Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com really quick video I'm gonna show you
how you can blur something out on the screen in Camtasia but when it's moving it's very easy to
blur an object out when you just simply add the blur around that particular object on the screen
whether it be an email address or a telephone number or something but it's much more difficult
if that object is actually moving if for example you're scrolling through the page so that's what
I'm going to show you how to do how to blur a moving object on the screen let me first start
by trying to show you what I mean it's imagined that we wanted to blur something on this screen
and we'll do that in a minute but if we click on this video you're what you'll see that the video
actually Scrolls so whatever we blur we need to kind of move along with it so if we were to choose
an object on the screen that we wanted to blur out we will have to make sure that that blur moves
along with the scrolling page well how can we do that let's have a look so if we look at the screen
here when we play this we can see that the video is moving okay so let's imagine that we wanted to
blur out sign up to the newsletter now that isn't a good example a much better example would be for
example an email address or a telephone number or something like that but this will do as an example
so the first thing I need to do is come over to the library and in the library so not that I've
actually click on annotations I'm sorry click on annotations and then come over to what you
want is the special tools so we're gonna click on special tools and the one that we're looking
for is actually the first one there which is blur so I'm gonna place that blur on to the screen so
now that you can't actually read down so you need to resize it to make it kind of just cover that
particular word here so sign up to the newsletter I'm gonna blur that okay so that's done but the
trouble is now as soon as this video plays then actually it will come back on the screen again and
that wouldn't be very good so you need this blur to move along with the object on the screen and
what you want to do is come down to the animations you're gonna choose let me just click on it on the
animations you can use a custom animation and you're going to drop that custom animation on
to where the blur is now to make this a little bit clearer I'm just gonna make the they're gonna zoom
in so you can see it a lot clearer what we're gonna do then is drop that custom animation on
to the blur there now what we're gonna do is pull that right out okay actually it doesn't need to
go the whole way when it just wait until basically that object comes off the screen so wherever that
happens to be about there okay and then we're gonna put that one right back to the beginning
now what we need to do is to tell the blur where we want it to be at the final point and at that
final point we want it to be here because we want to keep it blurring out the same object
now what we're hoping is is that animation is going to move more or less at the same speed as
the blur now this is where it gets a little bit tricky if we play this what we'll notice is that
yes the animation the blur moves but not of the same speed that the page is actually scrolling
and we need to kind of really link these together what we can do is we can actually add additional
key points so at the moment we've got two key point at the beginning and a key point at the
end of the animation so the beginning point and the end point what we need to do now is to add
additional points so there's two problems that we need to deal with first of all that the animation
starts too early so basically as soon here the animation begins but actually the scrolling page
doesn't start so we need to kind of work out where the starting point is and the starting point here
so what I'm going to do at that particular point I'm just going to pull that animation out to 21
seconds so it's exactly the same point it begins alright so that's the first thing I'm going to do
21 seconds so the animation is not going to begin until there so that's going to help so the blur
stays in position then the animation begins I'll look it now it goes out of sync at that point what
I can do is just simply leave it the playhead at that position move the blur and what will happen
is the blur will actually add an extra key point you see it adds the automatically often it's the
other way around you have to add the key points first and then do the animation so this is really
good in Camtasia that he adds the key points for you and let's just carry on a little bit further
and see if they go out of sync again so they're moving quite well together it doesn't look like
actually any point comes ah here look they're really out of sync now I want to get that sign
up to newsletter to be blurred so at that point again I'm gonna move it until it no look I want
it to be there so hopefully now we've got a new cue point let's move it a little bit further and
see how it works now so they're moving together quite well and doesn't seem to be going out of
sync and now it looks like I've got the blur all the way around now another little trick you can do
is just make the blur a little bit bigger if you want as well that can also kind of help to cover
any problems let me just see now then if I've got a decent blur if I play this now is it covered all
the time now there is a teeny-weeny little bit there where I can just see here and I've got
two choices really one I could just make it a bit bigger or again I could just move this it's gonna
add a new key point is I did a new one now and now hopefully there are enough key points for
that blur to work perfectly hope you found those videos useful lots more videos on teacher training
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