- [Instructor] Video creation is CPU intensive
and Camtasia is no exception
when it comes to sucking up all the processing power
your laptop has to offer.
I'm going to show you a few tweaks
to optimize Camtasia's performance.
First and foremost, exit out of every app and browser window
you don't actually need for your video.
This will free up processing power for Camtasia.
Additionally disable unnecessary background
and start-up apps.
Dejunkifiers like CCleaner make this easy.
The free version is totally fine,
you can of course use whatever dejunkifier works for you.
Next let's take a look under the hood of Camtasia.
I'm going to go up here to edit,
choose preferences and pop over to the advanced tab.
Now under the hardware acceleration dropdown
make sure your highest performing graphics card is selected.
Camtasia does a pretty good job of doing this on its own
but on occasion it has flipped back
to my stock graphics card.
So if I'm noticing a performance issue, I check this first.
And of course, if you just have the one option
you can disregard this step.
If you are so fortunate as to have a laptop
with multiple hard drives,
there are a few options in Camtasia
to take advantage of this feature.
Down here I like to set my temporary storage folder
to a different drive than my operating system.
To add some processing speed, just click this folder,
browse to your secondary drive
choose the folder you'd like to make your temp file
and then click select folder.
Mine is already selected.
And then when you're done click okay to accept that change.
And of course, if you just have a single drive, once again
you can disregard that part.
Along those same lines,
I store all my media files on a separate drive as well.
What all this means is Camtasia and windows
are running from one drive.
My media files from another,
and my temp files are stored on a third,
spreading the workload across three drives
instead of just the one, of course, this only works
if your computer has multiple hard drives.
Now, if you're considering bringing an external drive
of some sort into your workflow
it may or may not improve things performance wise.
I have a really fast solid state drive
that works really great as a backup drive
but it's still just not as fast as my internal drives.
Okay. Next, let's take a look
at Camtasia recorder and see what we can do there.
I'm going to click record to bring up the recorder
go to tools and options.
And once again, I have the option
of choosing a different drive for my temporary folder.
I just click browse, browse to my drive and folder.
Mine's already selected and click okay.
And while we're here I'm going to pop open the file options
to show you that you can choose how your recorded files
are named once you hit stop on the recorder.
I like this option "Ask for file name."
I'm able to name each file as I record it
and also choose where to store it.
But one of these others might work fine for you.
And then of course, click okay to accept and okay
once again to lock in the changes.
Okay. So there are a few tweaks you can make
to optimize Camtasia's performance on your device.