Camtasia Studio 4 – Misc Flash Output Features

Camtasia Studio 4 was released a few weeks back and I’ve finally had the opportunity to make a few screencasts highlighting some of the new Flash related features as well as some backdoor hacks that allow you customize and configures many items that aren’t exposed in the UI. So, the next few posts will be devoted to Camtasia Studio’s Flash output.

This first screencast gives a high level overview of some of the Flash UI elements that we’ve introduced in the Camtasia Studio 4:

1) Flash Preview – Camtasia Studio actual embeds an Active X control in the C++ GUI in order to allow you to pick your Flash output theme (skin) and preview how your output will look in the Flash skin you’ve chosen as you resize elements (scale the content, size the toc, etc.). The Flash theme selector also has buttons which open MFC option dialogs and the like.

2) Target a Specific version of Flash Player – Camtasia Studio allows you to target Flash Player 6 – 8. If you choose to output to swf your content and controller swf’s will both reflect the version you select. If you choose to encode your content as as an flv your controller swf will reflect the version you’ve chosen and the flv will be encoded to the codec you select (both vp6 and h.263 are supported).

3) Optional Preloaders – Camtasia Studio 4 now includes a variety of preloaders and progress bars which come in branded and unbranded varieties.

Screencasts are available for the video iPod as well