1 00:00:00,005 --> 00:00:04,006 - [Instructor] Video creation is CPU intensive 2 00:00:04,006 --> 00:00:06,008 and Camtasia is no exception 3 00:00:06,008 --> 00:00:10,003 when it comes to sucking up all the processing power 4 00:00:10,003 --> 00:00:12,004 your laptop has to offer. 5 00:00:12,004 --> 00:00:14,001 I'm going to show you a few tweaks 6 00:00:14,001 --> 00:00:18,002 to optimize Camtasia's performance. 7 00:00:18,002 --> 00:00:22,009 First and foremost, exit out of every app and browser window 8 00:00:22,009 --> 00:00:25,008 you don't actually need for your video. 9 00:00:25,008 --> 00:00:29,008 This will free up processing power for Camtasia. 10 00:00:29,008 --> 00:00:33,004 Additionally disable unnecessary background 11 00:00:33,004 --> 00:00:36,007 and start-up apps. 12 00:00:36,007 --> 00:00:40,002 Dejunkifiers like CCleaner make this easy. 13 00:00:40,002 --> 00:00:42,004 The free version is totally fine, 14 00:00:42,004 --> 00:00:48,002 you can of course use whatever dejunkifier works for you. 15 00:00:48,002 --> 00:00:51,006 Next let's take a look under the hood of Camtasia. 16 00:00:51,006 --> 00:00:54,009 I'm going to go up here to edit, 17 00:00:54,009 --> 00:00:59,007 choose preferences and pop over to the advanced tab. 18 00:00:59,007 --> 00:01:03,002 Now under the hardware acceleration dropdown 19 00:01:03,002 --> 00:01:07,007 make sure your highest performing graphics card is selected. 20 00:01:07,007 --> 00:01:10,008 Camtasia does a pretty good job of doing this on its own 21 00:01:10,008 --> 00:01:13,000 but on occasion it has flipped back 22 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:15,000 to my stock graphics card. 23 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 So if I'm noticing a performance issue, I check this first. 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:21,001 And of course, if you just have the one option 25 00:01:21,001 --> 00:01:24,006 you can disregard this step. 26 00:01:24,006 --> 00:01:27,006 If you are so fortunate as to have a laptop 27 00:01:27,006 --> 00:01:29,005 with multiple hard drives, 28 00:01:29,005 --> 00:01:31,007 there are a few options in Camtasia 29 00:01:31,007 --> 00:01:33,007 to take advantage of this feature. 30 00:01:33,007 --> 00:01:37,000 Down here I like to set my temporary storage folder 31 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:39,007 to a different drive than my operating system. 32 00:01:39,007 --> 00:01:43,003 To add some processing speed, just click this folder, 33 00:01:43,003 --> 00:01:45,007 browse to your secondary drive 34 00:01:45,007 --> 00:01:48,001 choose the folder you'd like to make your temp file 35 00:01:48,001 --> 00:01:49,008 and then click select folder. 36 00:01:49,008 --> 00:01:51,009 Mine is already selected. 37 00:01:51,009 --> 00:01:57,001 And then when you're done click okay to accept that change. 38 00:01:57,001 --> 00:01:59,006 And of course, if you just have a single drive, once again 39 00:01:59,006 --> 00:02:02,007 you can disregard that part. 40 00:02:02,007 --> 00:02:03,008 Along those same lines, 41 00:02:03,008 --> 00:02:07,007 I store all my media files on a separate drive as well. 42 00:02:07,007 --> 00:02:10,004 What all this means is Camtasia and windows 43 00:02:10,004 --> 00:02:12,003 are running from one drive. 44 00:02:12,003 --> 00:02:14,000 My media files from another, 45 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:17,001 and my temp files are stored on a third, 46 00:02:17,001 --> 00:02:19,006 spreading the workload across three drives 47 00:02:19,006 --> 00:02:22,007 instead of just the one, of course, this only works 48 00:02:22,007 --> 00:02:26,002 if your computer has multiple hard drives. 49 00:02:26,002 --> 00:02:29,000 Now, if you're considering bringing an external drive 50 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:31,001 of some sort into your workflow 51 00:02:31,001 --> 00:02:35,000 it may or may not improve things performance wise. 52 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:37,004 I have a really fast solid state drive 53 00:02:37,004 --> 00:02:40,003 that works really great as a backup drive 54 00:02:40,003 --> 00:02:46,004 but it's still just not as fast as my internal drives. 55 00:02:46,004 --> 00:02:47,008 Okay. Next, let's take a look 56 00:02:47,008 --> 00:02:50,004 at Camtasia recorder and see what we can do there. 57 00:02:50,004 --> 00:02:52,009 I'm going to click record to bring up the recorder 58 00:02:52,009 --> 00:02:59,000 go to tools and options. 59 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:00,009 And once again, I have the option 60 00:03:00,009 --> 00:03:04,005 of choosing a different drive for my temporary folder. 61 00:03:04,005 --> 00:03:08,000 I just click browse, browse to my drive and folder. 62 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:12,003 Mine's already selected and click okay. 63 00:03:12,003 --> 00:03:15,008 And while we're here I'm going to pop open the file options 64 00:03:15,008 --> 00:03:18,005 to show you that you can choose how your recorded files 65 00:03:18,005 --> 00:03:21,009 are named once you hit stop on the recorder. 66 00:03:21,009 --> 00:03:24,000 I like this option "Ask for file name." 67 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:26,009 I'm able to name each file as I record it 68 00:03:26,009 --> 00:03:29,003 and also choose where to store it. 69 00:03:29,003 --> 00:03:31,006 But one of these others might work fine for you. 70 00:03:31,006 --> 00:03:35,001 And then of course, click okay to accept and okay 71 00:03:35,001 --> 00:03:38,006 once again to lock in the changes. 72 00:03:38,006 --> 00:03:41,005 Okay. So there are a few tweaks you can make 73 00:03:41,005 --> 00:03:44,008 to optimize Camtasia's performance on your device.