Avoid Mac Camtasia, Buy ScreenFlow Instead, Camtasia broken for Skype recordings
Channel: David Favor
Date: 01/09/2012

2013-05-19 update: Still broken in Camtasia-2.3.1

2012-12-19 update: Still broken in Camtasia-2.3

2012-10-31 update: Still broken in Camtasia-2.2.2
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The solution is to use http://DavidFavor.com/screenflow instead, as it ScreenFlow just works. Period. With both simple videos + complex videos churned out by Skype + other software that allocate a separate audio + video stream to every person on a call.
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Mac Camtasia, Skype or any other multi-channel recording application broken beyond belief.

Email techsmith@mailmw.custhelp.com and tell them you watched this video (send them the link) and you'll consider purchasing a copy of Camtasia once they've fixed this problem. Enough email and they may be inspired to catch up with all other video editors.

TechSmith has no intention of ever fixing their software. See TechSmith email below.

The following products support multi-stream video include - ScreenFlow, Kdenlive, ScreenFlow, Final Cut Pro, iMovie.

Camtasia is the only mainstream editor with no multi-stream support.

As more an more applications produce multi-stream videos, best avoid Camtasia.

For overall simplicity of use and price consideration, ScreenFlow is still the big winner.
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2012-09-24 update from "Parker H." in TechSmith/Camtasia Development.

Hello David,

I see that there was a video sent to my senior tech Mike back in that previous case. Mike has informed me that this has been logged as an issue by our development team, but there are no immediate plans to fully support multiple video and audio streams in a single file.

Please let me know if I can be of any further assistance.

Kind regards,
Parker
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