Hi I'm Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com I'm also a TechSmith Camtasia
recommended trainer here in the UK this year Camtasia 2018 was released and I'm going to
show you five advanced features that can really help to make your screen capture videos much more
professional let's get started now whenever I do any training with organizations they often say
to me Russell we want to have an interesting introduction before the screen videos or the
screencasts start to play so I've got some screencasts here on the screen and I'm going
to bring in the first three so I'm going to just drag in three onto the timeline so we've got some
screencasts here as you can see and if I click on the button we can play it understanding and
then obviously and if we move on we can see now straightaway one thing that what I would notice
about these screencasts is that the cursor is really at the moment it's just very it's not very
visible so the first thing I would probably do is to come down here click on cursor effects make
sure you've got all the videos selected and drop the cursor onto the video so immediately you get
a cursor effect and what I normally do with that cursor effect if you look over here on the right
hand side you've got your properties I normally set that cursor effect to about an opacity opacity
of about 50% just so that yes you can see but also you can see what's underneath so straightaway
bringing a cursor effect on will have an impact now what I said to you is we were going to try to
look at a professional start to these videos now one of the things we can do again we're going to
select all three videos is we're going to group them together because it's going to make them
much easier to move around now they just become one object and coming up to the library here at
the top of the screen I'm gonna choose Camtasia 2018 and I'm gonna look for intro so click on
the intros and I'm gonna use one I really like a lot and I use quite a lot which is the spinning
computer and it dragged out onto the stage onto the timeline sorry not the stage and then bring
back this grouped object and now you'll see that we played a video and it's starts with a kind
of really nice opening here on comes the screen unfortunately it says to the wrong thing so I'm
going to change that a minute and then afterwards the screen capture videos dark so let's just go
back a minute and see if we can sort out how do we deal with the problem that the text so just play
the video a little bit when this video is play just when the text comes on just double click
on that you always know when you're right because it kind of goes a gray color and I'm gonna change
that for my company so I'm going to write teacher training videos ok so immediately now I've got a
nice professional start to my video though one problem is of course at the moment is we haven't
got any sound so the next thing I'll be looking at is to add some sound to this video to make it
really more professional now there's a couple of really clever things that we can do here to have
some introductory music to come along with that animation so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
move the timeline I'm zooming in on the timeline so I can see it a bit closer now I need to bring
some music on here so again accusing the library Camtasia 2018 this time just going to close that
down so we're not interested now in intros we're going to come down to the music tracks now I can
just click on the music track to check it not that one not that one yeah that sounds a bit
more lively so I'm gonna have this track so I'm going to drag this onto the timeline and you'll
notice immediately adds a new track as soon as I try to drag on so now when the animation starts
oh this is starting to look really professional but there's a big problem if we just move this
screen to make it smaller so they can have a little look at the timeline here you'll notice
that one problem is is that the music goes on right into the animation when the screencast
talks now we don't want that we want as soon as the animation finishes the music to finish
I'm just gonna play that and then just there in fact what I can do is use this little button here
just to go back to the exact point it will move me back in fact that one losing me back jumps me back
to the to the last break so that's a good button to click on and at this point here selecting the
music I'm gonna click on it and cut it there so I use this cut one cut out and then delete that
select it and delete it so the music is only on now until the actual or my voice starts so let's
just check that now the only problem with that is at the moment is that the music cuts out really
quickly and this is where I'm going to show you another great effect advanced feature in Camtasia
come down to audio effects and drop on fade out just drop it on to that sound you'll notice you
get this kind of little point here that you can drag along you don't need to start fading too
early because it's only a short animation now we've got something really professional let's
just play that back music fades I really like the way that and speaking starts yeah really like this
is starting to look a little bit more professional so now we've got a nice intro we've got a cursor
effect on the screen now what else could we do to make this even more interesting well one of the
things that I've noticed about this is and there's a little trick that we can do here this video is
one size and this screen is actually another size and so if you notice that this video has got some
boxes around it so one thing in fact there's two ways that we can do this I'm going to show you the
first way we could simply just make that a little bit bigger and take a chance that it's still going
to look okay now I'm slightly worried about that because worried it if it gets too big the
computer's almost going to come outside and you still notice we've got a little area here that's
not being covered we might be out of position here about right so in fact this looks like we can
possibly just expand that one screen or one video so that it fits nicely onto the screen it's just
test that and see if that works so looks like it's gonna be okay okay and that looks fine because
this is obviously the actual area that's going to be produced all right what you're looking at
there is the actual canvas area right so what else could we do to this video to make it a little bit
more interesting well the next thing that I would suggest is that we have a transition so we move
from the opening to the first video so selecting and in fact I'm going to now ungroup all of these
because I'm gonna actually so I'm gonna ungroup I'm gonna narrow down so I'm gonna move right
out now so I can see a lot more of the of the animation and now I'm going to do is select all
of the animations so notice I've selected all of them I'm going to come up here to transitions and
I'm going to add in a nice transition one I use a lot is called cube rotation I'm gonna drag that
onto the screen so I've added the cube rotation at every point now that might be a problem I'm
gonna just check this in a minute so let's start now I don't like the cube rotation there on the
first one I remember I've dropped it onto all of them so I'm just gonna maximize and just come
here I'm going to just click on that first cube rotation and just delete that first one I don't
want a cube rotation at the beginning so now I've got the animation taking place and that all looks
fine and the words come on but let's watch what I have let's watch what happens now lovely it's
like cube rotates from the introduction into the next video let's just quickly ever move along the
timeline and just check the next one because I selected all the videos then in fact the cube
rotation was dropped on all of them so let's have a quick check here at the learning content
yes okay looking really nice so this is kind of working well and I've got my different animations
now on the on the screen so what we done so far well we've added sound we've added an opening
animation we've added a cursor we've added a kind of cube rotation to create a little bit
of animation with it now the other thing that I would suggest here is that you'd probably want to
have some kind of ending so let's go right to the end of the video we're going to come back up to
the library now and again we've got lots of outros we can use an intro as an outro it really doesn't
make any difference I'm just going to click here so we've got outros anyway so let's have a quick
look at how outros I don't know particularly interesting so I'm going to come to our intros
and I'm gonna see if there's any here that might look quite nice well this one here let's have a
quick look here I'm just gonna drag that on and I'm gonna do obviously the same thing probably
I'm going to add the music let's just play that outro yeah and then the students now simply need
to start accessing the and Kahoot okay so what I might do here then is just simply add something
like thank you okay so I can just delete what's on the screen I'm just going to write thank you
into the screen so what I've quickly done there to save time is just simply clicked on the text and
rewritten it now in this particular case that text is too big there's various things you can do here
remember with any object you've got on the screen you can always click on it and check here on the
right hand side are you happy with the colors etc so for example let's imagine I wanted to change
the text color I could click on that text color and change it to a different color let's say for
example P or that color there and I can of course resize the text as well so clicking on that text
and I could also make sure that it's a smaller size because I want it to fit inside and the same
with this one here I'm going to make that a little bit smaller okay and I'm also going to change the
color I'm going to click here and choose the same color as the okay so now we've got a video with an
ending and of course what I would probably do is add the music to the end as well just like
I did at the beginning there have the music on cut the end off and then fade it out let's just
have a look loop so I look who's classic I click here to start accessing the Kahoot okay and then
we got our ending goodbye okay very good looking really nice very professional as I said I would
add some music on there I've showed you how to do an intro I showed you how to do an outro I've
showed you how to add music I've showed you how to add a cursor and I've showed you also very quickly
how you can just quickly resize the screen if you need to make sure that the videos fit within the
canvas I've showed you how you can make use of the properties I really hope that you found that
useful I'll probably end up showing you more than five features there but I hopefully you can get
how you can use Camtasia to take your videos to another level hi this is Russell Stannard
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