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Understanding Camtasia Recorder

Understanding Camtasia Recorder - Camtasia Tutorial

From the course: Camtasia 3 for Mac Essential Training

Understanding Camtasia Recorder

- 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 you can learn to fully capture your story. There are three primary ways to access the recorder anytime that Camtasia is running. If you're starting from the editor, then you can press the red record button, here in the upper left-hand corner. Camtasia also installs a menu bar widget, here in the upper right, allowing you to select Start Recording from anywhere on your Mac. You can also access the recorder by using what I like to call the ultimate recorder keyboard shortcut of cmd + shift + 2. You may remember that when we made our test recording to calibrate our microphone, we pressed the Start Recording button, got a countdown, and then pressed cmd + shift + 2 to stop the recording, but notice here in the top of the recording window, we can resume our recording by again pressing cmd + shift + 2. We are once again recording,…

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