Use 'Camtasia Studio 8' to…
- 'Record your screen' to capture PowerPoint slides, software demos, webpages, and more
- Edit your screen recordings and camera video by cutting, splicing, and combining clips.
- Import camera video, music, photos, and more to enhance your screen recordings
- Customize your screen recordings and videos with ready-to-use media themes, animated backgrounds, graphics, callouts, and more
- Create interactive videos with clickable links, table of contents, search, and more
- Easily share videos that your viewers can watch anywhere, on nearly any device
What are the first steps to creating a video?
--- Unless you are recording in full screen mode, clean up your computer screen.
Close all unused applications.
Hide all ICONs in a temporary folder.
Make sure you screen illustration isn't a detraction to the viewer as you deliver your message.
Close all unused applications.
Hide all ICONs in a temporary folder.
Make sure you screen illustration isn't a detraction to the viewer as you deliver your message.
--- Write a detailed script or outline.
Present and record your message three times. It builds confidence and you'll be less likely to have unexpected surprises.
Keep in mind, anything you don't like can be edited out or rerecorded.
(There is a Camtasia form for this.)
Present and record your message three times. It builds confidence and you'll be less likely to have unexpected surprises.
Keep in mind, anything you don't like can be edited out or rerecorded.
(There is a Camtasia form for this.)
--- Audio
The most important part of delivering your message is top quality audio.
GTK (Good To Know): An mp4 only has one track of audio.
The most important part of delivering your message is top quality audio.
GTK (Good To Know): An mp4 only has one track of audio.
--- Open the video editor.
The (3) Main Parts of the Camtasia 8 Video Editor
---((( LIBRARY )))---
LIBRARY - The library stores all of your video clips, intros, callouts, title slides and other media assets you want to use from project to project. It is pre-populated with professional content you can use in your videos. You can download more media from our website by clicking the 'Get more media' link. You'll find a lot more music, callouts, and animated titles to use in your projects. And, it's all free. Once you locate something you want to use in your project, just drag it to a track on the timeline, resize it, and reposition it as needed. The player provides playback on multiple devices with just one video whether it's on a phone, tablet, laptop or desktop computer.
---((( CLIP BIN )))---
CLIP BIN - The CLIP BIN holds the 'current project' recordings, audio files, images and title slides.
--- ADDING MEDIA - Iyou already have audio or video you'd like to use, click on the "Import media" button.
--- To move media from the CLIP BIN to the TIMELINE, right click the media. Select "Add to timeline at the PLAYHEAD".
--- When you're moving a video to the TIMELINE, a screen pops up asking you to decide on the screen size of the finished project. (1280 X 720 is High Def output.) You also have to choose the background color. That's any part of your screen not a part of your video.
--- When you've completed your video, you'll need to click the "Produce and share" button. This finalizes the video so it can be shared. By expanding the drop down to see a varirty of presets. On the list of presets is a video player that plays back your mp4 videos. The player includes other inner-active features like table of contents, closed captions, quizzes andeven hot spots. Those features are available when hosting your video on Screencast.com or using the video player on your own web browser.
--- ADDING MEDIA - Iyou already have audio or video you'd like to use, click on the "Import media" button.
--- To move media from the CLIP BIN to the TIMELINE, right click the media. Select "Add to timeline at the PLAYHEAD".
--- When you're moving a video to the TIMELINE, a screen pops up asking you to decide on the screen size of the finished project. (1280 X 720 is High Def output.) You also have to choose the background color. That's any part of your screen not a part of your video.
--- When you've completed your video, you'll need to click the "Produce and share" button. This finalizes the video so it can be shared. By expanding the drop down to see a varirty of presets. On the list of presets is a video player that plays back your mp4 videos. The player includes other inner-active features like table of contents, closed captions, quizzes andeven hot spots. Those features are available when hosting your video on Screencast.com or using the video player on your own web browser.
---((( TIMELINE )))---
The TIMELINE is where you assemble and do all the editing of your video.
--- At the top of the TIMELINE portion of the screen are "tick marks" that represent time in minutes and in seconds.
--- When building your video, you'll work in a horizonal manor starting on the left and moving sequentially through time to the right.
--- The tracks are layered on top of each-other. Media you add to the higher tracks is displayed over media located on the lower tracks on the canvas.
--- ADDING CONTENT TO VIDEOS - To make a new screen recording, click the "Record the screen" button.
--- ADDING DURATION OF MEDIA DISPLAYED - Drag the edges of the media in either direction.
--- CALLOUTS - Double click the callout on the canvas to open the callouts tab and edit the text or change any of the text properties like color or size.
--- CALLOUTS - If you want to use a CALLOUT, press the "ADD CALLOUT" button.
--- CALLOUTS and IMAGES can share the same track in the TIMELINE.
--- CALLOUTS - The CALLOUT section has many graphic special effects. The CALLOUT section deserves a separate page that goes deep into the possibilities.
--- You can find a number of other callouts to use in your projects by expanding the ???shapess??? menu.
--- DE-SELECTING - Double click the playhead to de-select.
--- MAGNIFYING THE TIMELINE VIEW - Use the slider to magnify the timeline view. This is helpful when making precision edits.
--- EDITING - To edit out a portion of the video, position the playhead's green "in" point, the red "out" point and then, click the sizzors.
--- EDITING OUT MISTAKES - If you make a mistake while editing, press "ctrl" and "z" to undo the edit or, choose "edit undo".
--- LOCKING SPECIFIC TRACKS - If you don't want the media to be cut on a specific track, click "on" the lock icon for that track.
--- MEDIA POSITION - CHANGING MEDIA POSITION ON THE TIMELINE - Just drag it to where you need for it to be.
--- NEW MEDIA (ADDING) - New media can be dragged and dropped on a track.
--- NEW TRACKS (ADDING) - A new track is automatically created when new media is dropped in the area just below the timeline.
--- QUIZZING - (see special effects tabs)
--- PLAYHEAD - To view your video, click play. Notice how the timeline and the playhead play in sync.
--- PLAYHEAD (MOVING) To move the playhead to any point in the video, click anywhere on the timeline and the playhead moves to that point automatically.
--- SPECIAL EFFECTS - Explore the tabs for adding and editing special effects.
--- SPEECH-TO-TEXT - (see special effects tabs)
--- TEXT-TO-VIDEO comes from the CALLOUT section.
--- TRANSISTIONS - (see special effects tab) Transistions can be dragged directly to the timeline ans added on top of clips.
--- ZOOM (in & out) & PAN ANIMATION CUSTOMIZATION - (See tutorial videos.)
--- At the top of the TIMELINE portion of the screen are "tick marks" that represent time in minutes and in seconds.
--- When building your video, you'll work in a horizonal manor starting on the left and moving sequentially through time to the right.
--- The tracks are layered on top of each-other. Media you add to the higher tracks is displayed over media located on the lower tracks on the canvas.
--- ADDING CONTENT TO VIDEOS - To make a new screen recording, click the "Record the screen" button.
--- ADDING DURATION OF MEDIA DISPLAYED - Drag the edges of the media in either direction.
--- CALLOUTS - Double click the callout on the canvas to open the callouts tab and edit the text or change any of the text properties like color or size.
--- CALLOUTS - If you want to use a CALLOUT, press the "ADD CALLOUT" button.
--- CALLOUTS and IMAGES can share the same track in the TIMELINE.
--- CALLOUTS - The CALLOUT section has many graphic special effects. The CALLOUT section deserves a separate page that goes deep into the possibilities.
--- You can find a number of other callouts to use in your projects by expanding the ???shapess??? menu.
--- DE-SELECTING - Double click the playhead to de-select.
--- MAGNIFYING THE TIMELINE VIEW - Use the slider to magnify the timeline view. This is helpful when making precision edits.
--- EDITING - To edit out a portion of the video, position the playhead's green "in" point, the red "out" point and then, click the sizzors.
--- EDITING OUT MISTAKES - If you make a mistake while editing, press "ctrl" and "z" to undo the edit or, choose "edit undo".
--- LOCKING SPECIFIC TRACKS - If you don't want the media to be cut on a specific track, click "on" the lock icon for that track.
--- MEDIA POSITION - CHANGING MEDIA POSITION ON THE TIMELINE - Just drag it to where you need for it to be.
--- NEW MEDIA (ADDING) - New media can be dragged and dropped on a track.
--- NEW TRACKS (ADDING) - A new track is automatically created when new media is dropped in the area just below the timeline.
--- QUIZZING - (see special effects tabs)
--- PLAYHEAD - To view your video, click play. Notice how the timeline and the playhead play in sync.
--- PLAYHEAD (MOVING) To move the playhead to any point in the video, click anywhere on the timeline and the playhead moves to that point automatically.
--- SPECIAL EFFECTS - Explore the tabs for adding and editing special effects.
--- SPEECH-TO-TEXT - (see special effects tabs)
--- TEXT-TO-VIDEO comes from the CALLOUT section.
--- TRANSISTIONS - (see special effects tab) Transistions can be dragged directly to the timeline ans added on top of clips.
--- ZOOM (in & out) & PAN ANIMATION CUSTOMIZATION - (See tutorial videos.)
---((( CANVAS )))---
CANVAS - The CANVAS is where you see your video during playback. You can move, resize and reposition all media however you wish.
---Double click the callout on the canvas to open the callout tab and edit the text or change any of the text properties like color or size.
---Double click the callout on the canvas to open the callout tab and edit the text or change any of the text properties like color or size.
Unanswered Questions - How do I ___________ ?
Import media from my Android?
Import media from my iPad Touch?
For more training videos: Help>Tutorials>Getting Started Series
The "Help File" in Camtasia Studio 8 shows you how to use all the features & applications in CS-8
Animations - Adding Animations & Special effects
Audio
Callout - Adding a callout
Canvas - Using the canvas
Captions
Clip Bin
Grouping
Hyperlinks (Adding to videos)
Inspiration
Intros
Library
Preparing to create a video
Powerpoint
Quizzes
Saving projects
Screen capture - recording
Settings - Custom production settings
Sharing your video
Uploading to YouTube -
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Before you upload the recorded video, you have to produce the video. The video you record does have an AVI that you can extract, which you could upload to YouTube directly (if you don't want to edit): To Extract the AVI:
1. In Camtasia Studio, right-click on a CAMREC file in the ClipBin.
2. Select Extract Camrec Contents from the context menu.
3. Select the destination and click OK.
4. The AVI (screen recording) and WMV (camera recording)files save to the directory selected.
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Before you upload the recorded video, you have to produce the video. The video you record does have an AVI that you can extract, which you could upload to YouTube directly (if you don't want to edit): To Extract the AVI:
1. In Camtasia Studio, right-click on a CAMREC file in the ClipBin.
2. Select Extract Camrec Contents from the context menu.
3. Select the destination and click OK.
4. The AVI (screen recording) and WMV (camera recording)files save to the directory selected.
Text - Adding text to videos
Timeline
Unwanted media - Removing
Zoom in - Zoom out
