Camtasia

Camtasia (formerly Camtasia Studio) is a software suite, created and published by TechSmith, for creating video tutorials and presentations directly via screencast, or via a direct recording plug-in to Microsoft PowerPoint. 

The screen area to be recorded can be chosen freely, and audio or other multimedia recordings may be recorded at the same time or added separately from any other source and integrated in the Camtasia component of the product.

The 3 most interesting things about Camtasia Studio are as follows:

1.      Recording screen - We can record anything like the whole screen. We can add video, images, audio, and even PowerPoint presentations that we already have.

2.      Make edits - A simple timeline makes editing video easy. We can combine or split clips, trim, and speed up or slow down the footage to make the video more interesting. Then, we can instantly preview inside the video editor.

3.      Add effects - We can also give videos polished and professional video editor effects. We can also add highlights, animation, titles, transitions and more. It is so easy to use it, we simply need to drag and drop the effects onto the timeline. 

At the end of the course, we all made a video using camtasia where we incorporated all the editing styles we learned in the class. The video I made is attached below

Another video attached below is a short video I created using Camtasia as teaching material in one of the micro teaching. Likewise we can not only make videos for fun, it will also help us in preparing a very effective video using text, voice narration and clip arts.