Add Chroma Key editing (green screen) to Camtasia Studio

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if you don't like TechSmith, why are you here or even use the products? Seriously.

We did spend bucks elsewhere, unfortunately. I was lobbying to get Camtasia; however, chroma key was a need. I, like others, asked if they knew an approximate date that it would be released to see if we could wait it out. If it were coming out relatively soon, they were willing to wait. I don't see why you would see fault in asking that question.

Saying something is going to happen, but never giving any approximation is like telling your kids you are bringing them to Disney World, but never telling them when. When they are 14 &15 years old and haven't gone yet, they will probably be frustrated.

ps: Your cap-locks keeps getting stuck when you are typing.

@Jackson: I would add to Mr. Crowley's response to your own tantrum the wee reminder that Camtasia is the most expensive software of this type on the market. People who have spent good money for it - and especially more than just one version of it - have a right to expect a top-notch product, and frankly without a basic tool such green screen, it simply doesn't qualify as top-notch.

Promises should be kept, Mr. Jackson - and not at some time in the misty distant future or "whenever we get around to it".

I love Camtasia, and I'm still willing to wait after literally years since this issue was first brought up. However, it now is the "misty distant future", and it seems like this request to catch up with the Mac version has been swept under the rug, or something equivalent and without explanation, for far too long. How much money in the form of new, or lost, customers has Techsmith sacrificed, simply because they haven't found the time to get chroma key going?

@Taylor ... no tantrum from me, just laughing at people stomping their virtual feet and holding a mirror for them to watch the shenanigans.

As ar as good wine when it's time, well, when you;re doing the coding chief, you get to make the call. Until then, I will use the "most expensive software" [your words, not mine, as I tried other products but never compared prices] with all the rich features it has.

Just wondering, when did chromakey become a "basic tool"?

Nevermind the name-calling, Mr. Jackson. It doesn't advance your case or improve your argument. My name is plainly shown and it isn't "chief".

Let's see now. Chromakey has probably been around for at least 60 years, and it's been a staple feature of even inexpensive video editors such as Sony Vegas and many others in the under-$50 category for somewhere around a decade. It might not be a tool that you use, but many do use it and do need it. It's a lot more critical to some people than being able to simulate hand-drawn arrows or comic-strip callouts - you know, those "rich features".

It is a basic video editing function, and something you probably see every single day that you watch any television or movie - apparently without realizing it.

Perhaps it would be more relevant to ask why TS can provide this basic functionality to Mac users but just can't seem to come up to the plate for the Windows set. I believe we all pay the same for the software, no? And maybe it would be appropriate to say to TechSmith - "Look, if this well-understood function is simply beyond your capabilities, maybe you should hire a junior programmer away from Sony or one of the other dozens of video editing developers who have managed to achieve this mind-boggling task." It's not rocket science to change pixels of a given color to the alpha channel bits (i.e., transparency) and if TS thought that all their customers would leave them tomorrow, we'd have chromakey tonight. Count on it.