Camtasia 2021 Version History

Camtasia 2021

2021.0.20 (16 January 2024)

• 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.

2021.0.19 (19 April 2022)

• 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.

2021.0.18 (22 March 2022)

• 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.

2021.0.17 (25 February 2022)

• Fixed a bug that could cause objects in Editor to display incorrectly after opening a project with a different edit rate.

2021.0.16 (16 February 2022)

• 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.

2021.0.15 (8 December 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.14 (29 November 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.13 (16 November 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.12 (12 October 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.11 (20 September 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.10 (16 September 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.9 (14 September 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.8 (25 August 2021)

• Fixed a startup crash that could occur when updating cached user credentials.

2021.0.7 (24 August 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.6 (3 August 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.5 (30 June 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.4 (9 June 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.3 (27 May 2021)

• Fixed a bug that could prevent users from signing in to start a trial.

2021.0.2 (26 May 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.1 (29 April 2021)

• 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.

2021.0.0 (27 April 2021)

• 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