Are you looking to learn about all of the features that are on offer in Camtasia 2022
if you are this is the video for you I've been working with Camtasia since 2006 I'm a recommended
Camtasia trainer and I'm going to show you some of the features that I really like including the
latest updates to Camtasia 2022 which I've already started using so We're going to do things like the
highlight the fact you can change the highlight color the fact that you can even add a magnifying
glass or you can use a spotlight type of cursor you can now actually create your own cursor from
an image and just create the path on the top of it you can smooth out the movement and there are some
great tricks you can do with editing and cutting up a video so you've got different cursors working
in different parts of the screen i'm going to show you all of these effects all the effects that I
use when i'm making my videos I really hope you like the video and as always if you do please like
it please share it please comment on it love to know which tricks you like yourself or which other
ones you use that I'm not using and of course join me on my youtube channel let's get started
so the first thing I'm going to show you is the most obvious that's simply adding
the cursor effects and if we just move through this video a little bit you'll
see that the cursor is moving around on the screen you can see the cursor there moving
as I kind of take the users through my website and you can see the cursor moving along there as well
now what we can do very simply is come down to cursor and click on highlight and drag that
onto the video and immediately what that does is it produces a highlighted cursor for me so it's a
much better effect it's much easier to see the cursor now but then we've got a lot of control
over the properties of that cursor if you come over to the right hand side the first thing i
always do is reduce the opacity to about 60 simply so that when people are looking through the cursor
when they see the cursor they can still see what is behind the other thing you can do is slightly
increase the size so I'll often make it a little bit bigger if I really want to make it clear
those are the most standard changes I make there is one other change that I often make and that
is I choose another color now i often do that for example if there's a lot of yellow on the screen
so simply I use another color for the cursor so that it really stands out against the background
another thing that you can do sometimes you might want to match the cursor
with another color that's in the website so I can click here for example and just click on there
and now it will choose that color to be the cursor and sometimes that can be quite an effective trick
now this next option is really interesting I'm just going to come over to here through the
properties I'm going to take off the highlight tool so we've got nothing on the cursor again
and coming over again to cursor effects this time what I'm going to click on
is a really interesting one that I must admit I didn't investigate before and I never realized
how useful this is let me just drag this onto the screen and show you what it does what it
does is it highlights exactly what it's rolling over now when you're doing what i'm doing here
this can be really effective because it goes right through and it highlights
okay now what you can do this is really a great trick let's say that you don't want to use that
cursor all the time because it's not ideal for everything but it's just ideal in that
particular part let me show you what you could do I'm going to turn this off and what I'm going to
do is i'm going to move the playhead back to when it just starts to go through the menu okay look
when it does that so i'm going to play it about here i'm going to cut the video at that point
okay so i select the video and cut it now moving along okay just to that point there
okay let's actually now let's keep it on the screen let's do right along to there
now we want to get rid of it about there so when it
now at that point and i'll just move it back just a little bit just to kind of right at that point
now i'm also going to cut the video now why am I doing that so what i'm going to do now in that
just in that section of the video is I'm going to drag the magnifying cursor onto the screen
on this section of the video I'm going to put the highlight tool as I always do and also on
this section here so I've actually got now a change in cursor and I can do that by cutting
the video so let's just quickly play a little bit of that so that you can see that in action
you can also visit any of the sections here along the top for example if you want moodle just click
on moodle and you'll find loads of videos on working with moodle if you come back to the
home page you'll see it switches back again so all I've got this the effect is really useful
now is that I've got first of all it working as a cursor usual and then of course I've got it doing
this highlight which is great because it shows the text underneath really clearly I love that really
really useful you can actually increase as well if we just click on there you do have the option
of increasing the size of the magnify and you have to be very careful when you do this but you can if
you want to just make it a little bit bigger okay if you want to do that okay really lovely idea
the magnify tool and it works really well when you are scrolling over small text or exactly what I've
done there menu items now if you want to know more about editing in camtasia I've got a very popular
video on youtube that you might want to watch and I've put it on the screen now you can click on it
and go to that particular video but let's carry on with more things around camtasia we're going
to actually look now at some of the things you can do in camtasia 2022 some of the new features
remember you've got your properties here for your cursor okay and anytime you select any of
the objects on the screen or on the timeline then it will show you the properties of that particular
object or that particular piece of video and of course you'll see that the cursor one's there now
one thing we can do then is delete all of that and I'm actually going to delete all of that lovely
work I've done okay so I'm going to click on this one as well come to cursor I'm going to delete
that because I want to show you some other options as well okay so again just click it on here
and delete those properties okay now don't forget we've actually got three videos now rather than
one video but that's okay for what I want to demonstrate this is another really useful option
that you've now got available to you this is where you've been brought in because of Camtasia
2022 you can increase the size of the cursor itself so if I just click here let's choose
this one here I can increase the size now this is what we call a vector graphic and vector graphics
will actually increase in size and still look really good in terms of the quality
so you do have that control which is something you never had before now often that's quite
useful because even if we look at for example this here you notice that the curse is quite
small so you might say to yourself right I want generally that cursor to be a little bit bigger
on the screen and you can increase the size of it if you want to just to make the cursor a bit
bigger and a bit clearer that particularly happens when you've got a busy screen lots of things going
on and you just want to make sure that the cursor is clearer so that everyone can see it
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now of all the updates in 2022 I think this is my favorite Camtasia update it's something
definitely well in fact I've already used it a couple of times and I'm just going to demonstrate
when it can be useful when it's really useful is when you want to add a cursor effect to an image
so we've got here for example my picture here of my website but there's nothing happening because
it's just an image and maybe what I actually want is a cursor moving around and therefore I might
add some narration afterwards to explain what's happening now i can actually do that now if i
come over to cursor effects you've got something called a cursor path creator and if you just drag
that onto the screen and drop it on immediately it actually creates a cursor effect for you
now one of the interesting things if I play that straight away I've now got the cursor moving along
however of course I can edit this and I can do many of the things that I couldn't do before
which I can now do in Camtasia for example if i wanted to make that a little bit bigger I could
definitely do that we've got the cursor path here already set out but we are able to completely
edit that path so for example what I'm going to do is I'm going to set the starting point here
I'm going to set the end points here but actually what I want it to do as well is on route I wanted
to visit where you can sign up to my youtube channel so I'm going to do is I'm going to right
click over the actual cursor path and I'm going to click on add cursor point and I'm going to drag
and cursor point in there okay now I also wanted to talk about the adverts here so what I'm going
to do is i'm going to add another cursor point so about here so I'm going to right click again
add a cursor point and at that point I'm going to drag it over to here so it's now going on quite
a long journey now I'm not only restricted in that if we just come down here and kind of make
this a little bit longer we can actually click on that cursor path and drag it out and extend where
the things happen so for example I might want to do it like this let me just see if I can just do
that so that it's nicely evened out so we got our first four points but we got the cursor now
moving fairly quickly from the start if i click on it hopefully you'll see the effect there it goes
and now and now and now and of course I can play around with this as much as I want so for example
I could really extend that out okay and bring that one perhaps to here etc so I've got loads
of options in terms of working and where this is going to be so useful is when I'm working with
basically with an image that i want to add onto the screen or anytime I've got some video content
where I haven't got a cursor but I actually feel I need one now if you're interested in
some of the other things that you can add into your videos not just the cursor but for example
arrows and the drawing tool and the focus tool etc there is a video on the screen now that takes
you through some of the additional things that you can do on the timeline to add to the videos
but if you stay on this video what I'm going to do now show you some more tricks with cursors
so let's quickly play that cursor path and
just see how it's looking so I'm just going to click here
really good all I would need to do now is add voice narration now just one little thing to
remember as well when you're working with images you can easily expand how long they stay on the
timeline and of course therefore you can drag out how long the animation takes so
you've actually got a lot of control over the way that the cursor will move around
on the screen how long it will take etc now as i said i've only done a couple of these so far
but I must say really useful effects and of course lots and lots of options you know you can again
come back to using either a magnifying or a cursor spotlight which we've not even looked at let's
have a quick look at this cursor spotlight as a final thing to show you so one thing is when we're
working here you can see that we've got the cursor on the screen now I'm going to just add it on as
a spotlight so I'm going to drop that on just so that you see that effect as well let's play it now
that's not an effect that I use that often but it's still a useful one at certain points it can
be again really good if you're trying to pull the attention to certain parts of the screen
there's actually lots of things you can do in Camtasia to make videos look more professional
and I've got a video from youtube that goes through how to make videos more
professional with interest in intros and outros and that sort of thing if you want
to learn about that I'm putting that video on the screen now but if you want to learn
more about cursors we're going to carry on with some more things that you can do
one final cursor option that i do want to point out this isn't actually new to 2022 it's been
around for a while now again if you come down to your cursor effects and often this happens
to me I move too quickly on the screen I'm moving everything around 100 mile an hour and it looks a
bit jaunty a bit jumpy uh you can see a little bit on here for example if I just play this and I'm
suddenly kind of moving around like that what I can do is I can simply make sure you've got
the video selected I can just bring on cursor smoothing cursor smoothing also will kind of
take away any of those things where you're going around in circles it will kind of make it nice and
straight it depends how bad the original recording is how good the cursor smoothing works it's a good
idea to put the highlight to one you can often see it better there let's just play a little bit of it
you will see here on the front page all of the courses that I'm currently offering and also if
you click over here to the right hand side okay you saw it working a little bit there as i moved
from this part to this bite did it nicely nice and smooth you'll see that there's the newsletter
which you can click on and join the third thing to know about is that again that's doing that
nice and smoothly okay it's smoothing as i scroll down so that's also a nice effect to keep in mind
okay really hoped you liked that video and as i said come over to teachertrainingvideos.com
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going to leave a few videos now on the screen that you might find uninteresting they're all
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