Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com lots of you asked me how can we combine
a webcam with a PowerPoint presentation and I'm going to show you how you can do that the quickest
way you can do it isn't at all like Camtasia that's what I use but there's some great little
features that we can use to position the cam in different places and also to put a frame around
the camera which is something else I also do so let's get straight into it how to use Camtasia
to have a PowerPoint presentation alongside a webcam really hope you liked the video if you
do please share it please like it and as always please comment on it let's now you can combine
recording the screen of your computer using Camtasia and include the webcam just like I'm
doing now with you and to do that all you need to do basically is to kind of record the screen
I'm just going to open up Camtasia recorder onto the screen here I can turn the camera on here but
just a little tip when I do a recall in I never recalled full screen there's really no need to I
tend to just click here and choose the area that I want to record so I would kind of mark the area
of the PowerPoint as such and the reason I do it this way is that it just gives me a lot more
control over the actual recording so for example I can start so it's just do a couple of moments just
to explain to you so I can click on the button I can do the recording blah blah blah blah click on
pause and then I can jump to the next screen okay and then continue again just resume and then blah
blah blah blah blah and then stop and then click on the next one so it gives me much more control
rather than if I got it full screen I can stop and start it and then just carry on and it really
doesn't make any difference because when you make that full screen because there are so many pixels
these days in an image or in a video in a video that basically it really won't matter when you
kind of blow it up obviously what we need to do though is when we do this recording I'm going to
quickly show you now is to actually combine both the screen capture and the webcam now I'm gonna
have to turn my own webcam why I'll demonstrate this so what I've got here is Camtasia are open
on the screen I've marked the area here of the recording that I want to do I can make that a
little bit bigger if I want if I just want to squeeze out to the maximum okay I will go for a
little bit later some more details about getting the screen sizes right but now if I click on the
camera it's now an ask me which camera do you want to use the camera won't actually appear on
the screen but don't worry is recording me and all I would do now is to click on the record button
and start to actually record them which I'm going to do so I'm just going to do a couple of screens
so again bla bla bla bla bla so I'm talking about this screen click on the pause button and then I
can jump to the next one so I'll just double click on it then resume again bla bla bla bla bla as you
can see I'm in the webcam here but you'll see when we actually produce the video that we can resize
the webcam make it as big or small as we want and then come down again to another one just do
a final page bla bla bla bla bla so you can see again I can do that I've done three places and
they click on stock now so and if I bring this onto the screen here you'll see now the video
plays and I am here on the right hand side with and this is just literally what we call a quick
view just to see right are you happy with the recording as soon as I'm happy really cool then
what I can do now is actually produce that and what I'm going to do here is I'm going to click
on save and edit because I want to save the video but I want to edit it straight away so I click on
that button it's going to ask me first of all to save the original video so I'm going to call this
test video with cam and then it's gonna open up so if we click on to this page now it's now going
to actually open up the editor and I'll see that the video is now inside the editor and this is
where it gets interesting I'll bring the editor screen over to the other side I've actually got
two screens here see so okay so this is the editor now you can see the webcam here in the corner and
it's quite interesting because you can do quite a lot of things in terms of the size of the screen
I for example don't do a half and a half so I tend to have one or and what I can do here is obviously
I just click on any the one I want to work with so I'm just gonna work with deep with the actual
webcam I can move that webcam around on the screen I can resize it okay and having a certain size if
I want to but I can also do the same with the actual presentation so I can't click on that
presentation for example and make that smaller if I want to and then have the webcam up there okay
now this loads of combinations here that I can use okay there's lots of different ways that I can
work to make sure that I've got the webcam on the screen and myself on the screen at the same time
now not only can I move it around but I can crop it so if I click here and if I think to myself
right well I don't need so much space on that site I'm gonna make that bit smaller I'm gonna
make that a bit smaller and I'm gonna make that a bit smaller so I can actually crop the webcam and
come back and then resize after I've cropped you as well so I kind of always got quite a
few options in terms of the way I want to work now that's one possibility that is that you're
recording the screen of your computer you bring in the two tools together you've got your screen
capture and you've got your webcam you've kind of got to decide how you're doing now obviously
the way that I tend to work is quite different I don't do a half and a half because really the
most important thing is of course the presentation though yes I want to be on the screen so I would
often kind of put myself like that on the screen I'm gonna show you a few other possibilities
now now one thing that I really like to do is to actually put a frame around myself and you can do
that in Camtasia SH you can come down here on the left hand side and go down to the visual effects
and then you just drop a border on and what I like to do with the border is choose a color for
the border you've got the colors here and I just click here and I normally grab the color that's
actually in the presentation so I might choose this color here for example and then I'll kind
of move it so I get a nice thick result there okay and that now is obviously well they kind of looked
nice because it combines the color of the border with the actual presentation it's just a little
tip that can make your presentations look a bit more professional one of the biggest problems
with doing a recording that includes you on the screen and the screen itself is to make sure that
you get the sizes right what you want to try to do is record at the same dimensions it doesn't
have to be the same size but the same dimensions as the final output now if we look at most screens
at the moment if we're gonna put something on to YouTube normally now we're talking about a ratio
of sixteen by nine so when you do a recording what you want to try to do is actually recall
it sixteen by nine ratio therefore if you make it bigger or you make it smaller and then upload
it on to YouTube it will look perfect is really really important I'm going to take you through
this processes there's a little bit more advanced but those of you thinking of combining the webcam
and a PowerPoint presentation for example it's really important if you want it to look good so
let me just try and take you through that process if I for example click on to this script over here
on to the recorder I can choose any of these sizes and they are all kind of automatically
set at a ratio of sixteen by nine so I'm going to choose this one here and immediately you're going
to notice that the screen now is kind of bigger than the other recording error is actually bigger
than the area that I want to record so you've got two possibilities here the first possibility is
to try to make it a little bit bigger okay so you can do that by just clicking here and then
making the actual screen bigger so that now the capture size is in line with the actual screen
and what you can do is lock the ratios and then just pull that down a little bit okay now the
reason you're going to do that is that you've now got the perfect ratio of sixteen by nine and that
means that when I then bring that into Camtasia it will be at the perfect ratio and I can then
resize it in Camtasia to make it slightly smaller or slightly bigger but the ratio will be perfect
nothing will be warped everything will look the way it's meant to do so I'm going to just show you
this now so if I click here and just do a quick test so I'm just going to record a couple of so
bla bla bla bla bla test okay then we're gonna jump to another screen carry on line normally
click on the pause button and then do do the next one and then I'll do it again I'll only jump to
the next screen and click on the resume that's the way that I tend to work so I use the pause button
a lot as I move between screens once I've done it I'm just gonna show him to stop this okay now
what I'm going to do remember as soon as you stop you get like a quick preview I can see that I'm
on the screen that's all working fine I'm gonna click on save and edit again okay so we're going
to call this one test video can to test video cam - I'm gonna save that and again that's going to
come straight into the editing window in Camtasia now I've already got one video on the screen so
I'm going to delete that off alright that original one that we just done and I'm going to concentrate
on this second one I'm gonna drag that onto the screen same things gonna happen as always we've
got the recording and we've got the screen but what I'm going to do now is come up to here and
go to the project settings and I'm going to set those project settings to be a standard size that
we would normally use on YouTube or if we put up a video at the moment that would be this 190
200 by 1080 so if I click on that and this is the great thing if I now increase the size of
that so I'm gonna select both of the things at the moment and to simply drag that move that onto the
screen and make sure that they it now comes out for size okay now I'm going to move the webcam
into the position I want to do that so again now I'm gonna select the webcam on its own now just
move that sorry along here and then make sure that he got the webcam selected sorry I'm gonna
move that along one thing that you can do if you want to get sometimes to get that problem is just
click on the other channel where the PowerPoint presentation isn't just locking and that will
mean now that you can move this around okay now I can really get a nice kind of webcam sighs okay
and one again I'm going to do in this particular case is that I'm going to come down to my visual
effects and I'm going to click on border just going to drop a border on now click over here
on the right hand side click get the right color and then I'm going to thicken that border so it
kind of combines with the presentation that looks really professional that's the sort of thing I
like to do now the power of that is the fact that because we recorded an original ratio of
sixteen by nine when we make it bigger or smaller nothing is warped and nothing's changed around and
that really makes a difference to the quality of the presentation I'm going to show you one
final trick that you can do another way completely different way of recording a presentation okay and
this is a technique that I do use sometimes the way I'm going to show you to do this is probably
not the right way but it's simply the way that I've always done it I'm actually a trainer for
TechSmith Camtasia here in the UK but there is always different ways of doing different
things but I'm just going to show you this what I do what I often do is I record blank I just
simply record completely blank onto the screen so I'm just going to click on here and I will
record my presentation particularly I'm doing a short video I do this so I'm doing my little
recording blah blah blah blah blah just talking if it especially if it's something short maybe 30
seconds a really quick video I click on stop so all I've done is actually recorded blank screen
as I said I'm sure there are other way to do it much but simply the way not I do it ah I then
click again on save and edit I'm gonna disagree our third test okay test video cam okay of course
you can't bring in more than one video at the same time you're not limited to just using one video
when the editor opens if you want to bring in the other videos and you can just simply go on import
and grab any other recordings that you've made and just bring them in okay so you're not limited to
one in any course you just drag them onto the timeline after the first video for this example
I'm gonna do what I did before I'm just going to delete everything off the screen I'm gonna bring
this empty one on okay and again first thing I'm going to do is to resize this - it doesn't really
make any difference actually now because it's in black anyway it really doesn't make any difference
so what I'm going to do is just lock that bottom one and I'm just gonna click on here I'm going to
make this a lot bigger so I'm going to bring this up to a size that I want remember if I really want
to I can click here and crop it kind of crop it the way I really want it to be again then I can
click back and resize make it even bigger if I want to right now in theory you could almost do
this half half if you wanted to I really don't see the point in doing that and it's not quite
gonna work you'd have to crop a bit more okay if you wanted to do that but what I'm suggesting is
and then we'll leave it like about that for is that here on this screen so now I'm going
to lock the webcam so I'm going to turn off the lock here gonna lock the webcam and now I do is
actually just add the text up onto the screen on the right hand side here and I just simply
do that if I might no I'm only going to do a short presentation then I can do that and not
going to obviously after one screen I've put my presentation here okay sorry just and obviously
I'd have to listen to what I'm saying and make sure that at the right moment then I would pop
up another one so let's imagine I get to this point and I start talking about something else
then I would bring that onto the screen now I do do this quite often particularly as I've said when
I'm working with a really short presentation I don't even want to bother them to do it in
PowerPoint and that will often do that as a way okay so hopefully now you understand the tricks
of the trade I'm sure there's more but that's basically the way I work and I've had a lot of
people asking me how do I bring the webcam onto the screen with a PowerPoint presentation showed
you a few ideas showed you they're very important is to think about the screen size to think about
where you're gonna place the webcam we hope that was a useful video if it was please like it please
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