Best Camtasia and Camstudio Settings for Youtube

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This video is an example of the superior quality for screen capture video encoding that you can obtain using "Method 1."

Contrary to other videos you see on Youtube claiming to teach the "best settings" for screen capture for Youtube "Method 1" avoids the mistake that others teach of double encoding your videos by using inferior encoding methods like Windows Media WMV before uplaoding to youtube.

Learn more about the only way to max out your quality and get the highest video quality for screen capture on Youtube at

Whether you use Camtasia Studio, Camstudio from Camstudio.org or any other screen capture video software "Method 1" for obtaining the highest quality screen capture video possible for youtube is exactly the same.

The technique we teach works on any type of video screen capture software you use.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: March 25, 2008 at 6:35 am
Author: optimizevideo

Length: 00:07:38
Rating: 4.72
Views: 9157

Tags: Optimize Youtube Video

Video Comments:
ZSh0ck (December 24, 2008 at 10:40 am)
Cool info, I especially like the part when you said I never ever ever ever save as camproject file huhu... By the way, do you know how to use autopan in the latest Camtasia Studio Version?
GraniteWhip (December 22, 2008 at 2:41 pm)
What should my "Key Frame Every ___" be?
optimizevideo (December 29, 2008 at 4:45 am)
I would not worry about that setting in camstudio. Just leave it as default.
optimizevideo (December 20, 2008 at 7:12 pm)
Play the video back in something else like windows media player and you will see it plays back fine.

The playback in camstudio is buggy for some reason but you will find your video was captured fine.
KKSmarts (December 2, 2008 at 5:19 pm)
Excellent video. Very clear. Very informative. I wish there were more like this on YouTube. Thanks, Mike
coolermaster644 (November 30, 2008 at 3:26 pm)
ok thanks, but how come when I upload a video withb camstudio to youtube its not as good quality as your video is? could you make a video on just the actual camstudio settings? thanks
marcusant2 (November 30, 2008 at 8:45 am)
make a video of you doing it in cam studio, i know they are the same settings but camstudion is alittle different
ToobYew (November 26, 2008 at 12:34 am)
I'm having trouble with the audio-video SYNCHRONIZATION. Can someone please help me with this?

Also how can I make LONG recordings (1 to 2 hours) without having a HUGE file size? For example, I wanna let Camtasia start recording a video I'm streaming and I wanna leave my house and come back and press STOP. How can I do this w/o having a HUGEEEEE file size AND have audio-video SYNCHRONIZATION?

I'm not gonna upload the videos anywhere so the quality doesn't need to be superb.

Thanks.
optimizevideo (November 26, 2008 at 3:08 am)
av sync issue could be because your audio frame rate is different than your video frame rate. Make sure that audio is being captured at same rate as your video.

If your video is fine before encoding just make sure you encode it in an even ratio.

As for your large file you can reduce it slightly by reducing the audio and video capture bit and frame rates. But you are thinking crazy if you think you can leave it on record for hours and have a small file.
ToobYew (November 26, 2008 at 4:31 pm)
How do I make the audio frame rate the same was the video frame rate?

As for the file size, the MAX I would record at a time would be 2 hours. I just wanted to get the smallest size POSSIBLE for such a length. My plan is to just save the file as *.camrec and play the file back in camtasia.