![]() ![]() Once selected, you can move the capture window around and type in the exact size of the window, but you can't lock the recording window to the application or resize the application after setting the desired size, both of which you can do in the Windows version. If you're demonstrating how to use an application, choose Custom Region, then click the application, and Camtasia will select it. I was having a definite bad hair day when I wrote this review, so I skipped the camera. As you can see in Figure 1, you can capture the screen, audio from a microphone, system audio, and video from a camera which is presented as a movable picture in picture in the captured video. You'll be prompted to load the program the first time you click System Audio in the Camtasia Recorder. Installing Camtasia for the Mac is straightforward, though you have to install a bundled program called Soundflower to capture audio with screen recordings. Though it could certainly use a face lift, I prefer functionality and usability over appearance any day. Techsmith is a great company, and Camtasia for Windows is my go-to product for screencam production on that platform. So, forgive me if I make frequent references to the Windows version in this review. In their race to streamline the interface, features get obscured, intuitiveness declines, and the products become harder and more frustrating to use. In my view, product designers can quickly dig themselves a very big hole when they try to optimize their Mac interfaces for the Mac gestalt. Not to mention Microsoft and the Office Suite. You have to dig very deeply down to find differences in the cross platform versions of any of the Adobe Creative Suite products, and Sorenson Squeeze is the same way. While I'm sure many readers disagree with this position, it's not without some support. ![]() I go back and forth between the two operating systems all day, and forcing me to learn two completely different interfaces (and keyboard shortcuts) to use your product on the two platforms is-excuse my French-idiotic. Why don't we start with the rant? From my perspective, the best way to convert a Windows program to the Mac (or vice versa) is to make their interface and operation as identical as possible. On the other hand, if you've used Camtasia for Windows, you'll find the Mac version particularly frustrating, and you'll probably end up wanting to rant about Windows to Mac conversions. If you've never worked with Camtasia Windows before, or any other prosumer or consumer video editor, you'll probably find Camtasia for the Mac ($99) a likeable screencam capture and editing program. Camtasia for Mac Is Here-Hold the Applause
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