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Camtasia Studio 7 : E Out Of memory Fix

I bet this is sorted in Camtasia Studio 8 but I found a patch which makes more memory available to the older Camtasia Studio 7 running on Windows Vista or 7. I ran into problems producing a 1920x1200 production getting an “E_OUT_OF_MEMORY error message”. After applying the patch it produced just fine. Camtasia Studio: E_OUT_OF_MEMORY error message - techsmith.custhelp.com More Information for Camtasia Studio 7 on Windows 7 and Vista Only: We now have a patch available that lets Camtasia Studio 7.1.1 use more memory that is available on the machine. On a 64bit machine we can go from using... Read more →

No, they didn’t forget the Text Window scroll bar in AutoCAD 2012

I don’t often use the AutoCAD Text Window but hit F2 and mouse wheeled up & down before remembering… I blame swapping between lots of app’s and not an addled mind! GIF captured & produced with Camtasia Studio Read more →

Camtasia Studio 7.1, more screen video recorder goodness

Wow, seems like more like a new version than a “point upgrade”. Searchable video (based on speech to text transcript) should make video help much more flexible. Downloading now! What’s New in Camtasia Studio 7.1 Always more than a simple screen recorder, Camtasia Studio will help you generate sophisticated, effective screencasts—faster, easier, and with more consistency. Enhanced Captioning Support : Easily create 508 compliant closed and open captions, and help viewers with hearing disabilities or language barriers better understand the content in your video. Speech-to-Text Transcription : By utilizing Windows Speech Recognition, Camtasia Studio can automatically turn what you say... Read more →

24 Camtasia Screencasts, a day of Camtasi’crazyness!

Unfortunately I missed much of the live action but the (crazy?) Camtasia team captured their 24 hour, 24 episode screencast marathon to be reviewed at leisure. An impressive variety of artistic & technical advice delivered in a non-stop day! 24 Screencasts About Camtasia in 24 Hours... Starts Now! “Here's the schedule for the day: 8:00 am: Welcome, Meet Shane Lovellette, Camtasia Product Manager (13:53) 9:00 am: 11 years of Camtasia and counting... The history of Camtasia (15:55) - Dean Craven, Chief Technology Officer 10:00 am: Sketch Motion Callouts and How to Use them (12:13) - Jess Knott, Instructional Designer 11:00... Read more →

Snagit tames the Revit Browser (and other long windows)

The Revit Project Browser is great for bundling all the assets of a Revit Project into a single list. Unfortunately it’s “one view scroll, scroll scroll” interface can be tedious to document. If you want to use in a project standard or just share with collaborators (without sending the whole project) it can take several “page” snapshots to capture. With the Scrolling Capture “Capture Entire Area” option Snagit 10 makes even long or restricted windows easy to snag: Click in the Browser so it has focus Print Screen to start Snagit Then choose the “Capture Entire Area” option and wait!... Read more →

ActiveWords, Camtasia Studio and Windows 7

I recently got a new PC and this video from Buzz (not the Google one) shows why ActiveWords was my first install after Windows 7 was running. He made the demo with Camtasia Studio (another favourite app of mine). To give an idea how ActiveWords changes your computing (and why I can’t stand using a PC without it) the title for this post was created by entering “awf, camf and w7f”, letting ActiveWords do the rest. In a bit over a month it has saved close to an hour of typing and that’s just on my home PC. Caught out... Read more →

Splitting a video into separate files with Camtasia

I had a large 40 minute video file with several demos and wanted to refer to parts of it in a presentation. That’s simple to open the file with a hyperlink but I didn’t want to be searching for the co... Read more →

Doh! Why not use an ActiveWords script for blog comment forms?

Sometimes the obvious isn’t very obvious. Following thousands of blogs means I’m often leaving comments. Even responding to comments on my own blog requires the same process as readers use. It’s stand... Read more →

Meeting Betsy, Screencast of the week and that AU Plane a year later...

It was great to meet Betsy Weber and the TechSmith team in the Autodesk University Exhibit hall. She told me I was featured on her blog, screencast of the week (26/11/2007 ) , again! About this time l... Read more →

Sneak peek of Camtasia Studio v5...

Keep an eye on Betsy’s blog , or feed , for news of a new version of Camtasia which is coming soon…. Sneak peek of Camtasia Studio v5 and Introducing SmartFocus (Visual Lounge) “You'll see ove... Read more →