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Understanding Camtasia Recorder

Understanding Camtasia Recorder - Camtasia Tutorial

From the course: Camtasia 2 for Mac Essential Training

Understanding Camtasia Recorder

- [Instructor] Camtasia is essentially two applications in one. It's both a media recorder and an editor. Throughout this chapter, we'll take a deep dive into the recorder, so that you can learn to fully capture your story. There are three primary ways to access the recorder any time Camtasia is running. If you're starting from the editor, then you can press the red record button here in the main toolbar. Camtasia also installs a menu bar widget located here in the upper right that you can use to select start recording, to once again summon the recorder. Finally, you can use what I like to call the ultimate recorder keyboard shortcut of command shift two. You may remember that when we made our test recording to calibrate our microphone, we pressed the red record button, we got our countdown to let us know when recording was going to begin, and then we pressed command shift two to stop the recording. If you notice in the save window, at the top it lets us know that we can press command…

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