What's New in 2025.2.5 (11 November 2025)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur if an item is re-added to the Media Bin after the file is already deleted.
- Fixed hotspots with a jump to time or jump to marker action.
- Fixed an initialization issue that could lead to a graphics driver crash on some systems.
- Fixed a bug that Rev can show Background Removal as disabled even if GPU supports it.
What's New in 2025.2.4 (7 October 2025)
Feature Updates
- Use a horizontal layout for the Camtasia Rev window for consistency with Camtasia Online.
- Added option in Camtasia Rev to choose between Rev Media and Unpacked Media after recording.
- Added app icons and tooltips to selection menu for window capture.
- Added import support for WebM: VP8 video with vorbis audio, and VP9 video with opus audio.
- The Camtasia Rev Export options in the dropdown are now accessible with keyboard navigation.
- User can change the asset downloads folder from the Preferences dialog.
Performance Improvements
- Reduce the amount of closed caption objects that can get created while splitting and cutting along the timeline to help performance in projects with many captions.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Added ability to restrict sign-in options via the Deployment tool.
- Removed option for enterprise users to sign in to the application from the File menu.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug where deleting an animation created by Smart Focus could unexpectedly adjust the media crop size.
- Fixed Corner Rounding button being incorrectly unchecked on first launch.
- Fixed bug that clicking Device Frame Effect doesn't show any properties.
- Fixed a bug with SmartPlayer presets in the Batch Export window.
- Fixed an issue where Camtasia might ignore certain events on startup if multiple events occurred at the same time.
- Fixed an issue that could cause some decoded HEVC video frames to be delivered out-of-order.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the export save location dialog to get lost behind the exporter dialog.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to record a window that was missing certain metadata.
What's New in 2025.2.3 (3 September 2025)
Feature Updates
- Removed the Save button from Camtasia Rev.
- Added support for vertical alignment and spacing properties with Dynamic Captions.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Improved messaging for enterprise customers to show that Screencast signin is unavailable.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue which caused extra log files to be written.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when sending a recording from Camtasia Rev to Camtasia Editor.
- Fixed an issue where Dynamic Caption transcript words could get duplicated after an undo.
- Fixed a bug to stop transcript keyframes from being added to Extend Frames of screen recordings and repeat in the transcript editor.
- Fixed an issue that could cause audio playback to stutter when decoding some video files.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Cursor Scale effect to not be applied in Rev.
What's New in 2025.2.2 (13 August 2025)
Feature Updates
- Reordered and simplified buttons in Camtasia Home.
- Adjusted default effects for Camtasia Rev on first use.
Performance Improvements
- Improved performance of playing the timeline when certain media were selected, especially those utilizing cursor click effects.
- Reduced memory usage on startup due to large asset store thumbnails.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Made it so Camtasia can be deployed with mentions of Audiate hidden.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could cause Windows cursors to be misidentified as custom cursors which prevented replacement by vector cursors.
- Fixed a potential crash if SmartFocus was applied to a clip that was sped up by clip speed.
- Fixed an issue where "Smooth cursor across edits" would not work for media with audio.
- Fixed a keyboard trap where users could not keyboard navigate in the recorder window without clicking on it.
- Improve screen reader support for some UI controls within the Home window.
- Fixed bug where replacing media with photos, dynamic backgrounds, or callouts resulted in the replacement media having the incorrect length.
- Fixed tab order on export watermark dialog.
- Preview windows for media and assets do not cover Camtasia dialogs to prevent the Camtasia editor from being frozen.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent entering values over 1000 into numeric Properties boxes.
- Fixed bug where Asset Service can display no results found erroneously.
- Word wrapped a checkbox on Voice Narration.
- Added padding between columns in start-up survey.
What's New in 2025.2.1 (29 July 2025)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed some issues where the project or media could go missing after editing a project from Camtasia online.
What's New in 2025.2.0 (22 July 2025)
New Features
RECORDING
Single Window Recording
Isolate your screen and audio recording to a single window or application without the distraction of anything else popping in to steal the focus.
EDITING
Rev Media (Beta)
Instantly make adjustments to Rev recordings right on the timeline. Quickly and effortlessly modify the look, layout, and effects for entire recordings or split sections of your video.
SETTINGS
Light Mode UI (Beta)
Not a fan of the dark side of Camtasia? Now you can brighten things up with the new Light Mode. Currently only available for Windows.
Feature Updates
EDITING
Rev Updates
The Rev editing workflow has been updated to include new looks, backgrounds, and effects. Your video will look better than ever in no time.
CURSORS
Changed the Cursor Elevation default settings based on the media type. Rev media is set to "Original Position in Media" and other media types are set to "Always on Top" by default.
SMART FOCUS
Smart Focus now works with cropped media.
ONBOARDING
Onboarding tooltips are turned on for all users by default.
MARKERS
Increased the max character length for Markers from 40 characters to 200 characters.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated Expat to version 2.7.1
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where some HEVC video streams would fail to decode correctly.
- Fixed a bug where MP4 files recorded with Ring Central could fail to import.
- Fixed a user-reported startup crash.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when applying speech-to-text to assets that do not contain speech.
- Fixed a potential crash when adjusting "JKL playback" playback speed.
- Fixed bug which caused screen recordings to not honor the cursor elevation setting of a placeholder.
- Fixed the bug that installer errors can show during quiet installs in some cases.
- Fixed a bug where SmartPlayer info was not included in exported MP4 files over 3GB.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a blank word to be inserted when clicking on a media's transcript track.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when updating offline media.
- Fixed a bug where exported animated GIFs could have an 'extra' black line not present in the canvas.
What's New in 2025.1.3 (25 June 2025)
New Features
- Added the Edit Image in Snagit feature.
- Allow importing SNAGX files as images.
Feature Updates
- Add ability to double click the FPS button and open the project settings menu.
- Background tab in the Rev window is updated with new files.
- Added user configurable keyboard shortcut for Add Audio Point.
Updates for IT Administrators
- swfobject.js was unused and has been removed from the install.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where video streams in MTS files could fail to decode.
- Fixed a bug with the FPS button so it no longer opens up the playhead time control. Fixed a bug with tooltips that prevented shortcut commands from displaying correctly.
- Fix a bug where MP4 files recorded on Google Pixel 7 Pro could fail to decode video.
- Fixed a crash when ripple replacing the placeholder with legacy noise reduction effect.
- Fixed a bug that could cause some ADPCM audio streams to be ignored.
- Fixed a bug where a group's audio waveforms would not update after a trim and undo.
- Fixed an issue where the media Duration popup could leave a 1 frame gap between media.
- Fixed a bug where the installer could hang when running it quietly when the app is already installed.
- Fixed a bug where the installer could hang on exit after running it when another installation was already in progress.
- Fixed a user-reported licensing error.
What's New in 2025.1.2 (27 May 2025)
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updates ffmpeg from 7.1 to 7.1.1.
- Updated Camtasia's installer to WiX Toolset version 5.0.2.
- Addresses untrusted search path issues which could result in elevation of privilege by a local attacker.
Feature Updates
- Added Kinetic Cursor, Cursor Gradient, Cursor Motion Blur, and Left Click Scaling to Rev.
- Modified Rev default effects.
- Effects in Rev are now listed in alphabetical order.
- Updated options for auto proxying sources to control cloud storage and additional performance reasons separately.
- Provide the end-user with time sensitive information about the subscription in Home.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where MP4 files from WhatsApp may fail to import.
- Fix the bug that "Paste Effects" is always disabled.
- The Skew property is now being correctly copied and pasted between media.
- The survey will not show up again when it was taken previously.
- Fixed an intermittent crash.
- TREC from Rev displays marker information in Editor now.
- Ripple replacing placeholder with the TREC file maintains the marker information.
- Fix a bug with audio/video sync on some imported files.
What's New in 2025.1.1 (01 May 2025)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a startup crash that could occur when using a graphics processor that does not support Direct3D Feature Level 12_0.
What's New in 2025.1.0 (29 April 2025)
New Features
- Added Onboarding Tooltips that will appear on hover for certain controls to help guide your Camtasia experience. This setting must be toggled on.
- Added new Cursor Effects: Cursor Isolation, Gradient, Lens, and Negative.
- Added new Click Effects: Burst 1, Burst 2, Burst 3, Burst 4, and Zoom.
- Added new Visual Effects: CRT Monitor, Static Noise, and Torn Edge.
Feature Updates
- Added Angle property to Slide Right and Gradient Wipe transitions.
- Updated the placeholder look and text.
- The Camtasia free trial no longer has a time constraint: users can explore editing and features at their own pace, with watermarked exports.
- Smart Focus can now create animations for recordings with dimensions smaller than the canvas dimensions. Modifications were also made to how Smart Focus decides to add zoom and pan animations.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated Camtasia's installer to WiX Toolset version 4.0.6.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a bug where export could fail.
- Fixed a crash that could occur during editing on some DE or FR systems configured to use a comma as a decimal separator.
- Fixed advancing to next marker when markers are on non-frame boundaries.
- Fixed bug of gaps on timeline caused when changing default image duration.
- Fixed a bug where audio might not be exported for projects with mouse-click sound effects.
- Fixed an issue with text spacing properties not updating while in text editing mode.
What's New in 2025.0.1 (25 March 2025)
Feature Updates
- Improved transcription such that empty words are no longer added.
- Fixed version endpoint in TechSmith Agent.
- Added keyboard shortcuts for canvas "Zoom to fit" and "Zoom to 100%".
- Removed export options for Panopto.
- Removed options to purchase from Help menu for enterprise customers.
- Updated messages shown when opening a project that was created in an earlier version.
- Enterprise customers will no longer be prompted to purchase if their subscription ends.
- Improved user experience in Rev for media that are not a new recording.
- Changed the position of the trial watermark to be top-center aligned.
- Recordings without screen or camera streams will now bypass Rev and go straight to Editor.
- Improved behavior of Space and Enter playback keys when the focused control might also handle the key press.
- Split the Camtasia Rev Effects tab into two separate tabs: Screen and Camera.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated Pango to version 1.56.1
- Updated FFmpeg to version 7.1.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issue where some PDF files would render too dark on systems configured to use a comma as a decimal separator.
- Fixed a bug that could prevent some AVI files from being decoded.
- Fixed issue where expanding certain comboboxes could potentially revert the state of the project.
- Fixed a localized string in the installer options.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the uninstaller to hang.
- Fixed an issue that could cause an extra application process to remain open after exiting Camtasia.
- Fixed a bug that could cause rotation metadata to be ignored for HEVC videos.
- Fixed an issue where Cursor Smoothing would not affect your cursor movement even though it was applied to the media.
- Fixed Asset Service shortcut from bringing up Asset Service when deployment option is off.
- Fix added time when adding dynamic caption when inside of a group.
- Fix a bug where uncompressed audio in some MOV files fails to decode.
- Fixed bug where performing a cut on a dynamic background did not always preserve the user-adjusted aspect ratio of the media.
- Fix bug deleting a transcription after undo.
- Fixed a bug that could cause spacing problems when importing captions from an SRT file.
- Improved handling of invalid project files.
- Fixed some issues with the timing and performance of Cursor Clicks on the timeline.
- Fixed a bug that could occur in Windows 11 24H2 or later which could cause frames to be recorded out of order.
- Fixed a user-reported crash in Camtasia Rev.
- Fixed an issue that could prevent blank cursor keyframes from being shown on media.
What's New in 2025.0.0 (12 February 2025)
New Features
AUDIO EFFECTS
AI Noise Removal
- Isolate your voice with precision, removing unwanted sounds while keeping your voice crisp and clear.
CURSOR EFFECTS
Cursor Motion Blur
- Provide a blur effect to cursor movement to create a more visually engaging appearance.
Kinetic Cursor
- Add momentum to cursor movement to appear as if it is being pulled and pushed across the screen.
Elevate Cursor
- Bring your cursor to the front of the screen over other onscreen effects, media, and annotations.
Feature Updates
DYNAMIC CAPTIONS
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.