Camtasia

Tool Overview:

Camtasia is a video editing software that has screen recording and interactive video features.

Queen's Security Assessment completed: No
Similar To: Panopto
Adobe Premiere Pro

Availability: Desktop app Offline

Advantages:

  • Easy to use video recording and editing tool
  • Offers screen capture
  • Offers additional features for interactive videos

Limitations:

  • Mac version has different functionality; Mac and PC Camtasia files are not compatible
  • Only available as a desktop application

This tool is available to: Available to Queen's Faculty/Staff

This tool can be integrated with: Integration Not Recommended

Gradebook Integration: Yes
Gradebook can be exported: No
Classlist full integration with onQ: No
Class roster and groups need to be udpated manually if onQ changes: N/A

WCAG 2.0 Compliance
wcag2 - Yes

  • Some users can convey information as per Universal Design For Learning guidelines in a variety of formats.

    UDL in Camtasia will depend entirely on how the User structures their video content (e.g. describes images in their screen recordings, adds descriptions as captions in their videos, etc)

  • All users can customize the display of information in multiple ways as per UDL guidelines.

    It depends on how the video content is produced. The smart player is customizable and allows for closed captions, cue points, and the interface is customizable by the creator with limited customization by the viewer. 

Some tool features are compatible with screen readers


Compatible Screen Readers:

  • NVDA
  • Microsoft Narrator

Alt text is supported on images in this tool.

The product supplies text alternatives for most non-text content, but there are some graphics that do not provide text alternatives.

Caption Features Availability
For Live Video Live Captions - No No
For Pre-Recorded Pre-recorded Captions - Yes Yes
Are Automatically Generated Auto-Generated Captions - No No
Are Editable Caption Editing - Yes Yes
Are SRT/WebVTT Importable Importable Captions - Yes Yes

Navigation Features Availability
Keyboard Keyboard Navigation - Partial Partial
Mouse Mouse Navigation - Yes Yes

Support available through: Vendor Support

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