[Ed Burns]

I too don’t like to edit inside of Camtasia. Here is how I do it.

1) Capture video using Camtasia Recorder and capture as an avi with automatic settings and change the audio settings to PCM, 48kHz, 16 Bit Mono (for voice over) or Stereo if my desktop is playing stereo music.

2) Record and save

3) Next you are going to need a program called MPEG Streamclip (https://squared5.com) plus Quicktime Player Pro.

4) Open up the avi created by Camtasia Recorder in MPEG Streamclip

5) File ==> Export to Quicktime ==> Compression: TechSmith EnSharpen ==> Options…Compression 1 (fastest) ==> Quality 100% ==> Sound: No Sound ==> Frame Size: unscaled ==> Interlaced Scaling off ==> Make Movie (encoding will be quick)

6) Export audio seperately: File ==> Export Audio… ==> Format: AIFF ==> Channels: Mono or stereo (depending on how you recorded it) ==> Sample Rate: 48 kHz ==> OK

7) Open up Premiere Pro CS3 ==> New Project ==> Custom Settings tab ==> Editing Mode: Desktop ==> Timebase: same as your source or you can also bump it up to something else, since the desktop video is now an .MOV it should work. I am using 24p video so I selected 23.976 frames/second ==> Frame size: I edit at 960 x 540 ==> Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels (1.0) ==> Fields: No Fields (progressive scan) ==> Video Rendering I change to TechSmith Screen Capture Codec ==> Name and save your new project

8) Import both files .MOV and .AIFF and drop on a timeline and happy editing.

Hope this helps.