Does it worth to edit screen videos with Premiere Pro CS6 if speed is an issue?

I would like to create great looking tutorial videos.

I have just bought the CS6 Production Premium. Of course I am a bit envy of the Camtasia features, but this is not an option to buy another (expensive) software purely for screen video editing. Screenflow, iShowU HD Pro would be great with all those fancy zoomes, callouts, keystroke focus, etc. but I am on Win7.

I have a basic screen recording software, all it does to record the area without drop frames.

So I decided to assemble the recorded lossless compressed screen recording material in Premiere CS6. It seems that I have to use the Scale and Position parameters a lot while making zooms, etc. But would also like to simulate the effects of zoomes, callouts, keystroke focus, etc.

Here is my question: I would like to create this effect: highlighting certain screen elements by making the surronding background black, hightlighting the focused area. E.g there is a beachball on the beach and would like to mask the beachball and while keepeing the rest of the image blurred, or darkened, etc. I know this can be easily made in After Effects, but I'd like to keep this whole thing simple, purely in Premiere (not sure how dynamic link work without restrictions).

Is this someting I can make without tedious manual keyframing, without going forth-back between After EFfects and Premiere and long-long processing, as the main concern is speed and simplicity?

Or... am I on the wrong track with Premiere on making screen videos easily?

Hi,

thanks for the answer. In my case I am talking about free tutorials.

Is there any good screen recording solution (I mean features with zoomes, callouts, keystroke focus, etc.) other than Camtasia on Win7?

Thanks,
B.

Thanks but as I asked for a possible Windows 7 app, not OS X.