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I'm thinking about picking up Camtasia but it costs $299. But from reviews, it sounds like it is the absolute screencasting standard and nothing touches it. I did some seaching and academicsuperstore.com is selling it for like $175.

What's the deal with this place? Is it legit? Anyone ever purchased through this site?

Holler
 


Dude I'll show anything love that gets the job done. Never heard of Jing. Looking at the site and demos/reviews now. Feel free to chime in with your personal experience. Thanks dude.

UPDATE:

Probably want to upload my videos to vimeo, blip.tv, youtube or something like that rather than on screencast.com or my FTP but open to opinions on that. The other thing is it doesn't change video size so it displays the same exact thing it records. And I just got 22" monitors so does that my screen cast will be freaking huge? Not good. I also like Camtasia for its ability to edit/manipulate so you can polish a production up if need be.
 
I hate how every time I watch a Camtasia video, when loading, it shows the "Created with Camtasia" loading screen.

Does anyone know if you can customize or remove this?

I don't want to give those fuckers any free advertising. I'd rather put my own loading message on it.
 
trigatch4 said:
I'm thinking about picking up Camtasia but it costs $299. But from reviews, it sounds like it is the absolute screencasting standard and nothing touches it. I did some seaching and academicsuperstore.com is selling it for like $175.

What's the deal with this place? Is it legit? Anyone ever purchased through this site?

Holler
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They're legit. I bought Dreamweaver & Fireworks CS3 from academicsuperstore.com & saved $400. My wife's a teacher so I used her i.d. to get the discount.

Tim
 
Some stuff off of academic superstore needs student verification - At least it did years ago when I bought QuickBooks off of there.

As for alternatives, see if Cam Studio or Wink fit your needs.
 
Look, here's my take on Adobe. Their products are WAY over priced for one reason: support.

Imagine you have built a 30-minute training video for 30,000 people.

Now imagine you have tested the video on Win 95/98/ME/2K/XP and Mac 9. All videos worked web-based and client-side.

When you deploy, there are ~400 users who cannot view the video, it throws an "Internal Camtasia Error, please call support." The support you call is based in India, and offers no solution. You call the corporate office and ask for a project manager/technical lead for Camtasia and are told the team isn't allowed customer contact.

Now imagine your company is dropped from a project that would have given you $75K in profits. Instead, you lost out on the delivery bonus and only profit $15K.

So yea, Pirate the FUCK out of any Adobe product. CS3/CS4 anything, Camtasia, Acrobat, the works.

Steal it all, they don't want your money.
 
When you do a screen capture you crop the area of the screen that you want - so no worries about your fresh new 22" monitor - don't do a screen capture of the whole thing - i wouldn't recommend doing a screen capture of you 15" crt monitor - lots of wasted space. Showing how to use a web application - crop just the info you want, not the entire browser - let alone the entire screen.

Can't you convert the end file jing makes for something that could be hosted on youtube et al.?

Update: http://www.avi-swf-convert.com/ or some other swf to avi converter would work. Done. Camtasia offers some video editing options - but nothing too special.
 
If you want to save some money, go with jingproject. It get the jobs done pretty much like camtasia(at least for me).

You could save it then upload it to youtube if you want. Too bad i switched to Linux.
 
I purchased Adobe Creative Suite CS3 for Macs from academicsuperstore.com maybe three months ago.

The order came in, the software is all legit and it was *dirt cheap* compared to everywhere else I looked. They are great for their products being cheap and authentic.

However it did take longer than I originally anticipated it would (maybe 2-3 weeks) and their customer service is as evasive and difficult to navigate as a leading Acai offer. So if you purchase from them, it's very very buyer beware. Make sure what you are ordering is exactly what you want, because the stuff I've read online (and heard from people I know who've purchased from here) is that returning stuff and getting your money back is a bitch, if not impossible.
 
Camtasia used to be free, I think it was called "cam studio" back then. It's not very easy to find that version but if you give it some effort you'll find it.
 
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