Anyone with experience with Camtasia?

Feb 05, 2022

If so, I am desperately trying to make my short video interactive where I have 7 hot spots in the video. The video must pause until they click that hotspot, and then the video resumes until we come to the next hotspot. No matter what I do I can get the video to pause before then restart on click. HELP PLEASE!

Other wise how can I do it in Storyline? Only one page, one video one scene?
8 Replies
Helen Dudley

Hey there Nadine

I was trying to do this the other week in Rise and had no success. From what I could find out, if you want to have those Camtasia hotspots working you have to publish the Camtasia file in a certain way - and the published file type wouldn't upload into Rise. The only other way is to use the Storyline screen capture function which should achieve what you want.

Good luck!

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Julie Patno

Piggybacking on this post, I'm curious if anyone is currently using Camtasia in addition to Articulate. Do you feel that Camtasia is a necessary tool for creating trainings and screen recordings/demos, or are all of your screen captures and editing needs met in Storyline? Any input about how you use Camtasia would be appreciated!

Tom Kuhlmann

Camtasia is a good app for screencasting and video production. Many people use it in conjunction with Articulate 360 and then import the .MP4 into Storyline or Rise.

As a video editor, it has a lot more capabilities than the editing options in Articulate 360. If you're making interactive videos and assessments, then I'd insert the video into Storyline and leverage the features there rather than build them in Camtasia and try to embed that into Rise or Storyline. You'll have a lot more options in Storyline in terms of interactivity and integration with the other parts of your course.