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TechSmith Announces Beta of New Presentation and Lecture Capture Solution at Campus Technology 2008

Limited Beta of Camtasia Relay Available to First 100

Boston, MA – July 29, 2008 - TechSmith Corp., the world’s leading provider of screen capture and recording solutions, announced today at Campus Technology 2008 a limited beta of its newest product offering Camtasia Relay, a presentation and lecture capture solution that is scheduled for an official release this fall. TechSmith’s Camtasia Relay beta offering is available to the first 100 qualified institutions and businesses that sign up by visiting http://www.techsmith.com/camtasiarelay.asp.

Interested institutions attending Campus Technology can visit TechSmith (booth #551) to sign up for the beta. A short overview screencast of Camtasia Relay is available at: http://video.techsmith.com/relay/demo/overview/enu/default.asp.

“As a very early Camtasia Relay beta tester, we have experienced a great enhancement in the proficiency of course content delivery capabilities and in-turn expect a higher degree of satisfaction from both students and faculty,” said John Morris, Director of Academic Technology Innovation at Drexel University. “We're excited that TechSmith is leveraging its many years of serving the education market by offering their new lecture capture solution at a very competitive and scalable price point so we can continue to offer our students an outstanding education.”

“Camtasia Relay greatly decreases the cost, complexity, and time required to create and share rich media content and requires no specialized training, so presenters can easily incorporate the software into their teaching or presenting routines,” said Rich Boys, Project Manager of Camtasia Relay at TechSmith. “Camtasia Relay’s user-friendly interface and automated distribution features make it possible for anyone to easily capture and publish their lecture or presentations.”

About Camtasia Relay

By integrating with an academic institution, business or conference organizer’s existing media servers and learning management systems, Camtasia Relay is an affordable solution for organizations looking to share knowledge in a multimedia format with students, customers and colleagues department-wide or campus-wide. Camtasia Relay is designed so presenters can easily record live lectures or presentations and share them on-demand in the highest quality video formats with a broad audience by having the production and distribution process automated for them.

With Camtasia Relay, presenters manage recorded presentations using any PC or Mac in the conference room or classroom, at their desk, or at home. Audiences can view the recorded lectures and presentations online, via learning management systems like Blackboard, via iTunes U, or on mobile devices such as the iPod or iPhone. And with LDAP integration, IT staff can quickly and easily set up and assign recording profiles for their organizations based on the needs of the presenter and their audience.

System Requirements and Availability

Camtasia Relay Recorder runs on Windows XP and Vista, and Mac OS X 10.4 and higher. Camtasia Relay server runs on Windows Server 2003. The suggested retail price of Camtasia Relay starts at $7,995.00; the suggested academic price is $4,995.00 for a single server license. The presenter recorders can be installed free of charge. For additional information, visit: www.techsmith.com

Qualified Beta Participants

Qualified organizations must have their own server to run the Camtasia Relay solution.

About TechSmith Corporation

Founded in 1987, TechSmith Corporation provides practical business software tools and services. TechSmith's solutions enable users to capture, record and enhance digital content from their computer screens so they can share information and knowledge in compelling multimedia formats, and allow others to observe, analyze and learn from their experiences. TechSmith products are used by 99 percent of the Fortune 500. Visit www.techsmith.com for more information.

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