I tried to use the Camtasia Studio 6 versus my trusty Camtasia Studio 5.
What I found out bothered me so bad I had to let you know… I have created a lot of videos for the web and membership sites. I use camtasia to record, edit, enhance, and produce 90% of them in Camtasia Studio 5.
I then took a chance to upgrade to version 6.
So I downloaded it, tried it out, and found out that you CAN’T make FLV’s from the new version.
It only creates SWF / MP4 videos.
Now if you are making content for Ipods or other portable devices that might be great. But not for me, I have another tool that batches those jobs just fine.
And I got it for free!
Not like this Camtasia Upgrade. It would cost me over $150 to upgrade and it doesn’t have the one feature I use the most. With an exception to the added coding to make re-rendering, resizing and producing videos more smoothly with less errors or redo’s [ I hate wasting time on redo's] then Camtasia is a pretty nice peace of software.
Also I have to hand it o techsmith for coming up with some pretty awesome tools, when there were way overpriced, under performing tools that couldn’t do half the things camtasia or snagit for that matter. That being said is still no excuse for removing the FLV option. I can’t use SWF’s for what I do, and most of the videos your looking at online are streaming FLV’s anyways, so save yourself the trouble and DON’T Upgrade to Camtasia 6.
At least not until they put the FLV back into it.
As the saying goes, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take it any more…” so I did something about it. I stopped upgrading and went back to the version I like best, version 5.
Lets hear what you have to stay.
