Camtasia Studio v5.1 Has Landed... (Visual Lounge)

Camtasia Studio v5.1 Has Landed...

Posted on Tuesday April 15, 2008 by Betsy Weber

I'm happy to share some news with you - there is a new release of Camtasia Studio v5.1! This is a free upgrade if you have Camtasia Studio v5.0.

Here's a quick update of what's new:

Callouts, callout, callouts! We have lots of new updates for callouts. There is a new Spotlight callout that dims everything on the screen except for the part you want to emphasize. The new Highlighter callout is a bright, bold highlighter pen for the screen. Plus, add and edit callouts faster and easily.

Third audio track now available - we've added a third audio track on the timeline. This makes is easy to add background or other audio to your screencasts.

Create screencasts for the iPhone and iTouch easily - We've added a preset for the dimensions of the iPhone and iTouch so you can produce videos quickly that look great on these devices.

ExpressShow is now available for the Flash FLV format - FLV videos are typically longer and contain more motion or camera video. Now you can wrap FLV videos in the ExpressShow template. They'll look great with full-screen playback, a floating table of contents and custom "about" box.

Organize, share and present Flash videos with the updated Camtasia Theater - Want to share several Flash videos online together? Use Camtasia Theater to create a customizable Web menu for any of your Camtasia Studio-produced Flash videos. ExpressShow, SWF, and FLV. Use Camtasia Theater to create a table of contents which makes it easily jump between videos.

You can find out all the details here about the new version. For information about how to upgrade, please visit here.

What do you think? Do you like the new features?

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Comments (10)

Pierre :

Oh, that is what was happening! Camtasia Studio told me yesterday that there was an update to version 5 available. But I already had version 5 installed.
It didn't mention the .1 (since it is 5.1) and I thought it was just a glitch in the auto-update feature and cancelled the update.

...goes back to do the update...

Posted by Pierre | April 16, 2008 1:18 AM

Posted on April 16, 2008 01:18

Pierre :

I know users always want more...I really like the new spotlight feature, but could you make it selectable between round/circle and the current square/box one?
It is just that a round spotlight feels more natural.

Posted by Pierre | April 16, 2008 2:54 AM

Posted on April 16, 2008 02:54

Spencer :

Fantastic update. The Spotlight tool is great, but I would also like to see more options for it.

Posted by Spencer | April 16, 2008 8:37 AM

Posted on April 16, 2008 08:37

Mattias :

Is there a doc with more specifics? Like bugfixes etc.

Posted by Mattias | April 17, 2008 1:55 PM

Posted on April 17, 2008 13:55

Tris Hussey :

W00t! Downloaded and updated! Can't wait to try the new version!

Posted by Tris Hussey | April 17, 2008 5:51 PM

Posted on April 17, 2008 17:51

Mark :

Think the update is great but I also agree that the spotlight should have the option to have it round. With regard to th iPhone, its great that you give this option (iPod also) but its a bit USA centric. The rest of the world uses Nokia and a preset for those (N95 etc) would be great (even thought the preset for iPod works okay).

Posted by Mark | April 17, 2008 7:18 PM

Posted on April 17, 2008 19:18

HansG :

I agree! Happy with this, but round spotlight AND Nokia adaptation would be great.

Posted by HansG | April 19, 2008 1:13 PM

Posted on April 19, 2008 13:13

Hamilton :

Wonderful tool. i use it on my Arsenal FC Blog.

Posted by Hamilton | April 22, 2008 5:19 AM

Posted on April 22, 2008 05:19

Betsy Weber :

Thanks so much for all the great feedback. I appreciate it and will make sure the team sees it.