Camtasia
Camtasia is a computer screen capturing software used to create video tutorials of an on screen action. With Camtasia Studio, educators can record narrated PowerPoint presentations and post them as online lectures or learning supplements for their students. Add media & interactive hot spots to enhance your lecture. Camtasia is used for online, classroom/web, and classroom based classes.
Requirements
Online Learning provides a copy of Camtasia licenses for any instructors who have completed the Online Instructor Orientation (OIO) and is using the license to develop content for fully Online (No Scheduled Meetings) courses. Campus instructors, online instructors, and staff will need to speak with their dean about purchasing a license through IT (it-buy@pcc.edu).
To obtain a license of Camtasia, fill-in the following form: . Make sure you follow the and Accessibility Standards when creating your files.
Camtasia Guides
- – Add captions to media (Note: The Transcribe Selected Media option is only available for Camtasia 2024 or newer on MacOS).If you plan to host the video on YouTube or Kaltura, you will have to export the video as mp4 without the caption and extract the caption file separately as a .srt file. Follow this guide to learn (at the bottom of the page).
- For hosting the video in Kaltura, upload the video to My Media and email the caption file to dlhelp@pcc.edu with information about your video so that we can find your video and attach the caption.
- For hosting the video in YouTube, follow this guide to learn
- – What you need to know before recording Camtasia
Camtasia Resources
Support
- Contact an ITSÂ to schedule one-on-one training.