Camtasia 2022's New Exporter is Quite Useless for Now

Techsmith released Camtasia 2022 earlier this year, and just like in 2021, they started deprecating some functionality. This year's victim is the Camtasia Export tool (the one that produces your final video with or without the Smart functionality).

Among the missing features are the smart player functionality, markers, audio export quality is limited at 192kbps for some reason, and the exporter doesn't remember the previous export location (great nuisance, if you ask me and other users).

I know it's a work-in-progress, and Techsmith have thankfully left the old exporter in (which is what I use anyway), so you can use it alongside the new one.

I think you'll have to wait quite a while before the new exporter has all the functionality restored.

If things are going to go the same way they did with the new Camtasia Recorder tool, it was launched in Camtasia 2021, with a lot of missing functionality. So we had to find the old 'Legacy' Camtasia recorder and use it (which was also included in the 2021 version).

Then Techsmith brought back some functionality on and off through the year, and they are still adding stuff back to it, even in 2022.

So if that's any indication, I expect the new Exporter will go through the same workflow - new version released in 2022 with the 'Legacy' version running alongside, and restoring functionality as the year passes. Probably deprecate and remove the Legacy version in 2023, when hopefully, most of the functionality will have been restored.

I'd say it's a safe bet to keep using the Legacy Exporter version for now, as there's no real benefit to using the new one yet. Thankfully, you don't have to hunt it down like the recorder, it's right there in the menus.

Just my opinion, I'm not working for Techsmith so can't say what the roadmap looks like. The whole process could use more transparency.

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