Hi this Russell Stannard from TeacherTrainingVideos.com quite a few people
have been asking me to show them more complex animations that we can create in Camtasia and
then put into Facebook as video adverts because people click more on videos in Facebook than they
do images so it's a great way of advertising so why I've done is I've made a really quick video
that I'm actually gonna put into Facebook so it's a real example it lasts just 15 seconds I'm gonna
play that video to you and then I'm going to show you how I created it so let's get started
let me start by just walking you through the animation and if we kind of just dragged a time
line across we see that first of all there's some text and after the text we then get these
words appearing obviously what I'm doing there is I'm simply kind of bringing that the text
onto the screen one after the other which you can see here and one comes on slightly later than the
next then you'll see that an image comes on and then you'll see the image stays on the
screen but another animation begins and that's quite important technique in other words you
keep something from the previous animation and link it to the next one so you see those words
coming onto the screen and then again notice that something disappears but something else comes on
and is that link between the two parts and then again I'm gonna do it because you'll see that
the image then comes off but then the text grows and then finally the text appears in the middle
so one of the really important techniques there is to always kind of link the animations together not
things come on the screen they all disappear another load of things coming on-screen they
all disappear it's better better if you can link everything together okay so what we're going to
do is we've just cleared the screens we're going to do it like a new project and I'm simply gonna
come over to here click on annotations and start by demonstrating to you how I can kind of create
this effect where the different images come at different times and I'll do this very quickly I'm
just gonna drag one object onto the screen and I'll put that there and I'll give that a title
and I'll call that title make it easy or text let's just put a little X in there now what I
can do just to save myself time is I'm going to kind of copy that so ctrl C and then I'm going
to copy it to 3/4 now notice that the actual video that copies will start wherever your playhead is
on the screen so I'm just gonna move that back so really I should have had to playhead from
the beginning now I'm going to show you straight away then how to click on that first object and
just move it sorry I didn't mean to move it like that I wanted to actually move it like that and
move it into that corner click on the next object and move that over there click on the next object
and move that over there and click on the last object and we'll move that over there so you've
got four objects on the screen now four pieces of text and of course I can come in and edit the
text at any time what I all want to do now is I just simply want them to appear at different
times so what I'm gonna do is starting from the bottom one that will come on first and that one
will join next then that one or join next and then that one will come on finally so we should
see now is that very quickly we're going to get for animations coming on to the screen
now one thing is that that's way too slow so I would want to speed that whole process up and I
can do that easy by selecting all of them and just bringing that in so I'm gonna make that narrower
and then I'm gonna do the same here I'm gonna unselect and just make that much shorter make
that shorter so I can just shorten this whole animation in fact what I'm gonna do is I'm even
going to push that one out a little bit more and then select all four again and just shorten out
now selecting all four I'm going to move that to the timeline now that should play a lot quicker
so dragging it along one texture comes on then two then three then four so really simple way
of bringing and creating that first part of that animation now in part two what I'm really doing is
I'm just working with images I'm going to just import some media in so I'm going to click on
import and just click some media and I'll just grab a couple of pictures just to make this very
very quick and simple so I'm gonna come down here and now I've got some pictures here and I'm just
going to grab a few of these images and we can make use of them for this example that would be
enough easy in fact probably only need to use one of them let's take an image so make sure you play
heads back at the beginning I'm going to drag an image onto the screen now actually that at
the moment I'm just going to come up here and just set the project settings for this one to
be customized at that site in fact let's make it full size so I'm going to go full size for this
okay so we got an image on the screen now let's just bring this down here cuz we won't need so
much space for this particular example and I'll bring that up onto a higher timeline now let's
imagine that we want this image to come on the screen stay on the screen and then disappear the
easiest way to do that is to simply come down to the behaviors and we can click here on this
behavior here which is sliding and now if I was to play this you'll notice that the image will
slide on to the screen and then it will pulsate which can be a bit annoying and then afterwards
it disappears now one of the things that I can do though if I stop this clicking on that image is
come over to the right-hand side and what I've got here is actually the image itself and also
the animation that we've added to it by dragging the animation onto the object so we can actually
control that objects now what I'm going to do is I'm gonna have it coming on to the screen but then
during I don't want anything happening I don't fading so I'm going to click here and turn out
into none and then out what I'm quite happy with that so the difference now is that when that video
comes on or when that image comes on you're going to have the picture coming on it's gonna stay on
the screen and then it's gonna disappear now one of the nice techniques that we could use here I'm
just going to demo this by using another picture so I'm gonna make that a little bit smaller simply
because that way then the image will give me space to add another image I'm going to click
here bring another image onto the screen so let's kind of something with a similar sort
of size so that that worked fine and I'm gonna just come up here make sure that that's sitting
exactly the same time and what I'm gonna do is drop the same animation onto the screen here so
I'm going to come down to the behaviors and drop the sliding one on but this time coming over to
here on the right hand side and we're looking at the actual behavior during again I don't want the
fading taking place I'm going to say none but also on the in I'm actually going to say that
this image comes on from the right so they're going to come on from different ends and it's
gonna be quite effective so if we now click and play this from the beginning you'll see
one image comes on from the left and one image comes on from the right and that's another nice
technique that we can use so remember when you add a behavior onto an object and you can do that
very simply by just dropping it onto the object you then can go to your settings so you'll have
your object settings for the size of the image etc and also you'll have here your behaviors
where you can control the speed whether it comes from left to right etc etc okay so let's look at
a couple of other little tricks that you can do regarding images and I'll do this by coming up to
the annotations and I'm going to drag on an arrow because I often do this with arrows drag that onto
the screen put it in the wrong place always make sure you play heads back at the beginning let me
just drag it out there okay so it's right on at the star so again I'm going to add an effect so
we're going to come to the behaviours now you've got loads of behaviours I'm going to stick with
a slide one because what I want to demonstrate here is a little idea that we can use if we click
on that now we've got a very simple animation remember we've got this kind of during thing
I don't like which is when it's pulsating and I'm going turn that off completely and then of course
the animation disappears now one thing that you can do is kind of have another animation coming
on the screen immediately afterwards and that can be quite effective so what we're going to
do now is come up to annotations well change the and color of this what to this one here okay so
what should happen now is that one animation is going to finish and at the moment the image will
just appear so that will disappear and as that disappears a new image will come onto the screen
okay now wouldn't it be nice if that was kind of chasing that one and we can actually do that and
to do that what we would need to do then is to go back to the animations and drop sorry go back
to the behaviors and drop that behavior onto the screen so almost follows behind it and the other
thing that we can do is again click on during and turn off that fading because that kind of
annoys me so let's just have a look at the result of that so you've almost got one animation fall
in another so as that animation comes off the screen the new animation would come on and you
can do that very simply by just put in one object next to the other and that can be really effective
and something new you'll notice that I do a lot in my own videos okay just one last little thing that
you may have noticed in that little video that I showed you at the beginning was that you you saw
an object get bigger and bigger on the screen and I'm just going to show you how you can do this I'm
going to just bring this object and we'll use this one as a simple example in fact let's just use a
plain text because that can often be quite useful and I'm just going to write in teacher training
videos.com because that's the name of my website obviously I'm gonna make that much bigger when
you're doing this teacher training videos.com there is nice and square you can always play
around from this side as well if you want to change the font colour for example you can do that
or if you want to change the background color of the object you can do that as well so you can play
around with it what I'm going to demonstrate you now is that we can make things grow so I'm going
to come down to this time to to actual behavior animations and I'm going to choose this one scale
up I'm gonna drop that onto the object and you might notice if we just make that bigger in fact
we'll pull that out that we get this little arrow and it kind of shows me where the animation begins
and where it ends and what I can do is was if I click on that kind of final part point I could
make the animation a lot bigger if I wanted so I'm going to make them there like that so gross
of that so now you'll see that it's gonna cut me in and I might even make this and again just
clicking on it even smaller okay so we will have a starting point I can make this take longer or
or happen really quickly so the result of that now is if I've got this onto the screen here and then
when the animation starts it will start growing and that is to how I did those growing arrows at
the end of the animation and that's again are just a nice effect great again with all these effects
when you work with Camtasia what I really like is that you have quite a lot of control over them so
if we were to click on that object we've now got here the actual call-out itself they call this a
call-out we've got where we can make changes to the text and then we've also got chain where we
can actually make changes to the the call-out that we're using in the annotation that's in
it so really really good little technique there just to be able to move things on the screen make
things grow and what I'm using this time rather than behaviours is the animations okay really
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