What's New in Version 2023.3.20 (11 November 2025)
Feature Updates
- Added support for macOS 26 Tahoe.
What's New in Version 2023.3.19 (4 December 2024)
Updates for IT Administrators
- Update Sparkle to 2.6.4.
What's New in Version 2023.3.18 (9 July 2024)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash with opening the app settings.
- Fixed an issue that could occur with some library assets.
What's New in Version 2023.3.17 (26 June 2024)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with the screen preview in the recorder window.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.16 (21 May 2024)
Updates for IT Administrators
- Added new deployment option for hiding option to export to external destinations.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issues with Google Drive and YouTube integrations.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.15 (14 May 2024)
Feature Updates
- Removed automatic adding of the Emphasize effect to audio.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated Google Drive integration to meet increased Google security standards.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could occur with selection regions in the preview.
What's New in Version 2023.3.14 (23 April 2024)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed issues that could occur with activation.
What's New in Version 2023.3.13 (9 April 2024)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue that could occur for some users when checking for updates in the background.
- Fixed an issue where Rev Filters may incorrectly show as disabled.
What's New in Version 2023.3.12 (2 April 2024)
Feature Updates
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
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.11 (26 March 2024)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue launching Camtasia for Big Sur users.
- Fixed an issue with captions sent to Camtasia from Audiate.
What's New in Version 2023.3.10 (19 March 2024)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash with audio only recordings.
- Fixed an issue with showing the Media Bin.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.9 (12 March 2024)
Feature Updates
- Simplified Export menu
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where collapsing the tool panel did not work correctly on Sonoma.
- Fixed an issue where recordings were not being added to a project.
- Fixed an issue with importing PowerPoints as media.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.8 (5 March 2024)
Feature Updates
- Users can now start a subscription when prompted on export in order to export without a watermark.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the cursor properties for some screen recordings.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.7 (13 February 2024)
Feature Updates
- Added new Valentine's Day themed cursors.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where selection state could be lost when replacing transitions on media.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.6 (16 January 2024)
Feature Updates
- Auto Proxy Media from cloud storage locations.
- The Emphasize audio effect is now automatically applied to microphone recordings.
- Added tooltips to the backgrounds in Camtasia Rev.
- Updated dynamic backgrounds so that they animate seamlessly when cut.
- Added a new item to the "Layout" tab in Camtasia Rev that is arranged like a traditional recording with the webcam in the lower right, over the screen recording.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where audio would cut out when running Sonoma on Intel hardware.
- Fixed an issue where cursor data may not be captured for some users.
- Fixed an issue where media may render incorrectly when certain effects were applied.
- Fix issue with handling some MTS video files.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.5 (29 November 2023)
Feature Updates
- Added new Holiday themed cursors.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with incorrect color rendering for iOS videos.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
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.
- Resolves a directory traversal vulnerability when using templates.
What's New in Version 2023.3.4 (14 November 2023)
Feature Updates
Audiate Integration
- Added support for captions on audio that originates from Audiate.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the batch export window would not open.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated FFMpeg to version 6.0.
What's New in Version 2023.3.3 (23 October 2023)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where the batch export window would not open.
- Fixed an issue where the quick properties editor window would not open.
What's New in Version 2023.3.2 (19 October 2023)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash that could occur with captions.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.3.1 (17 October 2023)
New Features
Camtasia Rev
- 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.
Asset Service Integration
- 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!
Feature Updates
Audiate Integration
- 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 added the ability to to sync Dynamic Captions with Camtasia so you can add exciting, bold captions to your videos.
Recorder
- Added option to preferences to mirror camera preview.
Visual Effects
- Added new properties to the Background Removal effect.
- Added option for alpha border to the Border effect.
Updates for IT Administrators
- Added Offline Activation option for users with restricted internet access.
Bug Fixes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.2.2 (21 September 2023)
Feature Updates
- Added support for macOS 14 Sonoma.
- Add a user preference to enable/disable "Smooth Cursor Across Edits."
- Add blurring and feathering to the Remove Background Effect.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed lagginess in sliders when adjusting properties of Dynamic Backgrounds.
What's New in Version 2023.2.1 (24 August 2023)
New Features
- Added setting to allow users to record microphones in mono or stereo.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash on launch with OS 11 Big Sur.
What's New in Version 2023.2.0 (22 August 2023)
New Features
Audio Visualizers
- 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!
Updates for IT Administrators
- Updated FreeType to version 2.12.1
- Updated FriBidi to version 1.0.12
- Updated libpng to version 1.6.39
- Updated Pixman to version 0.42.2
- Updated zlib to version 1.2.13
- Updated Pango to version 1.50.14
- Updated Cairo to version 1.17.8
- Updated HarfBuzz to version 8.0.0
- Updated PCRE to version 10.42
- Updated OpenSSL to 3.1.2
Bug Fixes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.1.2 (8 August 2023)
Feature Updates
- Improved Border effect now has a Use Alpha toggle. Add a border to a text to simulate a stroke. Combine with Corner Rounding effect to get a rounded border on shapes and media. Apply the Background Removal effect to footage, add a Border and get that funky-cool outline around your selfie video. The possibilities are endless.
- Added the ability to add markers to all recordings.That's right, you can now drop markers on selfie camera, and audio only recordings making it easy to find important moments when editing later.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with Camtasia holding on to microphone session.
- Fixed an issue where the recording region border may show in the recorder.
- Fixed an issue with some shortcuts.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when rotating media
- Improved performance of updating titles in Quick Properties Editor.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.1.1 (18 July 2023)
Bug Fixes
- Update Lua to version 5.4.6.
- Update OpenSSL to version 3.0.1.
- Fix issues with changing audio devices while Camtasia is running.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.1.0 (27 June 2023)
New Features
- Added Variable Speed Playback
Feature Updates
- Added MP3 Export Option
- Added option to purchase an individual subscription license
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue when playing back audio with clip speed applied.
- Fixed an issue with changes to cursor path and images not saving properly for library assets.
What's New in Version 2023.0.3 (16 May 2023)
Bug Fixes
- Made improvements to capturing cursor metadata on Silicon hardware.
- Fixed an issue where system may indicate the camera was in use when it was not.
- Fixed a bug that could cause transfer of projects between Camtasia and Audiate to fail.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when exporting with SCORM options.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.0.2 (27 April 2023)
Bug Fixes
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in Version 2023.0.1 (27 April 2023)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where Camtasia may hang when loading.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
What's New in 2023.0.0 (25 April 2023)
New Features
Cursor
Cursor Color Effect
- 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 Shadow Effect
- 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 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
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.
Thirty-two unique color Filters (Color LUTs) can now be found in the new Filters tab of the Visual Effects tool bin.
Motion Path Effect
- 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.
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.
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.
AI Background Removal (Beta)
- 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.
Editing
Corner Pinning
- 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.
Assets
New 2023 Asset Library
- 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.
Dynamic Background / Dynamic Fill Assets
- 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.
Templates
- 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.
Asset Discovery in Camtasia Home
- 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
Snagx Support and Roundtrip Snagit Editing (Mac)
- 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.
Feature Updates
Export
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.
Screencast Export (Mac)
- Share directly to Screencast and take advantage of all the feedback and collaboration features of our modern online video platform.
Lottie
Lottie Color Quick Properties
- 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.
Properties
Improved Radial Angle Controls (Mac)
- 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.