How to Compress Video in Camtasia

Camtasia is very professional a screen recording and video editing program for Windows and Mac users. Maybe you are also a big fan and subscriber of it, too. However, while using it, you are likely to find that the video you made from the program is gigantic sometimes. How to make the video smaller in Camtasia ? That's our topic in this post.

Part 1: Compress Large Video Files in Camtasia

Many factors can lead to an over large video file produced by Camtasia, like video format, video dimensions, frame rate, and more. You can adjust these specifications using Camtasia. Here we will show you how to reduce the video file size in Camtasia.

Steps to Compress Large Video in Camtasia

Step 1: Launch Camtasia on your computer. Click the Media button in the sidebar on the left, then click Import Media.

You can use Camtasia, this video recorder to capture video shots for further compressing.

Step 2: Now you can trim the unwanted segments to reduce the video size if there is any. Just use the two handles to set the start and end points to select a period, then delete it.

Step 3: Click the Share button in the top right corner of the screen, then choose Custom Production and click the New Custom Production button.

Step 4: Make sure the export video format is MP4 and click the Next button.

Step 5: Under the Video Settings tab, you can adjust the settings to reduce the size of the video file. For example, use a lower frame rate. The most direct way is to drag the brick on the slide size bar to the left.

Step 6: Click the Next button and then select Finish.

When the rendering is finished, the exported video should be smaller than the original one. However, it might not be as small enough as you need. Then you need to repeat the operations to shrink it again. This is kind of disturbing. Thus, we want to introduce one more method to compress video files.

Part 2: Alternative Way to Compress Video

To compress video files, we highly recommend AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate. It specializes in video conversion but did not leave behind its video size-control features. Its built-in video compressor can solve all your size problems without any effort. Here are several key features of it:

• 1. Compress video files by tweaking various settings like bitrate, format, etc.
• 2. Accept 1000+ video formats like MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, WEBM, and more.
• 3. Process the video at peerless speed using hardware accelerating.
• 4. Preview the export video conveniently before start rendering.

Steps to Compress a Video File like a Pro

Step 1: Install the program on your computer. Go to the Toolbox tab and open Video Compressor.

Step 2: Click the big + button to import the video file you want to compress.

Step 3: In the video compressor, you can tweak the format, resolution, and bitrate to compress the video. It's the best option for most people to use the MP4 format. The resolution can be degraded. As for the bitrate, you can reduce it by dragging the orange dot on the size slide bar.

Step 4: Use the Preview button to see if the result video will be too blurry. If you think it's ok, just click Compress to start the compression.

Part 3: FAQs about Compressing Large Video in Camtasia

Conclusion

In this post, the author introduced how to downsize a video using Camtasia. During the process using it to compress videos, you can find that it is not very good at the job at all. Hence, another method is introduced as an alternative to Camtasia. That is AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate which has a video compressor tool to do the job better.