Is Camtasia Good For Video Editing?
Absolutely.
Camtasia is my go-to solution for video editing.
I love Camtasia. It’s good video editing software.
Editing video in Camtasia is user-friendly and intuitive.
But, as with every video editing software, it has quirks.
God knows it has its quirks…
As much as I love editing video in Camtasia, you can get frustrated really fast sometimes.
That’s because Camtasia likes to crash.
A lot.
Especially when you’re editing video on a laptop not designed for video editing.
Or when the length of the source material exceeds what Camtasia can handle.
And it stutterts down to a halt. And a crash…
If you have many edits in your project, it will become slow, sooer or later.
You must know how far you can push it… and stop right before that breakpoint.
But, as a video editing software, it grows on you.
You can make the best out of Camtasia.
If you prepare ahead to make it work properly.
Camtasia Video Editing – Best Practices
Performance optimization in Camtasia revolves around:
- Video Length
- Saving Often
- Avoiding Double Cutting
- Sync-ing Your Work
Splitting The Project
Footage length affects Camtasia performance.
On my laptop, Camtasia starts stuttering when I edit videos longer than 10 minutes.
Depending on the performance, this might vary.
If the video is too long, you might have to split the project in two or more parts.
If you work on footage between 6-10 minutes long, Camtasia should perform well.
You can then export the parts separately.
Then use a master project only to combine the parts into one final rendering.
Avoid Double Cutting
When there are a lot of cuts and edits, Camtasia will start stuttering.
Even with shorter length videos.
If you must discard a sequence of the footage, don’t double cut!
Instead of two cutting points (start and end), use just one.
Then shorten the footage (video and audio track).
I’ve noticed this increases Camtasia’s performance a lot.
Saving Often
I’ve been using Camtasia for quite a few years now.
And having felt the frustration of it crashing so many times, I developed the habit of saving often.
Yes, it has the auto-save feature.
But I feel more in control if, after a few edits, I press that Control + S.
And if a crash happens – I was right to save!
Sync-ing Your Work
The .tscproj files are text files in json format.
This means they can be source tracked.
You can use source code tracking tools on them.
GitHub is your friend here!
Create a repository for your Camtasia project files.
Add a rule to your .gitignore to ignore audio and video files.
And sync!
You can work from multiple computers
- Laptop from coffee shops
- PC at home
What are your tips and tricks?
Anything you want to share about editing videos in Camasia?
