I have in the past been using Camtasia as my vid editor, always looking at OTHER editors just to get the captions . . . THANK YOU for finally adding this feature ! ! I am hoping it works well ! If so, Camtasia will be the ONLY editor I need. Thanks again.
Dynamic Captions in Camtasia 2024 work in dozens of different languages! Some work better than others, but there should be pretty decent support for many different languages.
We currently offer a variety of voice selections with text-to-speech in Audiate, which can be bundled together in the Camtasia Create or Camtasia Pro packages! www.techsmith.com/store/camtasia
I started back in 2014 with Camtasia 8, but my laptop crashed I had it on and wanted to upgrade to the new one but lost my key and couldn't retrieve it because I bought it through a 3rd party. I purchased this version of 2024 ...and BOY I am happy to be back!!!
There are already dozens of languages that are included! Some will likely work better than others at this early stage, but you will continue to see improvements on it over time.
Would like to be able to IMPORT SRT Captions file and be able to apply the SRT caption file to be used by the Dynamic Captions. I know I can Import a SRT Captions file in Camtasia, but I did not see an easy way to bypass the AI generated Dynamic Captions and use the SRT captions file instead, which is already edited and more accurate. This is very useful for larger files that need extensive captions editing. Thanks!
Not a feature we currently are able to support, as SRT's are separated via line-by-line timecode, and the AI transcribed Dynamic Captions are generated word-by-word. But we will mention this use-case to the developers as you never know what they'll be able to come up with next!
This is awesome! Love it! One question: is there a way to add a new word to the dynamic caption? Scenario is that the dynamic caption missed a word somewhere and I need to be able to add it in.
Currently no, you can't add a new word. You can add to an existing word, or remove a word (it'll leave a very small gap) but the timing can't be adjusted as it's auto-generated by AI. We'll see what future updates bring!
Used it...9.5/10. I had edited the video then did the captioning but the timing was off in a few places. Any tips on that? After a split the captioning did not start right away (like a pause) and then never "caught up" for the rest of the video. Interestingly, the caption track was longer than the video/audio track.
The actual caption media is a pre-defined length of time, so it will almost certainly be longer/shorter than your audio media. You can adjust the length of the caption media to fit the audio media. Note that this won't change any of the timing, just the size of the media on the timeline. We're currently working to improve the already-great timing with Dynamic Captions, so look forward to a near-term update to hopefully improve it even more!
Currently you can really only edit what's there. If you remove a word, a small gap remains, and you can't add. But stay tuned for future updates to this feature.
In this current version of Dynamic Captions you cannot add a word where there wasn't a space, but stay tuned, the dev team is working on it. If your captions AREN'T growing, moving, or highlighting, then you can add one into a space that already exists and fit two words, but if they're moving, they'll move together (as you I'm sure you are aware based on your phrasing).
@@techsmith the captions that are created are they burned in permanently to the video? Or if I export it to MP4, will I be able to turn the captions on and off?
Been using this for a while now. I end up with a lot of gaps or spaces in my dynamic captions where I have deleted a word but the container for the word is still there, which I cannot delete. Is this a bug or something you simply can't do?
@@darthwilson It’s currently something you can’t do. This is the first release of Dynamic Captions however, so there will be feature updates in due time. This IS something the team is aware of, I’m not sure when/if a fix is coming, but I’ll add your name to the feedback request list hoping for this update. Thanks!
My caption transcription ends up being a bit off suddenly. I don't see a way to actually add or fully delete a word in the transcription box. Is there?
If I had captions created by camtasia and I export the video to MP4… Will the captions be burned in? Or will the exported video have the option to turn the captions on or off depending on what the viewer wants?
If you're using the Captions shown in this video they're Dynamic Captions and yes they're burned in. However, on the latest version of BOTH Mac & Windows you can do auto-transcribed Closed-Captions as well. THOSE can be exported as an .SRT file (not burned in) and then uploaded seperately. But they are not the social media style of dynamic captions.
@@architectepaca Sorry to hear that. As with all new technology, we'd recommend being as intentional with your speech as possible. Make sure to speak clearly and with a good mic, however, even with those elements it could be that French will improve with time. Our transcription AI is sourced via OpenAI's Whisper engine, which you can see detailed here under "Speech-to-text Transcription". Open AI is always learning and improving, so the goal would be that the more it is used, the better it will get. www.techsmith.com/ai-policy.html ⬇(Here is the detail on captions) support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/26140574750861-TechSmith-and-AI
I'm going to try this new stuff out. I was big concerned your creating too many sub products, focus on beefing up actual Camstasia. The speech inclusion should be standard in the product feature, s2t and t2s on the subtitling side and speaker side.
If you're referring to Audiate, we now offer the Camtasia Create bundle (and Camtasia Pro) where Audiate comes with your Camtasia subscription, and you get all of those features you're talking about in one bundled purchase. But no matter which you choose, we hope you like the new features! www.techsmith.com/store/camtasia
sounds good... I can't get it to work. No captions show up. I have updated to the latest version and are following your tutorial to the letter... what to do?
Hmm, if you're on Camtasia 2024, and the Caption bins Dynamic Captions aren't working, make sure you open a support ticket with our team here: bit.ly/techsmith-help
How do you add words that the caption generator missed in the audio file? I can’t seem to add a missing word. I can type it in with another word in an existing box, but then Camtasia treats whatever is in that box as a single word. It doesn’t highlight the words individually, and it throws off the sync.
Currently there's not a way to do that. We're planning to iterate on that feature shortly to allow this though. But it's still in phase 1 and that's not an option...yet.
Not really. The AI automation does most of the work behind the scenes and it's out of the users hands (as it's intended to be for ease of use), but there are updates coming to this feature soon. Not sure if this will be one of them, but you never know!
The only question is: How well does the transcription actually work compared to Descript? If it's comparable, I'll jump to Camtasia in a minute. (Descript has been annoying me for a long time)
@AlexBooster What we've found is that in general, the better audio you feed in, the better quality you will get out. Speak clearly, use a nice mic, try not to have noise/music in the background, etc. and you should see good results. We already have some ideas for how to continue giving even better results with less effort, but as long as you stick to the above, you should find that you get good results for the transcriptions.
@@KellyRushTechSmith You failed to understand my question completely. My audio is the best it can be. My question involved the word "compare". Look up the definition if you aren't sure what the word means...
@@AlexBooster I use Camtasia & Audiate for all of my creation, so I can't speak comparatively to the results. It sounds like you have a good workflow for audio creation, so hopefully you should end up with good transcription results!
Kind of cool, still running 2021 version of Camtasia. 24 and 48 frame rate support would be real nice. .MOV support would be huge, but I get that would be a lot more work to support than a couple frame rate additions. One day I might just get to do a nice big upgrade 👍
Have you submitted those to our feature request form? Gives the request a better chance of getting seen by the dev team than here on the UA-cam video. :) techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
Just to confirm, Camtasia dynamic captions cannot be read by a screen reader, correct? So while Dynamic Captions is a great tool for audiences with hearing impairments or those who want to listen with low/no volume, it does not replace the need for a .vtt file that can be read by screen readers often used by visually impaired audiences. Please confirm.
The release notes for Camtasia 2024 say: "Editor shortcuts: - New shortcut options to speed up your video editing. Which are these new shortcut options? Why are there no details about this in the release notes? Not even Techsmith Tech Support could tell me what this new feature is about.
Great question! Sorry for a delayed response. (Andy here) I'm going to release a video SOON (Tuesday the July 2nd hopefully) about all of the keyboard shortcuts you can find now that weren't in there before (as well as some that were), but here's the "short (it's not short)" version. JKL - not new, BUT we've made improvements. J/L used to only go 1x, 2x, 4x, & 8x, but now we've added 1.5x, 3x, & 6x as variable speeds in there as well. (We had MANY requests for 1.5x). Also, if you hold Shift while tapping J/L it will slow down one variable speed at a time (if you're playing at 8x, it'll step down to 6x, then 4x, and so on). AND, when you get down to regular speed (1x), it will continue to slow down if you keep tapping - 0.75x, 0.5x, 0.25x, 0.125x. (Slow-motion playback). Speaking of slow, we've added step forward and step backward functionality to JKL (frame-by-frame navigation). If you hold "K" and tap J/L you will go backward/forward one frame at a time. An entirely new shortcut that I'd actually requested and was added (but does not come pre-assigned with any keys) is the "Select Media at Playhead" and "Select All Media at Playhead" shortcuts. I've assigned my shortcut to the letter C & Shift+C respectively. But when you tap the shortcut you assign, wherever the playhead is on the timeline it will select the media on the first track (well, the first track that HAS media on it (usually track 1)). If there are multiple tracks and you wanted to select the media on Track 2, just tap it again. And the latter "Select All" well do what it sounds like, select however many media you have on however many tracks where the playhead is located. This video will hopefully launch next week, and I even include more of my favorite keyboard shortcuts that have been around for years but people may not have been aware of. Thanks for asking and sorry again for the delayed reply!
@@techsmith Hey Andy! Thanks for your response, I appreciate it! I don't want to be the UA-cam troll, but that's not entirely correct - the "Select Media at Playhead" and "Select All Media at Playhead" shortcuts that you're referring to already exist in Camtasia 2023. This means that in terms of selection, nothing has changed in version 2024. All that is new, as far as I can see, are the playback functions. I haven't yet found out how I could use them for my workflow, but I see that some people have asked for them. I'd love to have more shortcuts for functions that are already in menus anyway. Specifically: I use "Copy Properties" and "Paste Properties" extremely often when editing, when I have cropped or zoomed a media and want to transfer the same setting to the next clip. I sometimes make very complex animations with lots of tracks and transitions, so it would be great if TechSmith provided shortcuts for these two functions. Again, thank you for your time!
@@studioonetutorials I don’t consider it trolling when you suggest ways to make Camtasia better! It’s all good. You may be right about Select Media being in the last 2023 update, though it was intended to be held for release. I didn’t realize it went public early. I’m with you on the Copy/Paste Properties shortcut! I’ve mentioned that to dev team members and I have hope that they’ll be able to make that happen in the future. I’ll bring it up again.
So sorry to hear you're running into that! I've passed your comment along to the right folks internally and let them know of the situation. If you haven't already, please make sure to submit a ticket to our tech support team so we can log this and make sure our devs are aware of the issue. Thanks for your feedback! bit.ly/techsmith-help
Sorry we missed this earlier! This should be doable on mac www.techsmith.com/learn/tutorials/camtasia/add-closed-captions/#:~:text=the%20caption%20editor.-,Export%20a%20Caption%20File,)%20or%20Export%20(Mac).
Camtasia 2024 won't even start on my Windows 10 system. It crashes with a "Unable to start Camtasia" error message. Camtasia 2023 still runs perfectly. Tech Support is clueless and gives completely nonsensical tips, including tinkering around in the Windows registry (without success, of course). I really hope that instead of me getting more pointless tips, development is working on fixing the crashes. So far I have to stick with Camtasia 2023.
@@techsmith Thank you! In the meantime, after a lot of back and forth, support has sent me a special build with which no crashes occur at startup - that's great! I hope that this has solved the problem. It's just annoying that I spent so much time on it because support didn't pass it on to development straight away.
Dynamic Captions in Camtasia 2024 work in dozens of different languages! Some work better than others, but there should be pretty decent support for many different languages.
Shame it doesn't work properly - Needs debugging badly as some text disapears and then it lags behind what is being said - I won't be using this feature and will use CapCut which works (I have single words appearing in middle of screen one at a time - Camtasia can only do lines). Ah well was almost thinking I could just use Camtasia.
It's working well for most, but if you're having bug issues the good news is the team is already addressing those and the next update will include any necessary fixes (updates are released fairly regularly). However we CAN do fewer words on screen, just grab the handles of the caption border on the canvas, and drag them in until they fit just what you want them to show. I very quickly tried it and can show you here. Not perfect as smaller words can fit two at a time, but works pretty well. app.screencast.com/6s0n7unWvGLTD
Make sure to submit that as a feature request at the link below, so it has a better chance of getting seen by developers that way: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
Unless I'm missing something ... the feature is downright horrible. Impossible to edit the text, as it adds and deletes word boxes randomly and on its own. I just wasted over three hours trying to edit and correct the text on a 9:35 video and I'm only 3:15 in. There is no way to delete the word boxes entirely, so they show up as blank spaces in the captioning. Techsmith needs to fix this, immediately. Now I have to pay additional money to have my captions added the way I want them. Not good.
Not sure what you're experiencing in terms of adding/deleting word boxes randomly on its own. That absolutely sounds like a bug, not something we've experienced while using or testing. If you submit a ticket to bit.ly/techsmith-help I will also have our team look out for it. We're pretty quick about addressing bugs when they occur and as its a new feature, there will definitely be regular updates as we move forward to have this working to the top of its ability.
@@techsmith Thanks so much for the prompt response! I will definitely submit a ticket. Some UA-cam research indicates I'm not the only one having an issue. Would be great if the captions/text were compltely editable - meaning that the word/text boxes could be deleted or added. Right now this does not seem possible. But i will submit the ticket as you suggested.
@@ShivaramaGs you cannot use multiple languages in one video. One language per video with dynamic captions since it is detecting the main spoken language with AI. If you had separate projects per language, then exported each one with its captions, you could combine those exported videos in another project. But it’s not an ideal workflow.
Hopefully you saw the entire announcement where it was said that current customers of Camtasia 2024, who keep their Maintenance Agreement active year-over-year, will be able to maintain their price point.
@@Rivanni if you buy Camtasia 2024 as a perpetual product (the last version we’re offering that way), and then regularly keep your Maintenance up-to-date, as our CEO Wendy Hamilton said in her video announcement, we’ll honor your Maintenance agreement pricing going forward.
😁😁I laugh that Camtasia has given almost everything but why does the team not pay attention to an important feature which should be there - the option of Audio Sync has not come yet... Syncing many audios becomes a very big task due to which many people do not use this software and this feature is available in all other software but the Camtasia team has fallen asleep on this matter.... I laugh at this thing that they do not give what they should give... they keep giving useless template updates, theme updates
Have you left that on our feature request form? Our devs don't ready every comment here, but you can submit that as a request here: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
Need Add More Feature Camtasia... This All Feature is Very important. Now at a time All Software Updated this feature 1. Audio Sync 2. Adjustment Layer 3. Spill Remover From Croma Key 4. Croma Key Multiple Color Picker Add 5. More Color Balance Tool... Separate Color Balance Tool if i Want to work on Blue Color then Blue color section Open in Color Adjustment
you come up with a lot of new unnecessary features, but you removed the top one, this is a drawing tool! Bring back the screen painter! Ask! She is really needed! Because of this, I cannot upgrade to the new version and use the old version!!!
I’m sorry to hear you’re disappointed. Camtasia was never a drawing tool, it was a lesser-used feature (according to our product usage statistics) that we removed during updates a while back. Our team is aware however that people want it back and are looking into it. In the meantime if you need a solution, you can access screen drawing in our sister product, Snagit.
@@АнатолийКириенко-щ4х Make sure to leave this as a feature request to our devs, but clicking here: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
Yes, Techsmith Crew: this is EXACTLY what Camtasia has been crying out for!! Fantastic! 10/10
Does it work in other languages or only in english? I'd like it to have Brazilian portuguese option for automatic captions.
It does! Dynamic Captions work in dozens of languages and Portuguese is on that list!
@@techsmith Amazing! Thank you!
Excited to see this as part of the latest version! I won't have to export to another program to do this work now.
I am so glad to see this as a new feature.
This is a fantastic upgrade!
Thanks Nick! 🎉
I have in the past been using Camtasia as my vid editor, always looking at OTHER editors just to get the captions . . . THANK YOU for finally adding this feature ! ! I am hoping it works well ! If so, Camtasia will be the ONLY editor I need. Thanks again.
We're glad to hear you're so excited about this feature!
Huge upgrade, love this!!
I have one word for you: FINALLY!
This is one of the best features of camtasia. It was missing, thank you. Is it compatible with Spanish and other languages?
Dynamic Captions in Camtasia 2024 work in dozens of different languages! Some work better than others, but there should be pretty decent support for many different languages.
Thank you so much! 👏 And as Kelly said (he's Camtasia's product manager, so he'd know) it does work in multiple languages!
OMG - game changer! GREAT work Camtasia.
Thanks! 🎉
Love it. Very well thought through! Certainly not an MVP feature release. Kudos!
Love the new speech-to-text! Now to text-to-speech with various voice selections :)
We currently offer a variety of voice selections with text-to-speech in Audiate, which can be bundled together in the Camtasia Create or Camtasia Pro packages! www.techsmith.com/store/camtasia
It gets better by the day.
Wow, what a great addition, thanks!
As always, you guys continue to serve up awesome improvements! Thanks TechSmith!
Thank YOU, Micki! 👏
Thank you SO much for this feature!
Using Camtasia since more than 5 years, still love it!
We're so happy to hear that!
I love it!!! So happy for Dynamic Captions!
Awesome upgrade. Can’t wait to use this!!!
HELL YEAH - thanks so much, looking forward to trying this out!
I started back in 2014 with Camtasia 8, but my laptop crashed I had it on and wanted to upgrade to the new one but lost my key and couldn't retrieve it because I bought it through a 3rd party. I purchased this version of 2024 ...and BOY I am happy to be back!!!
So glad to have you back! 🎉🎉
Camtasia, the tool that switches from "workplace tutorial" to "youtube shorts" in 2 clicks!!
Nice! Downloading the update.
Thanks Dee! Let us know what you think when you've had a chance to dig in!
Looks cool, but will this work with languages other than english? 😔
At any rate, looking forward to the rest of new features in 2024! 🍿👍
There are already dozens of languages that are included! Some will likely work better than others at this early stage, but you will continue to see improvements on it over time.
@@techsmith @techsmith That's great news! Thank you both (@techsmith and @KellyRushTechSmith) for your quick reply! 😊
Would like to be able to IMPORT SRT Captions file and be able to apply the SRT caption file to be used by the Dynamic Captions. I know I can Import a SRT Captions file in Camtasia, but I did not see an easy way to bypass the AI generated Dynamic Captions and use the SRT captions file instead, which is already edited and more accurate. This is very useful for larger files that need extensive captions editing. Thanks!
Not a feature we currently are able to support, as SRT's are separated via line-by-line timecode, and the AI transcribed Dynamic Captions are generated word-by-word. But we will mention this use-case to the developers as you never know what they'll be able to come up with next!
Great job Techsmith! Also great video tutorial.
Thank you, glad you enjoyed it!
This is awesome! Love it! One question: is there a way to add a new word to the dynamic caption? Scenario is that the dynamic caption missed a word somewhere and I need to be able to add it in.
Currently no, you can't add a new word. You can add to an existing word, or remove a word (it'll leave a very small gap) but the timing can't be adjusted as it's auto-generated by AI. We'll see what future updates bring!
Amazeballs! Love this feature and now I can use it right inside Camtasia, no more third party editing for me - yay!
We love helping get people to 'done' faster! 🥳
AMAZING…YES…FINALLY!! You guys are the best
Very sad for the change of Camtasia model, from perpetual to subscribed. Very very very very sad.
You can still get Camtasia 2024 as a perpetual (owned) version.
If your ROI is positive, and the company is making regular and significant updates then it's worth it!
bout time! Thanks for the update!!!
Thank you, this is great.
Best update. Waiting for this for SO long
Used it...9.5/10. I had edited the video then did the captioning but the timing was off in a few places. Any tips on that? After a split the captioning did not start right away (like a pause) and then never "caught up" for the rest of the video. Interestingly, the caption track was longer than the video/audio track.
The actual caption media is a pre-defined length of time, so it will almost certainly be longer/shorter than your audio media. You can adjust the length of the caption media to fit the audio media. Note that this won't change any of the timing, just the size of the media on the timeline.
We're currently working to improve the already-great timing with Dynamic Captions, so look forward to a near-term update to hopefully improve it even more!
Good addition of text to speech 👌
Glad you like it! 🎉
This is outstanding!
How do you add or combine words in Dynamic Caption Transcript?
Currently you can really only edit what's there. If you remove a word, a small gap remains, and you can't add. But stay tuned for future updates to this feature.
@@techsmith - Okay. Thanks - I'll keep an eye out
So very, very cool
So glad I do not have to leave Camtasia now!
This is fantastic! Nice job on the video too. :)
Thank you! 🎉
love it, so awesome
Superduper!! Thank you 🙂
finally, this is what I was waiting 😍😍😍
Love this!
Woah! Phenomenal update! 😎😎
I was about to switch to a different platform, but this has saved camtasia for me.
Love to hear that! 💚
How to you add a missing word in animated captions? Any video tutorial showing this?
In this current version of Dynamic Captions you cannot add a word where there wasn't a space, but stay tuned, the dev team is working on it.
If your captions AREN'T growing, moving, or highlighting, then you can add one into a space that already exists and fit two words, but if they're moving, they'll move together (as you I'm sure you are aware based on your phrasing).
@@techsmith right on. Someone from Tech support called me back. Will be great when that capability will be added in
Epic update!
Uso o Camtasia em todos os meus vídeos!
AMAZING!
i JUST upgraded to Camtasia Pro 2024 and tried to make a dynamic caption. I am not getting it. any problem in Pc Windows 10
It should be working there! Please open a ticket with our support team and they can help figure out what's going on here. bit.ly/techsmith-help
Are the dynamic captions going to be available to transcribe in Spanish or only in English? Thank you.
DOZENS of languages (including Spanish)!
@@techsmith the captions that are created are they burned in permanently to the video? Or if I export it to MP4, will I be able to turn the captions on and off?
Been using this for a while now. I end up with a lot of gaps or spaces in my dynamic captions where I have deleted a word but the container for the word is still there, which I cannot delete. Is this a bug or something you simply can't do?
@@darthwilson It’s currently something you can’t do. This is the first release of Dynamic Captions however, so there will be feature updates in due time. This IS something the team is aware of, I’m not sure when/if a fix is coming, but I’ll add your name to the feedback request list hoping for this update. Thanks!
@@techsmith okay thanks 👍
My caption transcription ends up being a bit off suddenly. I don't see a way to actually add or fully delete a word in the transcription box. Is there?
The nice one! 👏
If I had captions created by camtasia and I export the video to MP4… Will the captions be burned in? Or will the exported video have the option to turn the captions on or off depending on what the viewer wants?
If you're using the Captions shown in this video they're Dynamic Captions and yes they're burned in. However, on the latest version of BOTH Mac & Windows you can do auto-transcribed Closed-Captions as well. THOSE can be exported as an .SRT file (not burned in) and then uploaded seperately. But they are not the social media style of dynamic captions.
Is it available for all langages ?
"All" is a big word, but it is available in DOZENS of languages, yes!
@@techsmith I try it, but in French the result is not really good, a lot of words do not recognize ... The IA will be learn ?
😭
@@architectepaca Sorry to hear that. As with all new technology, we'd recommend being as intentional with your speech as possible. Make sure to speak clearly and with a good mic, however, even with those elements it could be that French will improve with time.
Our transcription AI is sourced via OpenAI's Whisper engine, which you can see detailed here under "Speech-to-text Transcription". Open AI is always learning and improving, so the goal would be that the more it is used, the better it will get.
www.techsmith.com/ai-policy.html
⬇(Here is the detail on captions)
support.techsmith.com/hc/en-us/articles/26140574750861-TechSmith-and-AI
@@techsmith I understood, but the APP CAPTION on my IPHONE is better actually.... i hope CAMTASIA upgrade to this point 😉
I'm going to try this new stuff out. I was big concerned your creating too many sub products, focus on beefing up actual Camstasia. The speech inclusion should be standard in the product feature, s2t and t2s on the subtitling side and speaker side.
If you're referring to Audiate, we now offer the Camtasia Create bundle (and Camtasia Pro) where Audiate comes with your Camtasia subscription, and you get all of those features you're talking about in one bundled purchase. But no matter which you choose, we hope you like the new features!
www.techsmith.com/store/camtasia
Awesome
sounds good... I can't get it to work. No captions show up. I have updated to the latest version and are following your tutorial to the letter... what to do?
Hmm, if you're on Camtasia 2024, and the Caption bins Dynamic Captions aren't working, make sure you open a support ticket with our team here: bit.ly/techsmith-help
How do you add words that the caption generator missed in the audio file? I can’t seem to add a missing word. I can type it in with another word in an existing box, but then Camtasia treats whatever is in that box as a single word. It doesn’t highlight the words individually, and it throws off the sync.
Currently there's not a way to do that. We're planning to iterate on that feature shortly to allow this though. But it's still in phase 1 and that's not an option...yet.
Nice
Is there a way of splitting the sentences to control where they appear rather than having to record separate audios?
Not really. The AI automation does most of the work behind the scenes and it's out of the users hands (as it's intended to be for ease of use), but there are updates coming to this feature soon.
Not sure if this will be one of them, but you never know!
Wow. 😍
The only question is: How well does the transcription actually work compared to Descript?
If it's comparable, I'll jump to Camtasia in a minute. (Descript has been annoying me for a long time)
@AlexBooster What we've found is that in general, the better audio you feed in, the better quality you will get out. Speak clearly, use a nice mic, try not to have noise/music in the background, etc. and you should see good results. We already have some ideas for how to continue giving even better results with less effort, but as long as you stick to the above, you should find that you get good results for the transcriptions.
@@KellyRushTechSmith You failed to understand my question completely.
My audio is the best it can be. My question involved the word "compare". Look up the definition if you aren't sure what the word means...
@@AlexBooster I use Camtasia & Audiate for all of my creation, so I can't speak comparatively to the results. It sounds like you have a good workflow for audio creation, so hopefully you should end up with good transcription results!
Kind of cool, still running 2021 version of Camtasia.
24 and 48 frame rate support would be real nice.
.MOV support would be huge, but I get that would be a lot more work to support than a couple frame rate additions.
One day I might just get to do a nice big upgrade 👍
Have you submitted those to our feature request form? Gives the request a better chance of getting seen by the dev team than here on the UA-cam video. :) techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
@@techsmith Cool thank you.
Is it available in other languages, I mean, Spanish?? please say yes 🙏🏼
Yes!
Just to confirm, Camtasia dynamic captions cannot be read by a screen reader, correct? So while Dynamic Captions is a great tool for audiences with hearing impairments or those who want to listen with low/no volume, it does not replace the need for a .vtt file that can be read by screen readers often used by visually impaired audiences. Please confirm.
Correct, but we do also offer closed captions for that purpose.
Wow!
The release notes for Camtasia 2024 say:
"Editor shortcuts: - New shortcut options to speed up your video editing.
Which are these new shortcut options? Why are there no details about this in the release notes? Not even Techsmith Tech Support could tell me what this new feature is about.
Great question! Sorry for a delayed response. (Andy here) I'm going to release a video SOON (Tuesday the July 2nd hopefully) about all of the keyboard shortcuts you can find now that weren't in there before (as well as some that were), but here's the "short (it's not short)" version.
JKL - not new, BUT we've made improvements. J/L used to only go 1x, 2x, 4x, & 8x, but now we've added 1.5x, 3x, & 6x as variable speeds in there as well. (We had MANY requests for 1.5x).
Also, if you hold Shift while tapping J/L it will slow down one variable speed at a time (if you're playing at 8x, it'll step down to 6x, then 4x, and so on). AND, when you get down to regular speed (1x), it will continue to slow down if you keep tapping - 0.75x, 0.5x, 0.25x, 0.125x. (Slow-motion playback).
Speaking of slow, we've added step forward and step backward functionality to JKL (frame-by-frame navigation). If you hold "K" and tap J/L you will go backward/forward one frame at a time.
An entirely new shortcut that I'd actually requested and was added (but does not come pre-assigned with any keys) is the "Select Media at Playhead" and "Select All Media at Playhead" shortcuts. I've assigned my shortcut to the letter C & Shift+C respectively. But when you tap the shortcut you assign, wherever the playhead is on the timeline it will select the media on the first track (well, the first track that HAS media on it (usually track 1)). If there are multiple tracks and you wanted to select the media on Track 2, just tap it again. And the latter "Select All" well do what it sounds like, select however many media you have on however many tracks where the playhead is located.
This video will hopefully launch next week, and I even include more of my favorite keyboard shortcuts that have been around for years but people may not have been aware of.
Thanks for asking and sorry again for the delayed reply!
@@techsmith Hey Andy! Thanks for your response, I appreciate it! I don't want to be the UA-cam troll, but that's not entirely correct - the "Select Media at Playhead" and "Select All Media at Playhead" shortcuts that you're referring to already exist in Camtasia 2023. This means that in terms of selection, nothing has changed in version 2024. All that is new, as far as I can see, are the playback functions. I haven't yet found out how I could use them for my workflow, but I see that some people have asked for them.
I'd love to have more shortcuts for functions that are already in menus anyway. Specifically: I use "Copy Properties" and "Paste Properties" extremely often when editing, when I have cropped or zoomed a media and want to transfer the same setting to the next clip. I sometimes make very complex animations with lots of tracks and transitions, so it would be great if TechSmith provided shortcuts for these two functions.
Again, thank you for your time!
@@studioonetutorials I don’t consider it trolling when you suggest ways to make Camtasia better! It’s all good.
You may be right about Select Media being in the last 2023 update, though it was intended to be held for release. I didn’t realize it went public early.
I’m with you on the Copy/Paste Properties shortcut! I’ve mentioned that to dev team members and I have hope that they’ll be able to make that happen in the future. I’ll bring it up again.
@@techsmith That's great. Thanks again and I'm looking forward to the next videos.
Still haven't fixed the window spotlight issue in the OS when clips are split and stitched. It will not be able to use the window spotlight effect.
So sorry to hear you're running into that! I've passed your comment along to the right folks internally and let them know of the situation. If you haven't already, please make sure to submit a ticket to our tech support team so we can log this and make sure our devs are aware of the issue.
Thanks for your feedback!
bit.ly/techsmith-help
@@techsmith Thanks, I will contact support team
Does it support Hindi ?
Is it possible to export an SRT file? I'm on a Mac.
Too bad they didn't answer you...
@@nycesl I think for now it's a no. Maybe on the next update.
Sorry we missed this earlier! This should be doable on mac www.techsmith.com/learn/tutorials/camtasia/add-closed-captions/#:~:text=the%20caption%20editor.-,Export%20a%20Caption%20File,)%20or%20Export%20(Mac).
Just found the transcribe update. Thanks!
You guys have been busy!
We sure have! And we're not stopping here :)
How do I specify the language?
It should recognize the language you're speaking automatically.
@@techsmith it sometimes makes mistakes . Also where can I see a list of supported languages?
We implemented OpenAI's Whisper engine, and here's the list: platform.openai.com/docs/guides/speech-to-text/supported-languages
@@techsmith nice. In this case, it would be nice if I could specify the language, in case whisper makes mistakes
Camtasia 2024 won't even start on my Windows 10 system. It crashes with a "Unable to start Camtasia" error message. Camtasia 2023 still runs perfectly. Tech Support is clueless and gives completely nonsensical tips, including tinkering around in the Windows registry (without success, of course). I really hope that instead of me getting more pointless tips, development is working on fixing the crashes. So far I have to stick with Camtasia 2023.
Oh no, so sorry about this! Do you have a ticket number we can follow up on for you?
@@techsmith Thank you! In the meantime, after a lot of back and forth, support has sent me a special build with which no crashes occur at startup - that's great! I hope that this has solved the problem. It's just annoying that I spent so much time on it because support didn't pass it on to development straight away.
can I choose a language ?
Dynamic Captions in Camtasia 2024 work in dozens of different languages! Some work better than others, but there should be pretty decent support for many different languages.
@@KellyRushTechSmith thank you
Shame it doesn't work properly - Needs debugging badly as some text disapears and then it lags behind what is being said - I won't be using this feature and will use CapCut which works (I have single words appearing in middle of screen one at a time - Camtasia can only do lines). Ah well was almost thinking I could just use Camtasia.
It's working well for most, but if you're having bug issues the good news is the team is already addressing those and the next update will include any necessary fixes (updates are released fairly regularly).
However we CAN do fewer words on screen, just grab the handles of the caption border on the canvas, and drag them in until they fit just what you want them to show. I very quickly tried it and can show you here. Not perfect as smaller words can fit two at a time, but works pretty well. app.screencast.com/6s0n7unWvGLTD
When eye correction?
Make sure to submit that as a feature request at the link below, so it has a better chance of getting seen by developers that way: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
Unless I'm missing something ... the feature is downright horrible. Impossible to edit the text, as it adds and deletes word boxes randomly and on its own. I just wasted over three hours trying to edit and correct the text on a 9:35 video and I'm only 3:15 in. There is no way to delete the word boxes entirely, so they show up as blank spaces in the captioning.
Techsmith needs to fix this, immediately. Now I have to pay additional money to have my captions added the way I want them. Not good.
Not sure what you're experiencing in terms of adding/deleting word boxes randomly on its own. That absolutely sounds like a bug, not something we've experienced while using or testing. If you submit a ticket to bit.ly/techsmith-help I will also have our team look out for it. We're pretty quick about addressing bugs when they occur and as its a new feature, there will definitely be regular updates as we move forward to have this working to the top of its ability.
@@techsmith Thanks so much for the prompt response! I will definitely submit a ticket. Some UA-cam research indicates I'm not the only one having an issue. Would be great if the captions/text were compltely editable - meaning that the word/text boxes could be deleted or added. Right now this does not seem possible. But i will submit the ticket as you suggested.
Goodbye Veed
Is Arabic language suported?
Yes, Arabic should be supported by the service we use!
@@techsmith Thanks
How to use multi languages please make one video step by step
@@ShivaramaGs you cannot use multiple languages in one video. One language per video with dynamic captions since it is detecting the main spoken language with AI.
If you had separate projects per language, then exported each one with its captions, you could combine those exported videos in another project. But it’s not an ideal workflow.
Great addition...but I'm jumping ship due to the Subscription only they're switching to.
Hopefully you saw the entire announcement where it was said that current customers of Camtasia 2024, who keep their Maintenance Agreement active year-over-year, will be able to maintain their price point.
Capcut is forcing Camtasia to a necessary updates.
Nah, we were just listening to what our users were asking us for. 😄
@@Rivanni if you buy Camtasia 2024 as a perpetual product (the last version we’re offering that way), and then regularly keep your Maintenance up-to-date, as our CEO Wendy Hamilton said in her video announcement, we’ll honor your Maintenance agreement pricing going forward.
Auch TechSmith sollte sich mal daran gewöhnen Erläuterungsvideos nicht nur in englisch anzubieten, sondern auch in Deutsch
Wir haben bereits einige Videos auf Deutsch! www.techsmith.de/learn/webinare/
www.techsmith.de/learn/tutorials/camtasia/
😁😁I laugh that Camtasia has given almost everything but why does the team not pay attention to an important feature which should be there - the option of Audio Sync has not come yet... Syncing many audios becomes a very big task due to which many people do not use this software and this feature is available in all other software but the Camtasia team has fallen asleep on this matter.... I laugh at this thing that they do not give what they should give... they keep giving useless template updates, theme updates
Have you left that on our feature request form? Our devs don't ready every comment here, but you can submit that as a request here: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
Need Add More Feature Camtasia... This All Feature is Very important. Now at a time All Software Updated this feature
1. Audio Sync
2. Adjustment Layer
3. Spill Remover From Croma Key
4. Croma Key Multiple Color Picker Add
5. More Color Balance Tool... Separate Color Balance Tool if i Want to work on Blue Color then Blue color section Open in Color Adjustment
As I mentioned on your other comment, you can leave feature requests here: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
It's not worth renewing my subscription; the only major update is Captions. There's no plan to renew.
you come up with a lot of new unnecessary features, but you removed the top one, this is a drawing tool! Bring back the screen painter! Ask! She is really needed! Because of this, I cannot upgrade to the new version and use the old version!!!
I’m sorry to hear you’re disappointed. Camtasia was never a drawing tool, it was a lesser-used feature (according to our product usage statistics) that we removed during updates a while back. Our team is aware however that people want it back and are looking into it.
In the meantime if you need a solution, you can access screen drawing in our sister product, Snagit.
@@techsmith ok
@@techsmith Maybe a small number of people use it, but those who use it cannot live without it. no way!!! and I'm one of those guys.
@@АнатолийКириенко-щ4х Make sure to leave this as a feature request to our devs, but clicking here: techsmith.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0fAxNg2cVlwWNbo?Source=Direct
@@techsmith I understand that this is useless, it won’t help solve the problem anyway?
AWESOME!!
Nice