abingham
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5 years ago Generating videos from Python would be very helpful for me as well, and I've given this a bit of thought. As far as I can tell, though, it'll involve using platform specific automation techniques, e.g. maybe AppleScript on macos, something else on windows, etc.
Ultimately, it might be best to leave this for another package and keep it out of scope for python-camtasia. Right now python-camtasia is not much more than a JSON-processing library.
At the same time, I haven't given this particularly deep thought, and there may be camtasia APIs I don't know about, so perhaps there's a relatively simple way to do it.
sgspecker
Looking around the API, I didn't see a way to "Produce" a video, although it's possible that I missed it.
Camtasia has a "Batch Production" feature, but it looks like you have to specify each item in your batch manually... each time you want to produce a group of videos. I have a request into TechSmith to see if I'm missing something. That said, this would be a handy thing to manage via Python.
From a workflow perspective, I'd rather create all my videos and then build them all. I find that when I stop to wait for one to be rendered right after creating/editing it, I get distracted with other minutiae.