Camtasia 2023 - Video Editing with Camtasia through Practical Examples

1. Introduction: Do you want to learn how to edit videos with Camtasia without learning just the basics about the software, then you are in the right place. Welcome to my Camtasia video editing class, where we will edit the video you are watching right now. We will start with footage of my screen and camera and assemble everything into a finished video product. We will remove the background and position the camera properly. We will animate different shapes on our screen. We will showcase the footage we recorded, make it smaller, make it bigger, apply effects to it, or add Camtasia behaviors. We will only learn things that are useful for real-world usage, like displaying keyboard shortcuts, adding sketches, or highlighting areas of your video. Hello, my name is Andrew. I have edited several thousands of videos with Camtasia and I'm also part in the text mid beta program or a test new versions of Camtasia prior to their release. If you want to learn how to edit videos and learn Camtasia, by the way, then join me in creating an outstandingly well edited video together. All you need to start is sometime and an installed copy of Camtasia would be preferable. Let's start to edit. See you inside 2. Download Resources: Let me briefly explain where to download Camtasia and how to get the resources. Camtasia, obviously, you need to have Camtasia installed in your system. If you'd like to work alongside me, you can download a free trial from the text MIT website. Just go on techsmith.com, go to Camtasia. You can download it, making it count on TechSmith. And you should be good to go resources if you want to use the resources here on skillshare go-to product and resources. And on the right side, there should be a file that you can click on Download. Once it's on your computer, you can unpack it and start working right away. You will have a recording of my camera, you will have recording of my audio. You will have additional footage files so you can use them right away. You will go to the next section where we start to build our first scene. And you will be prepared once you download that custom resources that I've prepared here, as long as camtasia is installed, you are good to go. This is everything. Let us start 3. 01-01. Preparations: Hello and welcome. Within our video editing work, the first section will be about making the first scene. Let us preview the scene very briefly. Are you looking to learn how to edit videos with Camtasia without going through all the basics about the software. This is it two different sentences. This is where my idea to edit this was to divide the screen into health and show something on the left side and show something on the right side. Let me show you how to edit, cut, trim, animate, and assemble everything together. Let's go 4. 01-02. Inserting proper resources: In this lecture, we will learn how to properly import media and how to set up our product. Let's go to set up our project. I'll go to Edit Preferences. And on the right side, there aren't many preferences and contagious, so that's no problem. On the right side, we have product. Those are default settings that are applied to a product each time contagion opens. Since I have a monitor of this resolution, I'm using this resolution. And since I have a strong and fast computer, I go for 60 FPS. If you have a slower computer, maybe a laptop, you can go for 30 FPS in order to put less strain on your computer while we are editing this video. But for myself, I'll go for 60 FPS. And for the sake of this tutorial, let's go for full HD, but I'll not do this on those options. I'll press Okay. I'll show you, you can change individual product options. For example, you are doing a project like this course right now. You can change this right here. You can open the project settings below. Go for full HD. Now we have full HD. I will go for 60 FPS because it will look a lot nicer and my computer will be able to handle it. Selecting outer normal is in loudness because I have the loudness of my microphone set properly and I'll press Apply. Normalizing automatically makes your microphone louder or quieter your audio track. So you don't have to worry about this. But for myself, I'm having that de-selected apply. You can see the FPS change to 60 FPS. Now how to import footage? I think you see that this button is staring at us. And very simply, we can import media like that. At the end of this course, I will show you how to record your screen and how to record things with Camtasia. But this is a course mostly about getting the most out of Camtasia. I have prepared resources, my recordings that you can use right away. This course, I will open scene one, opening and import everything that is here. I basically am labeling things like sin number zero, see number 123.4. So we don't get lost. I'll press Open and it will import on the left side within our media bin of Camtasia, we have different tabs here. The media type is simply for all our footage that we import since the recent version. Finally, we can make those objects smaller because sometimes there is that many objects that it's convenient to have it smaller. I think there should be a slider to make it bigger and smaller. I was telling this to text me, but we have this at least. So I think this is okay. To finalize this lecture, I want you to take my camera and put it on the timeline. For example, on track number two, and take the audio and put it on the timeline as well. You can see my tracks are smaller and in the newest version of Camtasia, you can make it that small. You can adjust it yourself. Normally you have something like that and it's a very inconvenient to work on those big tracks. So I'm always trying to make them smaller, the smallest I can get. But besides the audio track, because the audio I need to see how I speak. Where do I speak, where my scenes, the audio track, usually for myself is larger. My camera and everything else is usually very small. Alright. I will very briefly previewed the foreseen. Let us listen. Are you looking to learn how to edit videos with Camtasia without going through all the basics about the software. Okay, this is about the first thing that we will edit. So for myself, I will mark this area. I'll mark this area. I'll press here. See number two is starting. I'm typing C Number two Enter. And here I'll go and put another marker with this plus sign. See number one opening, scene number one opening. Okay, I can close the markers and here I already have a little blue indicator and I will remember we're approximately my first scene should n Don't worry about me right now on the screen, you can make me smaller. You can put me a little bit away because in the first scene, I won't be appearing. I'm using my left control and my mouse wheel to make this smaller and bigger if I need to zoom in or zoom out. Okay, in the next lecture, we will start preparing our scenes and I'll teach you a tiny bit about behaviors because this is where we have to start. See you in the next lecture. 5. 01-03. Behaviors: In this lecture, I will explain to you the Properties tab, and Camtasia behaviors. Every single lecture of this course is meant to be useful and teach you something new. I cannot move forward unless we explain behaviors to ourselves. Please go to annotations, opened a third tab, and select any shape and put it on the screen. Beautiful, I will make it bigger and I'll put it in the middle of the screen, no problem. On the right side, we have something called properties. We can hide and enable it back again if it gets in our way. Inside of this tab, we have essentially all the properties that can be changed for this little shape. We can, for example, change the scale. And I will not go over everything because it's a matter of clicking around yourself. You can of course, Rotate, change the opacity and so on. Then there is the next step. The next step is how the shape looks. You can change the color, you can change the opacity of the color, and you can change the outline if you prefer this to have an outline. One important information. Different objects may have different tabs here. For example, a text object has text options here. Instead of shape options are those annotation options. But what about behaviors? And why am I talking about the properties? Because behaviors are essentially animations applied to objects on our screen. Sounds complicated, but bear with me. Let's select, maybe pop up. Okay, you should have those behaviors available. I'll drag and drop it directly onto the shape or here on the bottom on the timeline. You can do it that way as well. You can notice that on the Properties tab and new tab has appeared something called behaviors. And we have an N Animation. During animation and out animation, let us preview that by pressing space in animation. During animation and out animation. Take the out is really reassured. What options do we have available here? We can change the in animation, we can change the tension. This is essentially the speed of the animation. We can actually change the animation to any other we want. So initially you drag and drop one, but you can change them anyway. Select grow, just to have something different here. And what happens with the girl? We have a nice, beautiful grow and it goes back to being smaller. This is because the movement is selected to spring. You can change the movement to have a smooth movement or ease in, ease out. Ease in means that it starts slower and then it's a little quicker, is out, is that it starts quicker, but then slows down a bit. And those are more and more extreme versions of that. Let me go for a sample is out and let's preview what happens. Okay, we have this growing and then we have that during animation whenever it flies around, I don't like that. So I'll go to the, during animation style instead of pop-up, select None, you can, of course, preview older animations that are here by just selecting one and pressing space, but I will select None. I don't want this jumping around. Let me prove it that we have the growing end at the end, it's falling onto the screen. Okay, I don't like the falling either. So I will select the out animation, the outgoing animation, the ending animation of this object. And I will change it to maybe something simple like fade out. For the fade-out as well, we can change the movement to smooth that are linear and we can reduce an increase the speed. Reducing the speed will make this animation take a little longer. So in the end, we have now something like that. We have a very simple grow animation. Then nothing happens. And then a very slow fade out. And this is exactly how you apply animations to Camtasia. Or if we keep the nomenclature that Camtasia implies on us, we will add behaviors because animations were in older versions already present here. So maybe text me didn't want to change animations to have a different name. So they just added behaviors on top of it. This is my take on it. This is how behaviors work, and this is the Properties tab that allows us to change everything here on the side 6. 01-04. Animate a shape: To start our video, we will prepare the animation that will play on the left side of the screen. Let's get right into it. At this point in time, you should have the camera on the timeline, the audio on the timeline, and the scene marked. If you didn't mark the scene, you can open this drop-down and just press here to add a new marker. Alright, for our convenience, we can take my camera and we can simply put it outside of the screen so it doesn't get into the way. Please go to annotations. Select the third step, which is essentially shapes. And from the style, you can select all the basic ones because we want a normal rectangle. I'm usually selecting all so I see everything there is available. And I'm taking a normal rectangle and putting it on the screen. Make sure that snapping is enabled by getting to View and enable Canvas snapping. This way, it will be very easy to make it to the health of our screen. Alright, you can see it appeared on the timeline. On the timeline. I'll put it at the very beginning and then we will see how long do we need it. My next step will be to change the color. To change the color. Simply select from the properties, the annotation step, and we can change the fill color. I actually prepared a color for myself. So go back to media. And under the media, we have imported this file with four different colors. For my convenience. I'm selecting the eyedropper and I'm just clicking on one of the colors. If not, you can simply select a color Yourself. Alright, we have prepared the left side. Now. We need to animate it, so it slides into the screen. As you probably anticipate, we will use behaviors for that. I'm going to behaviors. I'll go for sliding and I'll drag and drop sliding into it. Now, let me preview what happens here. Are you looking to learn? Okay, it slides in very quickly into the screen, then it's pulsate, and then it goes out of the screen. I want only the first animation. So again, from the Properties tab, from the behaviors, I'm leaving the animation. I'm removing the during animation to none. I'm removing the out Animation, none. Okay, let me get back to the in animation and I'll reduce the speed to maybe 70%. We can, of course, fine-tune the speed later, but for now, we have this shape. We will be able to move it forward or backwards. We will be able to change the speed, but we should have this kind of result. If you press Space to preview it. You should have something like that. In the next lecture, we will prepare the footage that you want to display. So stay tuned because there'll be a lot of cropping and resizing 7. 01-05. Crop footage in Camtasia Studio: In this lecture, we will prepare an crop properly, the Footage File so we can put it on the left side of the screen. This will allow us to continue the left side Animation, preparing the Footage File for our usage. I'll go to media. And the file I want to use is scene one left. And this is a Footage File. I'll drag and drop it into the screen. And you can see this is a big file. I will extend the track a little. And on my timeline, it's very, very long. I need only a couple of seconds of it. I want the part where I make some edits here on the timeline. I'm taking the playhead. I'm moving a little bit forward. I can see approximately this is the part where I make some edits with my mouth. Okay. Let me okay. Exactly. This is on the timeline, about 6 seconds in where I make some edits. So what we want to do, we want to crop this or trim this from the left side? I want to go a few seconds forward and I will press S on my keyboard while having this selected. Camtasia made a cut here. So I can simply delete the right part. Of course, we could take the right part and trim it as well. But I wanted to show you that you can do split selected if you want to crop it that way. Okay, we are left a very small part of this video. I think this will be perfect, but I would like this Footage File when you look at the middle of the screen to be smaller. And I do not mean to be smaller that way. I want to crop it. So we only see this little part here. How to do this? To crop something, you need to press your left old key. I believe on a Mac, it should be option that you need to try it yourself. On Windows, it's simply old and it turns blue. When it turns blue, it allows us to crop the video. I want to crop it, so I only see this little part. Alright, we have prepared now the footage to approximately the size. Don't be very precise here, just do something like that. Now on the timeline, I'll put it just above the shape. The shape comes in. Then the footage starts to appear. Now, I want to take it here in the middle of the screen. That's okay. I'll press my left Control key and I will start to resize it from both sides simultaneously. We can drag it a little to the left side. You can do this with your arrow keys. And we have prepared the Footage File to be displayed on our screen. If you want it to be a bit more distinguishable from the background, please go to Visual Effects. You may not have all the visual effects because I have a lot of presets for myself, but you will surely have the drop shadow. You can make a drop shadow. And you can see there's a nice shadow between this and the green background. You can increase the opacity if you'd like the shadow to be more visible. This is it for this lecture. Look at the timeline here. I will extend the shape to the end of the scene. I'll extend this as well to the end of the scene. And what do we currently have? We currently have a green object or highlighting color and green. And the Footage appearing. In the next lecture, I would like to animate the footage as well. So see you there. 8. 01-06. Animate that crop: In this lecture, we will prepare the left Footage animation. So it goes into this green nicely, together with the green background. It will flow in from the left side. Let us start working. So far, we've animated the left side and the footage is appearing, you know the drill. Now we can go straight into behaviors, go into the sliding behavior, and just drag and drop it. Since it by default drops all three of the animations I'll go to during select None out. Select none for the in animation. We have ease in. And I want this, this Footage File, this what we see here on the left side, to appear a little slower, a little slower than the original one. The original shape appears at 70%. This one should appear at around 60%. Now it's a matter of timing everything properly, staggering it on the timeline and previewing. If everything looks like a seamless animation, let me press Space to preview. Are you looking to learn how to edit videos with Camtasia? I think it right off the bat works and looks perfectly so we don't need any adjustments. For my convenience, I will make those tracks a little smaller. So I'll see more what's happening. If you don't want to do this, you can remain on the drugs like they are. I prefer to work on smaller ones because I have more space to work with. One tip for your convenience, you can always right-click and select zoom to fill. Then this will perfectly fill out your current space. You need to repeat this every time you resize this area. Alright, this is it for this lecture. We have this animation. Let us preview it. Are you looking to learn how to edit videos with Camtasia without God? Looks perfect. In the next lecture, we can continue with the right side animation 9. 01-07. Second side: In this lecture, we will simply animate the right side of the screen. The second sentence we want to animate, and for our convenience, since this is approximately where our scene and I can also extend our current object. So they are playing until this moment will be descent without going through all the basics about the software. Alright, no problem. I will take this object in the background and help us Control D. Now, look what happens by default, Camtasia duplicate this object and puts it above it. I will put this higher because I somehow want those two objects to be close to each other. Because this is the left part of our screen and this will be the right part of our screen. Let me start the editing. The second sentence was about here. Let me make this somewhere like that and let me listen with Camtasia without going through okay. It was here yeah. Correctly. But this object and goes in from the left side as well. I'll put it here on the right side. And I need to change the behavior, change the animation. I would change the behavior from left to right. Okay, Now this should look much better. Let me preview that Camtasia without going through all the beautiful slowly comes into the screen. We can, of course tinker whether we want this a little quicker or a little later. What's also important, I've prepared different colors for it, so we have some distinction between the sides. I'll go to My Media and those are the colors I prepared for myself. Click on this object, go-no, on the Properties tab here. On the properties to the second tab, select the colors eyedropper, and just select a different color if you want to use my colors. Now, we have a beautiful distinction between the things on the left side and the things on the right side. In the next lecture, we will adjust the Footage and animate it as well. 10. 01-08. Trimming the second side: In this lecture, we will again trim our Footage and crop it to the appropriate shape. Now, further right side, we already know what's going on. I will select this what I prepared scene one. Right. And I'll put it here into Camtasia. I need only a brief moment of dislike, five to 10 seconds, as you can see somewhere around here. Now, let me preview the footage that is playing in front of me. I want this left animation here that I'm doing with my mouse. I'm clicking around. Something like that. Beautiful. Now, let me trim it from the left side and from the right side to be much, much shorter. I'll put it approximately where it should be playing. Let me maybe make it a little longer. And what's important? I wanted to only a smart part of it. I'll press my left Alt key and I'll try to make it to the same size of this object, but don't worry about that now. Okay. I think we made it approximately like that. Camtasia will be helping us with that. And if you want, you can go even closer. Now, release your hold and now make this bigger. Now I'm scaling this up because I wanted to scale it to this very moment. Help us my left old and I will extend this a little so it goes outside of the screen. And with my arrow keys now or with my mouse, I'll put it to the right side, approximately here. Beautiful. We have set up everything. If you aren't sure about the size. Here, the first object tells you exactly the position of this object and the size. If you want this to be 1,200, no problem. You just type it in. If you want this to be a little bit longer, you can type this in as well. It will simply stretch to the appropriate amount. Okay. Let me put this a bit to the right side, and I think we prepared the footage to be animated in the next lecture, we'll do this and our first scene will be basically complete. We will preview it and we will clap our hands because we edited so much in Camtasia already 11. 01-09. Animate that crop: In this lecture, we are properly animating the right footage object. Okay, we have this Footage and let me preview what I did on the previous file. I'll go to behaviors just to remind myself, okay, I have sliding 60%. I don't want to waste any time. I will make a preset for myself sliding, sliding in 60%. Okay? I'm pressing. Okay? And it appeared here within the behaviors my libraries growing, whether you know, what is what I take sliding and they put it on this object, I only need to make sure that I changed the direction to right-side. Basically, we did everything besides this, not behaviors. On this first step, we have this drop shadow. We could add a preset for us again, but I have some presets here, so I'll just go to Visual Effects and I'll use one of my existing presets or simply use the drop shadow and adjusted by hand. I'll use my 20, 60%. Okay, and let us preview the first scene if we animated everything properly. And if this makes sense with what I'm saying, let's listen. Are you looking to learn how to edit videos with Camtasia without going through all the this comes too late. I'll put it either like that or put it a bit closer and extend the duration of it. Let us preview this. Yeah, without going through all the basics about the software. Beautiful. Now, the left and right footage is animated. Before our second scene start, we need a couple of seconds. Let me preview that, then. You are in the right place. Welcome to my prep. Before those animations happen, this should stay for a couple more seconds on the screen. We have plenty of room here. So let me extend a little. It doesn't matter if it goes above the first scene. The marker here is only for my information where approximately the second scene is starting. In the next lecture, we can basically continue our work to prepare the video according to the audio that I'm saying in the background. Thank you very much for listening to the first part of this course, building the first scene I want to continue in the next lecture. See you there. 12. 02-01. Preview: In this section, we will make some fancy video editing, especially with my camera here. And by animating footage we already have, let us preview once what we are going to create and less than go right into the work. Let's start. We will start with raw footage of my screen and camera and assemble everything into a finished video product. We will remove the background and position the camera properly. We will animate different objects on our screen. We will showcase the footage, we record it, make it smaller, make it bigger, apply effects to it at Camtasia behaviors and so on. This is it. Let us start 13. 02-02. After Effects comparison: Before we move any second forward in this course, I need to show you something about animation now in Camtasia and in basically any animation software, you have easing of movement. Now, the first object, let me show you the background on the left and right side. This is just a copy of the background. The left side has easing in, but you have something like sine syrup quad-core. What does that mean? Those are essentially more and more extreme versions of the easy. I'll show you that on a graph in a second. Now, the lower you go, the more extreme the easing will be if you go for ease in and a very slow isn't like similar syrup, it will go rather quickly. Look on the left side. Well, it starts rather quickly. Now you go for the right thing. Now let me click on the right object, easing or ease in and I will select one of the lower ones, squint or XPO, maybe Expo. And this one will be much, much slower, much more extremely East in, let me preview that. You can see basically the same type of animation, but it looks much different. To understand this, you would need a tiny bit of background on animation. This is not the time and place to learn animation, and Camtasia isn't an animation monster. Camtasia is a video editing program that thankfully has different Animation options. Essentially on a graph, it looks like that. This is a linear animation. This means over time, it will move the same amount of frames. You have the position on one side, you have the time on the second side, a normal graph, a linear animation would go with a steady speed across it. Easing in, does it differently, it would start slower, then go quicker. The other way around is out. It would start quicker and then slow and plateaus out. If you go to an advanced motion graphics software like Adobe After Effects, this will be far easier. Understood, Let me change the anchor point and this is an object. I will take this object. I will go to the, maybe to the position or scale value, set this K value to 100%. And moving like 30 frames forward, the scale value will increase to 200%. So this object scales twice at a linear speed. But if I duplicate this object, I put this object on the right side. Let me move it on the right side. Now I go. I reveal the keyframes. Keyframes. Again, another concept represent change over time. So I have two keyframes. One keyframe tells me 100%. The second keyframe tells me 200%. What happens in-between the easing and the animation itself. In an advanced animation program like Adobe After Effects, we can actually click on the graph editor and manually edit the entire animation. This is what Camtasia does with sine sync cord. It does it automatically for us here in Adobe After Effects, we can, for example, select this to be East in. You just select both keyframes. I'm selecting both keyframes and I'm easing limit. You can see that animation change. Now look at the left object and at the right object. I will make this much more extreme. Like that. You can see it goes extremely quickly now, so it will quickly pop and then slow a little bit down on the screen. Take a look. Much different than the left object. I could go, of course, the other way around. Okay, extreme like that. What will happen now? Now the object will slowly gain. You can see the values on the left side, 150% to hundred percent. It will very slowly gained size. But at the last few frames, between frame 20.30, it will gain almost all the momentum and 200% will be very Swifty. Look at the screen slowly and then this is how you can adjust animations on motion graphics software, text me, Camtasia allows us to also adjust the animation by using those predefined. I think they should make it more graphical and show exactly something like that. They should show a graph, not telling just sign sync cord, quad. This requires some Animation knowledge from you, but luckily you are in this course. Now a tiny bit that those options here mean changing the easing of the animation itself, changing the speed and values of the animation. You can work on the presets here. I'll tell you exactly which ones to use to kinda make a nice animation. So you are covered and let's go to the next lecture and let's start working 14. 02-03. Inserting BG: In this lecture, we will work on nicely sliding in the background image of our thumbnail that we want to showcase. Okay, let us work. In order to start our work, I actually need my resources. Right-click import media because I need a couple of files from the scene to folder. Let's pretend that you have designed some time for your project and you could use the entire thumbnail and just slide it in, or you can do what I did. This is an advanced version, is separated all elements of the thumbnail and place them as scene to scene to scene to scene to. I'll open this and here we will work with only the background. You can see our media library is growing. I'll take the background, put it on my timeline. This is approximately where my second scene start. Let me enable this out again and let me take a quick listen. Welcome to my Practical Camtasia. Exactly here. I say, welcome, blah, blah, blah. This is where I want to be. I can overlap the screen and nicely, I will put it on a separate track. You can see our tracks are growing. This is why I'm making them smaller. One option you could go for is select everything, Right-click and group it. It would go into one group. But the problem is, if you want to edit this, you would need to open the group. And this is a bit inconvenient, I'd prefer if the product isn't as complicated to have everything here. Alright? Taking this background, going to behaviors and adding a sliding behavior on it. Now, I want this to slide in from the bottom. How to change this? Let us go to behaviors. Before we move any forward. I'll go to during and disabled during animation to have nothing going on while the background is here. From the N animation, we have sliding, but I would like this to slide in from the bottom. I would like, since this is an entire sentence and I want additional elements here, I would like to sliding to be very slow. Let me reduce the speed to maybe 60%. And that, that's preview. Let us 20 min laid down six. Let us just pure in the right place. Welcome. I think this is too quick too quick. And somehow the motion doesn't feel right to me. This is why usually you all for easing in or easing out. You either want to start quick or fade-in something slowly. But in this case, algo for East boat. Why will I do that? Because since this is the background and different elements will be flying in from the left side and middle. I want to go for ease boat and maybe not too extreme. Something in the middle of this should do the trick. Let me listen now it says, Welcome to my like, beautiful. 60% will be completely fine. You can go even a tiny bit lower like 58. Let me preview that again, please. Welcome. To make. It should synchronize with welcome, but go rather slow. I think this looks very nice. It is personal preference, but it also has to sit in properly with yourself. This is it for this lecture, we have animated the background. Let us now animate additional elements on top of it. 15. 02-04. Growing middle: In this lecture, we will animate the Camtasia logo in the middle of our screen. Before I proceed, let me take a quick listen to know where the second scene ends. Welcome to my Practical Camtasia Video Editing Course, where we will add the video you are watching right now. We will start. Here. This is the place where you can see by the audio where the second scene ends. So here I'll press S three. This will help me to space out my animations across the second scene. The first animation is welcome to my Practical Camtasia video editing. Somewhere here, that logo should fly in all take it, the logo is already off the proper size, I think here, since we have all the sliding animations, Let's go for something different. Let's maybe zoom it in. I'll go to behaviors in Camtasia. If we go for some kind of zooming, we have a behavior called scale. I'll call this behavior. I'll disable the sound for a second. And let me preview that. The default spring emotion is not something I want. Let me briefly preview during non out shrink, okay, we have grow and shrink. How instead of spring make it smooth. So we have a very slow and nice animation. I will enable the sound again, and then we'll preview both animations, that background and the logo. Welcome to my Practical. Beautiful but far too quick out. Reduce the speed to 70 something percent. Welcome to my Practical Camtasia video. A bit too slow, 75 per cent. And I think we are done with this part of the animation. For my own convenience. I will make this Camtasia logo longer and I'll make my background longer. So I have the second scene setup. Here on the bottom. I have the first thing here. I have the second scene. Alright, let's work like that. Let's keep progressing in the next vector. Let us maybe add the icons. Thank you very much for listening to this one and see you in a moment. 16. 02-05. My workflow since Camtasia 9: Before we proceed anywhere, let me offer you some practical Camtasia advice. Many of the things, not all sadly, many of the things can be set to shortcuts, especially for the left tabs. I find it a bit difficult to memorize oral the shortcuts. We're like, Oh, for behaviors, we have 04-04 Animation and we have T4 transitions. It's a bit weird. This is why I went to edit preferences. And the numbers 12.3 aren't really used in Camtasia. I'm recommending you going to shortcuts opening program options here, or it says favorite media and library to just set them to 123. It will be very easy for yourself to memorize. One is open favorite, at least in my case, two is open media. Three is open library. I went for four, number four for Animation step because I am using animations quite often, especially the Zoom-n-Pan and the custom Animation. I even edit it to Favorites. So now if I know that I need something from my favorite, I don't have to think about the shortcut. No, this is 12.3. Very easy. I can go between the media and library if I need to fit something in or if I need to remove my camera, I just press one and I go to my personal favorite. If I need to drop something from the library or media when I go to number two and drop that in from the library, I have plenty of arrows and everything like predefined. So I can very quickly go number three and very quickly dropping an arrow or a sketch. This is my practical advice to starting to set up shortcuts for ourselves. Thank you very much for listening and let us continue with the animation with this new practical knowledge. 17. 02-06. Icons in Camtasia Studio: In this lecture, we will animate the icon that will fly from the left side and from the right side. Let us make an informed decision about our animation. How do I usually approach this? I will be going to media and I will position the icons first. Like this is the final step, having the icons on the screen, alright, now I can start animating them. Camtasia is trying to resize this for me. Please don't do that. And let me see if this is the appropriate place. Come to my Practical Camtasia video editing. Okay, I think we could go a little bit quicker. I'm moving them to left. Now. I'll take the left icon. I will go to behaviors and let me again use the sliding behavior. I will use the sliding behavior. And I want to make an informed decision. I want a very quick motion and it should slow down at the end. What do I select here? By now, you should suspect that I'll go for ease out. Easing out means slow ending. And I wanted kind of extreme. I'll go for quint. Let me preview that. The speed. Let's start at 83% nickel Camtasia video. Okay, a bit too quick. I don't really like it, so I'll reduce the speed to 73% coal Camtasia video editing course. Alright, I think this is completely okay. Is out queens left 73. No problem. I'll do the same for the second object. I'll enable sliding. Okay, During, I want to know Animation during, I'll go back. No Animation during. As I need to apply the same preferences, I could make. A preset for myself is out quint. This time will be ease out quint direction, right? Because it needs to animate from the right side and humming percentage that we have, 73, 73. And I want to stagger them. Staggering means putting it a bit further on the timeline. They don't appear at the same time. It they will be staggered. 12. Let me preview that to my Practical Camtasia video editing course. Beautiful. Everything comes together and this is it for this lecture. Now I think we should work with my camera. See you in a second where we will work on that? 18. 02-07. Camera: Now, the real video editing start in this lecture, we will make the camera briefly visible on our screen. Let's go. Here. We have everything like that. The middle icon and the site icons ready and I'll make them to stay longer on the screen. So we see where our second scene ends. Here. Getting course, where we will add it. Here I was showing where we will edit this video you are watching right now. So I want naturally to be visible. The track the camera is dropping is in my case, tracking number two. And you can see the camera is not visible. This is obviously because it is below other objects. You can see right now, I'm with the camera Besides the screen. That's no problem. How do we do this? I will press S to make a cut in this exact place. I'll go forward. I will make another cut because this is where I will disappear. Helpers S, again. Right now, I'll go back with my playhead and I'll put the camera here. Now. I want to be a little bit visible. So I'll take myself here and I'll make myself bigger. To make myself bigger from both sides, I need to first press Control and now make it like that. Okay, something like this should be completely fine. Now you can see we have our green background. Since my green background is pretty well lit, it should be no problem to remove it. We will go to visual effects, not background removal because this is if you have a normal background, I want to actually remove a color. I have here a preset for myself. 72% usually works very well for me. But since you are a new user of Camtasia, lets try the regular, remove a color and nothing happens because we need to grace the tolerance. As I said, usually for myself, at tolerance of about 72%, makes it almost perfect. And the background is very well cut out from my video. Now, we need to fight myself in. We could of course, user behavior. Or this time we will simply fade myself in. This time, not behaviors. Of course we have a Fade behavior, but I wanted to show you something else. You have also transitions. Transitions can be applied to everything. And in the newest versions of Camtasia, they added a bunch of transitions. I think they overdid it a little bit, but that's not a problem. I'll go for a fade transition. Why do I want to use a transition? Because it's simpler to edit than the behavior. You can see everything lights out. I can drop the fate here, drop the hay fate here. Or if you drop it in the middle, it will drop on both ends. I want a fade in. If you want the fade into be a bit slower, you just grab this and you extend this. You can see far easier to edit than behaviors, because on behaviors, you need to click on it. We need to go to the behaviors tab and you need to change the percentage. Okay? I'm going, I'm fading in like that where we will edit the video you are watching right now. At the end, I should disappear. But about the disappearing will be in the next lecture. I think we edited scene number two. Everything is here. Now, let's disassemble everything nicely. Let's see each other in the next lecture. 19. 02-08. Ending scene: In this lecture, we will disassemble everything very nicely, okay, going from first to last. At first, I definitely want to get rid of myself. I would like to fly in to the bottom. You can already suspect that I'll go to behaviors and I'll use sliding, but I need to be careful. I want only an out animation. So I dropped in sliding in Animation. None during animation, numb out Animation, direction, bottom. Let's speed. I think the speed is okay. We need to stagger everything again. So it has a nice flow to it. We will preview this several times right now. Okay, too quickly to quickly. I'll move this a bit further and decrease the speed to maybe 76% right now. Okay? Now the logo, the logo is second to last year. And I want the grow and we already have grow out will be shrink. Shrink is completely fine. And I want to reduce the speed as well. And I want this to maybe happened before the camera or after. Let me preview that, are watching right now. Okay, they happen together. This looks awesome. Now for the icons, for the icons, I want to replicate the sliding, but they should slide away from this green, I think, is not on the information on the outer animation sliding. The options are okay, direction. This time, left. Decreased speed to maybe 75 per cent. Out Animation direction, right? 75%. We only need to decide what comes out first. What comes out second, I want this to come out. I will put it a little closer. And this put it a little closer as well. And this is advanced video editing because I will not just fade everything away. I will slowly animate item by item to really stand out from people who are taking shortcuts and animating this very simple and not making such an advanced animation. Okay, now, the background, I think since my camera is going down, I want the background. Go for the out animation, not shrink. Have I selected the background? No, I have selected the logo. Actually, the logo is that large. I need to select the background out animation sliding top and maybe slower. This is the background. It needs to take a much time, 70%. This comes with experience. You will, after sometime you will know how animations like should flow on your screen. Okay, let me preview that are watching right now. A beautiful disassembly. In my opinion, the background is saying here a bit too long, maybe I overdid it with. The background. Output is a bit closer and I'll increase the speed to 74%. Okay, let me make a one. Let's preview our watching right now. The beautiful disassembly of everything on my screen. Of course, we need to continue with our animation. You will need to put some other elements that will be revealed with that. This is why we overlap items with each other. This is it for this scene. Let us continue. In the next lecture, we will continue building our video 20. 02-09. Workflow improvement: Before you move to the next section, please give me a second. I want to show you something amazing that very often using in Camtasia. Now, when you go to transitions, there are plenty of transitions, but very often use a simple fails because the fight will always look good. Let's say that you applied a fade to something, maybe to both ends, to the left and right end. And now we want to replicate this fate. No problem. There is a shortcut in Camtasia. Shift D. Shift D applies the last use transition to the object you have currently selected. Since, for example, you liked the transition that you did and be consistent across your, your video. You will press Shift T and it will automatically apply that transition by going to edit preferences, going to shortcuts in the Animation and Effect Options. At last use transition is Shift T, and then add custom Animation is shift eight. Those two shortcuts are very important. You don't know the custom Animation at this point, but this will come in the next section. This is why I'm mentioning it already here. This is it. We are closing this session. Thank you for your patients and wanting to know more shortcuts. I'll see you in a moment. 21. 03-01. Briefing: In this section, we will make some fancy video editing, especially with my camera here. And by animating footage we already have, let us preview once what we are going to create and less than go right into the work. Let's start. We will start with raw footage of my screen and camera and assemble everything into a finished video product. We will remove the background and position the camera properly. We will animate different objects on our screen. We will showcase the footage, we record it, make it smaller, make it bigger, apply effects to it at Camtasia behaviors and so on. This is it. Let us start 22. 03-02. Background creation in Camtasia studio: In this lecture, we will add a screenshot of our raw footage. So a pretty simple task. Alright, let's get right into the work. We can again, right-click and import media, click Control I, or simply find the file we need and drag and drop it into Camtasia. It's really easy to bring in Footage. Now, let me take a listen to the first part of the scene. We will start with raw footage of my screen. Exactly where I say raw footage of my screen. I want this raw footage to appear somewhere here. I think it would be nice if we resize this and put it somewhere on the left side, we could use, Of course, the footage I recorded here as well, but I made a screenshot to make it static and not distract the viewer. Alright, I will make it here. I think we lack a background for this entire scene. So I'll take the camera and put it a little higher because I want to see the camera is currently off-screen but does no problem. And I'll go back to the first thing we created. And I would like to take this or this color. I'll take this one on the left side. Let's take this one on the left side and just Control C and Control V back again. Okay, I have it here. And actually I want to know animation on it, at least at, so I'll go to behaviors for the in, during an eye out. For the in Animation. Either I can select none or I simply deselect the current animation on it. Now I will enlarge this. So I have some kind of background. You can see I have snapping disabled. I can press my shortcut on my mouse. And the snapping will be again disabled. So I can perfectly positioned on the entire screen. If you're snapping is disabled, you can enable it back here, enabled Canvas snapping. What would be my result? The previous scene ends and it already reveals a background, so it doesn't have just black here. Okay, let us preview what we a gel. We will start with raw footage of. The raw footage could be even slightly forward. Raw footage of my screen and camera. Alright, in the next lecture, we will work with the camera. Stay tuned and let see each other in the next lecture. 23. 03-03. Camera color: In this lecture, we will make the camera visible and remove its green-screen. Alright, let's get back to work. Now. Again, I need to mark my scene. My scene starts around here. Thus I have the green background here, and I will extend the green background because the scene ends at around 38 seconds. Let us take a listen at Camtasia behaviors and so on. By the time you completed exactly where it says, and so on. Here, the scene ends. And I would like to have different animations on the next scene. So I'll make a marker again for myself. I'll enable markers. I'll put here scene for later. Now, it's again, easier to work. This is very convenient if you have already your audio edited, you already know what you will animate. Alright, what do we have here? I want this Footage to disappear, but I want the camera to be visible Or you want the camera. I'll go at the end of the scene. Here, I'll press S. And now I have this camera separately so I can work with it. Alright, let's make the camera visible. Where do I want to make the camera visible? Let us take another listen tool. Start with raw footage of my screen and camera. Where I say end camera and camera. Okay. I will come closer. Here is where I say and camera. And I'll trimmed the camera around this point. Let me move it higher. And at this point, I want the camera to be visible. Now, as I said, I don't like that. We have a green-screen and green background. If I remember in the colors, I also had to gray colors. Let me select the object in the background. Let me go to the second property and change the filling to one of the dark colors, the gray one, maybe the lighter gray. Well, okay, I think this will be more proper. Let us take another listen and know at which point we need to trim the camera and remove the green screen background and camera, and assemble everything into a finished video product. Somewhere here. We will remove them. Exactly as I wave my hand. This is where you should make a cut. Let me show you how to make a cut. You are selecting the camera and pressing S. Now I have a separate file because up until now I want the background. But from this point on, I don't want the background anymore. So I need to select the second object. I mean the second part. And in the second part, the background should be disabled. Let's go to where do we have it into visual effects? I'm always using favorite. So I sometimes forget that originally this effect is in visual effects. I have it in my favorites because I'm using this very often. Using always it here, okay, Visual Effects, going to the very bottom and again, dragging and dropping, remove a color into my screen. Since they have a nice green screen, I just increase the tolerance to 72% because as I mentioned, I know that this works perfectly for me. Oh, I dropped the predefined 72%. If you drop the original effect, just increase it to 72%. Let us preview. Now, if we did well with this, we will remove the background. Okay, we could go a bit more to the left side. It could happen here. What I can do, I can simply resize what I already have an extent, what I've cut. We will remove the a bit too far. Now, I want to be precise here because this gives us this really nice effect. Let's preview that now. Remove the background. It's a matter of feeling and how you think this will look good. This is it for this lecture. For this lecture, we wanted to put my camera, split it into several objects, and then remove the background, try to replicate the steps and we'll see each other in the next lecture, where I'll teach you some cool Camtasia movements that can be applied during an animation. 24. 03-04. Bonus - Camera background: In this lecture, I want to show you a completely new Camtasia feature, which is removing background. Even if you don't have a green screen. If you have downloaded the resources, then in the scene three tutorial folder, there'll be something like example camera footage. This is Footage a couple of seconds of me on camera without a green screen with normal short and waving my hands a couple of times and this will cause trouble. But I wanted to show you the most difficult case. I was actually beta testing this feature and currently is still says beta on it. When you are watching this video, it might be that this is already fully available and no longer says beta. How does that work? You can simply drag this effect on your camera footage, like I'm doing here, and it will automatically artificially remove the background. Now currently, we don't have any options here. As I'm recording this video, it was released just a couple of months ago in the 2023 version. And the only thing we can do is disable or enable this effect. What's very interesting, look how precise it removes the background. Of course, you'll be standing still like Miescher. Relatively, it will be okay. But if you start to move to wave your hand, Camtasia will have more and more troubles removing your background. This is obvious. So if I press Space to preview it for a couple of seconds, you can notice when I'm moving around, of course, some flickering and some errors appear. But I have to say that this feature is worth mentioning because it seems to work really, really well. It's well-prepared, well-designed, and with a magic click of a button, we can remove our background. I think this would be perfect for any Zoom calls. Or if you don't have a green screen yet, but wants to be cut out in your videos. I have something bright here. This is why Camtasia had problems in this right bottom area when I was waving. This is completely normal because the color of my hand, the color of my skin is very similar to this and Camtasia wasn't sure if it should be removed or it should stay on the screen. This is it about this feature currently in Beta, but surely will be upgraded and surely will stay in Camtasia under visual effects. Not only remove a color, but remember about background removal 25. 03-05. Custom Animation: In this lecture, we will take my camera and move it into the appropriate spot and change its size while it moves. Now, here comes a very important contagion lecture. Let me go to annotations and add an object into our screen just to show you what's happening. Look at that. We have a call out here on the timeline. But I can go to animations. And we have something like zoom and pan. And animations. Zoom and pan allows us to bring our screen closer, but this is not what I want Currently. I want my camera to get smaller and be positioned in place. I will go to animations. And there is an animation called Custom. What does a custom animation do? Let me drag and drop a custom animation here somewhere onto the object. And how do you have to interpret this animation? This animation changes the object from value number one to value number two. This is how the object looks like. Now, I'll move it forward exactly toward the play-head ends. You can, for example, resize it if you want to make it shorter or longer. But this is very important right now, if you click on this red object and you resize this object, you put it somewhere else. Camtasia will calculate this movement. We'll change the size. Be very careful. You have to be precise with your play head at the tip of the arrow. Because if I were to change the movement and change the size here, you can see a second arrow. A second animation would happen, and this would look very wonky. Boom, boom. What I want, I want one seamless consistent animation across it. Additionally, Camtasia allows us to right-click enabled easing, make it linear or exponential in-out animation if they automatically setting goes wrong, sometimes the automatic settings makes weird movement. Then you have to right-click and simply select the exponential and out. And you have a nice smooth animation. Right now, you've learned how a custom animation works in Asia. One additional information, if you press Shift, a Camtasia will add a custom animation. Currently selected media. This is a very convenient and I have this also on my mouse because with one click of a button on my mouse, I have razor vessel is, there are quite a few buttons. I have three buttons here, two buttons here. I'm customizing them depending on what I'm currently editing. And it's very convenient to know those shortcuts. Okay, in the next lecture, we will add this movement to my camera and you will completely understand what you are doing. 26. 03-06. Camera movement: In this lecture, we will apply a custom Animation to my camera and move it into the appropriate place wherever you need to move something over time, a custom Animation will be a good idea to use. Now, I want to go a little bit bag because this raw footage here, this raw footage, I would like to transition this out because while I'm speaking into a finished video product, I don't want it to abruptly disappear. I'll go to transitions. Search for faith, and I'll add a fade animation at the end. Okay, right now we have something like that. Finished Video product. We will remove the background and position the camera properly. Where I say, position the camera properly around here, position the camera properly. I want to actually have an animation on it. Do you remember the shortcut shift a, shift T to add the last use transition, shift a to add the custom Animation. Okay, we have the custom Animation and exactly as I'm telling, position the camera properly, I want to make sure that I'm at the end of the Animation. I'll position my camera. I will make it a bit smaller with my arrow keys. I'll put it to the right side and let us see the effect. You can see my camera will automatically move into the right spot. Let us preview this one last time and position the camera properly. We will animate different objects on our screen. Okay, This is for the next lecture. Thank you very much for listening here, for learning the custom Animation of Camtasia with me. It took me a long time to figure this out that finally we are there. We know how to do this and let us move forward with this beautiful video. See you there. 27. 03-07. Annotation: In this lecture, we'll animate three different objects on our screen to follow what I'm saying. Let us start. What I'm seeing here after my camera resizes is we will animate different objects on our screen. I'm telling we will animate different objects on our screen. And I wanted to somehow showcase this. My idea was to put here three different elements. I went to annotation. We could copy the background, but let us go over things that we are doing in Camtasia. You can either use the annotation with text and just delete the text or go straight here, two shapes. Number three, I'm usually selecting all shapes and I'm just taking a shape and eyeballing it right now. Let us make shape number one. Here you can see it on the timeline and in press Control D and Control D, Control D, control D to duplicate it. Now, I'll put this one in the middle, or this one on the right side and this one on the middle, I can see they could be a bit smaller. So what you can do to make them like perfectly equal, you have the position and width actually here, you know that we have a video of full HD. After advanced calculations. If I divide 1920 by three, I get around 06-04 it or not around, I get precisely 06-04. So if you take the net position, if you take the width to 640, those three objects should basically cover the entire screen. Now it's a matter of positioning them properly. Okay, I have snapping enabled in this way, I made three perfect elements on my screen. As you can see, more and more often, my color scheme is useful here. So I'll take the first object, go to the colors eyedropper, I already had the colors on the bottom. Color number one, this is not so important. I will take the colors from bottom here, color number two and some kind of color number three. Okay, we have those three elements and I wanted to stagger them a little. I will put this ford and this EBIT for, I'll try to make equals steps between them. All three of them. I want a behavior for them. Since we are using sliding the most in this entire course, let us use sliding as well. Or do you want something else like this depends because not all animation will look good for what we need here. I actually want a sliding from bottom this time because I have those high objects is sliding from bottom. And let us prove that we will animate different. Okay, the background needs a different color because it's the same color that our current background has. And I think we need to reduce the speed greatly. I'll go to behaviors and reduce the speed. And I want ease out. Ease out is already selected, okay, by default, I will reduce the speed to 70%. Lets us preview that. Really, we will animate. We definitely need more space between them. I overdone it a bit. I'll make more space between them. And right now, probably we will animate different objects even further. Even further, I think they should do the trick and output them a bit more to the right side because this will align better with what I'm saying. Let us preview this one last time and I think we will be done and position the camera properly. We will animate different objects on our screen. Beautiful. What I don't like that my camera is visible here. Why is that? Because on the animation, on the D-ring animation, we have the fading and faith and showcase this myself in the background. So I will select during numb for the out animation. Let us for now, leave the outer animation. Let us put this on the end of the scene. Somewhere here. We will showcase the footage we recorded. The footage we recorded right now. I would like the background to fade and again and showcase our footage, but that will come in the next lecture. This way, we animate it. Three new objects on our screen. 28. 03-08. Footage resizing: In this lecture, we will use existing Footage and add some custom animations to it. Alright, let's get to the work. Okay, my scene ends here. Let me position all the elements so they will be visible until the end of the scene. I'm almost precise here. Let's say that it is okay. What I'm saying here is different objects on our screen. We will showcase the footage we recorded exactly here. I will say we will showcase the footage. We record it. And what do we do it? It will showcase the footage. We record it, make it smaller, make it bigger, make it smaller, make it bigger. In this sentence, beautiful. I'll take any footage I should have here. For example, S1 right, or scene one left. Let's select this scene one, right? I will make it shorter like that. Okay. And let us animate what I'm saying. We will showcase the footage we record. Okay. We will showcase the footage will be somewhere here. I'll go to transitions. Phase. Again. We have already fade selected, and I'll fade the beginning of it. Okay, let us preview. We will showcase the footage we recorded. Make it smaller, make it bigger, make it smaller, make it bigger. Here. I want it to shrink, make it smaller, make it bigger, shift a to edit custom Animation. And I want this to be a very short animation, a very short and crisp Animation. At first I'm saying make it smaller. You need to make sure that you are at the end of the playhead and make it smaller. For Camtasia, this is an inflammation that take this object from this size to the smaller size in the duration of this Animation. Beautiful, here, I'll move the playhead a bit forward, just a tiny bit, and then I'll press Shift a again. You can see a very tiny animation that has been applied. I'll actually take this Animation by the tip of it. And I'll move my mouse to the middle to select this animation. And I can simply drag this animation a little bit forward so it aligns with what I'm saying. Here. I'm saying make it bigger. I'll make sure that they have less control clicked. I'll make this bigger. Okay, let us preview what we achieved here. In theory, this object should get smaller and bigger. When I say so, let us preview that. Maybe select this to preview this several times. Make it smaller, make it smaller, make it. This was far too quick. Okay, I'll extend the animation and I will put it here. I thought that this is the entire sentence and we need to give it some time, okay? Right now. Make it smaller, make it bigger. Okay? This is just a matter of timings, but in general, this is what we wanted to achieve. I'm making this a bit shorter or longer. Let us preview this one this time. Make it smaller, make it bigger. This a bit longer. Make it smaller, make it bigger. Let's give it some space. Make it smaller, make it bigger, beautiful. This is exactly what I wanted to achieve in this lecture. In the next lecture, we'll go one step higher. Alu will show you some effects that you can Apply. And this will be surely interesting for any person that is new to Camtasia. Thank you very much and see you there. 29. 03-09. Effects on Footage: In this lecture, we will apply some effects to the footage we see in front of us, because this is what I was saying in my audio. To do this, let us preview what I was saying. After make it smaller, make it bigger. Here I was saying something like Apply Effects, Apply Effects SUID at Camtasia behaviors. Okay. We have only this much time to apply effects to it. What do we do? I need to move my play head to the beginning and I need to press S. Why am I doing this? Why am I cutting this object? Because I want to apply an effect to this object. But if I would apply an effect, this effect would take place throughout this entire clip. But I want only at this point to visibly add an effect to this clip, Apply Effects with at Camtasia behaviors. And where I say at Camtasia behaviors, I need to press S again because here at the end, I'll add Camtasia behaviors. I can extend it because this was longer. No problem. Okay, we are working at exactly this little clip right now. We need to add some Effects. Let us go on the left side to visual effects and just apply something that will make a visible change on this Footage. Now, What can we do here, for example, we can colorize. This will be extreme, but this will teach you Camtasia. Colorize allows you to change the colors of the objects. Okay? I think this would be like pretty obvious that we applied an effect. You can of course, change the color. And this is a great way to see how Camtasia effects are applied. They are applied in the first tab and they are applied at the bottom. We can of course disable them at any given point or enabled back again. And we can change the intensity for this particular colorized effect. I really liked the colors Effects because sometimes I'm doing some funny stuff with my camera and I'm colorizing it. And we can change the range of the colors. We can use the default color. And do you want an easing? Know we want an abrupt start. I go back with my playhead and let us preview that, make it bigger. Apply Effects. I visibly applied an effect. I think this is completely fine and we are ready with this lecture. If you want. Just out of curiosity, you can disable this effect and add another one. Just to see what happens. For example, you want maybe not device frame, this doesn't look perfect. Some kind of glow. Okay, let us apply glow and you can see what will happen here. What's interesting, you can mix several effects together. For example, I can enable colorized right now, and it'll be a green, toxic glow right now. We have to Effects and this would be bigger. Apply Effects to a very, in our phrase. But if you think this is okay, I'll reduce the intensity because I don't like the green that as much. Let's leave it at that. This is what I wanted to achieve in this lecture. In the next part, we will continue with what I'm saying and try to match it with an animation on the screen. See you there? 30. 03-10. Behaviors addition: In this lecture, we will add different Camtasia behaviors to showcase it on the screen. Okay, let's get back to work. We're almost at the end of our scene because we mark that the scene and somewhere here, let us take a listen to it at Camtasia behaviors and so on. Now, we could add Camtasia behaviors to this object, but let's delete it, just, let's make something different for phon. I'll go to annotations. I'll go to shapes and add three shapes on your screen. Shape number one, shape number to shape number three, don't mind the colors, just add them if you want. You can make them bigger. I'll maybe make something like that, like that, like that beautiful. I don't like the black color because this is barely visible on the dark object. I'll make it bright here. And this maybe yellow, just to have something different. Something different. Ok. I don't like the thickness of the outline. Beautiful. We have three different objects. I want you to go to behaviors and add three different behaviors. For example, explode to the first, jumping, fall to the second, and pop-up to the third. Can we match the animations to what's happening on the screen? Here, I would like to fade. Let us fate of this object with effect. If you remember, we're fade is you can go to transitions and find it there. I'll go to favorites, and this is my first favorite. And I'll add a fate here. Okay, let us take a listen, Apply Effects to add Camtasia behaviors and beautiful at Camtasia behaviors. I'll put this somewhere here, this somewhere here, and this summer here. Let us listen again, effects to it at Camtasia behaviors and so on. I think this nicely showcases at Camtasia behaviors beautiful. Right now, we need to disassemble everything. That's no problem. Let's just make those shorter. You can see by default the behavior will simply disappeared. But I don't like that the sliding happens to the right side. I will take the three bottom elements that are essentially the background. And from the out animation, I'll select bottom. I don't like that. They happen all at once. So I will take the first green one. I'll put it somewhere here. I'll take the second one. I'll put it somewhere here. And I'll take the group, the black, the third one and put it somewhere here. Now, we should have a nice ending to the scene. Now for the objects, I will do that as well. This is the first one. This is the second one. A bit further and a bit further. Staggering makes everything look nicer. Take a look, so on. By the time it's lagging a bit because the preview is always slower on the PC. And I don't like the white is three here and the background is already going out. So I'll extend the duration of the backgrounds by the time you complete. Okay, I think that's completely fine. Now I will take the third object because I don't like that. It stays here for so long. Everything has disappeared with the white is still here. So maybe the out animation instead of hinge, let me select shrink. Maybe this would look now a bit better. By the time you. Beautiful, we have entered the scene. We can move forward with what we are doing and I'll see you there. 31. Leave a Review, Please: Hey, it would be extremely helpful for this class if you go to the Review tab and click on leave a Review and write something there. If you don't see this button yet, you need to watch a few more lectures and it will become available. Sculpture now requires that classes have recent reviews on them. Said it would help me greatly. You just click here, you tell if you'd like to class or not, and you write a simpler view and click Submit. I would be very obliged if you can do this right now. Thank you so much and see you soon. 32. 04-01. Briefing: Welcome into this fantastic section. Here we will work mostly with Camtasia annotations. Annotations is a broad group of options where we can add keystrokes at sketches and abnormal shapes. I want to show you everything about that. It's really important to understand and remember about this particular tab. So let's go 33. 04-02. Cutting audio in Camtasia: In this lecture, we will trim or delete an unnecessary part of the audio that we have recorded. Let's get to it. Okay. We are working with our view. We have our scene number three and we are going into C Number four. I think that I talked a bit too much here, so I would like to trim that down. Let me hear that once, by the time you complete this course, you'll be able to fully edit a video and understand Camtasia at an advanced level. I think all that will be unnecessary, but we already have it recorded. How to get rid of it. Let's hear one more thing. I will only teach things that are really useful. I would like to start here. I will only teach things. So everything prior to that, it should be deleted. But if I would hit Control X right now, everything would be deleted, but including the scenes above it. So I cannot do this. I'll press Control Z to revert the changes. And what I actually wanted to trim is the audio and the camera. We've done this several times, so I'll select the camera and the audio and press S on my keyboard exactly where my play head is. Those two objects have been trimmed. I can now take it and trim it to the appropriate size here. And the camera as well. I can trim the camera to this part. Now I only need to take the camera, the audio, and switch them to the left side. And I think we are done with the editing. So the end result you want to achieve is exactly as asphalt Camtasia behaviors and so on. I will only teach things that are really useful. I want you to get to the point where I'm telling straight, I will only teach the things that are really useful. Then we will go to annotation. And I will show you everything about this tab that you should know. See you in a second. I hope you can follow the trim that down. If not, just skip to the part where I'm telling I will only teach. I will only teach and we use each other in the next lecture. 34. 04-03. Shortcuts showcase: In this lecture, I'll show you how to display keyboard shortcut. This is a very important lesson. Let us continue working on our video. If you need a background for this entire scene that we are preparing, just take the raw footage screenshot from scene number three. Just drag and drop it in, enlarge it to the entire scene. And you are good to go. I'll take my camera and put it on the right bottom corner. I will make it a bit smaller, and I will simply remove a color to 72%. Okay, move me to decide now how to display shortcuts. Camtasia gives us an annotation. If you go to the annotation step, you go to the last tab here. Currently it's still here. We have, in my opinion, very outdated designs of keyboard shortcuts, but we can add them. By adding them, we get a new object here on the timeline, and we can essentially go to its options and give any keystroke Here, for example, if you control all the bracket key, then it will display this console old and bracket key. Why don't I like it? Because look at the design for all the templates we have here for Camtasia or the designs. Very simple. I think they should add plenty more. So what am I doing personally? Personally, I think it's better to design it yourself and have a big library of shortcuts available. For example, let's do one quickie. I will take a normal shape with text on it. Let's say that this will be my keyboard shortcuts. Number one. Okay, keyboard shortcut, of course, you should give the name depending on what keyboard shortcut use. And here I like the text to be bold. I'm using lateral, but you can of course use a different font and I'll use bold. What I would do, I will take this color, I'll press Control D to duplicate it. And here on the right side, I would just typing the shortcut Control D. If you've designed any lower **** in your career than you will know what I'm doing here. So Control D, a very simple Do. Let me change the text loop leak, cutting objects, duplicating up just a hunter, Aldi. And I think this would be a beautifully displayed shortcuts. In my opinion, we should add an animation to it. You already know how to add animations either use a behavioral like fade, like scale-like sliding, or if you don't want to use behaviors, you can go one step simpler by using a transition. I would just apply a fade transition to both my selected object. Let's maybe the second Kyle out a bit further forward and let us preview that. Things that are really useful like displaying keyboard shortcut, displaying keyboard shortcuts. I'm saying them here, and I would like them to be much, much shorter. Okay. Maybe they should appear together. I would also like the transition to be a bit shorter, so I'll take the transition to 16 frames. 16 frames would be okay. I'll be precise here and do 16 frames as well. And let us preview the end result. I would have here things that are really useful like displaying keyboard shortcuts, like displaying keyboard shortcuts. And this happens on the screen. What I would do, I would select both, right-click group them. You could also press Control D, this group. I would then right-click and select, add to library. What does that do for me? I will call this control plus D shortcut exclamation marks. This will be added into my library and you can use the canvas size or use the visible size depending on your resolution. I would recommend using canvas size. Because you may, your resolution of the product might change and this way, the object will always stay the same. Okay? I'm personally okay. Now, anytime, anytime I need this shortcut in the future, even if I'm at a different place in my video. I know that in my library somewhere here is a Control D shortcut. I'm just dragging and dropping that in. And boom, it happens on the screen. It's so beautiful to see that we have those shortcuts here for myself. I'm designing such shortcuts in animation software, or I'm using some lower target. For example, I have here everything prepared for PowerPoint. And anytime I use Control D in PowerPoint, I'm just dropping this animation in. This is a custom Animation I made for myself, so it's quite unique. I am really happy and proud about this, but the system is the same. You are preparing animations for yourself that you can reuse and adding them to library. I think this will make you stand out. And if you are able to do this and overtime you collect those shortcuts, they will surely look great. This is it about displaying custom shortcuts on your screen. In the next lecture, I want to talk about something of major importance. And you will see what that is in a moment. See you there. 35. 04-04. Sketch showcase: In this lecture, I would like to show you how to add those kind of sketches on the screen. Let's go. Okay, I will delete those three sketches. And this is one of the most important features in Camtasia going to annotation. This tab contains sketch motion colored. We can add rectangles, circles, arrows, and normal lines. The most used ones will be a circle, a rectangle, and arrow. And what has happened now on the screen? They are animating. Now, what are the options here? Basically we have only one Animation option. That is the Draw time. I'm usually reducing the dwell time. Let me select all three of them. I'll reduce the time to 0.6. I will increase the thickness because I want you to really, really see them. And since we are using Camtasia, I would like to change the color because the red color is very often used by people who, who never changed the color. So you'll very often, when someone edits the video with Camtasia and very often you'll see this color. This is why you definitely need to change the color, for example, to a green one. I'm usually using an orange one because it very nicely looks when I teach about PowerPoint or even Camtasia here. So let us go in this lecture for green ones. I'll move them a bit forward on the timeline. You can press your left control key to disable the snapping. Boom, boom. And I'll need to make them much shorter. Let me hear what I'm saying on the screen. Shortcuts, adding sketch, adding sketches is here. Adding sketches is exactly here. So I'll take the sketches and I'll put them here. By default, they only disappear from the screen. So what you can do to adjust that, you can select all three of them. You can go to behaviors either as a transition or at the behavior. I'll add a fade behavior to it. I will make sure that the Fade behavior is in none. During non out, fade-out, maybe 90% because I want a very quick fade out or highlighting. Beautiful. I'll make this a bit longer and let me preview what we did here. Adding sketches, or hire an additional node. You know that here on the timeline, you can right-click on this object and edit to your library. Not here on the screen, because here on the screen you will not have this option. But here on the bottom, you can edit to library. I'll tell you privately that in my library I have arrows, I have callout rectangle that I can use right away with drag and dropping them into the screen. And when I'm teaching PowerPoint, for PowerPoint, I have my own sketches and look at them. I have that many sketches saved. I know what they are and where they belong. Because when I'm teaching about PowerPoint and I want animation to be highlighted, I just drag and drop this. And this perfectly aligned to where animations are in PowerPoint. When I use Animation flying, It's somewhere here on the bottom. I don't have to think about it. I just drag and drop it in. And boom, you can see it automatically is in this place. So it's really convenient for someone who does a lot of video editing to save a lot of those sketches and save yourself a bit of time. Of course, the most used ones will be a normal rectangle. I have a smaller rectangle, I have a bigger rectangle with different draw times here in the basic options of it. So it all depends on what you need, but sketches, so important, so often use and that makes your video so much better 36. 04-05. New interesting features: In this lecture, we'll talk a tiny bit about the vignette, corner opening and background removal. Those are all features that have been added in camtasia 2023. And I didn't want to record a separate section about that. Every feature of camtasia is relatively similar to use. For example, let's take my camera here. I have my camera. And when I go to Visual Effects, there is a new effect called background removal. Previously, we only had remover color that allow us to remove only one color, but currently we have removed background and it tries to artificially remove the background from around you. So even if you have a shelf with books or something, it will try to remove it. Currently, it doesn't have any features to it. Other than enabling and disabling it must be very careful while using it. Another nice feature that the text MIT team added, and as I was beta testing this feature, I didn't find it, so I had to select at first they always ask, Did you find the feature? And then they ask, how did you find the feature? Most of Camtasia features, when they are added, are added somewhere in those tabs. I am a big advocate to have everything in front of me. I would like those icons to be expanded to the entire screen. I'm also telling text me to make more shortcuts here. And another shortcuts they added here, apart from cropping and moving around the corner pinning, you can enable coronary opening and it works just like any other feature where you can pin the corners like that. Alright, now my camera will be completely crazy and resizing. Now the video will play. Only teach things that are, as you can see, my camera would be corner print because I enabled corner pinning and I changed my camera. Currently, we don't have any feature here. It's only by clicking and adjusting it. So you must be very careful because if I would like to revert the changes, of course, right now I can press control Z, control Z, control Z to get back to the original value. But if I did more steps, Camtasia wouldn't be able to revert the changes anymore. The last feature that they've refined, very useful that they added is the vignette. Let's say at the beginning we had this background here. If you find the background too flat, you can go to the visual effects. And on the bottom, if you have the newest version of Camtasia, you should have a vignette. This is the background. I will drag and drop a vignette on it. And Fnet is exactly that we can reduce. Or maybe it looks like I will be increasing the amount, but I can change the vineyard completely to my liking. I can change the size, I can change the roundness, and I can change the feather. I can make a really big and soft vignette if I wanted to. I think this is a feature that was long-awaited and is very welcome in their Camtasia family. You can see I have a preset called V1. This is everything for this lecture, I would call this the most important features that were added in camtasia 2023. Of course, in the future I will record something about new features that will be added for now. This is what I wanted to show you and see you in the next lecture. 37. 04-06. Zoom-n-Pan: In this lecture, I'd like to talk briefly about a Zoom-n-Pan. Let's go into it. We are almost done with the scene. We have our keyboard shortcuts, we have our sketches. Before we proceed, I wanted to show you something else. Let me take this screenshot, put it here, and show you something. In the animation step. We already know the custom Animation, the custom Animation that is so powerful that allows us to make something smaller or bigger and so on. There is a feature called Zoom-n-Pan, and it essentially does that automatically for you, because here in the Zoom-n-Pan, you can zoom into part of your video, for example, onto the middle of the screen. Then you go forward on the timeline. Then you scale to fit. This way, we have added to custom animations on the screen. And they look like that. This would be a zoom in. I'll bring us closer. And this would be a Zoom Out. Of course, you can click at the end of this Animation and adjusted because this is a simple custom Animation. And you can click on the beginning of the Animation and resize it or make this longer or shorter, what would be the effect? So why is this feature separate from the custom Animation? Well, because this feature usually is used to scale something back or to enlarge into one given par. If you need to enlarge one given part, it's completely fine. But if I, for example, want a custom Animation that makes this much, much smaller, I go for custom. I drop it here. And I can resize it the way I want. This will be difficult to achieve with the Zoom-n-Pan, because the Zoom-n-Pan is best used. If I want to zoom in one part of the video here, I wanted to zoom this entire object out. It'll be difficult with the Zoom-n-Pan. You can see I can only hit the corners. I can actually click on this object and make it smaller. So that's the difference between adding a custom Animation or using the Zoom-n-Pan. Of course, you could go somewhere here. You could click on that, just doing anything. And Camtasia automatically added a custom Animation. Now, you can go here and you can resize it the way you want. But that's only if you are too lazy to click on animations and add a custom Animation yourself, you'll learn this overtime as you work with Camtasia. I just wanted to mention this feature 38. 04-07. Camtasia Effects: In this lecture, let me tell one thing about blurring or highlighting your screen. What I'm telling here at the end of the scene is exactly or highlighting different areas of your screen. Highlighting different areas of your screen. Before we do that, I want to one last time click on annotations. You can see we have a lot of objects here. We have those shapes with text, we have arrows, we have normal shapes, and then we have this eyedrop. This allows us to add a blur onto our screen. You can just simply drag and drop it and blur a part of your screen. This appears on the timeline as a normal object. So you can add a transition to it, you can add a behavior to it, and you can reduce or increase the intensity. There's nothing more to this option, so you can simply drag and drop it. Next is spotlight, which I will explain in the next lecture. Apart from that, we also have highlighted to highlight a part with the color. You can of course, change the color here within Camtasia, for example, to this greenish color. If we find that little better. And the last one would be pixelate. Pixelate works exactly as the blur. If you need something to be not visible on your screen, you simply drop pixel over your timeline, over your displayed object and it will simply hide it. You can as well go to transitions and to faded. One important thing, if you need to hide something even from the first second, be sure that when you use a transition for the first part of the transition, it will be still a bit visible. So you need to be very careful if you want something to not be visible and you edit transition to it, make sure that you extend it beyond the part that you would like to be invisible. This is it. In the next lecture, I want to talk about the spotlight because it's the most used and best richest feature I believe here in Camtasia from showcasing something on your screen. And it'll be interesting. So let's get to it 39. 04-08. Spotlight: In this lecture, we will showcase a part of our screen width, a spotlight. Let's get to it. Okay, we are here. And the last part of this video, we'll be showcasing a part of your screen. Let us take a listen, adding sketches or highlighting different areas of your screen, highlighting different areas on your screen. This would be here. So at this point, the sketches start to disappear. Let me make them a bit shorter. I think they should start to disappear a little earlier. And right now, the spotlight should start. Okay, going to Annotations. I already have Blur and highlight selected. The second one is spotlight. Spotlight is very unique because you can drag and drop it on your screen and you can see what happens. A part of your screen is more visible than the other. I can disable my canvas snapping. So for example, I would like to showcase maybe the middle of the screen. That's completely fine. I'll show the middle of the screen, maybe a little larger so we have something to watch. And here we can reduce or increase the transparency of this, the opacity basically. So what happens? I will make this shorter and let me see what happens or highlight. You can see the highlighting start very abruptly. What I like to do is going to transitions and adding a simple effects transition. I can press shift D to do this quicker because this is the last use transition I did for highlighting different. Now we have a nice fade. We can of course make the fate shorter if we wanted. By the way, you can go to Edit Preferences. And you can change the default timings of animations, transitions and everything. Transitions by default have 0.6 seconds for myself, if I would go zero, 3 seconds. And I will now delete that. Sorry, I need to click precisely here. I press Control T. You can see those are already shorter. Now they are 0.3 seconds or highlighting different areas of your screen. This is the only thing I wanted to show you in this lecture. But before we end, I want to show you something cool. Sometimes, if I have enough time, I also sketch on top of it. Look at this design. I'll go forward. I'll take a sketch and I press a sketch like that. And I put it here. This will add one additional layer of design to it. I'll extend the sketch to the end of the spotlight and let's look at the end result or highlighting different areas of your screen. You can see the spotlight. Normally, it's a little flat, but if you add something like a sketch on top of it, then it looks much more unique. This is it for this scene. We have completed scene number four. I will be very gladly building the next scene, what you add some different things. We will work with texts. We didn't do this until now. I wanted to do this at the end. So stay tuned. Let's see each other in the next section and we'll work on that. See you there. 40. 05-01. Briefing: Let us actually preview the scene we will be creating in this section, areas of your screen. Let us animate now some bullet points. Let's animate text number one. Let's animate text number two. And with that, we will close up the video so we can learn more great things about Camtasia. Okay, this is it. This section is mostly about grading those bullet points, animating them and making everything look and work seamless. See you in the lectures and Let's start creating 41. 05-02. Freezing content: In this lecture, I want to show you how to extend something beyond its original duration by something, I mean, footage. Here, I have footage of my camera. I'm talking on the camera. I'm talking on the camera and the Footage ends about here. But before I import is background, I want the camera to still be visible. I don't want the camera to just abruptly disappear in the background and then another background being animated on top of it. What you can do, you can press on the right corner and press your left old key. If you press the left Alt key, you can see it changes to this bracket Eigen to this little rectangle icon. Now I can click on it. I can extend the duration, and I can extend the duration as long as I want, even though my recording ended somewhere here or here, I can extend it as long as I want. Just note that this will be a frozen frame, but I just needed a couple of seconds and it is hidden anyway. No one will notice, but it will look much nicer and much more seamless when now the background animates, if I would leave it at the original size, it would disappear somewhere here. It would look weird because the video plays and I disappear somewhere in the middle of the video, this wouldn't look professional. So always keep in mind, you can press your left Alt key and extend the duration or freeze the frame of any footage you have recorded. 42. 05-03. Preparing the design: In this lecture, we will drag and drop a background for our scene. Since we already created multiple backgrounds here, let's just grab one of the colors. I'll take the middle color, Control-C, go forward and Control V. Output is above everything, above everything else. Because somewhere here I want this and I want this to be extended to the entire screen. And I want this simply to fade in here or as we have sliding from the water, let us it's lightened from the bottom. And here I would like this to slide out. Let me see if I have that Animation. Luckily, we had all the behaviors are largely on it. If you don't have the behaviors, you can of course, create a new shape by going to annotation to shapes, and by just dragging and dropping a rectangle, then going to behaviors and adding a sliding animation. We have an in animation. We have no during animation and we have an out animation on it. This is how we dropped a background that we already had created. Let's now create the bullet points 43. 05-04. Making circles: In this lecture, we will create simple bullet points in the middle of our screen. Let me here what we have here than bullet points. Let's animate the text number one, okay, right about here, we will animate bullet point text number one. The problem with Camtasia is that we have those annotations and sadly, there is no built-in feature for bullet points. I'll try to talk with TechSmith to maybe edit in the future. But currently, we need to use the callout with annotations, simple texts annotations or those texts bubbles. Well, I'll use a simple text. I'll put it here. You can see it aligns with my playhead because I have it set to this point. And this is text number one. Let's call it text number one. You can of course, use any font you want. I'm using doses because this is one of the funds I like to use here. And I'll use bold font. I'll click away and I will put it in the appropriate spot. Now we have nothing four bullet points. So what I'm doing when I need to display bullet points, I'm aligning text to the left side. I'm going into the callout and I'm using a circle, I'm using a perfect circle. And I think the colors play in very nicely with, with my green color. I'll press my left shift key and I will just make it smaller, something like that. And I think this design would be pretty, pretty okay. Now this is text number one. This looks beautiful. I'll align it to the left side. And where I start to say text number two, let's animate text number two. Well, let's maybe first animate this and then we just duplicate it. This is it for this lecture. This is how you create simple bullet points if you need more of them, no problem, Control D and put them away. Just be sure to know what is what. This is a bit inconvenient because I would need to maybe take it by hand, maybe move it around, maybe close them back together. Now I know those are both points, number one. Those are both points number two. And if I duplicate it, you can see Camtasia puts it between each other again. So you need to be very careful when duplicating something. We could group that and then duplicate it, but that creates other problems. So I prefer to work like that one by one. I'll delete the second one. Let's animate now what we see on our screen in a very nice way. 44. 05-05. Making text: In this lecture, as promised, we will animate text number one. I will start with the little dot. I would like to little dot to slide into our screen. There should be no problem for you. By now. We will go to behaviors sliding and I'll apply sliding to it. I want to make sure that there is no Animation during it. And the out animation. I currently want No out animation because I will decide upon that later. For the in animation, we have ease out chord. This is pretty okay, left. And the speed. I think we should go a bit slower. Let me see what happens. Let's animate the text number one. The animation is too quick. I'll reduce the speed to 70%. Let's animate text number one, beautiful, exactly as the dots start to fly in, the text, to start fading in how to beautifully like align everything. This is trial and error. I will go for Faith. I'll drag and drop fade. We have a linear animation. The offset between letters is 0.05 seconds, and I will maybe increase the speed to 86%. Let me see what happens. Let's animate text number one. Text starts to fade into quickly. I'll take the text and I will read dos it to this point. Let's animate the text number one. Either this should be more to the left or I should increase the speed. Let me increase the speed and let's preview that now. Let's animate the text number one. Nice, like beautiful. Everything works now seamlessly, at least for my taste, I will take the text. I'll just make sure that during non out, we have Fade Out. Fade Out is pretty okay. Later on, I want to fade averaging out to the Camtasia logo. So in the next lecture, I'll duplicate it and I will make a seamless animation out of it. 45. 05-06. Adjustments: In this lecture, I want to make sure that everything flows together nicely. Here is where I'm saying animate text number two. I'll take the animation of the texts. I will just control deed. I'll put it above it and I'll make sure that I bring them back together like that. I'll put them here and let me make them closer here. The background as well. This way, I will be able to navigate everything easily. Let me preview everything here on the screen points. Let's animate the text number one. Let's animate text number two. Okay, beautiful. Now I can take the text with my arrow key. I just put it lower. I'll call it text number of text number two. And with that, we will close up the video, okay, somewhere here. Somewhere here where I'm calling animate that I will close up the view. That video could start to disappear. Alright, here I will extend the text and now I need to make an animation for the little dots because I didn't have the dots. I'll press on shape number one. I will press mind control key to select them both. Now, both shapes are selected, as you can see on the screen. I'm going to behaviors out behavior and let's go for a simple fade out. Now, they will fade out together with the text. The text is fading out from left to right. I think this looks pretty okay. And afterwards, the screen is disappearing. If you want, you can, of course, staggered the first and the second text. You can make the second text a little longer. This would create an animation like that. And with that, we will close up the video so we can learn more great things about Camtasia. In the next lecture, we'll add the animation for the Camtasia logo. But I think this is pretty simple. So see you there. Stay tuned. 46. 05-07. Exit animation in this camtasia masterclass: In this lecture, we will animate the Camtasia logo. Let's get right to it. Okay. I have somewhere here, the Camtasia logo in the beginning. I will just take it. This, I hope this is the right object, okay? Control C, I will bring that forward. And Control V, I own this camtasia logo to happen behind this background like that. Let us preview what's happening now. We will close up the video so we can learn more great things about Camtasia Animation. We're already applied to it. If you want, you can make an animation between this point where the logo starts to grow. It, you need to time it nicely. It depends on what do you want. Let's preview that now. The close up the video self. I think this looks pretty fine. Let us preview once this lesson, if everything works seamless and I think we will be done with this video. Let us animate now some bullet points. Let's animate text number one. Let's animate text number two. I think text number two could be a bit later. Number one, let's animate text number two. And with that, we will close up the video so we can this edit this one a little later as well, that we will close up the video so we can learn more great things about Camtasia. Beautiful. We have completed editing this video. We used almost everything we have on this panel. I want to talk about a few more things that I will show you in the upcoming lectures. So stay tuned. If you have still a bit of power left, working on your video editing skills, bear with me and you will surely enjoy it. See you there. 47. 06-01. Recording (since Camtasia Studio 9): This will be a little funny because I need to use a different program, stream labs, OBS to record my screen, to show you how I record my screen with Camtasia. They Camtasia recorder is a very simple and powerful. You can press on record or you can open it up on your system. This is a program like an older. As you can see by this green, it records your screen, your camera, and careful, I'm using the candling. Previously, the Kremlin didn't work with with Camtasia recorder. This is why I always used stream labs OBS to record my camera and Camtasia to record my screen. As you can see, I can switch between my cameras. Currently, it seems that gambling is working in the newest version of Camtasia. Here you select your microphone and this is your system audio. If some music would be playing on my system, this would also shine through, alright, the Camtasia recorder is very simple. In the first option section, you just select which options do you want to be recorded? I want everything to be recorded. And from the tools, you have a couple of features that you can go over. Nothing complicated here. I'm always restoring the cursor location when I make pauses from the file to specify where it should save from the inputs, you specify the frame rate that should be used to record your screen. The higher the frame rate, the more difficult it is for the recorder. This is why the camera will have troubles to capture the full HD screen. But let's try for the shortcut. It's by default F9 and F ten. If you are ready, you just press record. Either you have a count down or not. I no longer have a count on. You can see me here on the camera. My microphone should be also picking up. And this is an example recording. If I close this example recording, it will produce a Camtasia file, a track file holding all the information about my screen, my camera, and what was happening on the microphone. Let me bring their recorder back. I will simply close the recording like that and I can save it somewhere on my computer. In the next lecture, I'd like to briefly show you what we produced here. 48. 06-02. File system: In this lecture, I want to show you what we actually record it. Here is my example recording track file. And what is the advantage of using the Camtasia recorder and the track files from recording your screen with a different software and just producing an AVI or normal Video file-like Mp4. The advantage of using a track file is that Camtasia recognizes different features. For example, do you see the mouse? Camtasia doesn't just see it as an object. Recorded. Camtasia actually took inflammation of the mouth. And you can then manually adjust how the mouse looks. That will come later. Okay, I have imported this TREC file. I have the recording here and look what we have on the bottom. We have my camera, we have my audio. You can see the audio and you have my screen recording in the back. So we have separate file. What I'm always doing, well, depending on what I'm doing, I'll right-click and I'll separate the audio from the video. This will create three different tracks. It's getting a lot for just one recording, but bear with me since my camera is full HD, Camtasia has problems recording it properly. This is why there should be some latency. Let us listen record. Either you have a count down or not. I no longer have a count on. You can see me here on the camera. You can see it is not synchronous. I would need to put the camera a little later and the recording little later as well. This should approximately due to either you have a count down or not. I no longer have a count on. You can see me here. When I'm recording, I'm usually clapping my hands together to make a point where it's easier to synchronize. Okay, so that's like one problem, but we solved it pretty quickly. Camtasia recorded a track file. If I save this product File, Save As I have saved this as an example product, you can see Camtasia created a doc product. This is a camtasia and native Camtasia file with future versions of a Camtasia, most likely the product will need to convert itself when you open it. So always if you have old files, old recordings, you need to wait a little before Camtasia compiles it from new. But here I have a container recording that I can drag and drop into any product directly. At Camtasia product holds all the information that we have in front of us. All the information's, all the annotations, all the texts, all the animations, behaviors, now changing the sizes. This is all inside Camtasia projects file. As you can see, it's really useful if you decide to use Camtasia to actually record with Camtasia because those TSC products files allow us to do a lot of custom video editing that you wouldn't be able to do if you just recorded an MP4 or AVI or other type of video. In the next lecture, I want to show you something about cursor effects because we didn't visit this tab, because we didn't need to end right now. We definitely should 49. 06-03. Mouse effects - camtasia masterclass: So this is exactly how I record and edit my tutorials. I removed my color, I put myself to the site and I change the mouth. By default, you can see the mouth is recorded, but by default it's very blurry. You can actually click on the background recording. The background recording you have. We have mouse options here. We can scale the cursor to even want honored to present in the newest versions. You can see the cursor is very blurry. We can replace the cursor. This creates problem because when you move around, sometimes your course or changes like for example here. And I would need to change this twice, but you can change everything to one consistent coarser by opening this. Going to all, to change all the courses at once. They are showcase here on the screen, we have two different cursors. I will change all at once. Not recorded courses because those are the three that were recorded or the two data recorded. I'll go to Windows, cursors, select one of them. For example, the simple mouse looks very clean, very good, and will always be off the highest quality. This is something that Camtasia improvement on basically in the last 23 years. Okay, In the next lecture, I'd like to show you how to edit the cursor path to really get next level movement into your mouth. And it will be certainly very interesting. One last thing I want to mention in this lecture, while we are here is the cursor effect. Here we have some very simple effects that we can apply to the mouse. I think this is pretty self-explanatory what the highlight is. And from the most options on the bottom here, a highlight has been added. We can of course, change the size. The same goes for magnify, Chris, or color or cursor shadow. Additionally, we have left and right click Options. You can, for example, add some ripple effects or rings. I think contagious should add some new effects over time because the ripple or the target really isn't looking as good. But we can do nice little motion animation that happens each time when you click your mouse. Let me, as promised in the next lecture explaining how to change the mouse movement. And this will be next level. It is a relatively new feature, so it's worth knowing about 50. 06-04. Mouse movement: In this lecture, we will adjust the path that are mouse has. So our Mars is moving around the screen. The simplest way to adjust this is adding cursor smoothing, but I'm not a fan of this feature because it makes our movement look artificial. If we drop that effect in, in the most options here, let me maybe close the replacing coarser options so we have more space. I will delete highlight, I will delete rings. We have the cursor smoothing. As you can see, I'll hit play. Maybe I will not have any sound, so we don't get distracted. You can see the mouse. It looks very artificial. I'm just moving from place to place. But this is a feature that I believe is Camtasia nine or I don't really remember, but I remember it forever being here. So it's a bit outdated. Let me cancel the cursor smoothing and edit the cursor pad. As I click on it. Camtasia is asking me, Do you want a completely new path or do you want to simplify the existing one? Let me simplify the exiting one and it's not that simple, and this is just a short recording. What you can do here, you can basically click on any point. You can change the Bezier path and you can change where the mouth is on your screen. Additionally, on the right side, you can change the easing in, out or both, or of course, none. If you don't want an eating, you want linear movement. Again, you are essentially creating an animation. If you change something and you are not satisfied with what you change, you can see it's basically a keyframe animation here on the bottom. You can always restore the path and nothing has happened. The second way, if you are, aren't satisfied with what you did, your dental mouse is clicking on edit cursor path. And instead of simplifying it is to creating a completely new. Now, let me tell you. Currently I'm not using that very often because it was taken so much time to create a path from new. But if you want to be extremely beautiful and precise, you can start your most here. Maybe change the Bezier handle, then you will go with your mouse here to the Import Media. And I could make beautiful tutorial like that. Let me take the most path to take about this time and look at it. Now. I would have a beautiful movement, 1-2. I can of course change them if I wanted to other way around. I could change the Bezier handles to make a nicer movement out of it. Alright, let's preview that. What a beautiful, seamless and wonderful motion, but it takes so much time. Of course, you can edit and add as many points on this one as you want you can. And this basically custom Animation here. You can go to the middle and you can move the mouse around. And it'll create those additional movement points and keyframes. But keep in mind how much work that potentially is. Thank you very much for listening to this lecture. I think this feature is extremely promising and it's really good. Maybe in the future we can make some presets for ourselves or something like that. That would be certainly very handy or very mouseY. Thank you so much for listening to this lecture and let us continue. 51. 06-05. Missing Asset: In this lecture, I will explain in simple words, how to really your missing Asset. If you have a Camtasia product and you move something or for example, change, change the name of something. Camtasia will no longer recognize this file. That's not a big problem. The only thing you have to do is point Camtasia to word the change happened and to the exact file here, pointed to the same folder, to the change file. And Camtasia will now recognize this file and we'll simply put it back into the product. If you still have question marks here, you can right-click on the media and you can update the media with the appropriate file. There's nothing more to it. I know it's always difficult because I'm as well changing files on my computer into different places, different names, and camtasia has always problems with that, but other programs do as well. This is how you fix that. Thank you very much for listening to this short lecture. 52. Class conclusion: Big, big, congratulations to you for reaching the end of this course. Thank you very much for wanting to spend time with me on learning Video Editing. Let's make the video editing standard higher and higher and make the videos better and better. If you would like to. Thank me for the content, I would really appreciate a positive review for this course. This will really help me and make me motivated to create more content like that. Once again, I will see you now in your videos. Let's start creating and see you another time. Bye