TechSmith Corporation recently released the Camtasia 2024, the new version of the company’s award-winning, all-in-one screen recording and video editing software. The latest release unveils a powerful new recording engine for higher frame rate and resolution screen capture, while delivering transformative features including AI-powered dynamic captions, new effects, filters, and transitions, as well as heightened asset integrations so users can explore 100+ million professional, royalty-free video assets directly within the editor. These, in addition to other new AI-assisted features, help users push the limits of their creativity and produce content above and beyond their skill level all while reducing editing time.
Camtasia 2024 also introduces three product plans: Camtasia Essentials, Camtasia Create, and Camtasia Pro. In response to long-time user demand, Camtasia Create and Camtasia Pro will offer AI functionality from TechSmith’s text-based audio editor Audiate including text-based video editing, automated audio cleanup, as well as AI-generated scripts and voices. Additionally, all product plans include Camtasia’s innovative AI-assisted Rev workflow introduced in Camtasia 2023, which simplifies and speeds up video creation through quick layout and design choices. For the first time, Camtasia 2024 users can take advantage of this feature with external media sources.
Other new Camtasia 2024 features
- Dynamic captions: Powered by AI, every word on the screen can be highlighted as it is spoken. With support for many different language options, users choose one of the 8 preset styles or use the properties panel to customize base styles or create unique ones.
- Asset integration: Select assets such as titles, footage, callouts, dynamic backgrounds, music, audio visualizers, and photos directly within the Camtasia editor to get videos done even faster while adding polish.
- Visual enhancements: Access dozens of new behaviors, dynamic backgrounds, and audio visualizers for more flexibility in customizing each video for a professional outcome.
- Tiling visual effect: Create custom animated backgrounds with a logo, image, or video repeated in a pattern across your screen. Added flexibility to change sizes and spacing.
Camtasia Product Plans
- Camtasia Essentials is the base software plan including screen recording, video editing, the Rev workflow, and layouts. Users receive all the same features and functionality that come with the classic version of Camtasia.
- Camtasia Create provides everything in Essentialsand adds powerful generative AI features including text-based video editing, AI-generated scripts, automated audio cleanup, and over 200+ AI voices and styles for text narration.
- Camtasia Pro unleashes the full potential of AI, offering everything in Create and unlimited video reviews and collaboration with team members, AI-translated scripts and captions, and over 100M of premium assets to incorporate in videos.
Price and Availability
A one-year subscription of Camtasia Essentials is available now for $179.88 USD from the TechSmith online store and select resellers. Camtasia Create is available for $249.00 USD and Camtasia Pro is $599.99 USD. A free, fully-functional, trial version of Camtasia can be downloaded from the TechSmith website. The software is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese.
A full feature list can be found here.