Camtasia Studio 7 is a program that is designed to create presentations and videos, on the principle of "showing what is on my monitor." That is, to capture video from a computer screen.
After installing the Russian version of the program, it will be available in free mode for only 30 days. To extend the term of using Camtasia Studio 7, you need to pay for it. Work in the program is divided into three stages: video recording, editing, playback of the finished video.
Capturing video
Open the program. A training video in English will start, which you can skip and close if your knowledge of English is not enough for understanding. To start working with the program, click the "file" button, the item "create a project". If the welcome window appears, then you can directly select the item "record video from the screen" in it. If the window did not open (you turned it off during setup), then use the record the screen button in the upper left corner of the program. After that, the program will send you to your desktop, where a specific area of the screen will be highlighted, and a recording control window will appear at the bottom. The selected area can be reduced or enlarged at your discretion. This is the recording window.
In the control window, you can select a specific recording size that will be observed during operation. After you have prepared and configured the recording screen, you can start recording itself. If you need to explain your actions out loud, then you need a connected and working microphone. Otherwise, the video will turn out without any sound (you can overlay it later).
The rec button starts recording video from the screen. To record a presentation or video instructions, it is advisable to prepare in advance all the necessary slides, images, folders and programs by opening and collapsing them. After pressing the button, a countdown (three seconds) begins, which is given for preliminary preparation. Anything that falls within the selection will be recorded and converted to a movie.
Video editing
After the video has been recorded, it can be edited (the save and edit button, which appears after stopping the video recording from the screen). For example, you can cut out unnecessary elements, insert parts of videos, edit the sound quality. After carrying out all the necessary manipulations, the finished video can be saved in one of the popular playback formats.
Movie playback
After saving and assigning a name to the file, it can be played in any convenient program designed for watching videos. In addition, the video can be recorded on third-party media, so that it can then be played back, for example, on a TV.
