AND, I do not like being taken advantage of.
CAMTASIA 2018 SERIAL PRO
BUT, I would gladly pay for a PRO version that is faster, allows for a bit more time saving/automation. It does what I need, is reasonably stable. I also understand Camtasia is an enthusiast/semi-pro tool. I understand marketing claims vs reality. I understand the need to get money from the base, have been a product manager a long time in tech. Camtasia 2018 was equivalent or SLOWER in all runs.
CAMTASIA 2018 SERIAL TRIAL
So, I ran side by side tests with the trial version, and it correctly identified my GPU (even ran a fourth test with my daughters 1060 card and i5 CPU).
CAMTASIA 2018 SERIAL UPGRADE
So, although I did not want to upgrade a number of licenses at $100 each, I was stoked to see the rendering engine had been tweaked to leverage hardware acceleration! All have 6-10 core Intel CPUs in them, minimum of 32GB of fast, DDR4 RAM, all using the latest Windbuild. Camtasia though, is my favorite editor, and it is much slower. My videos are complex, and Adobe Premiere leverages the Nvidia GTX1080 or 1070 in each machine, and flies through the typically 30-50 minute timeline renders. I have three, very powerful workstations. 5:03 Wow!).Ģ018 is noticeably faster for the render utilizing a capable video card (in my ad-hoc, single subjective test) GPU enabled mode, 2018 was considerably faster than 9.1.2 - and faster than yesterday's laptop test (14:55 vs. Software-only mode resulted in a slightly faster render with 9.1.2 Read/write to standard HDD, rather than available SDD or RAID array (closer approximation to real world) Drives were really not a factor in the test.ĩ.1.2 wasn't using the video card at all, regardless of mode (with restarts)! Video: GTX 750 TI (bottom of the line for CUDA capable cards) So, 9.1.2 was not using the video card at all, even when asked to in the settings!ĬPU utilization was the same for each app, whether in GPU or software-only mode GPU utilization for 9.1.2 was 0.0%! and CPU avg. GPU utilization for Camtasia 2018, was about 20%, and CPU avg.
* After changing the settings in 2018 from GPU to software-only, a re-start is required. First, the results, then the computer specs:įile load time was about the same as the previous test.Ĭamtasia 2018 render time: 5:03 (14:55 with new laptop, and ineffective video card) Same file as before, using same publish settings. Interesting results on a different machine. Being forced to reload the project while editing, or worse, having to restart the program, is not an option if a fast work flow is required. While the 60 fps may be a great feature, I don't recommend Camtasia 2018 for serious production yet. Transitions in the preview screen are not as fluent as in version 9 and I noticed one hick-up with an animation after rendering. There is no noticeable improvement in rendering speed, but Camtasia still does a good job there overall. This seems like a possible hardware acceleration problem that does not exist with version 9, at least on my Windows 7 system. Flickering only stops when restarting Camtasia. However, when editing a larger project with transitions and animations, after a while the preview screen blacks out or starts flickering and it won't stop, unless the project is reloaded. The overall experience is similar to that of version 9. My first impression of Camtasia 2018 after editing a large project is not too good.