Camtasia 2 App Reviews

This Mac version suddenly started making recordings with only audio and no video. I have spent hours trying to find solution, removed sofware and reinstalled it, only to finally find a thread with Camtasia customer support telling users to install an unlicensed trial version because the Mac version wont work until Apple approves an update. When I pay a hundred bucks for software, I certainly expect it to at least perform its most basic functions when I open it up.

I am very thankful that Camtasia 2 is available on Mac because I have used Camtasia to make thousands of videos on Windows and now am continuing to use Camtasia 2 on my new iMac with the same easy of use as Camtasia Studio with the difference being my iMac renders about 10 times as fast as the old Windows machine. This new version fixes a bug the previous version had that was fixed with an update right away. I trust Camtasia to give me the tools I need every day to make now 38 courses on Udemy and I am grateful to have the chance to film another video with it right now!

bought for 99$ last year and now its saying i need to register plz fix

Supposedly a 2.10.4 upgrade is pending awaiting Apple approval. This version will crash using El Capitan. Runs fine under previous OSs. Wait for the upgrade. Otherwise, a pricy but very good program.

Version 2.10.3 crashes with El Capitan - entire screen consistently freezes up completely and requires a reboot! Frustrating. Great program that I’ve been using for many years, but needs an immediate fix for El Capitan.

I’ve been using Camtasia Mac for about two years and have been very pleased. I use it to produce short instructional videos for classroom lab work. The ability to add text annotation makes this a better choice for Mac users over iMoive. Also, TechSmith support and tutorials are well produced and helpful.

Camtasia 2 does what it says, its a high powered video editing tool. However I kept running out of disk space on my Mac Book Pro and couldn’t figure out what was going on. Turns out Camtasia keeps a “Temporary Recordings” folder in movies. It doesn’t get rid of it when you finish with your projects or delete them. It was taking up 70 GB on my drive.

Note I downgraded this to 1 star. The app won’t even launch anymore. It is comical how this product seems to degrade over time... I like Camtasia 2. And I hate it. Right now I hate that others and myself end up being their QA to help them isolate problems with their software. Sure this is necessary for SW dev, but when it seems that they are just reading from a script and asking for information that is not necessarily pertinent to finding the issue, it’s just a waste of the customer’s time. The problem is that iOS device recording is problematic. There are 2 issues you can randomly get hit with. 1. You cannot stop the recording. Your only way is to Force Quit, which loses your recording. Not nice when you’ve just tried to capture a few minutes and suddenly realize all that effort is gone. 2. When it does manage to record, the first few leading seconds and a few trailing seconds are gone. Poof. I also have noticed that one of their background processes seems to go rogue and won’t quit and then consumes alot of CPU. If you turn off the microphone, it works (they recommended to try this to see what it would do). They sort of blame the QuickTime recording. But, I can record just fine using QuickTime directly. Moreover, I also own ScreenFlow, and it works just fine. I’m guessing they also use QuickTime to record too. This issue happened to me a couple of months ago as well. The solution they prescribed then was to delete everything and reinstall. This worked back. I tried it this time, but the problem would not go away. If you don’t need iOS device recording, then this works fine for normal screen recording or even the iOS simulator. If you want to do iOS device recording, walk away and just use QuickTime directly or ScreenFlow. Or be prepared to spend a bunch of time to help them do QA on this. I’m contemplating complaining to Apple to get a refund.

Sadly, I needed some video from Netflix for a video blog I’m making. Sorry to say that it wouldn’t even record silent video! $99 bucks down the drain. I’m sure it’s good for other stuff. My cousin reccomended it highly. But sadly, can’t record Netflix in Safari.

Although Camtasia is significantly better than iMovie (which has turned into junk over the years) it is still lacking and limited in features on the Mac. I use Camtasia at work on my Windows based workstation and it is great, full of features and easy to use. On the Mac the features are either missing, hard to use, or just clunky. I also found that exports from my work computer are not usable in the Mac version and vise a versa; that is shame. If you need more control and editing features than iMovie provides and do not need the power or the learning time for Final Cut then this will work for you. It is just depressing that such a limited version of software (as compared to the Windows version) is so pricey. It is hard to accept paying $99 for stripped down clunky software if you have experienced the better Windows based version (and that is hard to say, being an avid Mac fanatic / Windows hater).