Is it just me or did the Blur lose some functionality with 2018.0.5? The two screenshots show the parameters you can adjust and the 3rd screenshot shows that even at 100%, blur doesn't blur enough. I thought the previous versions had more parameters so you can adjust the blur more than this... any thoughts???
Posted 3 months ago
kayakman, Champion
Camtasia 9 without Blur Applied.
Camtasia 9 with blur at 100 %
Camtasia 2018.0.5 with Blur at 100%
Regards,Joe
Camtasia 9 with blur at 100 %
Camtasia 2018.0.5 with Blur at 100%
Regards,Joe
Yep, that's why I do a double blur and group, and have it in my Library for easy access. With this example, I could almost see myself doing a quadruple blur, depending on if I wanted it completely blurred out. The blur effect out of the gate definitely should be improved. I'm in agreement with that.
Double blur:
Quadruple Blur:
Double blur:
Quadruple Blur:
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I've never had to do double blurs or other workaround before. See my comment below.
Yes, I understand. It definitely is an issue in Camtasia.
I'm wondering if there is something going on between Camtasia and SnagIt. I have both and up until recently (installed SnagIt 2019), the blur worked perfectly for me. Maybe there is a DLL conflict.
You can see in the picture below (from a video I created earlier this year) that the blur is rather effective - I just slid the slider over in the Properties tab and got the level of blur I wanted.
For those of you that Camtasia blur doesn't work well, do you have SnagIt? If not, let us know. If you do, which version? If you haven't upgraded to SnagIt 2019, let us know if the blur behavior changes after you install the latest SnagIt version.
You can see in the picture below (from a video I created earlier this year) that the blur is rather effective - I just slid the slider over in the Properties tab and got the level of blur I wanted.
For those of you that Camtasia blur doesn't work well, do you have SnagIt? If not, let us know. If you do, which version? If you haven't upgraded to SnagIt 2019, let us know if the blur behavior changes after you install the latest SnagIt version.
I have the latest version of SnagIt 2018 and 2019 installed.
I can blur out file explorer with no problem.I layer of blur.
I can blur out file explorer with no problem.I layer of blur.
kayakman, Champion
Thanks for doing the screencast. As you can see above, my blur used to be very effective and I remember this wasn't even turned up all the way.
I'm hoping someone from Techsmith will weigh in on this... Blur is one of those functions I and a lot of others use frequently and we shouldn't be using workarounds to get it to work correctly... especially since the product and the maintenance fee is pretty significant.
I'm hoping someone from Techsmith will weigh in on this... Blur is one of those functions I and a lot of others use frequently and we shouldn't be using workarounds to get it to work correctly... especially since the product and the maintenance fee is pretty significant.
kayakman, Champion
suggest you contact free tech support and have them look into it
I have found that blur effect varies on what you are blurring in Camtasia (2018.0.5 at present)
On images blur is not so good unless you double up.
On text a single blur does the job.
If it is of any help another option that I have used often is to use Pixelate instead of blur.
Sometimes it even looks better.
Blur and Pixelate Image
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Blur and Pixelate Text
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:)
On images blur is not so good unless you double up.
On text a single blur does the job.
If it is of any help another option that I have used often is to use Pixelate instead of blur.
Sometimes it even looks better.
Blur and Pixelate Image
Click image to enlarge
Blur and Pixelate Text
Click image to enlarge
:)
Blur works great on text, it's ineffective on images.
Maybe that's what your remembering? How well it works on text.Because you can't read it.
Maybe that's what your remembering? How well it works on text.Because you can't read it.
jim
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