Camtasia Tutorial - Camtasia Essentials Training - Camtasia 2021

1. Camtasia Essentials Training Camtasia Tutorial: Hi there and welcome to this Camtasia Essentials Training. In this tutorial, you get to see how to use Camtasia as a beginner. First things fast. Which version of Camtasia am I going to use in this tutorial? Let's compare under Help and then we'll go into about Camtasia. And you can see I'm using 2021 version and it was updated in May 2022. If you have any version that has an interface that looks anything like this, then you can follow along with that. Anything from Camtasia eight and below that is not advisable because the interface is different. What are we going to learn in this, in this Camtasia tutorial, you're going to learn how to use Camtasia out to edit, how you can record, how to organize your project. I'll give you some tips on how you can organize your project. And then we'll see how we can save our files and edit them. And once you're done editing the video, you'll see how you can export that video so that you can share it out on YouTube or wherever you want to share it. Then finally, at the end, we're going to create a simple project whereby will create an intro like this. If this is something that you want to do, you want to learn how to use Camtasia, then go ahead and start watching this tutorial. Make sure that you're following along with me. I will provide these samples and you'll find all the samples that are used inside here. The recorded video that I will be editing, it will be this one. So start editing that. As soon as you start watching the course, download the assets and start editing this. And then eventually we're going to create the intro using the resources which are inside here. Everything that is inside here. This is what we'll use to create the final intro video. Go ahead and start watching the tutorial right now. Because there's so much to learn and there's so much to do. I will see you when you get started. 2. Camtasia project recording: For this Camtasia tutorial, we definitely need a project and we're going to learn Camtasia through editing our project. Let me record a screencast and then we're going to use that throughout these competitions tutorial to learn how to use Camtasia. So let's say maybe my video is about teaching people how to use Audacity. I'm just going to click there on Audacity. Maybe my aim is to show people how to use Audacity. If you want to record an audio, make sure your microphone is selected there. And then you can just click on that button. And that's going to record our audio as we speak. That is how to record an audio. Once it's recorded, you just stop and maybe you want to, you want to increase the amplitude of the audio. What you're going to do, you're going to normalize the audio to raise the amplitude. And then maybe you want to do a noise reduction for this. I'm just going to click on noise reduction on getting noise profile and then Command effect and repeat the noise reduction. Maybe I want to do compression for this, I'm going to do effects and then I will come back to compressor and I will compress. And then once I do that, I can also normalize it to amplify it. Once again, that is a project for this Camtasia class. And you're going to see how to work with Camtasia through editing this audio, go to Edit, through editing this video. We're going to edit it completely. You're going to see different things. How to zoom in, how to cut out areas, how to add images, how to add annotations and so much more. Let's get started editing this project in the next section. 3. How to organize your camtasia project: Let's say you get a job as a video editor working with Camtasia. You need to edit your project. You need to organize, you predict well. You need to know where the files are and when you went to access them, you should be able to access them. This video is about how you can organize your Camtasia project. When you do any Camtasia recording on your screen, what happens is it will be saved under documents. If you go to your documents, you'll find Camtasia. There's a Camtasia directory under your documents. So let's say maybe you're editing a video for a certain customer. You can create a new folder and call the folder the name of the customer. And for you to label them, we should probably give it a number so that they're arranged chronologically. Here under markets, it should also arrange your project differently. For instance, the recording, the recorded file of Camtasia. You can put that in a folder and call that folder recordings. Then once you go to edit the file, because you'll need to save the file that you're editing and you can put those instead of another folder and just call that saved. What else do we need here? We need a video. So of course, once you edit it, you need to export it as a video. Then you'll just come here and you'll create another folder and you can call it videos. This is just something that they do. I labeled them in small letters, but you can use capital. Just makes you a band named in a way that you can recognize what they're about. So you know that if you have a client called MCAS, then the mockups project is inside the Mockus folder. Inside that folder and you can start editing. If I asked there, I'm going to show you how you can record a record in Camtasia and then you're going to save the recording inside here. 4. How to record in Camtasia: Let's see how to record in Camtasia. It's important for you to note that I'm using Camtasia to record this video as well. What's happening is that I'm using the legacy recorder. So you can just look for the recorder. If you go to your stat bar. If you own a mock DES, get to Camtasia, however, usually gets to your applications on a Mac or on Windows. You can just go to the stockpile and then you can search for Camtasia. You can see here I went to open Camtasia recorder. I went to record this. This is because I'm already using Camtasia here, so I want to be able to use the shortcut keys. So that is a modern Camtasia recorder. If you interchange any settings here, you can just go here under tools. You can go to Preferences. And then here under Preferences, you can change the different settings. Where do you want to store your files, how do you want to name your files and so on and so forth is come in here and you can change all these elements here. Okay? I know you may have a webcam connected to your computer. And therefore, if you want to record your Coda, if you want to record your webcam, you can come in here and you can enabled that I don't have any camera attached right now. So you can see this is disabled. What you can see no camera phone, so I can't enable it. But if I connect a camera, I will be able to enable that. And most importantly, your microphone. You have to connect a microphone before you start recording, make sure that they sound actually coming out through Camtasia. And before you start any recording, just record a sample and see if the microphone is working. If you want to select her microphone, just come in here and choose the different microphones. You can see I have two microphones attached, and I'm currently using this here, so I can't connect it here. However, this is where you'd you'd normally connect. Your microphone does come in here and choose the right microphone. You can also change the audio volume for your microphone. Microphone input volume. You can change that there. And then if you want to record the system audio, things like maybe you click and they're usually windows sounds. You click on something, maybe there's an error. Maybe you want to record a certain video from YouTube. You need to enable this then volume and it's going to system audio, and it's going to record anything with audio on your computer. This is done before you start the recording. Make sure you change all the settings before you start the recording. And finally, another important thing that I have not mentioned is the screen. Which screen you want to record. If you have multiple screens, like you can see, I have multiple screens here. I can record screen, one screen too. I can choose a custom region to record. Click. And then you can select somewhere to, somewhere to record. And then you can record that area. You can come here and you can change it back to full screen. Screen one was green to whichever. You can just record widescreen ten ATP, and it's going to record 1080 P. Or you can record your entire screen. If your screen is not in this dimensions of ten ATP for k and so on. Once you're done with all the settings, just keep on record and you can start recording. And as soon as I click on Stat, He's going to do a count down. It will record. And when you're done recording, you just click on this top button. I give you an idea on how you can organize your project. Let's look for that folder. Instead of Camtasia. And he told the center of this project, so you can put your recorded virus, the dots, Trek files. You can put them inside of your recording and give it a name that you'll definitely be able to recognize when you're editing the project. These maybe I can call it example. Just like that. That's editing the predict that we set up alone in this tutorial. 5. Camtasia Video editor overview: I'm here inside of my project folder. I'm just going to go into the recording folder. The one that I want to start editing is Camtasia project recording. So if I want to start according this let me faster Voc copy the name. I'm going to double-click on it to open it inside of Camtasia so that you can start editing. Let's do some basic editing. I'm just going to give you the step-by-step flow of how I usually edit my videos. At least that way, you have a framework that you can follow and you can use if you're getting started in video editing. First of all, I normally improve my audio. That's very important. First of all, I need to edit this audio. So what I would normally do is I'd come here, come here under Audio, Audio Effects, and then I will use the audio compression tool. I've set mine to medium. And that's because I usually record at a very low volume to avoid any noise from outside. That helps me reduce noise when I'm recording. That's why I record in low volume and then I just do post-processing to improve the audio. Once I do that, I usually export this audio. But before you do that, let's just do a quick overview of this window. So that is your recorded video. Sometimes you may have recorded a video on your phone and you want to come here and edit it. The process is just the same your workspace. Now if you come here, you can change the project settings. Let's come here. I went to my outcome to be ten ATP. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to come here and I'm going to put my recording attend ATP. My screen is slightly larger than ten ATP. Otherwise, if it's green is for k, then it's just going to fit automatically once you put down ATP, if your screen is also ten, ATP is going to fit automatically. So I'm going to click there to apply. You can use whichever ratios you want, whichever dimensions you went there. Depending on the outcome that you want. I'm going to apply. I could expand this or I can use the animation tool. Now the animation tool, we're going to look at this later on. This is used for zooming and panning. I can just plan in up to somewhere there until then tapping is on my screen, is within my workspace. So this is going to be the final outcome, the final video. This other side, you can see on this other side, we do have all these tools that you can use to edit your video. You can edit your audio or the Casa animations, behaviors, transitions you're going to look at, we're going to see most of these by the end of this tutorial. So just be patient. We're going to look at them. Normally when you choose any tool. Let's say we choose your annotation on. You're going to see the options for the annotations here. And the options for the annotations will also be, will also be there. On this end. Let's say I want to add one of these call-outs. I just drag it down. And then on this other side, we have all these other features that you can change. Also, you can see it on the screen. Let me move the cursor until you get to it. When you get to ATC, you can increase the size. We're going to see how to use all of these for now. This is just an overview. And the overview is very important because it gives you an idea of how everything is. Maybe you want to increase the font for that. You just come there and a font. And you can increase the font and give you, give your video a title. We're going to see how to do all that. We've seen that. And also right here, we do have certain elements as well. For instance, we have this, this will split this. I come there and I pick them that I can split it into half. Before you split anything, make sure you select it. Make sure you select the media that you went to split. So once I do that, you see I can split it into two and move the other part. But of course I don't want to do that. So normally I do Control Z, Control Z, but it seems maybe you're on a Mac. I'll just use that. And you can use that as well to undo almost every change you've met. You can undo that. If you have two screens, you can always put this somewhere else and just record and look at the other screen. I went to detach the canvas. I can detach it. And once you detach it, you can just move it around. You can move it around to whichever screen you want to use it on. You may want to take it back. Maybe you did each accidentally or maybe the other screen goes blank. What you can do, you can just click on that and it's going to take it back. Applause is going to get to attach it back to your Camtasia editor. Then of course, you can never get, you can never get that. You can also navigate like that, two different parts. You can zoom in. This is very helpful for audio. Maybe you enter removals at in part of audio. You can zoom in. Maybe you until removals at in part, or you went to view. You want to see an out view of your entire video editing process. You can just zoom in and zoom out like that. Before I end, let us just see some of the elements which are up here. And one that I use often in the good to see me using the next video is export. And I usually export my audio first and then edit the audio, then they bring it back here. And you're going to see how to do that. In the next section, I'm going to edit and make them digital audio. In this process, I usually do do it so that if you want to follow the same procedures, you can definitely do so again, here at a view, I don't really see anything I used there. A file. Of course this is important. If you come here, you can export different things. You can export predict for Mac since I'm on Windows, you can zip up the project and maybe share it. One thing I usually use, yeah, without a doubt, is save. Navigate to wherever you want to save and then you can save it there. You remember when it was opening this file? I copied the name, so I don't really have to type. I'll just paste in the name. I'll paste in the name that I copied from the other end and then I will save it. I can continue from there in the next, in the next section. In the next section, let's edit audio. I'll show you how you can edit your Camtasia audio using audacity to make it better. See you in the next section. 6. Camtasia Editing Audio: The next step is for me to edit my audio. So let me delete this. I'm just going to export the audio. So I will export the audio only. Also remember that you can separate audio and video. That's important. Maybe you've brought in another project that already has audio and you want to edit the audio and the video separately. Once I do that, I'm going to come up here. I went to export the audio and it's going to get exported as the WAV file. Let's go to Audacity because I want to edit. I will open up Audacity. Wherever you save the audio drug gets into Audacity. And you can see the audio is booty low. Even after doing a bit of compression that I did in Camtasia. The first thing I want to do is I want to do noise reduction. So we'll get the noise profile and let me go back to noise reduction team to explain it to you. If you want to use this, make sure you reduce this. You can just use the same setting them using here. You don't want to reduce too much of your audio. It's going to spoil the audio quality. So it's very important for you to use very small settings. You can even reduce this down. This will help you ensure that your audio is not too bad once you're done processing it. I'm just going to click there. Okay. Going to do the noise reduction pain for me. If you don't have any other, any other tools for noise reduction, then repeat noise reduction. Just use this and use it in small bits until your audio is much better. But for me, I do have another tool here, our x, that is the isotope or x. If you don't have RX, don't worry about it. Use the normal Audacity tools to improve your audio. I'm going to apply this. And you can see I've also reduce this so that they're not too much. And it can do that Just one last time. We'll close that and something else that I want to do here. Now, if you don't have this, don't worry about it. You don't have to do this. But I will do that. I'm just going to click. Okay, the next thing that I need to do before I do anything else is to amplify the audio and I'm going to use the audacity normalize feature. First of all, select, first of all, select the audio and then come here under our normalize. Then I'm going to normalize the audio. I can see that I need to compress this audio somehow. So I'm just going to come here under Effects and I will scroll. I do have a class about using Audacity. And you can check that if you want to learn more. But for this, I'm just going to click here on compressor. Then I'm going to click here on Okay. Once I do that, I'm going to compare on the effects and economically Phi for this, this is not advisable, but since I recorded at a very low volume, I'm just going to amplify up to one dB for you. If your audio is loud enough, just use the normalized feature or you can amplify it up to 0. You can see the audio is now much louder than what it was. And this is going to be the final result for me that I'm going to put inside of Camtasia. You'll notice that I have done this so much that I don't even listen to the audio when I'm editing it. I just know my environment and I know exactly the things that I need to do to make it better. I don't really have to listen to the audio unless listened to it when I'm editing the video, I'm going to export this as a wave. I'll export it as a web hook. You can export as Mp3 if you went to, but we've usually gives the best audio quality. I will say density. These are the Meta tags that comes up. So if this comes up for you, just give it a name, truck title that so this is like committed data for your audio. If you've seen it somewhere, you can track it using these settings. I'm just going to click Okay. I don't need this anymore. I'm just going to close it and then cancel. I don't want to save. So of course for you, you should probably save, but for me I never save this. So I'm just going to leave that there. And then I'm going to truck bound location for the audio of just saved. Then once I do that, I will drag it into Audacity. This end, I will need to delete that. Let me delete this audio selected, select it, and then delete it, and then drug in the new audio that you've edited. And you'll see it appear here under media. Right now, the only media we have is the recorded video, camtasia project. This drug tin from wherever you save it, you saved it. If I expand. You can see that is my new ordeal much better, much louder. You've seen how you can edit your Camtasia audio using Audacity. Now if you don't have the tools that they had in Audacity, it doesn't really matter. Just use the audacity tools. You're still going to get better audio than someone who did not edit the audio. Editing your audio is very important and you must do it. If you went to people to watch your videos and not feel like they're watching something that was not made professionally. That's a very important step in video editing. You must always edit your audio. 7. Camtasia Editing basics: You can expand it if you want to expand it and see more of this, because you're going to see that this is very helpful when you want to edit a certain section. You want to remove a certain section of your video. On this side you can see we do have this element, the fascia an artist start to eat, which is the easiest to understand. For you to understand that, let me zoom. If I click on that and I click on this one as well. Well this does, this is a magnet that pulls these to the beginning. It puts this to the very edge of this part of the video. I can't I can't take it anyway. If I take it there. You can see it is not at the beginning, but if you bring it down to this timeline, it's definitely snaps to the beginning of the audio, to the video. Now this is very important. If you have videos that are, that are connected to each other, maybe you have multiple small videos that you are combining to make one long video. You want to make sure that there's no spacing between them. You can just do that and there won't be any space between them. You see, if I uncheck that, we can have space and maybe you may end up messing up something in this video. Then you also have this lock button. Now the lock button is also very important in editing. Let me just come in here and zoom. So if I lock this, it means that I can delete an item here and it won't be deleted down normally, what happened in Camtasia, if you have any elements that are aligned, if you remove one, is going to delete everything that is within the selection. Let's say that I want to remove that. If I remove that, you're going to see that this and this would both be reduced. In Windows. I usually do Control X now Control X will delete and delete this space. If I do Control X, Control X like that, you see it has deleted and you'll see that now it's like two different projects that have joined together after I do Control X, I think on a mock try Command X that should do it. And even if he doesn't do it, is come here and look for cut. You can see cut is Control X. On a Mac. You can do whichever command is given there. If this is not checked, it will cut the area there and do total cut the media which is down here. If you don't want that, maybe you just want to delete an item. Let's say maybe this is just an example, but I'm going to undo this. So let's say maybe you wanted to take the word which is here. And you want to add it there. Before I do that, let me show you something else. You can just select an element when you select any elements like that and just press Delete on the keyboard. You see that won't work because I have this selected. So this remember that you can uncheck that. You can disable that because if you do that, it's going to bring it. But if you just do delete like that is going to give you space. So if you want some space, maybe you want to add in another media in there. You uncheck these elements. Then you just press Delete. If you press Delete on your keyboard is going to delete the element, but it's not going to join them. However, if you do Control X or I believe Command X, you see that it's going to, it's going to close out this space in-between, between this element. I hope you understand exactly what I'm trying to say here. I'll do Control zed. And then finally I can show you what this does. I can lock this, can lock this drug. Once I lock this, whatever I do will only happen to the one at the top or any other that is not locked. If I do Control X only this has been cut. The bottom one is intact. If I press Delete, you can see now we have this space at the top where this one is intact. I see it. I wanted to copy this from here to here to show you as an example, let's just do that. I'm going to copy this and just select it and do Control C. And remember to unlock the lock, the area where you don't want to edit for this, maybe onto add this audio from there. To put it here. I'll just come in here and I will do delete and recreate space between these two. I can't even move it to create more space. Then I will put the cursor in there, do Control V. I will delete this. Remember, this is the one that has been taken from the bottom when I copied it, copied that as well. So if you want to add that audio from there to there, you can do that. And then if this element and this element from the same, same audio recording, you can select them and then you can join them. Control Alt, Control Alt. That's going to stitch this media together. And you can find ETL under edit. If you come here under Edit, you can find stitch, Control, Alt and I. So you can find the correct shortcut key in your MOC as well. I will do Control Z. Control Z. To undo all these changes have done. They were just examples for illustration purposes. Then I'll do Control S to save. Now under Settings, you can put automatic saving for anything that you do. So that is basic editing, Camtasia. 8. Speed up camtasia video correctly: I'm going to start editing this recording. And you're going to see that editing is a step-by-step process. You don't skip any steps whereby you have to edit every second, every minute until you finally finish the process. There's something that I forgot to do that I usually do for some of my audios. And I think for this one, it's something that they need to do. And that is, I need to speed up the audio just a bit. I'm going to delete that audio. And then I'm also going to see right now, it says that it's to two minutes and ten seconds. I'm going to speed it up, add clip speed on this. And I'll just click there on clips speed. I can split it up by about 10%. Don't do the speeding on Camtasia. You're going to get the chipmunks voice and you don't want that. I'm going to open up Audacity and I'm going to bring in the audio in there. I will come here and effects and I'm going to go into change tempo. And I will speed it up by 11, 11%. And that's going to reduce it in the same ratio as the other 1157. One minute, 57 seconds. And this one is also one minute 57 seconds. You can also speed it down. If maybe you are speaking too fast, you can slow it down. And I'm going to export it once again, export as wave. I will drag the audio back-in. Let me just delete this because I'm not using it. So everything you import into your project will be here. Any audio, images, any other videos that you add here that will all be listed under video. So you'll see that once I add this, it will also be instead. I can use that. You can see that they're now in the same, they're almost in the same line. Split up the Camtasia video and sped up the audio. We've already started editing much. We're going to start editing moving forward through the timeline until we finally finish editing this predict. 9. Editing camtasia Timeline: Let's continue. I will start editing, so sometimes I won't be speaking, but I'll be explaining the things that I'm doing as I listen to this audio. So I'll play for this Camtasia tutorial. We definitely need a project and we're going to learn Camtasia through editing a project. Let me record a screencast and then we're going to use that throughout this course. We're going to use that throughout these computer tutorial. So at that point you hear that there's some kind of hesitation around here. I'm going to figure out how to move, remove bat, or match them. Throughout this course. We're going to use that throughout starting from here. So let me record a screencast and then we're going to use that throughout this course. We're going to use that 12 is. We're going to use that throughout this. Let me figure out where that starts and then I'll remove it and join it with this. These we are going to I will expand. We're going to we're going to we're going to use that starts from there. I need to find the other data. We're going to delete that and tap it, delete, then Tab it. Cost an immigrant to use that towards these goals. Then we're going to use that. These are going to use that twist. This, got to use that throughout this. Let me just move it up to there and then I'll listen and hear what implications it has on the final process. Screencast. And then we're going to use that throughout these Camtasia tutorial, accord, a screencast, and then we're going to use that throughout these. So if we remove this code, a screencast and we're going to use, I'll just leave that it is not too bad. I can leave it like that. If it goes too fast like that before probably won't notice there's anything missing there. Screencast. And then we're going to use that throughout these conditions tutorial. Somewhere here we can add a heading. I wonder videos to be shorter now, so let's do that in the next section, I'm going to add our notation in the next section. 10. Working with Annotations: Let's add a title and you're going to do that using this on additions, also called the call-outs. I will add an annotation. Just click there on annotation and then you can drag in an annotation. You can see the different types. You can even have all these other us, any of these that you want. I will use the simple ones. Also have some that I saved and when to use one of the boats. I'm going to show you where you can save it. On the other end, I'm going to bring the black one. Let me zoom in. Zoom oh Taemin. So I will increase the size like that. And potato for this video is project Camtasia project. Or I can call it about about the Camtasia project. Of course I went to increase the font. Just click outside and click back on it. We can increase the font. You can change the style of anything inside there. You can change the background color right there. Just click. If you were to change the color of the font, you can do that here. Maybe on the color to be blue. You can change that day. You can change the font. If you want to change the font that is there, you can do that there. Let's go to the actual board. And on the actual board, you can also change the color. If you interchange it, you can change the color. If you interchange the border, you can change the color of the border as well. You can increase the size of the border. You can increase the size of the border. I'm going to leave it like that. Let's click back on it. Anything else a chance to change. Maybe you want it to be opaque, you want it to be translucent. I mean, that is their opacity for the border. You can change that opacity for this entire call out. You can also do that as well. See, if you like the change you've met. You can click there. I did. Do your user call-outs. Just click on the plus button. If you want to undo anything, you can undo anything that you've done. You can add different call-outs. If you went to point to anything. If you have two points to anything, you see all these options that are available here. You can use any of these. All the call-outs or here, maybe you want these to increase the thickness, you can increase the thickness of that, and so on. Maybe you want to use these for pointing. You can do that. To change the color. You can change the color. You can do that though, but you can see the background for this is really not clear. So that's why it's not, it's not clearly visit is not clearly visible. However, you will see where you can use it. When you're editing your own videos. You've seen how you can add a callout. We're going to continue on in the timeline of this video and see if there's anything else that you can remove. 11. Working with Camtasia cursor effects plus zooming and panning: Start from somewhere here. And we're going to use that throughout these computer tutorial to learn how to use. So you can see they suppose here I can remove the pose. To learn how to use continues throughout these computer tutorial to learn how to use Camtasia. So let's say maybe my videos about teaching people how to use Audacity too. I'm just going to pick that one. Audacity. I clicked on Audacity somewhere here. But you can see it's not clearly visible. That's because they zoomed in, In the beginning of the video to make this video ten ATP to fix the video to ten ATP. Now I can rectify that if I just come in here, like an odd zoom and pan. So if I come here under animations, I can just zoom, I can just spun it down. And I know if we go like that, it's going to show me that while it is planning there, I can zoom in. I went to add the Zoom in separately. So you can see you can increase the length, increase the, the timing. How long is it going to zoom? The zooming effect. You've seen how it has zoomed into that area. This is very important when you're trying to make a point. You're trying to show people something specific in a different part of the video to learn how to use Camtasia. Lets say maybe my video is about teaching people how to use Audacity. Know something that I didn't do in the beginning, in the beginning of my video. And I will just add them right now. Is casa effects. The different costs I fix. Just come in here and choose whichever one you want to use. You know, I just prefer to use that. Just drag it down to the video. And then you can change the color. I will change it to black and then reduce the opacity. If you look at it, you'll see that it is a bit opaque. You can see it is a bit transparent. I can even reduce it further because they don't know what else I will be showing using the kasa. I don't want you to block whatever I'm trying to show. Then I'm going to compare. I will add that left clicks. Then this will be the effect and I can change the color of that. And I will also go to right-click. If somebody clicks, I want to add that, but they fit that I went to add is different color, a different color. So if somebody left-click, right-click there, we'll see that color. And that way people can know that these are different. So you can see that in the beginning of the video is going to be He's going to be still yellow. The Casa is yellow. And that's because these animations usually override each other. Like you can see at this point, it is yellow, but starting from here, I'm moving on. Animations of added will be the ones that you can see here with these different colors. If you want these animations, these are the first things you need to do in your video. I forgot to tell you that, but that is a good teachable moment. So these animations for the Kazaa, you always add them at the very start of the video. That way it becomes part of the entire video. From now on, the rest of the cursor will be black. But after this animation, it's these different colors. I'm just going to leave it like that. To tell you what to do. You'll just come all the way back there. You see this, put your cursor at the very start and then put your cursor animations there. And it's going to span out for the entire video. This point you can see that is too zoomed in. So I'm just going to zoom it back out. And I can do that somewhere here. Before I even do that, let me just remove some of the space. Let's see Which word that is. And I can remove that. I'm going to, I'm going to animate it out. So I'm going to zoom it out like that to the entirety. Let me just put it there. I can do it in a nice manner. Pick their own Udacity. Maybe my aim is to show people how to use an SET. So if you want to record an audio, I can remove the soul which is here, doesn't do much for me here. And then if you want, I can close out the space and remove some of the ending. If you want to record an audio. If you want to record an audio material microphone is selected. And you can see this is a place whereby I will probably need to show people exactly what's happening. I have to Zoom I have to zoom into that. If you want to record an audio material microphone is selected. And then you can just click on that button. And that's going to record within continue from this point in the next section. 12. Editing continues: The editing goes on. Let's listen up and see what else we can remove odd or change. Can also notice that video is reducing the more areas we cut and remove. Make sure your microphone is selected. And then you can just click on that button. Here. You can see I can reduce this space. Then you can just click on that button. And that's going to record. There's something I want to remove your mouth effects mild sounds button, and that's going to record our audio as we speak. So that is how to record an audio will remove the salt from here. Teeth. How to record an audio? Once it's recorded, you just stop and maybe you went to the teeth, how to record an audio. Once it's recorded, you just stop and maybe you went to maybe at this point, I want to show them, maybe the video is going to foster that point. So I can just show them using one of these annotations. That is how to record an audio. Once it's, once it's recorded, stop. I just go to annotations and remember, we are in that, In section. There's choose 100 edition from there, you can double-click it. You can drag it in. So I'm going to put that, I'm going to put that there. I will reduce the drawer time so that it is drawn much faster audio once it's recorded the desktop. So I can reduce true time. The time is already reduced. So let me increase the thickness. I will put it there so that we can know that's what we're clicking on. Then I can reduce it like that. And I can even make it a different color like black. Got an audio once it's recorded, either stop frequency, even if it's going fast, someone is going to know that that's where I clicked. And maybe you want to, you want to increase the amplitude of the audio. And maybe you want to, you want to increase the amplitude of the audio. What you're going to do at this point, I need to zoom out to cover more area. So I will come back to animations and zoom up to there. I can make it static Zooming from even somebody. That is how to record an audio. Once it's recorded, you just stop and maybe you want to, if you want to increase the amplitude of the audio, what you're going to do, you're going to normalize the audio unless point or that point as well, It's going too fast. So I will use the same thing here. Control C. You can just click on on an element and Control C to copy it. I will drag it here to normalize because this is what I clicked on. It's going to give someone an idea where to click if the video is going too fast, which we're going to do, you're going to normalize that. So it's okay to do, you're going to normalize the audio to raise the amplitude. To do you're going to normalize the audio to raise the amplitude. Here they some hesitation, hear the audio to raise the amplitude. So there isn't much I can do their audio. Raise the amplitude, just leave that there. You don't seek perfection. So I'm just going to leave that there. Then maybe you want to do noise reduction for this. I'm just going to click on. Let us go back a little bit, raise the amplitude, and then maybe you want to do noise reduction. Here. There's some hesitation to remove that. I'll just remove it up to that bit. And then maybe you want to do noise reduction for this. I can leave it like that. And I know the noise reduction thing that I want to do is way below here. So I can just zoom out again. To do noise reduction for this, I'm just going to click on, I'm just going to click on noise reduction on getting. Maybe you want to do a reduction for these. I'm just going to click on remove this bit. Nodes reduction for these, I'm just going to click on noise reduction on getting a nice profile and then come down to effects and repeat the noise reduction. Maybe I went to do compression for this, I'm going to do effects and then I will come back to compressor. And at this point, I definitely need to zoom. Don't depend to that area. And then this bond like that, I shouldn't do it. Before I click that on for this, I'm going to do effects and then we'll come back to compressor and I will compress. And then, and then again you can see Daisy space here. I don't really need that. Before any action happened. I can remove that. I'm removing them by Control X. You can do Control X or you can cut right there. Control X. I will compress. And then, and then let me just pop back again. You're probably wondering why am I panning and zooming? This is the only way you can make responsive videos. Videos that when people are watching on a mobile phone, on an iPad or computer, the videos are still visible regardless of the screen size. Without that, then when people are watching them on smaller screens, they may have problems of viewing exactly what you're doing. And that's important, especially when you're creating illustration videos like this. You need to make it sac that people can watch them on smaller devices without really having to strain or having to look for a different video compress. And then once they do that, I can also normalize it to amplify it once again. So that is the project for this Skillshare classes. I can reduce that they're the project for this Skillshare classes. And you're going to see how to predict for this. So you can see there, I noticed that I made an error and I decided to record the entire thing again. So let's start and see predict for this empty jar class. And you're going to see how to, how to work with Camtasia. That's from Camtasia class. Let's see which part I need to remove. That is the project for this Skillshare class. And you're going to see how to predict for this. That is a project for the project for this is that is the remove button tablet. Once I do that, I can also normalize it to amplify it. Once again. Sodium move B. So that is a product for this Camtasia. And then here I will remove. So I just clicked on that to expand or other to zoom in so that they can see this space and delete it. That is a project for this Camtasia class. And you're going to see how to, how to work with Camtasia through editing this audio data. You're going to implement to see how to, how to work with me, to see how to how to begin to see how it got to work with Camtasia in editing. So if you're not taking puff picture, you can just leave it like that. It is a truly, really affect the audio. And you're going to see how to work with Camtasia through editing this audio, are going to edit to editing this video. We're going to edit it completely. You're going to see different things. How to zoom in, how to cut out areas, how to add images, how to add annotations and so much more. So let's get started editing this. I can just remove this. So let's get started editing this project in the next video. Let's get started editing this project. In the next section. I noticed that I don't want to use the word video. So I'm just going to remove this entire bit. Let's get started editing this project in the next video. Or at this point I can just remove that because I like that recording better. I can just remove all the way to this point. If a plate did editing this project in the next section, this point, when I'm talking about this, I can start zooming out all the way to the end. Tilt areas, how to add images, how to add annotations and so much more. Let's get started editing this project in the next section. If you're really serious about editing your videos, you normally do. I do over the same way I started from the start. I just started from the stack again and go all the way to the end. If it's not really that crucial and you're not a perfectionist, it doesn't really affect the quality of the audio too much. There are people who actually upload their videos without editing them, which is a no, no for you. Now that you know how to use Camtasia to edit your recordings. So let's see what else we can do in the next part. 13. More Camtasia editing features: At this point, I want to add on ending video and astatine video molecule intro. Let's come in here. And I will go into library. Here in the library there are lots of resources. Some McCain with Camtasia. I think that is in default. The one that I wanted to use, this one. I put it. Let's get started editing this project in the next section. I want to add it at the beginning as well. So if we click on this, it's going to take me to the beginning of any other element. So you can see it has taken me to the beginning of that, the beginning of this element. And I can do that until it gets to finally the beginning of this. Here's where I can add this and this is like my intro. For this Camtasia tutorial, we definitely need a project. So for this one, this is a call-out. You can click on the callout. And then here under behaviors, here you see the different ways in which you can make the colors behave. For example, this colored behaviors. You just drag them onto the callout or onto any video that you want them to. So this is not only for call-outs, it for the videos as well. So if I start to watch it, you'll see that the animation added on it. Editing your project. Let me record a screencast and then we're going to use, if you just click on the call-outs, the animation is here. But if you can see the animation, you can also click this. Any element that you add onto an element. You can always see all of them by just clicking on that. For this, you can click on that and it will show you all the things that we added on our video. And if you just clicked down there, they will be hidden again. For this, I'll click on it and I went to remove during you can see that during dislocated. 14. Camtasia custom export project: Let's continue. The last thing. We're going to export our video on Windows. If you want to export a video, you can do it as quickly as control P. Save, and then I can just do Control P. You'll see that there are different options that you can have here. You can add your own presets, MP4 only up to this. And if you want your videos to be exported in up to ten ATP, what you can do is you can select that stunned ATP up there. If you want to use your own presets, but you want to use it to attend AT PTS, select that tin ATP and then click on Add, click on Add or Edit preset. And when I do that, I can edit that Camtasia in ATP. And you cannot switch, select the precipitate onto edit right there. You can create a new one. You can see this. This was created by Camtasia. So probably they don't want you to edit it. What you can do is you can just click on New. And when you click on New, you can give it a name. Let's call it CAM tutorial. We'll just call it constitutes. You can give it a description, of course you want it MP4 file format. Before you can even choose an icon and add an icon to it. I'm going to give that to you if you want to add an icon to the name so that when it appears among the list, you can see an icon. You can choose an icon from your computer. I'm going to go next. And this is an important part because you remember the MP4 that I've chosen. If we go back, the MP4 I've chosen, come to this multiplier. I don't want that. I'm going to go next. And then I will come here. And you can see where it says produce with a controller. I definitely don't want to controller. I just want my MP4 video without any controller. This is going to come with some HTML files and you can automatically play it wherever you take it. You can just play it with the HTML files that it comes with. It, who come with the HTML5 player. That's not something that you want if you're recording for YouTube. So just remove produce controller as soon as you check all of that or this will be disabled. So let's go to save. You want to look at the sites? Of course, you can change the production size. So for me, I usually like to use, use the editing dimensions. The moment you know, you uncheck that you can add values there. Then keep the aspect ratio definitely. But what you want to do, you always want to make sure you're using the editing dimensions. That way your video is not going to get compressed in any way. Make sure you're using editing dimensions and then video settings, of course, frame rate. Definitely, if you record at 60, you want your video to come out at 60, then that honors where you can leave it there. You can put it at ten. The keyframe. You can put it at ten or five. Let's read more about this to figure out What's the best settings. But that you definitely want your video to be at 60. If it was recorded at 60, you can also put it at the FPS and that's okay. Then encoding, you want to encode it. Quality usually just leave that at quantity on neutrally sure, the implication of that a limited quality. And then for this, your video quality, at some point, there's just no difference in video, so it's just best to compress it. So at this point, how do you want to compress it up to 70%? So the quality will be 70% normally after 70%. I mean, at this point you probably won't notice the difference. So just leave it at 70% so that the video can reduce in size. Of course, there are certain, certain percentage that if you go to your video quality will be terrible. Just put it there around 7075. That should be okay. Then this I don't know the implication of this, so I'm just going to leave that as best laid. This one as well. I'm going to leave it there. Multiple files. No, not really. I don't have any mockups on my videos, so I'm just going to leave that unchecked and then Color Mode, I want it at NTSC. That's the default and that's the one I'll leave it at. And then I'll just go let me see if there's anything else that I need to change here. And coding audio, of course, audio. If you really want good quality audio and you don't mind about, you don't care about the size of the video. You should probably go to somewhere above the 24 kilobytes. This is too compressed because there isn't you want to do this is because wherever you upload your video is going to get compressed. Why not just give them the best audio so that even if they compress it, equality will not be as bad. So the best thing you can do for yourself is to make sure your audio is at least minimum 320 kilobytes, limited through 20 kb. That when you upload it on YouTube, YouTube is going to do the compression and it's not going to affect your audio quality too much. And then he and options, there is nothing there. So I'm just going to click Next. Anything else? Cr, use this option to add another copyright information to your video file. I don't care for that. Produce a packaged e-learning lesson with your videos. Here, you can do that, but I don't know why it's disabled. Maybe there's something that's missing. Include a watermark. If you want to add watermarks to your videos, you can do that right there. I'm just going to click on Finish. And once they do, once they click on Finish, you will see that option has been added to my list of production settings. So if we go next, what's happening here? I have to close this. I can see it clearly. I have to close that. And now if I come here, I should see my com 2D. So if I, if I would've added an icon, it will be shown here. But I didn't add one. So they're using the default icon. I'm just going to click on it. And I can use this to produce, but I don't use that. I can use that when I click Next. I'm just going to give it a name and that will produce my video. But for now, I want to use that. And then I'll click Next. And you can give your, your video and M, This would be the name of your video. This will be the location for where your video will be and then organize produced files into sub folder. You can, you can put every video in a folder, of course, usually uncheck that so that all videos will just be in the folder where I decided to put them. You can show production results. When the video is produced, you will see the result, the size of the video, the frames, the length, and so on. And then you can play video production. I found that on Windows, this usually leads to Camtasia crash. I don't know that that issue has been fixed, but it used to crash my Camtasia and sometimes the video that came out couldn't play with this, leave this unchecked. There is no point in playing the video of the production and yet I can click on it. As long as you've checked production results, That's okay. The video is going to come up as soon as it's produced and then you can play it. Then I'm just going to click here on Finish. There we go. So it's been produced. And you can see it will tell you the length of the video besides the video dimension and so much more about your video. What I'll do next is I can click there, open the production folder and then play it. These Camtasia tutorial, we definitely need a project and we're going to learn Camtasia through editing our project. So let me record a screencast and then we're going to use that throughout these computer tutorial to learn how to use Camtasia. Lets say maybe my video is about teaching people how to use Audacity. I'm just going to click there on Audacity. Maybe my aim is to show people how to use Audacity. If you want to record an audio material microphone is selected here, and then you can just click on that button. And that's going to record our audio as we speak. That is how to record an audio. Once it's recorded, you just stop and maybe you want to, you want to increase the amplitude of the audio. What you're gonna do, You're going to normalize the audio to raise the amplitude. Then maybe you went to do a noise reduction for this. I'm just going to click on noise reduction on getting a nice profile and then Command effect and repeat the noise reduction. Maybe I want to do compression for this. I'm going to do effects and then we'll come back to compressor and I will compress. And then once I do that, I can also normalize it to amplify it to once again, that is a project for this Camtasia class. And you're going to see how to work with Camtasia through editing this audio, go to Edit, through editing this video. We're going to edit it completely. You're going to see different things. How to zoom in, how to cut out areas, how to add images, how to add annotations and so much more. Let's get started editing this project in the next section. All right, that's how to edit the video until you finally have a finished product that you can produce and share with your subscribers or on your website. So that's pretty much it for this. But committed spots, Let's create short video that will just show you how you can use some of the different animations here. I'm just going to click on finish to finish this. And then I will save. And that's the end for this part. 15. Creating Video intro - 1: In this video, let's create an intro. We're going to use some of the custom animations which we're going to build in this video is this. Let me just open it in a detached Canvas. To sampling. We're going to see how we can build this in this video are the assets that I've used in this video. I will provide them. By the time you're watching this video, I will love uploaded the assets. What you have here. This is an audio files that you're going to use in the actual video. So I'm going to come back here and I'm just going to start from scratch. So I'm going to start a new project. Save know, I'm going to drag in everything that I need for this tutorial. I will need this sample logo. I will need this. I just put them in there. The logo itself looks like this. The logo for the business. It looks like this. And you can do this however you want, but I just want to create a simple one. Back to. I don't have to create a very long video. We're going to start with the first element and other drug in the main logo item. And you can see that it has size deep into the size of the image and the background is also not working well. With that. I welcome here. I will go into project settings and I want to create a video or an intro of that is ten ATP. You can do for K or whichever value you want to do. But I'm going to do ten ATP and I'm also going to change the background to be white. Then I will apply. So let me fit that. And I wanted to have to resize that or just use it as it is. I went to my full video to be about ten seconds. About ten seconds. That should do it. For the animations. You're going to add them one at a time. I'm going to add photon for this. After this, I'm going to add the next ones and so on and so forth. Let's go to animations and you can drag in a custom animation into any video or any media element on your timeline. Let me just expand that. If we double-click on it, the head signifies where this is going to end up. I went to end up there. Then the tail. The tail signifies where this is going to begin. I want you to begin outside of the video. Of course, I didn't want it to be that long, but just to have a look at what to expect. That wet. I don't want it to be that long, so I'm just going to drag it down. So that's the animation is shorter. That's the first bit. 16. Creating Video intro 2: Alright, that's the first bit. The next bit, Let's go to media and you're going to add this. Of course I went to Edit as soon as this one is finished. We want it to be added as well. I'm going to go above two animations. I will drag down a custom animation and ask for the animation. I want you to end up here. End up, we want it to begin. So wherever you want it to begin, just click on the animation and then bring this to the tail of the animation. Then we want you to start from the top. I can push the animation. Buck like that. If a plate is going to come down like that. Now the last one for the logo, we went to. The other media item, the other media ITM wards business. I'm going to add business after this animation. And this one is where I want it to come from the top. Down here. It does add an animation. Animation. So the animation, the way it works, ear on the tail, this is where you tell it the animation should begin. And then on the head, the head right there, when it's read like that, this is where the animation will end up. So I want you to end up, eventually, I wanted to end up with that era and then we're going to correct that. But I wanted to begin from outside of the video from the top. I want you to come from the top down. Let me select that. And I went it to come from the top preview. I can preview it like that. But I want you to come from the very start of the very start of this. Just from this dots. You see, that's how it is. Now, of course there is an error, so let's rectify it using an animation as well. That is of course what you need to do. So I'm going to bring this up to ten. I'll just drag these images out until they reach ten seconds because I don't want this to be longer than ten seconds. You can make it shorter if you don't like long introductions. As soon as it gets here we went to rectify it. And we're going to start better define this one. I will add another custom animation here. I will select, I just double-click on that animation. And I went to bring this one buck. When it comes back. I hope that it will be enough space right there. And then I don't want it to be that loan. So as soon as it gets there, that one is already rectified. Then now we went to rectify simple. I'll just bring another animation there. I don't want it to be too long as well. If I double-click on it, it will take me to the head. And the head is where we want it to end up into 12 to end up here like that. And the next element we went to ratify is that now for that whatsoever, we're going to add an animation. I'm just going to make it shorter and double-click on its head so that it ends up just from this dot. That is done. 17. Creating Video intro 3: This from the start. That is done. And there's something else that I remember I added this was spinning. So if you want this to spin, we can just add an animation there, select it. And then we're going to drag the animation down. And if you wanted to spin, just double-click on it. And on this end you see these elements. This can make it spin. This will make it spin, that's anticlockwise or clockwise. And this can make it spin in the y-axis. So if you want it to spin any way you can make it spin. For instance, if you wanted to spend like that, it can spin like that. If you wanted to spin like that, it can be like that. Just do that. And to clear that I want mine to spin continuously, I'm just going to and I don't want it to spin too fast, so I'll make it paying for that number of degrees. And I just spun this on outs all the way until the end of the video. And when I do that to what's happened is it's going to continue spinning slowly, just like that. But you can see that it's speeding up. So if it's speeding up like that, this right-click on it and you can enable easing and the different types of easing that you can do here. But I want to do linear. And linear is going to make sure that it eases continuously without having to speed up at any point. Then for this ones as well, Let's see how this animation happens. The animation that happens here, We can try and make it bounce. This animation and it will easing. Let's make it bounce and see how that looks. Easing, easing is how it ends the animation. How does it end it? Let's see how this one is going to work. That's much better. I prefer that the bones like that. And you can actually start the spinning as soon as it gets. If you want anything else to spin, you can make it spin. If you want to write that he's done. 18. Creating Video intro 4: Right, So that is done. Now the next thing we're going to group this. If you want to do any animation for all these three together, you can group them. I'm just grouping them for better animation, better presentation. I mean, if you want to group them, once you select them, you can just right-click and then click on Group. Or you can just do Control G, or you can do whichever option you are given here. If you're on a Mac, if you click on it there, I can give it a name. Let's just call it logo. I can close it. Now the next thing is I went to add the social media icons. This social media, we only have this and this and you can add more if you want to. I'm going to say that I want my animation to end up, I went to my animation to end up there. This one as well. You can match the sizes using the yellow lines. Let me animate this before I add the arts. This image shown. Start to Facebook. Add a custom animation. And I want you to end up there. But I do want to start from somewhere else. Where do I get these? Let me just take it outside. I can copy this animation and paste it. Paste control V. I can select the animation above. The animation below. You can see that the image, of course that's not what I want. This point. Let's take YouTube all the way. Just double-click on the animation. Then I can drag YouTube a little bit farther. And when they do that, you see that the animation is different. I need to change the entry point for this. There we go. So they'll just come in together. Just coming together, and then they will split at the end. Of course, I went to change this into, let's make this linear, this one as well. Linear. That they can go at the same pace. There we go. The next day, I went to add the final animation and that you come from this side. And that is sampled business. And for that I can just use an annotation. I will use a textual at text-based annotation Control Z. And I don't want any kind of spinning on that. I'm just going to do a simple business. Select the entire thing and then I will change the font. I can use the same font as the ones that are used. Of course I will expand that. Put it at the center with this. For that as well. I want to add an animation. I will add the animation. Bring that in there. Then of course you want it to end up there. So we just need to change the starting point or the animation. And for it, I wanted to start from the outside of the video. I'm going to bring this just like that and I can just leave it like that. Nothing fancy that should do it. And what else should a RGI? Is there anything else that was in the original? You can space these things however you want. You know how to work with Camtasia at this point, so you can just space these out. And of course we don't want them to go out like that. Do you want it to fade out? So I'm just going to use one of these already made animations. Let's see if there is one. I can use an opacity. I'm going to use that. I'm going to take that. I'm going to reduce the size and then I'm going to copy it. Control c. And let me just bring this up a little bit. Control to select that control, to select that control, press Control to select that one as well. And then it will bring the cursor all the way out. And then I'll do Control V. I don't know why I went there, but it doesn't matter. I'm just going to delete this one. And then a print control on my Windows keyboard. Then I will select, Select, select, and it can move all of this to the very end of the video. When they end the ease out, when they end, it doesn't end abruptly. 19. Creating Video intro 5: Alright, so let's add the music that I'd used. I can just come in here into the library. And I will go if you're not already here, just come to Camtasia library. Camtasia 2021 or whichever version you're using. And I use something to do with the piano. That's the one. I can bring that. I wanted us to cut it somewhere there. So I'll select it and I'll just press S on my keyboard. And S he's going to. So I can delete the other end. I can also reduce this one down further. Doesn't have to be that loud. And then up to this point, I just double-click there. I'll double-click there. I will double-click there, and I can use these to fade out somehow. You can also use fade out here from the audio effects. There's a fade-out about, I want to do it from here. Then there's another video is another audio that I just recorded. And you can use your audio as well. On Tuesday, last bit of this audio. And once you get it, you can just listen to it. Just a sampling sample business. That's pretty much it for this intro. Just a sample B is in it. You can extract this as a video or you can save it as an asset in your Camtasia. If you want to save it as an asset in Camtasia, just do Control a to select everything. If you're on a Mac Command a, that should do it. And then I'm just going to do group. Or you can do Control G or Command G. And you can give it a name. If you double-click on it, you can give it a name. And let's just call this intro. You can just use the animation and your creativity to come up with a very wonderful intro for yourself. And this video, she was take you in the right direction. Once you change them, if you want to save it. Once you save it, you can do Control Shift a, or you can just right-click. And when you right-click, you can add to library and you can give it a name. We can call it intro video, and you can choose where you want to store it. You understood it in default, or you want to store it somewhere else. You can use conversational, use a visible size, but of course, we changed the conversation to ten ATP. If you used a different canvas size, then you can go back and edit it appropriately. So once you select where you went to the library, you can do okay. If I open another project, new project, let's say Save, I can save this as competition intro. Let's say that I open another video that have walked on recent projects. Now if I come here under labor and a good two defaults, you'll see it here. And I can add it at the end of my video. If we go all the way to the end, Let's get started editing this project. In the next section, you see the sampled beings and you see that now it doesn't have the background. This is why it is best to add a background in a manual manner. Because when you change the project, when he change it through the Project Settings, you'll notice that it has it, it doesn't have a background. It can be put on any background, any background color if you want the background to be always white when you're editing the project, come here under an additions and then white background, manually. Your video. We'd always have that background. I mean, your intro will always have that background. Let's get started editing this project in the next section. Of course, when you do that, remove the text. Just a sampling of benzene and that's how you can create an intro and you can go further with this, use it to make yours even better than mine. That's it for this video. If you have any question, feel free to let me know.