Typical Craptasia

Well, I think you can guess from the post title that I am not impressed with Camtasia.

I truly understand why Camtasia is a very popular screen recording tool. It is $299 USD versus over $1000 USD for the better alternative from Adobe which is ‘Captivate’. What I find most amusing is that Camtasia shows Adobe clearly as if they are a ‘valued’ customer. Unless Adobe own Techsmith I find it highly unlikely that Adobe would use Camtasia and only purchase it to confirm that Adobe / Macromedia are obviously far better equipped to produce Adobe flash movies – don’t you think?! This brings me to question all the other big names that Camtasia push such as IBM on their customer list somewhat!

Not everyone has 300 to 1000 USD to throw away on software so I highly recomend you Google “open source screen recording” and get something FAR better for FREE!

Here is an example: CamStudio.

What I found funny on the Camstudio website front page is a quote:

“Nick, here is what I think I’ll do; rather than fork out the $300.00 bucks for [CENSORED], I’ll just keep using CamStudio.”

$300? hmmm, what is the betting that the Censored part is a lot of swearing amongst the word “Camtasia”

Like any self serving company trying to sell a product, they of course are not going to point out their limitations. If you visit the Techsmith forums, you will find plenty.

I have had the ill fortune to have to work will Camtasia productions