Hello. This is a very quick overview of the settings that I use when I export videos from
Camtasia to ensure the highest quality. And if you go to the Export menu, you know you can create
Custom Productions and you can create Presets. So you can create a preset and then you choose
your options, and next time you just select which one you created and it has all those settings.
But if you don't have any presets yet, you can start with a new Custom Production or you can
just go to Local file. So I'm just going to go here now to explain the options that I use,
but the same options are available when you create a new custom production.
And that's going to just show up in your menu right here.
So if I go to Local file, if I want to export a file, a video file, MP4 format that I want to
make sure that it has the best quality, this is the option that I use. I go to the dropdown here,
and if you use any of these presets that come with Camtasia pre-installed, they tend to have
quite low quality. I don't like them, but you know, they are a good starting point.
But what I do is just say Custom Production settings, and I go there and I go Next
and, although the option here is MP4 Smart player HTML five, I don't typically export
with an HTML 5 player because I don't need to upload this to a
LMS or to a Camtasia screencast.com, for example, I don't need those, so I'll turn that off.
So, but I start with the MP4 format and click Next. And now, this will be probably enabled
for you. This is the controller, the HTML player. You turn it off, I don't need that.
Next, you go to the Size tab and you make sure that you have your format,
the size of your video that you want. 1920 by 1080 is full HD. However, if you're editing in 4k
format, this will be a different size here. And that actually depends on your Project Setting.
So if I close this for a second and go to the top here where the Project Settings are,
you can see now that my project is. 1080p, which is 1920 by 1080.
If you select 4k, for example, and you click apply
and then you go back to Custom production, Local file just as I did before,
you will go here and you go at the Size you see, now the size actually is the size of the full
4k format, because that's my project. However that doesn't prevent you from exporting in full HD,
but Camtasia is going to just have to down sample and resize the video when it exports it.
So it depends on what your output is. Just make sure this is the correct size you want.
So I'm just going to go back and change that to full HD in order to continue. So here we go,
Export Local file again, Custom production,
go Next. No Smart player, I'm turning this off size again is back to full HD.
Keep the aspect ratio. This is a setting that you want to
make sure you have it on, if you're doing full HD video, maybe 720 P or some smaller,
you don't want your video to be distorted when you export that. So that's going to keep
your aspect ratio, but 1920 by 1080 P is probably what you want most of the time,
because that's full HD, very good for video on YouTube and everything else.
Video settings, that's the next tab. And this is a decision you have to make, am I editing in 30
frames per second, or Camtasia supports 2021 supports up to 60 frames per second. Again,
this is another setting that depends on your project. If your project is 30 frames per second,
there's no need for you to export at 60 frames, you're just duplicating frames and you're going to
end up with a much larger file size so you don't need to do this, if your project is 30 frames.
However, if your project is 60 frames per second, maybe you have 60 FPS video, or you recorded your
video in the new variable frame rate that Camtasia 21 supports, then maybe you want to export in 60
frames because that's going to give you a much smoother playback, so it's more pleasing to the
eye, but again, I'm going to say, you know, by default, I'm guessing everybody's going
to just use 30 frames per second. And that's just find for YouTube and every other thing.
And now another setting that I want here to make sure I change is the quality. The
quality here is optimizing the size of the video versus the quality of the playback.
Now, what I usually do, and you see it here, it's been selected to 75%.
That is what I always use for my videos, and it seems to work very well. Basically, if you just
go higher than this, even Camtasia is going to tell you, look, you know, if you go over 75%,
this will often result in a much larger file, but not much improvement in quality.
So it's a bit of a trade-off. MP4 is a compression, it's a compressed and lossy format,
so the lower the quality, the smaller the file size. But again,
you're going to also see a decrease in quality of the visual, the image.
So what I have discovered is 75% is kind of the great sort of point for quality.
And of course, if you're uploading to YouTube, YouTube is also going to
compress your video anyway, so there's a loss of quality there. So what I try and do
is provide YouTube with the best quality that I can from my editing, from my source video,
and then YouTube is going to do what they do, you know, optimize the quality to suit
their needs and create all those different streaming quality versions and everything else.
So that's the quality that I use 75% right here. Then the audio settings, I tend to bump these up.
By default, they're going to be at, I think 128. I tend to bump these up to 256 or so. It doesn't
really make a huge difference, unless you're maybe including music in your video or something
like this audio frame rate, so the higher, the quality of the audio will be, like this.
So next on this one and just, there's nothing here that I'm usually changing. I'm not including a
watermark on my video. Click next. And then, this is the final screen where it actually asks you,
where do you want to produce this file? Where do you want to save the video file?
So pay attention to this, because every time you do this,
it's going to ask you for a file and you need to make sure you know where you put the file to find
it later. As opposed to when you're uploading things from Camtasia directly to YouTube,
you're not going to get a file at the end, although Camtasia is going to produce a file
and save it in a temporary folder, upload it to YouTube, and then that file gets deleted.
So if you want to re upload that or something, you have to re-export, wait again until Camtasia
renders it, so that to me is a waste of time, I think. So what you need to do is export your
files directly yourself with a custom production, put them to disk somewhere on your computer and
then you can re-upload them every time, as many times as you like wherever, you know,
you can reuse them, you can watch them locally, do whatever, and you always have your original file.
So you can see here, the file that's going to be produced is the name that I've put in here in
the production. So this is a test, you will, you will notice that the file name down here changes
also. So this, these are my settings. When I click Finish, Camtasia is going to start
rendering this project, I'm not going to do it now, but just to see if you can,
figure out, you know, this is the way that I export all of my videos,
pretty much and the considerations that I have in the export process.
I hope this is helpful. Thank you very much for watching this video. And it was a quick tip,
and if you enjoy this, feel free to subscribe to my channel. I will,
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And you know, if you are actually looking to find out what's going to come out in Camtasia 2022,
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Thank you for watching. And I hope this video was useful. See you on the next one.