Camtasia 2020 Now Available

Brooks Andrus
Technical Product Manager
Greetings. Today, TechSmith is very excited to announce the release of Camtasia 2020. This release is an absolute beast with a large number of features and improvements that will appeal to many different types of users. Lots of love and sweat was poured into this one, and a bit of magic too. 

These are heady days if you use screencasting to train, teach or market software. TechSmith is simultaneously releasing a bleeding edge audio editing solution, TechSmith Audiate, that is the perfect compliment to Camtasia video. Add to that an incredible set of new assets, templates, and themes on the TechSmith Asset Store, a robust Video Review solution and a free Apple iOS screen recording app that integrates with Camtasia and you have an incredibly potent arsenal at your disposal. 

We hope you all enjoy Camtasia 2020 as much as we’ve enjoyed building and using it over the past 12 months. Go forth and train the world!

Download a free trial of Camtasia 2020:

https://www.techsmith.com/video-editor.html

Camtasia 2020 Windows Release Notes:

https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006443267-Camtasia-Windows-Version-History

Camtasia 2020 Mac Release Notes:

https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006624748-Camtasia-Mac-Version-History

Official Video Tutorials:

https://www.techsmith.com/tutorial-camtasia.html

Camtasia Help Articles:

https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/sections/360000071111-Camtasia-2020-Help

Over 50 pages of supplemental documentation was created to help internal teams and beta testers explore the capabilities of Camtasia 2020. Many short videos are included with each topic. You can find a pdf with this content here:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/afqsiqgn2wfko6j/Camtasia-2020-Feature-Overview-Supplemental.pdf?dl=0

A Camtasia Insider Series of Videos has been Created Troy Stein and the TechSmith Support team. Look for more videos from this channel in the future:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJiZj-PiRY8zTAhC99cqaanmgvT7vWyrP


TechSmith Audiate:

https://www.techsmith.com/audiate.html

TechSmith Asset Store for Camtasia:

https://library.techsmith.com/camtasia

TechSmith Capture iOS Screen Recording App:

https://www.techsmith.com/screen-recorder-ios.html

TechSmith Video Review Trial:

https://www.techsmith.com/video-review.html

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  • Paul Engle
    Joe said it better than I could have. This is a big $%^&ing deal. 
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  • stephensterry853
    Looks like I'm the first to comment.

    From my perspective, this built blows away "Camtasia 2018 and 2019 Combined" by comparison.

    It's loaded with both Requested & New features.
    Features that bolster ones creativity abound.

    If you were waiting for a reason to Upgrade. Don't take my word for it.

    Download the free trial and give it a Whirl.

    Regards,Joe
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  • Zack Herman
    What features are you excited about exactly? The only I see is that they finally matched decent quality from a webcam so I don't have to use the quicktime hack.

    It's 2020, and we STILL can't move captions. 
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  • stephensterry853
    Hey Zack
    I participated in beta testing. I would call it an abbreviated study. I had enough time to test drive most or all of the new features.
    Due to time constraints,and the volume of new features. I'm uncertain if I used them all.

    This PDF pretty much covers it.

      https://www.dropbox.com/s/afqsiqgn2wfko6j/Camtasia-2020-Feature-Overview-Supplemental.pdf?dl=0

    Track Mattes is one of my personal favorites. But theres a lot more to like overall.
    Timeline editing has been enhanced.
    Theres a lot media bin improvements.
    The recorders been improved.

    Read the PDF, check out the videos.
    Theres a lot to digest. {:>)

    Regards,Joe

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  • Paul Engle

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  • Troy Stein
    At Paul, I put some videos together to get you up to speed on Track Mattes and what you can use them for:   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJiZj-PiRY8zTAhC99cqaanmgvT7vWyrP
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  • Paul Engle
    @Troy Stein 

    1) Thank you so much! I'm really enjoying this
    2) Your "position of playhead"/"total time in project" looks different than my 2020 UI. Is that a 2021 thing or an option I can select? 
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  • stephensterry853
    Nice job on the videos Troy Stein
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  • Paul Engle
    Nevermind, it's a difference in Windows/OSX UI. 
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  • joe
    Upgrade from 8.6 to 2020 ... worth it, same price from ytube affiliate and how much?
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  • Remington Rainey
    @brooks.  Was running 2020 on trial for a bit and just paid to upgrade, now when entering the license key, the app will crash or I'll get an invalid key error.  
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  • stephensterry853
    Have you tried installing the most recent version?

    You can download and install a new or an older version from this link.

    https://www.techsmith.com/download/oldversions

    Regards,Joe
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  • Remington Rainey
    I'm on 2020.0.5.  I just downloaded a few weeks ago on trial and today paid so I could export local file without watermarks.   I've even tried to export with watermark and the app crashes.   When I reopen, it says "it looks like there is a license key associated with your account". I follow the prompts and still get the "invalid" error. 
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  • davemill
    remington, contact support, they will get you going.
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  • Remington Rainey
    I have a ticket... apparently its up to a 4 day wait :( hopefully it won't be long... I need to get this out. 
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  • Brooks Andrus
    Technical Product Manager
    I've also got some tutorials I've put together that often dig into advanced compositing techniques. Just hoping to contribute to community knowledge.

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLiHnvIw_6Eq9pfqIVywDtIN-XyTnsOlBf

    If you have questions or are interested in learning about other things drop me a note and when I have the time on nights and weekends I will try to whip something together.
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  • Brooks Andrus
    Technical Product Manager
    Hey Lukas, glad you enjoyed the videos. I will continue to putter away at them as I stare down the barrel of social isolation.

    I totally hear you on the "select all succeeding media before / after" functionality. Premiere has a track select forward and a track select backwards tool that I really like from a past life. I can't make any promises, but we have been talking about how we could improve magnetism by auto pinning content above a magnetic track a la Final Cut or Adobe Rush. I've demoed the Final Cut track select forward / track select bacward in Premiere several times to UX and several engineers. So, it's at least on our minds. I'll make a note of your passionate lobby for it. ;-)

    As with most things in life, there is so much we could improve on, but a finite amount of time. The wishlist is long! I will do my best to advocate on your behalf. 
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  • jazzundso
    Thanks Brooks. Looked through all of them. Great tipps and some "hidden gems" there ;)

    I deeply miss the possibility to select ALL succeeding media clips if one media is selected. In the current implementation of the "Select succeeding media" function only media on the same track(s) as the selected media clip will be selected... I need this applied to all tracks. There are many workarounds (create a range to the end and lock a track, ripple move + lock a track, zooming out and select all the clips manually) but they're all tedious for such a simple task!

    I made a video how (easy) it works in my prefered DAW Studio One:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rLfOiN8ab0

    Can I accomplish that in Camtasia in a similarly easy way? Maybe you know of some hidden things which lead to the result I want...!? :)

    Best, Lukas
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  • Zack Herman
    I hear they've finally listened to the most asked for features. So I assume movable captions are included now right?! So excited.
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  • Paul Engle
    https://support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/115006443267-Camtasia-Windows-Version-History

    Doesn't look like it. 
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  • Zack Herman
    Wow.
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  • David
    Unfortunately, positioning captions is still a pain. Arrrrgghhh! 
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  • Brooks Andrus
    Technical Product Manager
    You should be able to click on the drop down next to full screen to get to Custom Selection.
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  • Daniel
    How can i bring back custom selection?

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  • stephensterry853
    Ya beat me to it Brooks, I was gathering a screen shot. So I'll  leave it up.
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  • stephensterry853
    You cannot, all the settings have been rolled into one Icon/Menu. That does pretty much the same thing.



    Regards,Joe
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  • Paul Engle
    I believe the "Select Area to Record" is the option if you want to make a custom recording area, no?  
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  • stephensterry853
    Correct ,
    I never used the custom button before. I've been playing around with it.
    It looks like it remembers the last custom sized window you framed and recorded.

    When you fire up the recorder.You could hit the Full screen button and get that. Or the custom button.
    Saving you trouble of opening the dropdown. I can see where it would come in handy.

    At the same time, I suspect the "Now" larger 2020 toolbar was looked at. So that got axed.
    I'm just glad I never used it. {:>)
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  • atom_at_work
    When can I find it in APPSTORE?
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  • abarakzai
    Can you tell me what version of Camtasia 2020 is on the AppStore ? I've had issues with 2020.0.2 (really poor webcam recordings) and would prefer to get 2020.0.3 (or newer). thanks.
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