Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teacher training videos.com today we're gonna look at Camtasia of
2018 we're going to look at audio I'm going to show you some great tips particularly when we're
working with more than one audio file we're going to look at different ways of equalizing out the
recordings and combining audio with commentary and a few other things just before I start just
want to clarify one thing I don't work for the TechSmith organization my organization is teacher
training videos.com simply I am recommended as one of their trainers here in the UK let's get started
so the first thing I want to look at is one of the things I notice a lot is that the audio is
very uneven on people's recordings that I see for example on YouTube have been done using Camtasia
and there's a couple of little tricks I'm just going to bring four videos onto the screen here
and what we can do is we can notice here the audio files files of those for screen capture
videos that you can see here one thing that I can do here very easily is to make it a little
bit smaller by bringing this here it will kind of zoom in and out on the timeline I'm gonna select
those files and a couple of things I can do right click and the first thing is that I can actually
separate the audio and the video and that can be a really good idea if you just want to focus on the
audio so what I going to do now is just lock those two channels and we've got this audio channel and
the first thing that I would do is I've got some recordings is select them all so make sure that
you've got all four selected come down here to audio effects and drop in voice leveling and that
will equal out the sound and if you've therefore got voices of different levels then what you'll
get really quite effectively there is a way to level them now if you find that that's still
not perfect you can go to an individual audio file and move it up and down now just to get the levels
right and then make sure obviously that you play the video before and make sure that the the levels
are equal so you can kind of voice level the whole thing and then sometimes you have to go in
do individual voice levelling now one trick that I know a lot of people don't realize sometimes
when you're working with audio on the screen you need to really see it a bit bigger and if you come
over and click on the particular track and just right click you'll notice that one of the things
that you can do is maximize track and that makes the track much bigger and makes it much easier to
kind of level the recordings and make sure that you've got them all at the same level okay and
you can see here now I can really make sure that that one is at the correct level on the same thing
here make sure I've really got them kind of equal so that's just a couple of techniques that I use
to equal out the recordings okay I'm going to do spend a little bit more advanced now one of the
things that customers often ask me is that they want to kind of intro followed by the video that
they produce and in an outro and what they'd like is to have some music at the beginning that then
fades out but very softly plays in the background while the video is playing and then once the video
is finished then the audio right increases and to do that we need to use something called audio
points so I'm just going to demonstrate it with the intro so to do that all I need to do is drag
an intro onto the screen so I'll use this one things is very simple and I'll just play it to
you so if I click here and if you want to change the intro all you need to do is double click on
it and put your own title in I won't do that for now there's no need to and then all I need to do
now is add the video that I want to have after that introduction so I'm going to come up to
my library and just drag on any video here as an example in fact I don't need all four of those I
just need one for this simple example so it's just delete all of them and just to add that one okay
so at the moment what we've got is an intro and then after the intro we've got some speaking that
will start here how to set up and get started with now one of the things is that we need to
have some music so we're going to come up to the library again and you'll notice that you've got
here lots of options for music there's a whole section of music tracks so I'm going to grab one
of those music tracks and I'm gonna grab just the let's have a quick listen to the first ones I've
gained maybe something a bit different maybe sing a bit loud can really notice okay that one will
do fine so I'm going to drag that onto the tip to the timeline so now what we've got is some music
and then once the title comes off hi this is enough now the problem is of course that you've
got this speaking going on I'm just gonna make that a little bit bigger because none in with an
intro video you would have that there webcam a bit bigger what I need to do now though is to reduce
the volume at a certain point and that's where the video obviously begins so what I'm going to do is
I'm going to use the zoom tool to kind of bring come in here then come back and what we want is
really as soon as the video starts for the music to fade and for me to do that I'm just going to
move it back just a little bit here and in fact the first point I'm actually going to put right
at the end so I'm just going to click down and I'm going to click here and click on add audio
point okay and they're going to move back here because I want the fade to start from about this
point here and I'm gonna click on add audio point and so what's going to happen at that point is the
music is gonna fade down so just gonna kind of pull that down now now just to make that work
easily what I'm going to do is at the end here this is a really useful tip I'm gonna add another
audio point and you'll see why in a minute add audio point ok I can just pull that audio point
along if I want to - just to make sure it's in the right point in the right position okay so
you can actually kind of click on the other point and move it to just want to get it to
make sure it's at the end now I'm going to do is I'm going to drag that down but notice I'm
not gonna actually make it completely finished I'm gonna have it like and I can actually come
over and edit the audio if I want to as well I can see here though remember I can click on here
and make this a little bit bigger so let's just do that maximize the track I can just make sure
that I bring that down to about 5 percent so the music will be playing now I need to add a second
audio point over here and all the point because of course I want the music to go back up again
so I'm going to then push the music right back up to the to the volume that it was at before
so what's gonna happen now is we got this lovely music starting with the intro but as soon as I
come in the music will fade and then it will play a little nice and quietly in the background and
then come up again towards you and let's just give that a quick test and play it hi this is
Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com you might not just hear that the music's actually
planned in the background now probably wasn't a very good example in terms of the audio that
I chose but a lot of people especially if it's lively music and you hear a lot in radio where
the commentary is happening and then when the commentary stops that the volume goes back up
again and it is a technique that i use quite a lot so what I'm doing there is all your points
but notice that you need to audio points because you need to obviously tell it where to go down to
than to keep it even at that level and then to go back up again so at each point I've got two
audio points but it's a really nice technique and something that I use all the time hi this is just
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thank you now something else you might want to do with your audio is to add voice narration and you
can do that very easily here we've got an intro let's imagine that we actually want to add some
voice to go along with it intro I'm gonna say welcome to the new video on TechSmith Camtasia
or something like that then what I've done is come down here to voice narration make sure you
choose the microphone now for this one because I'm obviously using microphone to do the recording I'm
going to actually use my webcam rather than my kind of professional microphone notice that I
can click on this button here and actually start to do the recording as the play head begins to
play the video welcome to Camtasia 2018 today we're going to look at how you can work with
audio notice I stopped it recording now you need to save the original just simply save that and
then what's going to happen is this narration is now added to the timeline okay and you can see it
there on there and if I want to I can simply play that narration back welcome to Camtasia 2018 today
we're going to look at how you can work with audio now what I might want to do then at that point is
bringing some sound so literally come straight at that point a big once that's finished come
in there perhaps we're sending a bit more lively let's have a look yeah maybe something like that
so then I would literally just bring that sound in at that point okay so now we can combine the
two now obviously the audio my audio is not going to be that good because I'm only using the webcam
microphone but you get the idea thousand 18 today we're going to look at how you can work with audio
now obviously at some point then after a few seconds you're probably going to want to have
the the real video coming onto the screen so then we'd come up to the media and then perhaps drag
in the video that we want to start a certain point as well and of course that would mean
that you've got a bit of audio and then you're going to probably want to fade them audio down
again using audio points that you would obviously click you remember what I've said to you before I
add an audio point and then add a second one okay so you can kind of fade the music so I'm
going to add a second audio point and then at the end wherever the end is going to be to your video
and another audio point so that then you can drag the sound down at that particular point
okay so again kind of combining here the use of narration with again music and using the
audio points to control when the sound is loud and when it's soft so really good idea to make
use of the voice narration and I must say at all that I make a lot of use of these days in other
words sometimes I'll make the video and then add the voice narration after okay I hope you liked
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