This is my first video tutorial that I made in Camtasia Studio 5. As simple and as easy as the actual tutorial is to follow, getting all the zooms at the right moment, picking the right effects, and making sure it was recorded well was actually quite some work!So already, a word of advice: please don\'t look and judge this video by what the actual tutorial teaches you. I KNOW it\'s super-easy and quite pointless for Paint.NET pros, but understand that I didn\'t do this tutorial to actually teach you something - I made this tutorial to learn of Camtasia\'s features and what you can do with them.\n\nI knew that only by trying I could learn how to get the most out of Camtasia. So look at how I actually made this video and recorded it, with all the zooms and effects, not at what you learn from this tutorial. There\'s a good reason why put this in the Technology category, and not the How-to one.\n\nNow, although this video doesn\'t really teach you how to use Camtasia, it does show you how much cool stuff you can do with it, and what the result is in the end. I put lots of work in this, and I used some of the features even though I didn\'t need to, just toshow you exactly what Camtasia is capable of. So... enjoy!\n\nNote: I didn\'t use any sound, so no need to turn up your speakers.\n\n***About This Tutorial***\n\nKeep in mind though, that this video doesn\'t only show you the features of Camtasia - it\'s still a real tutorial, based on the the great free program Paint.NET. Therefore, you should still pay attention to the tutorial itself. As easy as it is, it still might be helpful for beginners. And even if it\'s not, I think it\'s really well done. If someone was really watching this to learn something, I think they would get a good experience out of this video.\n\n***A Bit Of History***\n\nI used to work with the free CamStudio computer screen recording software, but like they say, \"you get what you payed for\". This is especially true for CamStudio. Not only are your videos raw and pixelated, but the mouse skips and jerks around the screen when you finally play it, no matter how slowly you move it when you first record it.\n\nI guess it\'s okay if you only record a small portion of your screen - that way, less space is used, therefore you get more smooth mouse movements, and the quality is not so blurry. But you can\'t edit anything, unless you buysome other expensive software; and CamStudio isn\'t meant for creating good, professional tutorials.\n\nThat\'s when my friend introduced me to Camtasia Studio. Although quite expensive, it\'s a fantastic program with a whole abundance of features. It takes time, it takes work to get even a simple tutorial like this - but the results are definitely satisfying. And while you work on your video, you actually enjoy making it, editing it, improving it to the best you can get it to be!\n\n***Features Of Camtasia***\n\nI covered quite a few features in this simple tutorial. Besides recording your screen, Camtasia, as it\'s name suggests, also has a Studio, an interface similar to Windows Movie Maker. Now we all know that Movie Maker isn\'t the best software around, but with Camtasia Studio you can get far and wide.\n\nI think the title slide of my tutorial was nicely done. I didn\'t need to use any graphics programs - just a picture from the net and some good fonts! Notice how I zoomed it in almost immediately. I\'ve seen lots of tutorials that are probably good, but because the YouTube video player is so small, you can\'t read anything, you can\'t see the mouse, and it just becomes horrible! Zooming in plays an important part of good tutorials and videos. You can see everything clearly in my tutorial due to the time I spend to zoom in and out and show you where I\'m clicking, what I\'m doing, and what I\'m typing.So the Zoom-and-Pan feature of Camtasia Studio was definitely used a lot of times throughout this video. And don\'t count on SmartFocus, the feature that automatically does the zooms for you, if you\'re planning to make a good tutorial. A computer is not a human, and nothing will change that. So astedious and hard it might be to put all those zoom keyframes yourself, it\'s definitely worth it to have the zooms YOUR way, not the computer\'s.\n\nYou can see some transition effect here and there, between different recordings that I took. And at 1:13, you can see a blur that covers my computer name!How cool is that?! Now you can hide all your private names of documents and folders when you create tutorials! Yes, I know that the blur fades a way as soon as the camera moves, but that\'s because blurs can\'t move. They\'re positioned on a certain area of the video and they stay there until you makethem fade away. Still, a very useful feature!\n\nAnd finally, the \"before and after\" effect at the end of the video. It\'s really nice to show your audience the final result of what the tutorial is trying to teach you. It just might convince them to rate your video in the end! :D camtasia, computer, feabionsu, how-to, paint.net, recording, screen, software, studio, technlogy, tutorial, video, zoom-and-pan