I recently upgraded to the latest version of Camtasia for Windows and I am experiencing a bug with Extend Frame. I have a long period of screen video with no movement, which ends when the mouse cursor moves. I wanted to extend the still period by a few seconds to sync up with my voice. However when I do so, the preview displays the extended frame to be the first frame of movement after the still period, and when the extended duration ends, it reverts to the correct (still) frame. This happens regardless of the duration I choose or even what frame in the still period I extend. When I batch production the mp4 displays the extended frame correctly, so it is only a bug in the preview. Is there anything can be done about this? It's making editing difficult.
Posted 2 years ago
kayakman, Champion
tkehne
http://www.screencast.com/t/ysGS0llDJL7
This is what the extended frame actually looks like. It appears this way for the entire duration. Notice the altered position of the mouse cursor in the screencapped video relative to the previous image:
http://www.screencast.com/t/i2I3Aod1
This is the frame immediately after the duration of the extended frame. Notice how the mouse cursor has reverted back to its original position:
http://www.screencast.com/t/t7qaehg169wK
And finally, this is the first frame in the screencapped video after this where the mouse starts to move. Notice how it is identical to the appearance of the extended frame:
http://www.screencast.com/t/6LkhHGfug
Again, this issue is only in the preview. When I batch production, the extended frame appears as it should in the mp4. Also, this is the only time I have had this issue with extend frame. I extended many frames in this video both before and after this point, with no discrepancies. My guess is that it's an error with how the video is decompressed for preview playback.
kayakman, Champion
just to be sure, are you extending a frame off a trec clip? [can't tell from the images]
tkehne
kayakman, Champion
I took a new trec capture that had a pause in action, then mouse movement, and tried to duplicate your experience; but no luck; extended frames seemed to come out as expected
have you tried making another test trec, with a pause, then mouse movement to see if it happens again?
tkehne
Robert R., Online Community Admin
As a test can you please open Camtasia and go to Edit - Preferences - Advanced and set Hardware Acceleration to "Use Software-only mode" then restart Camtasia. Once restarted, can you try duplicating the issue?
-Robert
tkehne
That does indeed fix the issue. Does that mean it's an issue with the graphics card? My PC has an AMD Radeon R7 M260. I imagine software-only has a significant performance penalty so I hope it can be resolved.
Joe Morgan
So for now,odds are. You're better off using Camtasia 9. Which you can download and activate with your Camtasia 2018 key.
https://www.techsmith.com/download/oldversions
After 2 months without a patch for glitches related to GPU acceleration.Camtasia 9 is currently the most reliable choice overall. "In my opinion"
Regards,Joe
tkehne
tkehne
kayakman, Champion