I used a cheap 10x macro add-on lens to get ultra close shots of bugs and tiny details of the plants. Recently, I did an entire video just using still photos made throughout a summer of morning and evening shoots of a bucket garden which included all the tiny creatures that visited or resided there. My camera is almost always set to snap pics at 4:3 ratio, 4000x3000, 12meg images because it gives me the most capture in all directions for this camera. In this manner, the computer doesn't have to deal with priority between apps. It can be corrected in edit, but my experience has made me philosophically believe that media creation prefers exclusivity over the system. Keeping other audio video programs out of the mix helps to prevent loss of audio and video sync in my experience., especially screen recording. Notepad and calculator may also be running. I prefer not to run browsers, email clients, nor Skype while editing although I have run all while using Camtasia I just prefer not to and avoid when possible. However, I may have one audio app opened to capture voice then shut it down once completed and I may have an image editing app open. I prefer to edit exclusively with no other apps running. I almost never do screen recording used for editing, but the few times I have, there has been no problem. I also use many photos from the same camera.
I also render to various sizes from original 1080p and 720p down to smaller resolutions for websites. My answer is that I almost exclusively use footage from a Canon SX50 which records in MOV format. Will I take that laptop on my next trip? No! I hated waiting so long before uploading video. As I said before, Techsmith told me Camtasia would not likely run on such a weak computer, but it ran fine. I kept the laptop plugged into an inverter that was plugged into the cig lighter. My videos were 30 minutes to a little over and hour each. All my data and video files were always on USB sticks.
I then rendered the video to mp4 on a different USB stick. I would then load from the USB stick into Camtasia.
At night, I would load all the files through the computer on a USB memory card. Each day, I would video anything and everything on the trip. I took this lightweight computer on a road trip. All you get is this 2gigs and you cannot have anymore. This means that all the apps including the OS are limited to and share this SSD type RAM / HD combo. The little ASUS 11" laptop I spoke of with only 2gigs of built in fixed RAM (that cannot be upgraded) is a 32bit system. Also, could be over heating caused by poor heat sink compound, slow fans, lack of air flow in case (check clogged cooling ports on laptop).
Then install apps one by one, checking Camtasia multiple times until you find the install that interferes.ĭoes this happen to you on only one computer or has it happened to you on different computers? If it is the same computer then you may have a hardware issue.
Next time you get a new PC, run Camtasia first and often before installing everything else. I would consider that you may be running a particular app that doesn't play well with Camtasia. I'll admit it took a long time to render things, but it never crashed. Techsmith advised me not to try and run it on such a small and low powered PC laptop. I also ran it on an 11" Asus with only 2gigs and that was both the hard drive and ram (it was a 2gig SSD soldered into the motherboard, but it ran for 10 hours per fully charged). I had 8gigs on AMD A8, 12gigs on AMD A10, and now 32gigs on AMD Ryzen 2700.
I have been on Camtasia 8, 8.04, 8.1, 8.1.2 and now 2019 (I'll upgrade to 2020 after the first quarter).