{"id":275,"date":"2009-04-01T09:34:58","date_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/?p=275"},"modified":"2009-04-01T09:35:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-01T13:35:59","slug":"camtasia-updates-its-popular-screen-recording-software-supports-flv-files-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webvideouniversity.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/camtasia-updates-its-popular-screen-recording-software-supports-flv-files-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Camtasia Updates It’s Popular Screen Recording Software, Supports FLV Files (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First things first.\u00a0 If you’re not familiar with Camtasia<\/strong>, it’s popular screen recording software put out by TechSmith<\/strong> that allows you to make videos of whatever you see on your screen.<\/p>\n

I’ve been a long time Camtasia user, all the way back from the company’s beginnings.\u00a0 In fact, every screen recording I do (on Windows) is done with Camtasia.<\/p>\n

But late last fall, Camtasia introduced their newest version…6.0<\/strong>.\u00a0 And a lot of people weren’t happy.\u00a0 First, the new version was slow, buggy and so prone to “weird things” that I told my students not to upgrade to it…at least at the time.<\/p>\n

Thankfully, TechSmith was quick to address these issues and about a month later all was well.\u00a0 But there were still some miffed users.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Because in version 6 of Camtasia, they switched from creating FLV<\/strong> files of your video recordings to creating MP4<\/strong> files.\u00a0 MP4 files use the H.264<\/strong> codec, which gives you very high quality video at very small file sizes.<\/p>\n

Personally, I had no problem with this change…and I believe it was the right move for them to make.\u00a0 Plus, the MP4 files created by Camtasia were fast-start enabled<\/strong>, meaning you could simply rename the video file extensions created by Camtasia from .MP4 to .FLV if you wanted to embed the videos in your own FLV player (which is what I do).<\/p>\n

But still, this was a fact lost on a lot of people.\u00a0 They apparently didn’t want the newfangled “MP4 thing” and instead, wanted their old, familiar FLV files back.\u00a0 Or it could have been they didn’t know they needed to update their video players and version of Flash to play H.264 videos.<\/p>\n

In any case, with the latest release of Camtasia (6.0.2), TechSmith has complied with user demand.\u00a0 You can now produce either FLV or MP4 files out of the software.<\/p>\n

So, if you’re a Camtasia 6 user who has been longing for the old, FLV files like you were used to…they are now available again.\u00a0 What’s more, TechSmith is providing the update for free<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To learn more, just visit the TechSmith site by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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