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Introducing Camtasia Recorder - Camtasia Tutorial
From the course: Camtasia Studio 8 Essential Training
Introducing Camtasia Recorder
Let's have a look at the Camtasia Recorder. Camtasia Recorder is a dedicated application that's used to record your screen, microphone, and other inputs that you may have, such as a webcam. To launch the Camtasia Recorder from Camtasia Studio, all you need to do is go up to the upper left corner of your screen and click on the button that says Record the Screen. When you do, Camtasia Studio is minimized down to your Taskbar, and the application is automatically opened. Now, here's one of those things that I'm not crazy about this method. And that is, if you go down to your Taskbar you'll notice that Camtasia Studio is still running in the background. Well, there is another way to launch the application, since it's a dedicated standalone application. So, let's go ahead and close Camtasia Recorder, and also close Camtasia Studio. And this time we'll simply go down to our Taskbar, click on the Start Menu, and we'll launch Camtasia Recorder 8 directly from there. Now, if we go back down…
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