I've been using Camtasia for a couple of years now and recently upgraded to v9.
It has promise.
Love:
- Behaviors
- New annotations
- New music
Challenges:
- Dark interface
- Dark interface font
- Small interface font
- HOME key no longer moves playhead to the beginning of the video (must use CTRL-HOME)
- END key no longer moves playhead to the end of the video (must use CTRL-END)
- Screen recordings automatically saved with a default name to a pre-defined location (instead of prompting the user). This means I have to remember to pre define that location for each project or copy/paste file into the desired location. Then I have to rename the recording to something meaningful and update the media in the project.
Deal Breakers:
- Right and left arrow keys no longer move playhead one frame at a time
- Inability to extend a frame if there are immediate adjacent items on the track
For now, I have gone back to Version 8.6
Perhaps, in the near future, I'll develop a process by which I do most of the editing in 8.6 and then move to 9.0 to add some of those fine behaviors and annotations.
I'll keep an eye on the updates to v9.
It has promise.
Love:
- Behaviors
- New annotations
- New music
Challenges:
- Dark interface
- Dark interface font
- Small interface font
- HOME key no longer moves playhead to the beginning of the video (must use CTRL-HOME)
- END key no longer moves playhead to the end of the video (must use CTRL-END)
- Screen recordings automatically saved with a default name to a pre-defined location (instead of prompting the user). This means I have to remember to pre define that location for each project or copy/paste file into the desired location. Then I have to rename the recording to something meaningful and update the media in the project.
Deal Breakers:
- Right and left arrow keys no longer move playhead one frame at a time
- Inability to extend a frame if there are immediate adjacent items on the track
For now, I have gone back to Version 8.6
Perhaps, in the near future, I'll develop a process by which I do most of the editing in 8.6 and then move to 9.0 to add some of those fine behaviors and annotations.
I'll keep an eye on the updates to v9.
Harry Lewis