| Newest Version Supports Section 508-Compliant Text Captioning, Allows Educators to Administer Quizzes within Multimedia Videos and Receive Answers via Email |
“The new Camtasia Studio delivers a remarkably crisp and clear viewing experience, including a side-by-side display of e-Learning content and the instructor”
TechSmith Corp., the world's leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions, today announced the availability of Camtasia Studio 3.1, which allows education professionals with no programming or multimedia expertise to quickly create e-learning content for online classes, distance learning, and professional-development courses.
Content created with Camtasia Studio is proven to increase the effectiveness of e-learning while greatly decreasing the cost, complexity, and time required to create it. Camtasia Studio requires no specialized hardware or training so educators can quickly incorporate the software into their teaching routine whether they use it in the office to create course and online multimedia content or in the classroom to record live PowerPoint lectures. Educators can now administer quizzes without a Learning Management System (LMS) and have the results emailed to them from students.
"The new Camtasia Studio delivers a remarkably crisp and clear viewing experience, including a side-by-side display of e-Learning content and the instructor," said Troy Stein, Camtasia Studio Product Manager at TechSmith. "It is the only screen recording software with that capability. There is no longer any need to accept a drop off in audio or image quality when combining screen recordings with camera video regardless of their length. This will maximize the effectiveness of e-learning content and give educators the flexibility to create all types of content, from very simple to highly sophisticated."
With Camtasia Studio, educators, instructional designers, and technology coordinators can easily record all the activity on a computer screen as well as voice narration and real-world video to create compelling, life-like instruction. The content can be edited and shared with students on-demand via the Internet in all the popular streaming formats including Flash, or on CDs and DVDs. Camtasia Studio can be used on any Windows-based computer, including Tablet PCs, Wacom Tablets, and interactive whiteboards.
New features in Camtasia Studio 3.1 include:
-- Section 508-compliant captioning that makes content more accessible and more memorable. Users can add their own text captioning, import speaker notes from PowerPoint, or paste text from any document.
-- Interactivity and quizzing enhancements that allow instructors to embed questions into multimedia content and get an answer via email without requiring a LMS. Quizzes can be multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank.
-- Side-by-side display that allows users to determine the dimensions of the camera and screen video windows to provide emphasis as well as focus a viewer's attention.
-- Flash Player 8 support with direct publishing to FLV that ensures bullet-proof delivery of any content (real world or screen recorded) for any audience and at any length via the ubiquitous Flash player.
-- QuickTime 7 and H.264 support in Camtasia Studio that delivers the industry's highest quality video with spectacular compression for customers who want to publish their content in the QuickTime format.
-- Third-party Project Streamer hosting so individuals can easily share their content online with others by simply emailing or posting a link to a website. The option to upload a video from within Camtasia Studio is now available and users can choose which of their videos they want to make available for public viewing.
System Requirements and Availability
Camtasia Studio 3.1 supports Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows XP with DirectX 9.0 or later. Digital video formats that can be imported into Camtasia Studio include AVI, MPEG, MPG or WMV. Web cameras for capturing live video and microphones for capturing audio are available for purchase separately. Camtasia Studio 3.1 is available immediately with a suggested retail price of $149 for qualified academic institutions. The software and recommended hardware can be purchased at http://www.techsmith.com. For additional information about Camtasia Studio, visit: http://www.techsmith.com/solutions/education.asp.
About TechSmith Corporation
TechSmith Corporation was founded in 1987 and is located in Okemos, Michigan. TechSmith provides practical business software tools to capture and manipulate images, voice and video from Windows desktops. The company's flagship software packages, SnagIt and Camtasia Studio, enable customers to create visually enhanced content for teaching, training, Web sites, documentation, and business presentations. Morae is the first and only all-digital solution for recording and analyzing human-computer interaction. TechSmith products are used by 98 percent of the Fortune 500. For additional information, visit www.techsmith.com.
TechSmith, Camtasia, SnagIt, Rich Recording Technology (RRT), Morae, EnSharpen, Dubit, and Camtasia Studio are trademarks of TechSmith Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks used in this document are the property of their respective companies.
Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Delicious
Reddit
StumbleUpon
Digg
MySpace
Newsvine
Google Bookmark
Yahoo! Bookmark
Email
Email 
