There are essentially two methods to include a Camtasia movie in an Articulate Presenter presentation.

First, produce the Camtasia project for the web. In the example that I created, I used the default settings for a size of 640 x 480 px. You might want to make yours a bit smaller to be sure that it will fit on your slide in Articulate.

Once the Camtasia project has been published you have a choice of how to insert it into your Articulate project. Using the Articulate menu in PowerPoint, you can either:

• Insert the mp4 file that Camtasia created into a slide, or
• Embed the html file as a web object.

To insert the mp4 file, simply click on the insert Flash icon in the Articulate/PowerPoint menu and navigate to the mp4 to select it. You can use the default Articulate settings so that the seek bar will control playback of the mp4 file. One disadvantage to this method is that any closed captioning that you created in Camtasia will be lost. You have to include the captioning in the PowerPoint notes so that it will be published in the Articulate Presenter notes.

To insert the html file, you must first rename the html file created by Camtasia to index.html. Then in the Articulate/PowerPoint menu, select insert web object. Navigate to the folder containing the Camtasia production and select the folder. Articulate will look for the index.html file to display in your slide. You can use the default settings so that both the Articulate seek bar and the Camtasia controls will control playback. Using this method, the closed captioning from Camtasia is preserved. The disadvantage to this method is that there is less control over the size of the Camtasia recording that is displayed in your slide. You need to make sure the original recording is not too large to fit into your slide when it's played back.

The following screencast summarizes and illustrates the steps describe above. You can also take a look at the demonstration presentation that I prepared.