Hi this is Russell Stannard out from teacher training videos.com got a great video for you
today really short one if you want to know all about the webcam for example if you want to
know how you can move your webcam from the left side to the right side in Camtasia or you want
to put a frame around it or you want to make it bigger or smaller or crop it or you want to edit
the audio I'm gonna show you all these things five key tricks when working with your webcam
in Camtasia really hope you liked the video if you do as always please share it please like it
and please of course if you've got any comments or questions leave them in the section below or
let's get started okay I turn the webcam off while I'm doing this recording because obviously that
would there be two webcams on the screen what you can see here on my screen at the moment is
a Camtasia video that has got a screen capture but it's also got the webcam in the corner now
if we play that video through you'll see that all the time the webcams in exactly the same
place on the screen however if I wanted to move the webcam at any point during the video what I
can do is I simply select the video cut it and at that point it becomes almost like a
new video so if I was just to select that part there and click here and cut the video then what
I can now do is at that point I can now click on the webcam and so right from now on I want
it to be up here and I could even resize it so I could actually have a video now where at one
point in the video the webcams at the bottom of the screen and then as soon as it gets to that
point you'll see that it's gonna jump over so so that's how I can move webcam from one point to
the other during a video and I can do that at any point all I need to do is choose the point where
I want to move it select the videos on the screen and you're gonna have two videos because you have
this screen capture and your webcam cut them and then at that point once you later cut you can then
click on the video and move it to another point on the screen and that will work perfectly so now
I've actually got even another change and if we just quickly scroll through this video it starts
here then I move to here now I moved to here so that is how I can move around on the screen at
different points remember you can easily resize the webcam where you need to do is click on the
webcam and then just resize it down smaller or bigger I'm gonna move it back over onto this
side now another thing that I like to do and you see me do quite a lot in my videos is I like to
put a frame around the outside of the camera and to do that all I need to do is come down to the
visual effects and I can drop on this one here which says border and I'll just drop that on to
the actual video and now I can do is I can make that border bigger or smaller but can also change
the color of it I'm gonna click on here and change the color to match the color in my t TV sign there
it's off the screen and I'm gonna make that much thicker so I'm gonna take it up to about 8 points
and you'll see now we've got this nice border around the outside of the video when we play it
okay so that's another thing that you can do that is to add a border around a video
now another thing that we can do with a video as well is that we can obviously kind of what
I call well what they say is to crop the video if we look at this video at the moment if I wanted to
say make it a bit narrower and I would click on this button here to crop it and then what I can
do now is I actually just cut that video okay I'm getting to the exactly the way I want it
okay that doesn't mean to say it has to be any smaller because what I can do now is now come
to the recital the the kind of the arrow button here and then make it bigger but what we're doing
now is we're cutting out a lot of the room around the outside and that is something that you often
see me do especially when I'm doing green screen videos another really useful point to keep in
mind when you're working with the webcam remember you've got the webcam on this line here and then
the screen capture recording on the line below and often when you're editing and you're adding
for example animations onto the screen like this one here or like these animations that
I've got on the screen here then it's a really good idea to lock this webcam so that it doesn't
get affected by any of the changes you're making and you can do that very easy but just clicking
here and locking that whole line and by doing that now when you do any edits on the screens
if I now begin to let's say edit something on the screen at any point then I can't move this webcam
because that line of the video is actually locked and that is what I always do when I'm working and
doing the editing that is I get the webcam setup I make the changes I want to make and then I lock
it so that then I can start to do the editing of all the things that I want to do within the
actual screen capture now another thing that I often need to do is if I'm working and there
are parts of the audio that I want to cut out and then replace and I'm going to show you how you can
do that first of all what you need to do is to click and we're talking about the audio of the
webcam okay so we would click here and right click we can actually separate the audio and
the video so if we do that now what we've got is we've got the video on one part and the audio on
another and that means that we could now cut out parts of it now the best thing to do is to first
lock the channel where you've got the actual video so that we're only focusing on the audio
channel and then mark the point where you want to cut the audio out make sure you select that
audio file and just by clicking here then find the other part that you want to click and cut out so
let's say I want to this part here I want it to end here so I'm going to click on that so now I
can do is select that chunk and just delete it and now it would be possible for me to move the
playhead back to here and then click on the voice narration and rerecord that part of the voice so
if I just click and quickly show you this testing testing testing 1 2 3 testing testing testing and
then click on to stop save that and that audio will now be added into the file now obviously
I would need to really be careful with what I'm saying and make sure it's the same as what's on
the camera but I'm just demonstrating that it is possible to go into a webcam recording an audio on
edit some of the audio really hope you liked that video and if you did please like it please share
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