This interview is with Troy Stein, a Product Manager for Camtasia Studio. Primarily, people use Camtasia Studio for training and for presentation and demonstration purposes. The idea with Camtasia is that you can tell and show people much better than you can just tell them.

Camtasia records your screen; it records your voice; it records your mouse movement. If you're in PowerPoint, it records that too, and it makes a movie that you can then distribute in any format that you want.

Here, we look at what you need to get started with Camtasia Studio. We look at hardware requirements, what you need to get the best audio results, dealing with background noise, recording options, scripting, storyboards, working with SmartFocus, output settings and much more.

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