Let's face it, screen recordings don't always go as planned. The good
news is, with Camtasia's editing tools, they don't have to.
In this two part series, I'll show you six editing techniques that you can
use to minimize re-records and edit video more efficiently.
Let's get started!
One, trim and split media.
If you've watched a few of our other tutorials, you may already know how to trim media
What you may not realize, is that trimming actually crops the media
instead of deleting it.
So if you have to backtrack, hover over the edge
drag it back out and voila, you're clip is restored.
If you want to trim multiple clips at the same time
Select them, hover over the edge of one
and drag
To split a clip into two parts, select the appropriate clip or clips
place the playhead where you want to make the split, and click the split button.
You can also use the "S" hotkey on Windows
or "CMD+T" on Mac to split media on the timeline
Splitting clips allows you to isolate sections of your video or audio for further editing
To split media on all of your tracks and move them at the same time
Hold the "Shift" key and drag the playhead.
This is called a ripple split and it's great for when you need to add some content to the middle of a
video or if you forgot to leave room for an intro.
Two, stitching
Splitting is great for breaking clips apart, but what if you want to bring those clip
back together. Enter stitching
Stitching combines clips so they can be selected,
moved and edited as one.
It's important to note that only clips from the same piece of media can be stitched together
For example, I can stitch these clips together, because they're from the same
original piece of media
However, I can't stitch these two together, because they're from different pieces
of media
To stitch media, select the clips you want to stitch together
Then right click
and choose "Stitch Selected Media"
Stitched media share the same visual properties
and any animations and effects will span both clips
For example,
If I apply a zooming animation at the beginning of this clip
it will remain zoomed across the stitched clip, or better yet
I can make the animation span the stitch, which is impossible if
the clips are not stitched together. Another way to stitch media
is to select part of a clip
and clip "Cut"
This cuts out the selected media and stitches the two parts together
To unstitch media, right click on the stitch and choose "Unstitch"
This splits the media into two parts
Three, ripple move
Often times during editing, you need to move all of the clips on a track at once
While you could select all of the clips and then drag them
It's more efficient to hold "Shift"
and drag
This is called a ripple move and it moves all of the media to the right of a clip
that's on the same track
You can also ripple move media on multiple tracks. Select a clip
on each track and then hold the "Shift" key while simultaneously dragging
To ripple move on Mac, click and hold on a clip
and hold "Command" on your keyboard, then drag
Well, that's the first three techniques to help you edit more efficiently
For the next three, check out "Editing In-Depth 2" on our tutorial page
Thanks for watching!