 1/1/2001.
11 April 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.3
Updates for IT Administrators
- Fixed a folder permissions issue that prevented some enterprise end-users from accessing Camtasia.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that prevented accessing Camtasia with a Windows username containing non-Latin characters.
23 March 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.2
Feature Updates
Cursors
- Added option to Preferences: Show timeline cursor indicators.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when starting a new project when at 60fps and editing a cursor path.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when editing the clip speed of a stitched media.
7 March 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.1
Feature Updates
Lottie
- Added Update Media support for Lottie files. This is only available if they have the same properties.
- Lotties now save custom colors when saved back to the Library.
Cursors
- Double-clicking a cursor keyframe while editing now moves the playhead to that keyframe.
Visual Effects
- Added Search Bar to Visual Effects Tool Panel.
- Added the ability to swap colors on Visual Effects with two colors.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a problem that could occur when dragging Audio Fade In or Fade Out.
- Fixed a bug that allowed m4a export to proceed when no audio was present.
- Fixed a bug that could occur when undoing a color change to the Color Tint effect.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when replacing media on a Quick Property Asset.
- Fixed a UI alignment bug for Visual Effects with blending ranges.
- Google access tokens are now stored in Windows Credential Manager. Thanks to Zekv4n for reporting.
- Google access tokens are now revoked during sign out. Thanks to Zekv4n for reporting this issue.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect keyframes to be highlighted when editing the cursor path.
- Timeline thumbnails are now properly updated after a Lottie color is changed.
- Fixed a bug that could fail to show a timeline thumbnail after extending a media frame.
- Fixed a crash in DEU when adding an asset to the Library using Use Visible Size.
- Fixed a bug that affected the Line Type selection while editing the cursor path.
7 February 2023: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.5.0
New Features
Transitions
- Added six new heart themed transitions with configurable properties just in time to show your viewers the love.
Recorder
- In addition to quickly launching Camtasia’s Recorder, now Auditate and Snagit Recorders can be launched directly from the Camtasia Editor.
Feature Updates
Recorder
Dimension Presets
- Revamped Recorder Dimension presets to support horizontal, vertical and square video resolutions. Choose a preset by selecting the dropdown menu in the Screen Recording toggle switch.
Lottie
- Added ability to adjust solid color fills and strokes of Lottie Media on the Timeline
Canvas
- Added “Center Anchor” context menu option to reset the position of a media’s anchor point to its default.
- Added ability to constrain media along a vertical or horizontal axis when dragging on the Canvas by holding down“shift” while performing the drag operation.
- Completely revamped Project Dimension presets to support horizontal, vertical and square video resolutions. Context-click anywhere on the Canvas and choose Project Settings, then use the Dimensions dropdown to choose desired video dimensions.
Cursors
Custom Cursor Images
- Added the ability to import custom cursor images that can replace cursors in a Camtasia screen recording, or when using the Cursor Path Creator visual effect.
- Added the ability to set a custom cursors’ anchor point position using the Properties Panel cursor crosshairs UI, or input fields.
- Added ability to edit previously imported cursors via the Properties Panel.
- Added ability to delete previously imported cursors via the Properties Panel.
- Added the ability to replace an existing cursor with a blank cursor. No need to add an animation and adjust opacity in order to hide a cursor–just use the Cursor Image Replace Panel and choose the blank cursor.
- Enhanced Cursor Path Simplification algorithm to account for the position of recorded click events.
- Added “Center Anchor” context menu option to reset the position of a media’s anchor point to its default.
- Added ability to constrain media along a vertical or horizontal axis when dragging on the Canvas by holding down“shift” while performing the drag operation.
- Completely revamped Project Dimension presets to support horizontal, vertical and square video resolutions. Context-click anywhere on the Canvas and choose Project Settings, then use the Dimensions dropdown to choose desired video dimensions.
Export
- Added automatic “remember last used settings” to the modern export experience. Settings are saved across sessions.
- Added ability to create and save presets to the modern export experience.
Tools
- Changed the order tools appear in the left-hand Tools Panel and removed the Interactivity item from tools. Interactive elements can still be added using the timeline Quiz track or via menus.
Bug Fixes
- Improved audio decoding for WebEx recordings.
- Improved handling when audio devices on the system change.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the caption editor to erroneously cycle backwards through captions.
- Fixed a bug in the modern export dialog that allowed too many characters to be entered for frame rate.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using Batch Production.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when failing to initialize a recording device.
- Fixed a bug that prevented source files with double-byte characters from being proxied.
- Fixed the macOS I-beam replacement cursor on Windows.
13 December 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.4.1
Feature Updates
Exporter
- Back by popular demand, the Legacy Exporter is once again available as an export option for encoding and packaging videos. The Legacy Exporter is expected to fully retire in the next 12 months, but based on feedback we have decided the modern export experience needs a few more options available before it can fully assume the role.
- Added the ability to export timeline selection into the modern exporter.
Bug Fixes
- Improved performance when trimming media with cursor metadata.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Undo to undo more than expected after dragging media to the canvas.
6 December 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.4.0
Feature Updates
Media Replace
- Added ability to drag and drop replace media on Canvas.
- Placeholders can be replaced on Canvas using drag and drop.
- Designated media inside Quick Property Assets can be replaced on Canvas using drag and drop.
Exporter
- Updated the Screencast exporter.
Bug Fixes
- Added a scrollbar to the Timeline context menu for users with smaller screen resolutions.
- Retired option to "Extract Recording Contents..." from the Media Bin.
- Retired option to extract recording contents using the Windows Shell.
- Improved error message when licensing fails because servers are busy.
- Improved error messages that can occur if an upload fails after exporting.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the recorder to silently exit in the middle of a recording.
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur for DE customers that changed their Timeline height to fractional pixel dimensions.
- Fixed a bug that would cause export validation steps to be skipped when using the keyboard shortcut.
- Fixed a bug that prevented PowerPoint files from being imported if the extension was not lowercase.
- Fixed a bug that could cause pasted media to move to an unexpected position when pasted inside a Group.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Camtasia 2021 Library Assets to display with incorrect crop rectangles on the Canvas.
- Fixed a bug that could cause crop properties to be lost when replacing media in a Quick Properties Asset.
- Fixed a bug that could allow too many quiz answers to be supplied by manually editing the project file.
15 November, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.3.0
New Features
Rulers & Guides
- Added ability to show / hide Rulers to the Canvas.
- Added ability to add vertical and horizontal guides to the Canvas by dragging from a ruler.
- Added ability to remove guides from Canvas by dragging guide back to ruler.
- Added ability to remove guides using context menu.
- Added ability to snap media to guides.
Feature Updates
Cursors
- Added Smooth Across Edits toggle option to cursor properties.
- When selected, the cursor position is automatically animated between the final cursor position keyframe of selected media and first cursor position keyframe of next media on the same track.
- When selected, cursor position is automatically animated across stitches in selected media.
- Added Cursor Image keyframe indicator glyph to Timeline media.
- Displays current cursor image at time.
- Current Cursor Image keyframe highlighted at time.
- Highlights all instances using current cursor at time when the Similar segment control is selected in the Properties Panel.
Transitions
- Added user configurable attributes to 72 Transitions.
Canvas
- Zoom Level
- Increased the scale range of Canvas Zoom to 2000%.
- DPI Aware Adjustable Canvas
- Canvas UI detects high DPI systems and monitors and chooses appropriate scale of UI elements.
- User configurable DPI scaling options allow users to adjust the scale of Canvas UI controls (1x, 1.5x, 2x).
Reverse Video
- Added ability to reverse audio streams within video media.
Media Replace
- Added ability to drag and drop from Media Bin and Library to Quick Properties of Assets in the Properties Panel.
Export
- Exposed export option to allow GPU encoding for MP4 output in modern exporter.
- This is a beta feature, and will be tagged as such in the UI.
- For certain hardware configurations, enabling this feature can potentially result in a modest increase in performance when exporting a video.
- The supported configurations will be pretty narrow at first, and hopefully expand over time as we learn more and develop the feature. Removed Production Wizard.
- All export options now flow through the modern export experience.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when exporting after canceling an export.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using the Pan tool while editing the cursor path.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when dragging media to and from the Library.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding trec files with stitches from the Library.
- Improved license cache performance to reduce intermittent licensing errors.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the cursor to leave the edited cursor path.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the wrong Favorites category to be shown on application start.
- Fixed a bug that allowed trimming of media past the beginning of the project.
- Fixed a bug that could change the undo stack when selecting media.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a performance slowdown when reopening a project.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Jump to Marker from working within quizzes.
- Fixed a bug that could cause quizzes and tables of contents to show at an incorrect time.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Library assets smaller than the Canvas to be saved with incorrect dimensions.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent OBS from showing as an available camera.
- Fixed a bug that could cause erratic behavior when editing captions.
- Fixed a bug that could cause frame rates other than 30fps to be changed to 30fps when sharing to some destinations.
- Improved mouse cursor behavior when editing effects on the Canvas.
- Fixed a bug that could occur when replacing cropped media.
28 September, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.2.1
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur in the background during shutdown.
27 September, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.2.0
New Features
Cursor Image Replace
- Added the ability to navigate between cursor image changes to the Properties Panel.
- Added ability to replace the recorded cursor image with a different cursor image from the recording.
- Added ability to replace the recorded cursor image with a vector system cursor image.
- Added the ability to choose the cursor image used with the Cursor Path Creator effect.
- Added Recorded Cursors Set to the Cursor Image Replace combo box in the Properties Panel.
- Added Mac and Windows System Cursors Sets to the Cursor Image Replace options in the Properties Panel.
- Added the ability to insert a new cursor image at the Playhead position of a Camtasia Recording.
- Added the ability to insert a new cursor image at the Playhead position when using the Cursor Path Creator effect.
- Added Current Cursor Indicator Element.
- Added Cursor Image Keyframe Indicator.
- Delete Cursor Image Keyframes.
- Add New Cursor Image Keyframes.
- Added Cursor Replace Operations.
- Replace Current Cursor.
- Replace All Similar Cursors.
- Replace All Cursors.
Feature Updates
Transitions
- Added Search Bar to Transitions Tool Panel.
Audiate Sync
- Added Edit in Audiate options to properties panel when media is selected on the Timeline.
Editing
- Added Remove All Stitches to menu bar and media context menus.
- Set WAV as default format for Audio Narration.
Shortcuts Added Customizable Shortcuts:
- Remove All Stitches
Deprecated / Removed
- Removed Vimeo Output.
Bug Fixes
- Updated crash reporting dialog to include a hyperlink to TechSmith tech support.
- Updated the End User License Agreement with new TechSmith physical address.
- Changed the mouse cursor opacity in the Camtasia 2022 Default Template to 100%.
- Fixed audio / video sync issues with OBS and Reincubate Camo virtual cameras.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting properties after deleting a Marker.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using mp4s with very large dimensions.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing project frame rates.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent users from modifying the Extend Frame duration.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent users from renaming quizzes on the timeline.
- Fixed a bug that could create apparent gaps in the timeline when combining Clip Speed with Magnetic Tracks.
- Fixed a bug that prevented Audiate-generated captions from being trimmed out.
- Fixed a hang that could occur when adding a marker to Audiate-generated captions.
25 August, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.1.1
Feature Updates
Video Support
- Improved support for HEVC-encoded video files.
Visual FX
- Added canvas snapping for Visual FX with corner and center handles.
Cursors
- Cursor path line types now show as disabled when they are unavailable.
- When generating cursor paths, the last keyframe will now be selected first.
- Esc key will now exit Cursor Path Editing.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when reversing a TREC file without screen media.
- Fixed a startup crash for Japanese users.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Transitions to be listed out of alpha order.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Copy Selected Effects to be shown when it should not be.
- Fixed an error that could occur when extending a media.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Behaviors from showing in the Favorites dropdown on startup.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a cursor point to be deselected when clicking with a modifier key.
- Fixed a bug that cause effects to be removed when replacing a media.
16 August, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.1.0
New Features
Reverse Video
- Added ability to reverse video clips in the Media Bin.
Blur Region Effect
- Added Blur Region visual effect with configurable blur amount and tint color. Enjoy frosted glass in any shade your heart desires.
Freeze Region Effect
- Added Freeze Region visual effect. Select any region of the screen and freeze the selected area, or inverted selection, in place for the duration of the effect. Get rid of those annoying / embarrassing pop-ups with a simple drag and drop effect.
Feature Updates
Favorites
- Added labeled expanders to the Favorites Tool.
Cursors
- Improved user interface for cursor paths on the timeline.
- Added tooltips to the cursor tab in the Properties panel.
- Cursor Path Editing state is now remembered when re-selecting a media.
Exporter
- The last-used folder is now remembered when using the modern export experience.
- Updated the YouTube exporter.
Transitions
- Added customizable properties for some transitions.
Installation
- Improved error messaging when installation fails.
Licensing
- Improved customer experience while using the licensing support tool.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when selecting an image with a Cursor Path Creator applied.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when undoing and redoing a Cursor Path Creator effect.
- Fixed a bug that could cause unexpected changes in canvas objects' position when ungrouping.
- Fixed a bug that could allow invalid characters when renaming a Theme.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an incorrect maintenance expiration date to be shown based on the user's time zone.
- Fixed a bug that could leave obsolete files in the user's Temp folder in the event of a crash.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the Zoom-n-Pan view to be drawn incorrectly when displaying nested groups.
- Fixed a bug in drag selection logic when using a magnetic track.
- Fixed a bug that could allow placeholder properties to be edited on non-placeholder media.
- Fixed a bug that could allow invalid Ease Out values to be entered.
- Fixed a bug that could mark a project as modified after opening the Project Settings dialog.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent reverting a media's scale.
26 July, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.0.4
- Added Paste as plain text to callout right-click menu.
- Added support for minimizing the exporter dialog while using the modern export experience.
- Days remaining in a customer maintenance agreement is now hidden until 30 days are remaining.
- Days remaining in a customer maintenance agreement is now hidden for all enterprise customers.
- Updated End User License Agreement (EULA).
- Improved in-product message banner on high DPI displays.
- Fixed crash on startup when proxy.pac file has empty or DIRECT proxy.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when trying to paste an image as callout text.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if an invalid key was entered into the trial watermark dialog.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error to be thrown when exporting from Audiate to a new project.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the caption editor from starting when hitting the Enter key.
- Fixed a bug that could cause too many Undo points when moving media on the canvas using arrow keys.
12 July, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.0.3
- Camtasia editor will now minimize while using the modern export experience.
- Export progress is now shown on the taskbar icon while using the modern export experience.
- Updated SCORM package templates.
- Updated callout text insertion cursor to match the color of the text to increase visibility.
- Improved recorder flyout animation in the Camtasia Home screen.
- Increased mouse click target size for recorder flyout in the Camtasia Home screen.
- Expired trial information is now displayed properly in Camtasia Home.
- Improved accessibility of the Camtasia installer.
- Fixed a silent crash that could occur when exiting the program.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when renaming an effect.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when editing a cursor path.
- Fixed a bug that could result in a group name being lost when replacing media.
- Fixed a bug that could cause error messages to become hidden behind the registration dialog.
17 June, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.0.2
- Added subscription information to the About Camtasia dialog.
- Added Blending Range control to Color Adjustment effect.
- Added Blending Range control to Color LUT effect.
- Added Blending Range control to Color Tint effect.
- Added Blending Range control to Colorize effect.
- Renamed Colorize Amount property to Intensity for consistency with other effects.
- Added better error handling when media files become unavailable.
- Fuse error dialogs now link directly to a relevant help article.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during batch production if a .tscproj file was invalid.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when a Library asset was missing key information.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when grouping stitched media with no visual track.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when Camtasia is shutting down.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent exporting from Audiate to Camtasia.
8 June, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.0.1
- Added context menu item to Recent Projects in Camtasia Home: Open File Location.
- Added context menu item to Recent Projects in Camtasia Home: Remove From List.
- Added context menu item to Templates in Camtasia Home: Open Template Manager.
- When prompting for a file name, Recorder will now automatically append a date-time stamp.
- Changed effect name from "Cursor Path" to "Cursor Path Creator."
- Restore Path will now restore cursor paths created by Cursor Path Creator.
- Lottie JSON files now show the correct metadata in the Media Bin.
- The Ctrl key will now disable canvas snapping while editing the cursor path.
- Added "(audio only)" for clarity to the M4A file type in the Exporter dialog.
- Updated cursor for Cursor Path Creator effect.
- Redoing a Group command now properly selects the group on the timeline.
- Fixed a Recorder crash that could occur when selecting a region.
- Added vector cursors to improve compatibility with macOS recordings.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent Audiate from exporting to Camtasia.
- Fixed a bug that caused a tooltip in Audio Properties to display for incorrect menu items.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the parent media to be deleted when deleting a cursor point.
- Fixed a bug that allowed arrow keys to affect the Canvas when Editor was not in foreground.
- Fixed a bug that caused Marker or Quiz to be incorrectly selected when reopening the menu.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect height or width properties to be shown after cropping a media.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a Cursor Path to be added to a Placeholder before it was dropped.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Ctrl key from disabling snapping during Cursor Path Editing.
- Fixed a bug that could allow creation of a corrupt media in the Media Bin.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening multiple projects in a row.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when undoing a change to the project frame rate.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when Grouping a stitched media with no visual track.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while updating a media if the original path had an invalid filename.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Library preview windows to display at the wrong size.
- Fixed a bug that could cause incorrect playback progress to be shown when the Canvas is detached.
- Error descriptions have been improved when installation fails.
- Fixed a bug that could cause restoring items to a tool panel to affect items in other tool panels.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent keyboard shortcut changes from being reflected in context menus.
7 June, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2022.0.0
- Added support for virtual cameras and camera capture cards.
- New and improved multi-stream recording engine (Mac).
- New and improved Recorder UI (Mac).
- Retired Legacy Recorder (Windows).
- Added ability to edit cursor path position based on metadata captured by Camtasia Recorder.
- Added ability to add cursor path to any image, video or group via Cursor Path Creator (Mac) Cursor Path (Windows) effect. Cursor Path Creator is available in both the Visual Effects bin and the Cursor Effects bin.
- Added robust cursor path editing capabilities.
- Added ability for recorded raster operating system cursors to be replaced with vector equivalents.
- Added cursor default scale of 225%.
- Added increased range of cursor scale slider to 2000%.
- Added ability to override cursor scale value up to 10,000%.
- Added ability to set cursor default scale in preferences.
- Send video directly to Audiate and edit the video by simply deleting, cutting, or pasting automatically transcribed text.
- Send edited video from Audiate directly to Camtasia Timeline.
- Auto-sync automatically moves objects on the Camtasia Timeline to match edits made in Audiate.
- Auto-stitching automatically joins edited video media into a single virtual media to allow easy application of effects, animation and cursor adjustments.
- New and improved local export experience (Windows).
- Deprecated Production Wizard (Windows).
- Added single-click export defaults.
- New and improved Camtasia Home experience.
- Added ability to access Home at any time, even while editing a project.
- Added TechSmith Recorder Flyout menu, providing quick access to Camtasia, Audiate and Snagit Recorders.
- Added Templates quick access view to Camtasia Home.
- Added Recent Projects hero thumbnails and metadata.
- Added Trial and Account status radiator to primary view.
- Added Enhanced Learn Tab Experience.
- New and improved cross-platform Canvas interaction engine.
- Added align–assist guides to bounding box interactions to easily align media.
- Added ability to adjust anchor point of any media.
- Added anchor point snapping.
- Added adjusted anchor points will now be stored when media is added to the Library.
- Added 30 new GPU accelerated transitions.
- Added Blend Mode effect with hover preview.
- Added Blend Range advanced adjustment settings.
- Added Outline Edges effect (Windows).
- Added Spotlight effect (Windows).
- New and improved default Library now ships with over 1000 new custom assets, including callouts, cursor animations, system cursors, emphasis effects, title assets, icons, glyphs, fills, overlays and more.
- Added 5 new custom project Templates.
- Added spell check to text-based callouts (Windows).
- Added Paste as Plain Text option (Windows).
- Added Duplicate media shortcut (Windows).
- Added audio output gain adjustment control to timeline VU meter.
- Added HEVC video decoding support (Windows).
- Added Restore Audio context menus and shortcut (Windows).
- Added option to range select all media to the left or right of the Playhead.
16 January 2024: Camtasia 2021.0.20
- Fixed a security issue where user interaction with a maliciously crafted project file could result in arbitrary code execution. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa (@RenwaX23) for reporting this issue.
- Fixed a security issue with the custom file handler protocol, which could result in arbitrary file downloads. Thanks to Renwa Hiwa (@RenwaX23) for reporting this issue.
- Users are now prompted to confirm the opening of project files containing network paths, addressing a potential security risk. Thanks to @gokuKaioKen_ for reporting this issue.
19 April, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.19
- Fixed a Recorder hang that could occur if a particular registry key was missing.
- Fixed a bug where media would be left in the media bin after saving and closing a project.
- Fixed a bug that could cause more undo actions than expected when undoing a text color change.
- Fixed a bug that prevented transition durations from being previewed when dragged above media on the timeline.
22 March, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.18
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error to display when launching Camtasia.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding a WAV file with an MP3 extension.
- Fixed a hang that could occur on machines with Intel Iris Xe video cards.
25 February, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.17
- Fixed a bug that could cause objects in Editor to display incorrectly after opening a project with a different edit rate.
16 February, 2022: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.16
- Added option to Recorder: Open Editor after recording is stopped.
- Added Recorder Shortcut: Ctrl+M to Add Marker.
- Improved behavior when errors occur while saving recordings: users may now retry saving with a different name.
- Pause/Resume is now disabled during Recorder countdown.
- Region selection indicators are no longer shown if screen recording is not selected.
- Updated Google Drive and YouTube SDKs to address CVE-2018-1285 preventing a local XML eXternal Entity (XXE) vulnerability.
- Fixed a bug that could slow the Camtasia Editor opening.
- Fixed a bug that prevented seeking when previewing media from the Media Bin.
- Fixed a bug that prevented line and arrow Annotations from being highlighted when dragging an effect.
- Fixed a bug that caused Fuse options to be shown when the install option to disable Fuse was chosen.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a glitch when an mp3 media contained a split.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when creating a new project.
- Fixed a bug that allowed invalid recordings by using the Stop hotkey when a recording was not taking place.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on production when using production presets.
- Fixed a crash that could occur on machines using encrypted hard drives.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Undo to undo more than the user intended.
- Fixed a bug that could cause frames to be rounded incorrectly when changing frame rate.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Zoom-n-Pan preview from updating correctly.
8 December, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.15
- Fixed a crash that could occur when changing Clip Speed in a locale that uses commas as decimal separators.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when pressing the New Project keyboard shortcut many times in succession.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Device Frames to be missing from thumbnail images.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent seeking through media while previewing from the Media Bin or Library.
29 November, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.14
- Fixed a memory leak that could cause Camtasia to become unresponsive after multiple mp4s were rendered using hardware acceleration.
- Fixed a bug that caused thumbnails for ProRes MOV files to render incorrectly.
- Communication between the Fuse mobile client and Camtasia now utilizes Transport Layer Security (TLS). Thanks to nerdwell for reporting.
16 November, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.13
- Added localized text for the Panopto output.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Device Frames to extend past the end of a media after a split.
- Fixed a bug that could cause erroneous text callout attributes to change when inserting a line break.
- Fixed a bug that could cause media to be added out of order when multiple media were added to the timeline from the Media Bin.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding .trec files with multi-byte characters in the filename.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when editing Clip Speed on machines that use commas as decimal separators.
12 October, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.12
- Added option to Recorder: Camera recording dimensions.
- Added option to Recorder: Camera target capture frame rate.
- Added an option not to install WebView2 when doing enterprise installs if a beta version is already installed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Undo history to be corrupted when interrupting a mouse movement.
- Fixed a bug that could cause media to be copied when saving a standalone project as a new project that is not standalone.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent the Zoom-n-Pan preview from updating correctly.
- Fixed a bug that caused date sorting in the Media Bin to sort in reverse order.
- Fixed a bug to disallow characters in Theme names that could lead to a crash.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the stitch to be off by a frame when extending media with Clip Speed applied.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the editing caret to be invisible when editing text annotations.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an error when adjusting a media's clip speed on a magnetic track.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Recorder preferences to be unavailable if Camtasia cannot access the camera.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an entire media to be silenced when silencing a selection.
20 September, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.11
- Improved error handling when uploading to Panopto with Viewer-only access.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some exported mp4s to play back at an incorrect size in some players.
- Fixed a bug that prevented media on locked tracks from being added to Library assets.
- Fixed a bug that could cause waveforms to be drawn incorrectly when extending media.
16 September, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.10
- Added licensing support for proxy strings in the registry that include scheme.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent media with filenames containing multibyte characters from being imported.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an incorrect window to gain focus when the canvas is detached.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent presentations from being exported to Knowmia.
14 September, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.9
- Added option to Recorder: Customize shortcuts for Record/Pause/Resume and Stop.
- Added option to Recorder: Choose maximum capture frame rate.
- Added option to Recorder: Choose recording encoder.
- Recorder preferences are now set to factory defaults alongside the Editor when users select this option in Advanced Preferences.
- Uninstallation is now blocked if the Recorder is still running.
- Improved crash handling when a user's license info is corrupted.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when previewing media in the Media Bin.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a project.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing media.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when adding media to the timeline.
- Fixed a bug that could cause animations to render incorrectly on annotation tails.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a single Undo command to process more Undo actions than intended.
- Fixed a bug that prevented fragmented mp4s from being proxied.
- Fixed a bug that could cause fragmented mp4s to render intermittent black frames.
25 August, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.8
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur when updating cached user credentials.
24 August, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.7
- Added option to export to Panopto in Camtasia Editor.
- "Do not capture recorder on screen" option is no longer available on Windows versions that are too old to support it.
- Fixed a bug that allowed users to add Noise Removal to Groups where it has no effect.
- Fixed a bug that could cause Sketch Motion annotations to work incorrectly when saved as presets.
- Fixed a crash that could occur after exporting a video.
- Fixed a bug that could cause proxy videos to have poor sync from some MP4 sources.
3 August, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.6
- Media Width and Height are now accurate to one decimal place in the Properties panel.
- Added support for Motion JPEG MOV files.
- Improved startup handling when WebView2 component is not installed.
- Removed add-in support for 32-bit Powerpoint.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a color shift when exporting to MP4.
- Fixed a bug that could cause reduced performance in large projects.
- Improved error handling when Camtasia cannot launch due to missing or corrupted dll files.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when nesting media using Noise Removal.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when using Zoom-n-Pan.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when declining to recover a recording.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to too many undo points when editing annotations.
- Fixed a bug that could lead to too many undo points when editing multiple objects with Behaviors.
- Fixed a bug that prevented LUT files from being imported in German Camtasia installations.
- Fixed a bug that ignored some plugin preferences during enterprise deployments.
- Fixed a bug that caused a proxy badge to be incorrectly shown on keystroke callouts.
30 June, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.5
- Added 3d LUT Visual Effect.
- Source file names are now truncated in standalone projects if they would have been too long to save.
- Added option to Recorder: Show countdown before recording.
- Added option to Recorder: Omit recorder from recordings.
- Added option to Recorder: Restore cursor location after pause.
- Added option to Recorder: Exit recorder after recording is stopped.
- Improved text navigation while typing in Annotations.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing a media.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when deleting tools from the Tool panel.
- Fixed a bug that could cause multiple undo points for a single scaling action.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a horizontal scrollbar in the Properties panel.
- Fixed a bug that could cause recordings to be lost if an error happened during recording.
- Fixed a bug that could cause auto-normalization settings to be ignored when using Ripple Delete.
- Fixed a bug that caused the Recorder to enter a bad state if closed while recording.
9 June, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.4
- Fixed a bug that caused the Recorder to lose its most recent setting for recording dimensions.
- Fixed a bug that could cause an erroneous signin message to show on launch.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the first one or two frames of a recording to be dim.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when importing mp4s with no audio streams.
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur if Camtasia was unable to access environment information.
27 May, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.3
- Fixed a bug that could prevent users from signing in to start a trial.
26 May, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.2
- Added option to the Recorder that allows users to select a default save location.
- Added save option to the Recorder that allows users the option to choose a file name.
- Reduced minimum track height in the Editor.
- Added menu option and keyboard shortcut to center canvas.
- Added an option to enable/disable font ligatures in the Properties panel.
- Improved accuracy of effect thumbnails when creating user presets of the Corner Rounding visual effect.
- Fixed tab order in the Quick Property Editor.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when scrolling the mouse wheel during startup.
- Fixed a crash that could occur while saving a project.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when sending a new recording from Recorder to Editor
- Fixed a bug that stopped playback when playing proxy files if the source was an .MTS file or a Lottie file.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent some valid files from being proxied.
- Fixed a bug that prevented the Duration prompt from being displayed when extending media.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent users from entering their license key.
- Fixed a bug that prevented media from being extended when they contained a transition.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a misleading duration to be displayed in the Recorder when making long recordings.
- Fixed a bug that could cause deleted user presets to return after restarting Camtasia.
- Fixed a bug that could cause the screen to be recorded when it was not selected.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a drop in frame rate when Transitions are extended.
- Fixed a bug that could cause duplicate audio media when importing from Audiate.
29 April, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.1
- Added Recorder Shortcuts: F9 for Start/Pause/Resume Recording, and F10 to Stop Recording.
- Added a larger webcam preview that can be displayed while recording.
- Added a countdown that is shown before recordings start.
- Improved Recorder UI during recordings.
- Pressing Record inside the Editor will now foreground the Recorder if it has been minimized.
- Hovering over Media Matte options now previews those changes on the Canvas.
- Hovering over media in the Media Bin now allows you to scrub through the media.
- Added Delete All Proxy Videos as an option on the Advanced Preferences menu.
- Added support for activation using a proxy server.
- Groups within Groups are now automatically named with their parent group as a prefix.
- Added support for renaming Group Tabs by double-clicking on the tab.
- Audio waveforms are now drawn on Groups on the timeline to represent audio within the Group.
- Adding a caption while in a Group Tab now adds it to that Group instead of the main timeline.
- The Zoom-N-Pan window now always shows the main timeline even if a Group Tab is being shown.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a bug that could lead images to be one frame in duration when replaced from the Media Bin.
- Fixed a bug that prevented .srt files from being exported when using Camtasia in Spanish.
- Fixed a bug that caused Ripple Insert to work incorrectly inside Group Tabs.
- Fixed a bug that caused webcam-only recordings to fail to drag when dragging to the Canvas from the Media Bin.
- Fixed a bug that caused the timeline to scroll upward when dragging the playhead.
- Fixed a bug that could lead Knowmia productions to have an incorrect duration.
- Fixed sorting order when sorting by Type in the Media Bin.
- Fixed bug that could prevent signin if the system clock time differed from the authentication server.
- Localization fixes.
27 April, 2021: Camtasia (Windows) 2021.0.0
- Added 75+ new Transitions and Transition categories
- Added Audio Emphasize Audio Effect
- Added VU Meter in editor
- Added Motion Blur Visual Effect
- Added Round Corners Visual Effect
- Added Media Matte Visual Effect
- Added ability to generate proxy videos for improved editing performance
- Added Additional properties to Quick Property Assets
- Added Quick Property Editor for creating custom Quick Property Assets
- Added New Animation Shortcuts / Behaviors
- Added support for Lottie animations
- Added support for standalone projects
- Added ability to collapse Property Panel elements
- Added Visual Effects bypass toggle switch to the Property Panel
- Added TechSmith Audiate integration
- Added New Group workflow
- Improved Canvas zooming / panning
- New Welcome Window with project launcher and Learning Center
- New and Improved Recorder UI