#Camtasia 9 assets bubbles zip#

When you 'link to media', you are forever wedded to the original media locations I never preserve media files per se, only in the form of zipped project files, which are stored externally, either on external HD, or in cloud Personally, I do not miss linking as I never used it and copying gives be worry-free assets that I can always clean out by deleting or exporting as libzips However, when I was finished with all editing, I was left with 20 videos and their individual zipped projects, and I had no further need for either the original 100 GB AVI source files, or the 'linked' Library assets, so they were all deleted The only time I had to resort to using 'linked' assets was when I was building out a large collection that involved large AVI media clips I needed to chop up 13 large AVIs into snippet sections, put those in Library, then make multiple new projects where the AVI snippets were rearranged in time, storing those projects in Library this process ended up referencing more than 100 GB of source media had I copied to Library, the required storage would have exceeded 2 GB, more than my system could accommodate, because each Library asset would have referenced multiple AVIs and those would all have been copied to my C drive

#Camtasia 9 assets bubbles zip#

I have almost always used 'copy' because it offered the most reliable way to preserve Library assets I also always export projects as zip if I expect to have to hit them again in the future I have used the Library heavily ever since it was introduced with CS7 Would this work with all projects? After a Computer reboot? I'm not sure. Changed the preference to Link to Library. Added it to the Library.Ĭlosed and reopened Camtasia. I changed the setting to Copy to Library.Īdded a video file and animated a image. It seems like it could possibly create a problem.īut I did a test project with an image. If you create a project with a Library object thats saved to the library. That's what a Zipped project is good for. 'Include all files from the media Bin in Zip' It doesn't matter if you lose the file through a computer crash.You have a Fail-Safe saved copy in the zip. Anytime you add an asset to the timeline from the library. If you Zip your project like kayakman likes to do. If you move that file, obviously, Camtasia won't be able to find it. When you select that item and add it to a project, it will link back to that file. If you add an item to your library that resides somewhere else on your computer. The purpose of 'copying' is to create permanent assets that will survive deleting or moving their source media files tscproj that is built, saved, but not exported as zipĪ major problem with 'link to content' is that moving/deleting the referenced media will break the Library asset because it will no longer be able to see those files assetproj will contain reference paths to those assets, and the folder will not contain the media files this is the same thing that you have with a. assetproj is created, in its own folder, but the media files are left where they are, and the. In CS9, when you elect to 'link to content', a. assetproj file at this point, a Library asset folder looks just like a folder you get when you import a zipped project. When you create a Library asset, a special project file is created, and stored in its own folder in the Library master folder if the asset references media files, and you are 'copying' assets to Library, a copy of the referenced media files are copied to the same folder that contains the. TechSmith got rid of this Feature/Option? Closed Camtasia, and reopened the project.Īs you will see, the library item is removed, the image, complete with animation is there. trec just happens to be a Camtasia editor recording.Īnyway, you'll see the Image in the Library as item 'Lookey'

I animated the Volkswagen Image to cross the screen and added it to the library. If all my programs created duplicate video files I would need a Stack Of Hard Drives to function. Camtasia is the only program that thinks the Library needs to create duplicate video files. It became useless to me when everything placed in became a duplicate file. You're forced into keeping the Library assets forever, or zipping your projects and keeping them forever.