Camtasia Screencasts in High Definition for YouTube: The Definitive Guide

YouTube is the democratic medium of video distribution, and offers the opportunity for teaching, demonstration, and marketing to all comers, for free. Its usefulness in these contexts has always been limited, however, by its low limits on resolution and file size. In 2008, YouTube introduced a number of higher quality display options for submitted videos, and most recently they introduced true HD quality and raised their file size limit from 100 megabytes to 1 gigabyte.

This development is especially important for screencasts, which capture the display on a computer screen. If the resolution is low, text on the screen becomes unreadable. YouTube's new HD capability overcomes this limitation nicely.

Unfortunately, YouTube has provided little to no information about how users can capitalize on this new capability. There are specific elements that YouTube is looking for in a submitted video which determine whether or not they will render and make available an HD version. Fortunately, users tend to figure things out for themselves, many videos have been authored containing various versions of "the formula" for acceptance.

In this video, we present our version of how to produce a screencast with Camtasia that makes the grade. The results, as evidenced in this very video, seem to be quite good. If you have suggestions about how to improve on our formula, please contribute a comment.

Custom Format for YouTube High Quality >>

Could you do one for HQ?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 05/07/2009 - 16:06.

Loved this - especially since you gave settings for capture and clip import and output - haven't seen any other video do that. I was wondering if you could do a tutorial on getting Camtasia to do HQ output for youtube. I tried to adapt the Windows Movie Maker tutorial on your site and can't figure it out - Camtasia's WMV export does not allow editing of frame rate - unless I build a profile from the ground up - then I'm really lost. Thanks again. D.

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