Hi this is RussellStannard from teacher training videos.com back on my favourite technology
screen capture technology we're going to look at Camtasia 2019 but this same video would be totally
applicable to 2018 that in this particular area they're both exactly the same good another good
smart focus smart focus allows you in a screen capture video to really focus in and bring the
viewer right in close on to a particular area of the screen that's perhaps if you want them
to read something or you really want them to see something clearly so we use it a lot to get or to
help really focus the viewers attention it's very easy to use it's been updated over the last few
years and it works really well when it's a tool I make great use of hope you liked the video if you
do please like it please share it please comment on it help me to build my numbers on my YouTube
channel particularly if you've got any questions about Camtasia please ask those questions let's
get straight into it then yeah Smart Focus Camtasia now the Smart Focus tools evolved
quite a lot in Camtasia in the way that it works now is really good and it's very quick and I love
it I really make a lot of use of it because it's so easy to do I'm gonna drag some screen capture
on to the screen so I'm just going to put that onto the timeline you can see that now here on my
website and what I'm doing here is I'm introducing a website called talk English comm ok so I'm
basically I've got a screen capture video about using a technology called talk English comm and
notice that I'm also in the corner which is what I normally do in my videos as well now if we just
play a little bit of this video okay let's start the web you'll have see English lots of material
a lot of time I'm focused on particular areas of the screen and you'll see it almost at the
beginning I immediately start talking about one particular area of the screen one little tip when
you're working with smart focus is to always add a cursor because it's going to be easier for you to
follow on the screen where your cursor is because that's going to be an indication of the areas that
your focus so let me just show you a little bit more this website we're gonna focus just on the
listening mature so if you look on the left hand right so now immediately my cursor is over here to
the left hand side and it'll be a good idea to pan in because if you think about it the rest of this
screen here is not really relevant at the moment we really want our users to be focused on this
particular area of the screen so if we come down here on the left hand side and we come down to
what we call animations and we can bring at this point okay so from this moment we're gonna bring
the focus in we're going to pan into the screen they can pan in quite a lot once you pan in all
you need to do is move the video okay so that you can see obviously the area that you want to focus
on all right so it's showing me that this is the area that we've panned into now my pan might be a
bit too much I'm going to bring that back now all I need to do just make sure that I am in the area
of the actual what we call the canvas now I just played a video and here I come back to English
listening lessons but now again I can notice that I probably focus in a bit too much see because
it's now kind of dropping down so what I'm going to do just a way I'm going to come back again
there's various ways I can do this but I'm just gonna come back it I'm not actually gonna drop
that down a little bit and so I'm gonna put that down just a bit and remove it okay so let's watch
it again now so here I come back to listening the essence notice you've got basic intermediate and
advanced let's perhaps look at an intermediate one click here right so then suddenly you can see that
I went off the screen so again we need to pan out again at that point so let's move the playhead to
the perfect point where and I sometimes do is I'll just use this little control here it goes one yeah
that's perfect because it kind of goes one at a time so about this point we need to pan out again
because we know the cursor is going to come off the screen so all we need to do and this is what
I really like about the the zoom is I just click on scale to fit and it jumps back but the lovely
thing is if we now play that if you look in here on the screen if we now play that you'll notice
that the pan will come in and then as soon as the cursor starts to move off it will again now I've
deliberately made a mistake when I've done this because I want to point something else to you as
I do it so let's just watch that pan working so we're gonna focus just on the listening mature
so if you look on the left hand side here and come down to English listening lessons notice
you've got basic intermediate and advanced let's perhaps look at the intermediate one click here
you'll see a big list now one little tip you may have noticed that I came off the screen I wasn't
on the screen anymore in that pan took place and the reason for that is because when you do the pan
you only want to apply the pan to the video you don't want to apply the pan to the webcam and if
you look here you'll notice that when I set that pan up the beginning of it and the end of it but
campaigns you automatically put in what we call these key points that's the point where it does
the calculation for how far to zoom in how far to zoom out again and notice that it applied them to
both the video and to the webcam now I don't want the webcam so two little tips first of all let's
delete those so we're going to delete the points on the webcam we don't want them sorry I made a
mistake I'll just sit on the whole thing delete the whole thing I just want to delete the point
so click on it and delete it okay so we're just deleting those those points there you can just
delete by right-clicking all right so now I will stay on the screen so that's the first tip don't
apply the pan to everything on the screen you only need to apply the pan to the actual video
itself not for example the webcam so now if we do that you'll notice that it's a center so if
you look like the hands comes in but I'm still on the screen all right here I come down to
English listening lessons notice you've got basic intermediate and advanced let's perhaps look at
an intermediate one click here and that's really professional you see that because there was the
cursor moves off we pan out again now you might be thinking well Russell how do we avoid this problem
with the webcam was an easy way actually let's from now on we're just gonna lock that channel
so nothing will be applied to that channel and I'm gonna do one more example because I want
to point out just make it absolutely clear so let's move along the playhead and pick another
point where we're talking about something else and this is a really good point because at this point
here I'm talking about this area I'm talking basically about how you can listen the audio
in this particular website called talk English so this will be a perfect magnet moment to pan in so
we've locked the webcam so that won't be affected but what I want to point out you is notice that
as soon as and we're going to choose off again you're going to kind of click back one point
at a time and pick that moment when we want to start the pan so we want to start it when we come
to this page which is about which is about here but a good moment to be panning would be about
now so at that stage I'm gonna pan in but I want you to notice what happens as soon as I click on
this pan button what happens here it automatically adds the pan point where it's gonna start see how
that's added on to the screen here at the bottom okay so I'm going to again tactically move the
video to where I want it to be so we're panning in while I'm talking about that particular area
on the screen and each one's kind of divided into three things you can listen in you can do some
questions and you can also check the dialogue out see then I moved off so we need to pan out again
so I need to move the playback head back again and see right so that let's just click here watch
a little bit let's see when I start moving off right I'm starting to move off now aren't I so
this point would be the perfect moment again to click on scale to fit notice again it's going to
add the second key point the point when it needs to pan back out again so if I click on just click
on scout if it comes back to 100% okay notice it hasn't applied it to my webcam it's only applied
it to the actual screen so let's just watch that this website gene I click on the first one just to
chime in and each one's kind of divided into three things unites in you can do some questions and you
can hang out again because I start moving on there wonderful so again we get that real professional
look when we're focusing on an air and then focus in and out of an error so remember a
few tips make sure that you lock any channels that you don't apply the pan to find the perfect moment
to start and then work out your perfect moment to pan out you don't want to lose the cursor so you
never want the user not to be able to see where the cursor is that's a really good tip and the
other tip is always add a cursor at the beginning before you even start drop the cursor on to the
video because that way it's going to help make it easy for you to follow and then add your pans the
pan tool is really easy to use great family really adds something to the quality of the videos and it
really just takes 2 or 3 minutes to to learn how to use really hope that's helped you please like
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