Camtasia Keyboard Shortcuts

Techsmiths Camtasia video editing software is perfect for content creators, course builders, YouTubers and corporate video makers. in this article, we take a look at keyboard shortcuts to speed up your workflow so you can spend more time creating amazing content.

Camtasia Recorder

One of the most useful is the keyboard shortcut is for controlling the recording functions.

As the record box is not on the screen while we are doing screen recording, by using the keyboard shortcuts we can speed up our editing by not having to alt-tab into the correct window and change the recorder.

This goes for all software and all keyboard shortcuts. By using shortcuts we can maximise our time by working a lot faster.

Keyboard Shortcuts should be used as often as possible as it really speeds up your workflow.

- Marc

Most used shortcuts for Windows

Launch Recorder - Ctrl+R

Start/pause recording - F9

Stop recording - F10

Zoom in on canvas - Ctrl+Equal sign

Zoom out on canvas - Ctrl+Minus

Exit fullscreen canvas view - Esc

Export frame as - Ctrl+F

Group - Ctrl+G

Ungroup - Ctrl+U

Play/pause/stop video - Spacebar

Step backward on time line - Comma

Step forward on time line - Period

Most used shortcuts for Mac

Launch Recorder - Ctrl+R

Start/pause recording - Command+Shift+2

Stop recording - Command+Option+2

Zoom in on canvas - Command+Equal sign

Zoom out on canvas - Command+Minus

Exit fullscreen canvas view - Esc

Export frame as - CCtrl+F

Group - Command+G

Ungroup - Command+U

Play/pause/stop video - Spacebar

Step backward on time line - Comma

Step forward on time line - Period

Conclusion

Although not a complete list, learning just the shortcuts above will really increase the speed in which you work with Camtasia. Keys such as spacebar to start and stop the video playing on the time line is a game changer if you have not used it before.