why is Camtasia perhaps the best screen capture technology for making educational
videos particularly if you want to do professional ones in this super quick video I'm going to show
you very quickly some of the things that you can do with Camtasia they give you really good idea
if you're looking to make more professional videos exactly what Camtasia can do so one
of the first things I like about Camtasia is this ability to control the webcam most screen capture
technologies keep the webcam in one place on this technology I can edit and move it from the left
to the right to the top I can even resize it and I can even put a frame around the webcam as well
now we can tell you get masses of assets and what I'm going to show you is a little bit of
screen capture video where I've brought on arrows where I've drawn on the screen where I focused in
by using what they call the highlight tool there are lots of different things that we can bring in
to really add value to the video one of the most useful things about Camtasia is that we can pan
in and pan out but not only that we can combine the pan with other tools other assets so we can
pan in and then focus on something or pan in and draw around something so this would be really
powerful because it means we can really focus the attention of the people watching the video
now another great thing about Camtasia is that we can combine screen capture video with real video
and we can bring in pictures so we can mix all the media together we can really produce a video
that is media rich and we can even have a situation where we've got one video on one
side with the screen capture on the other or perhaps one video on one side and one video
on the other side we can combine and do lots of things with media a really quick piece of
publicity if you like what you've seen and you want more free videos particularly on
working with Camtasia please come over to teachertrainingvideos.com there's a special
section of Camtasia videos and if you're thinking of buying Camtasia and you want an educational
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the latest blogs and webinars and online courses that I run right let's get back to the video
Camtasia has a great selection of intros and outros you're seeing one on the screen
now that we can use to be obviously at the beginning of our videos and at the end of
our videos and of course we can add sound and audio along with that if we want to
one of the effects that people always ask me about is the cursor
I'm moving the cursor around on the screen now and you can see it's one colour I can even change
it to another colour I can even change it to a different type of cursor as well another really
lovely effect if you look at the bottom of the screen now is I can add subtitles if I want I can
have the commentary and subtitles at the same time and that's another really nice effect
another very important effect is that you can blur the screen so if you've got information on
the screen that you don't want people to see in the video then you can blur it and you can see
me doing that now on the right hand side you actually have both a blur tool and a pixelate
tool if you look to the right now I'm pixelating the screen it's slightly different and i sometimes
like the pixelate because it allows you to see the form of the writing even though you can't quite
read it there's great transitions between the different pictures and the videos and there's
a big selection to choose from I'd really like to know in the comments which of the features
you like best when working with Camtasia or out of the features that I've showed you today which
one you particularly like now there are a number of other features more advanced features in
Camtasia that I haven't highlighted today and if you come over to teachertrainingvideos.com
click on the screen capture section you'll see that I cover all of these one of them is
the use of green screen and you can see that here another one is how to create quizzes and
that's a really interesting video to watch and another kind of area to look at is just basically
how you make the perfect screen recording than the perfect screen size so please make use of the free
videos that are on teachertrainingvideos.com and I really hope that video was useful if it was please
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you very much just to finish with I've added a few more videos onto the screen that you can click on
and these are all videos that are going to help you to learn more about what Camtasia can do