What is Camtasia?Ĭamtasia is a screen recording tool you can use to capture high-quality video, which you can then edit or incorporate in tutorials or presentations or upload to a website such as YouTube or. In this review, we’re looking at Camtasia 3 for Mac, but they also have a Windows version with the same functionality. Camtasia, which is also made by TechSmith, seemed like a logical product to take for a spin. But we’ve also been working on more video content as well. For screenshots, TechSmith’s Snagit is our tool of choice. Make sure the video is playing back at 100% of its original size.At groovyPost, we accompany all of our how-tos and reviews with ample screenshots. If the player is resizing the playback of the video, it may cause this to look blurry.

Reason 3: Video Is Blurry When Playing Back Through a Third-Party Media Player This is usually a gear icon in the bottom right corner of the video once it is on YouTube/Vimeo.

Make sure the video player is set to be played back in HD.

This way, the video will fit inside of YouTube/Vimeo without needing to be resized.

Instead of recording in full screen, record a 1280x720 or 1920x1080 of the screen.

When a video is scaled, this causes it to loose quality. So if the original recording was not in this format, it will be scaled. Platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo re-encode all videos to be set in the 16:9 widescreen format. Reason 2: Video Is Blurry in YouTube/Vimeo Then, view the MP4 in your default media player at its original size. Save the video by selecting File > Save As. If the video that was recorded is a large video (the selected recording area was large or in full screen), then the video may not be able to fit in the Editor without needing to be shrunk down. Reason 1: Video Is Blurry in the Snagit Editor This behavior occurs when the video cannot play back at the same size it was recorded.

Produced videos in Snagit are blurry when played back.

Snagit video recording focus