Camtasia v1.0.2 - README.TXT 17 Dec 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ~ TABLE OF CONTENTS ~ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. WHAT IS Camtasia? 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS 3. SETUP AND CONFIGURATION 3.1 Installation Instructions 3.2 Installed Files 3.3 Uninstall Instructions 4. Camtasia QUICK START 5. WHAT'S NEW 5.1 Version History 6. KNOWN LIMITATIONS 7. GETTING HELP 7.1 Using On-line Help 7.2 Camtasia Support 8. PURCHASING Camtasia 9. CONTACT INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. WHAT IS Camtasia? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TechSmith's Camtasia is a screen camcorder and video production tool. Use Camtasia to record screen activity as videos, edit and narrate the clips, and publish the finished presentation in standard formats. Develop videos that introduce new software, train new users of existing software, or create any kind of active documentation. Distribute the videos as standard AVI files or as streaming presentations from a website. Use standard players to view presentations, including the Windows Media Player or the RealNetworks RealPlayer G2. Camtasia includes all the tools you need to record and produce your videos. Camtasia Recorder is a desktop camcorder that captures screen activity and applies real-time effects. Camtasia Producer is a non-linear editor producing standard AVI files or streaming formats. Capture all of the screen or zoom in to focus attention, add special effects for mouse clicks or cursor movement, trim, split, or attach AVI video clips, add transition effects between clips, and record narratives while capturing the screen or later. Camtasia Recorder and Producer both use the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec, a unique video codec optimized for recording screen activity. The TechSmith video codec offers perfect "lossless" quality, fast compression speeds, and exceptional compression of typical desktop application activity. Camtasia also includes DubIt, TechSmith's easy to use audio editor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In order to run Camtasia, your system must meet these specifications: o An IBM PC or compatible that meets the minimum hardware requirements for your version of Microsoft Windows. o Windows NT 4.0 (or higher), Windows 95, or Windows 98 installed and configured on your system. o A mouse or other pointing device o A Windows supported sound card for audio playback and recording from a microphone. o The standard Windows multimedia system software is required to produce AVI files. Basically, if you can play AVI movies and WAV audio files, you should be able to use Camtasia to produce AVI files. o Microsoft's "Windows Media Tools" must be installed to produce ASF files. "Windows Media Tools" is available from Microsoft at www.microsoft.com. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. SETUP AND CONFIGURATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 3.1 Installation Instructions Double-click the file "setup.exe". Follow the on-screen instructions. 3.2 Installed Files The Camtasia installation program copies the following files to the Camtasia install folder on your computer during installation: CAMREC.EXE Camtasia Recorder executable CAMPROD.EXE Camtasia Producer executable LTDIS10N.DLL DLL file LTKRN10N.DLL DLL file LTEFX10N.DLL DLL file ASFENC.DLL DLL File TSCC.EXE Redistributable program that installs the TSCC codec LICENSE.TXT The Camtasia Software License Agreement CTUNINST.EXE Camtasia uninstall UNWISE.EXE Camtasia uninstall README.TXT This file CAMREC.HLP Help files... CAMREC.CNT CAMPROD.HLP CAMPROD.CNT INETWH32.DLL 14_43260.dll RealMedia DLL files... 28_83260.dll cokr3260.dll cook3260.dll dnet3260.dll ednt3260.dll erv13260.dll erv23260.dll espr3260.dll pncrt.dll pngu3263.dll pnrs3260.dll rmbe3260.dll rmme3260.dll rnco3260.dll rv103260.dll rv203260.dll sipr3260.dll The Camtasia installation program copies the following file to the Windows system folder (e.g. C:\Windows\System) during installation: TSCCVID.DLL TechSmith Screen Capture Codec 3.3 Uninstall Instructions 1. Run the Windows Control Panel 2. Open the Add/Remove Programs applet from Control Panel 3. Select Camtasia from the list of applications that can be uninstalled by Windows 4. Click on the Add/Remove button to uninstall Camtasia 5. To Uninstall the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec, open the Multimedia applet from the Windows Control Panel. On the Devices tab select "Video Compression Codecs", select "TechSmith Screen Capture Codec", then click the Properties button. Click the Remove button to remove the TSCC codec from the list of registered "Video Compression Codecs". Finally, remove the file TSCCVID.DLL from the Windows system folder (e.g. C:\Windows\System\tsccvid.dll). NOTE: The TechSmith Screen Capture Codec is not uninstalled when you uninstall Camtasia. The TSCC codec is needed to playback any videos that have been encoded with the TSCC codec. Only remove the TSCC codec if you no longer need to playback videos that are encoded with TSCC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Camtasia QUICK START ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 4.1 Start Camtasia Recorder by double-clicking on the Camtasia Recorder icon. 4.2 Select the video capture area. Click on the Capture --> Input menu item, and select screen, window, region, or fixed region. The fixed region option will bring up a dialog box to specify the capture area. 4.3 Press the capture hotkey (default F9), or click on the Record button on the toolbar. By default, Camtasia Recorder automatically pauses at the start of a capture session to allow the user to configure options such as selecting a specific Window or Region to capture. The statistics screen will appear in the Camtasia Recorder window at this time. Press the hotkey again to end the pause and begin the capture. During recording, Camtasia Recorder's tray icon will turn bright red. To pause the capture, press the hotkey again, or click on the Pause button on the toolbar. To end the capture, click on the Stop button on the toolbar. A dialog box will open to save the capture to file. 4.4 Camtasia Recorder Capture Options: o Audio input from the microphone can be recorded during video capture. Select Record Audio from the Effects menu or the audio toolbar. o The capture area can be panned manually by grabbing the edge of the capture focus rectangle. AutoPan automatically moves the capture rectangle about the screen to keep focus on the cursor. To enable/disable AutoPan, press the AutoPan hotkey (default F10). o Zoom effects allow the user to zoom in and out during capture. These effects can be applied using options on the Effects menu or the zoom toolbar. AutoZoom applies an automatic pan and zoom effect when the zoom level is changed. ZoomTo allows the user to quickly zoom to a preset level or zoom to fit a specific object or region on the desktop. ZoomUndo allows the user to easily switch between the current and last panning location and zoom level. Advanced zoom options are available in the Options --> Effects dialog. o Cursor effects allow the user to modify how the cursor is displayed in the video capture. The cursor effects can be applied using options on the Effects menu or the cursor toolbar. The cursor location and mouse clicks can be highlighted in the video capture. Advanced cursor options are available in the Options --> Effects dialog. o The video capture may be annotated with a time/date stamp or a caption. These options can be selected from the Effects menu or the annotation toolbar. Advanced annotation options are available in the Options --> Effects dialog. 4.5 Camtasia Producer Camtasia Producer allows you to edit your AVI video clips to produce a longer, professional presentation. Camtasia Producer uses a simple storyboard metaphor to help you easily produce a movie from many clips. Browse and preview your clips with the Producer's File Explorer. Trim your clips in the Producer's Editor. Place your clips on the Producer's Storyboard and create a standard AVI file or an ASF or RealMedia streaming file. Over 70 transition effects are available to give your movie a professional look. The Producer supports the TechSmith Screen Capture Codec, so you can produce high quality and highly compressed files from your screen capture content. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. WHAT'S NEW ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 5.1 Version history v1.0.0 Initial release. v1.0.1 Fixed a problem with producing RealMedia files where the audio stream is truncated in the produced RealMedia file when the movie is longer than about 5 minutes. Fixed a problem where the first video capture after installing Camtasia on Windows NT can hang the system. Improved how Camtasia works when Windows is in "high contrast" mode, and with various system color schemes and font sizes. v1.0.2 Camtasia passes the "Designed for Microsoft Windows NT and Windows 98 logo test". The TechSmith Screen Capture Codec (TSCC) now allows any application to use it to compress files as long as a registered version of Camtasia is installed, or if an unregistered version of Camtasia is installed and within the 30-day eval period. Fixed problems with the "ASF optimized for screen capture" option in Camtasia Producer producing ASF files that do not always stream from a Windows Media Server. A side effect of the fix is a reduction in ASF file size and streaming bitrate. Fixed Camtasia Producer's File Explorer pane so that "View-> File Explorer->Refresh" (F5) refreshes the folder tree view. Fixed Camtasia Producer's File Explorer pane so that files in the "Desktop" folder can be listed. Fixed Camtasia Producer so that the editor control buttons are not clipped when a system is using large fonts. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. KNOWN LIMITATIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- o Camtasia generally cannot capture DVD video displays. o Camtasia cannot directly capture audio from other applications (e.g. Windows Media Player). However, it is sometimes possible to record this audio by placing the microphone near your computer's speakers, or by connecting "line out" to "microphone in" on your sound card. o Camtasia cannot capture video from applications on some systems that use graphics hardware acceleration for video playback (e.g. newer versions of Media Player and RealNetwork's RealPlayer). It is often possible to disable the graphics hardware acceleration. There are two ways to disable graphics hardware acceleration: 1. Disable graphics hardware acceleration globally for all applications using the Control Panel "System" applet. Go to the "Performance" tab and click the "Graphics" button under "Advanced settings...". Set the "Hardware acceleration" slider to None and hit OK. You may need to restart Windows to have this change apply. 2. Disable graphics hardware acceleration for a particular application. For example, in RealPlayer G2 select Options/Preferences from the RealPlayer menu. Go to the "Performance" tab and disable (uncheck) the "Use optimized video display" setting. You may need to stop and restart any movie being played to have the change take effect. Disabling the graphics hardware acceleration globally for all applications is probably the easiest way to "fix" the problem. Of course, with hardware acceleration disabled, video playback may not be as smooth as it could be with acceleration enabled. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. GETTING HELP ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 7.1 Using On-line Help Camtasia's on-line Help is available by selecting Help from the menu bar. Note that Camtasia Recorder and Camtasia Producer each have their own on-line Help system. To get a quick overview of Camtasia essentials, select Quick Help from the Help menu. Select Contents and Index from the Help menu to access the full Camtasia on-line Help. Also, context sensitive Help buttons are found on Camtasia's dialogs. For support with Camtasia problems, or if you just have questions or feature requests, select Support from the Help menu. Select TechSmith on the Web from the Help menu to visit the TechSmith website and get the latest Camtasia version and product information. Select About Camtasia from the Help menu to display version and registration information. 7.2 Camtasia Support TechSmith is committed to providing a reliable, high-quality product that is easy to use. If you have any problem installing or using Camtasia, we want to know about it. Please select Support from the Help menu in Camtasia Recorder or Producer for support via e-mail. You can also contact TechSmith by mail, phone, or fax (see CONTACT INFORMATION below). In any communication with TechSmith regarding a problem with Camtasia, please clearly state the following: o The product name and version number. o Your name, address, e-mail address and telephone number. o Your hardware and software configuration. o A description of the problem, and what you were trying to do when the problem occurred. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. PURCHASING Camtasia ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Select Register Camtasia from the Help menu in either Camtasia Recorder or Producer and follow the instructions. Please contact TechSmith if you have any questions about purchasing Camtasia or the registration process. Please contact TechSmith for introductory offers and multiple unit purchases (see CONTACT INFORMATION below). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. CONTACT INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------------------------------- TechSmith Corporation P.O. Box 4758 East Lansing, MI, 48826-4758 USA Phone: 517-333-2100 Fax: 517-333-1888 Sales: sales@techsmith.com Support: support@techsmith.com Product Information: info@techsmith.com WWW: http://www.techsmith.com (C) 1999 TechSmith Corporation. All Rights Reserved. TechSmith and SnagIt are registered trademarks of TechSmith Corporation. Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Camtasia and DubIt are trademarks of TechSmith Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders.