Learn how to create and share Production Presets for quick and easy reproducible production results.

Create a Production Preset

A Production Preset contains a set of saved production settings including the video file format, encoding options, and video size options. You can create a custom Product Preset before or after video production.

If you frequently use the same custom production settings or want to save your production settings, create a new Production Preset for future use. Share production presets to help maintain a consistent look across your team’s or company’s videos. Custom presets appear in the Project Settings dialog box and Production Wizard in the All dropdown list.

To save the production settings as a preset

1. Create a video in Camtasia Studio using the Custom preset in the Project Settings.
2. Click the Produce video as link in the Task List.
   
   
3. Step through the Custom Production Wizard.
4. After producing the video, the Production Results dialog box appears. Click the Create a Production Preset button.
5. The Create Production Preset dialog box appears. Enter a name and description for the preset.
6. Click OK.
7. Click Finish.

The new Production Preset appears in the Project Settings dialog box and the Production Wizard in the All dropdown list.

Share Production Presets

Productions Presets allow you to produce multiple videos using the same production settings. Share your Production Presets to:

• Share an optimal way to display videos for a particular form of media, such as a mobile device, with others.
• Work on a project or class assignment with multiple people that requires specific video dimensions, file formats, or other production options.
• Recreate multiple videos using the same settings.
• Define a standard look for a company’s videos.

To share a production preset

1. Open the following file location:
   • On Windows XP or earlier version: C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Camtasia Studio\Custom Production Presets 5.0.
   • On Windows Vista: C:\User\Documents\Camtasia Studio\Custom Production Presets 5.0.
2. Right-click on the production preset file to share. Choose Send To > Mail Recipient.
3. The file is sent to the mail recipient. The recipient needs to copy the file into the same file location.

The Production Preset appears in the recipient’s Production Preset list in the Production Wizard.

Move Presets from an Earlier Version into Version 5.0

You must close Camtasia Studio before moving the presets.

You can move the presets from a previously installed version of Camtasia Studio into version 5.0.

1. Open the following file location:
   • On Windows XP or earlier version: C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Camtasia Studio\Custom Production Presets.
   • On Windows Vista: C:\Users\Documents\Camtasia Studio\Custom Production Presets.
2. Copy the XML preset files you want to use in Camtasia Studio 5.0 to the following file location:
   • On Windows XP or earlier version: C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Camtasia Studio\Custom Production Presets.
   • On Windows Vista: C:\User\Documents\Camtasia Studio\Custom Production Presets 5.0.

The Production Presets appear in the All dropdown list in the Project Settings dialog box and in the Production Wizard.