Hello, this is Cristi.
In today's quick tip for Camtasia, I want to show you how you can remove a portion of
a video that you don't want your viewers to see, but if you have also a video stream,
you don't want to cut the video stream with that.
So I'm going to show you a cool trick that I use all the time, when I have a portion
of a tutorial where maybe something is changing, maybe the idea's changing in the tutorial
or the chapter, and the speaker is still speaking, but maybe they're looking for a file on their
computer.
So they recorded the screen, showing some private information, or maybe they're switching
applications and that recording of switching the application shows up on the video.
I want to show you how you can get rid of that and also still make the video seem seamless,
but also keep the speaker on the screen.
So I have this video here as an example from my friend, Chris Menard and check out his
channel in the links by the way.
And he has a video here where he shows something in Microsoft Excel, but then he wants to switch
to another application to show something else.
But during that transition, he is actually talking on the tutorial, which I don't want
to remove that part of the video because otherwise I would just make a cut maybe, and the whole
thing is gone.
So watch what happens.
I've added a marker here in my tutorial edit, so if I play this, cool cool feature right
there.
Now comes the changing of the topic.
One more real quick.
So you can see he's switching.
Now he has finished switching, but in the switch he has actually talked about, one more
trick, whatever.
So that means I want to keep him on the screen, but I want to lose this portion here of the
video that you can see.
He's actually switching applications and this thing I don't like it on the screen, it shows
all of the applications that he has open on this computer, so I want to remove that portion
of the screen video, but I want to keep him on screen.
So the way to do this is very easy.
I have two tracks on my timeline down here, and one of the tracks is the screen, the video
with camera, so this one, if I turn it on and off, you can see Chris disappears.
So double-click on this and I'm going to call this one, Chris.
Then, I have the second track, which is the screen, the actual screen recording.
I can turn that off again, like that.
So I know this is the correct track.
Double click to rename it there.
So how do I get rid of that?
We will use two features.
One of them in Camtasia is called Slice or Split.
I think it's called Split, anyway.
So I'm going to zoom in here, and I'm going to put my play head at the start of the portion
I want to remove.
So if he's playing, if he's saying something here, one more real quick.
So I have to actually make a cut before he actually says, one more.
Okay.
So I go back here until I don't see that part.
I want to remove first.
So it's going to be right here.
Okay.
Select the screen recording video.
It's actually a good idea to make cuts where there's no audio because this actually helps
you to cut easier and better and make a good separation, so you don't have any problems.
Here we go.
I'm going to actually, just to make things easy, I'm going to click and Separate audio
and video right there.
So now actually the names of the tracks have changed.
This is no longer Chris.
This is Audio.
I have moved my tracks around, so the audio is at the bottom, then comes the screen and
then the third one is Chris.
Anyway, so I'm going to make a cut before the audio starts right here.
So just before he says one more real quick.
Okay.
Go back here.
I don't see the ugly part on the screen, which I want to remove, so go back before that.
So now select the screen track and make a cut using the split tool.
You can use it from here.
It's called Split.
Or you can press S.
What that's going to do, it's going to cut the track I have selected, not all the tracks.
You don't want to select all the tracks.
You don't want to cut all the tracks.
You just want to select and cut the screen track.
That's the one we're working with, right?
So I'm going to select the screen track, press S to make a cut.
Then go to the part where you see this portion here.
I don't want to see it and move forward until he has actually made that disappear.
So right here.
Okay.
So this whole portion, select again the screen track again, the screen clip and you notice
it's cut here, so it starts here actually, and make another cut.
Press S again, or press this icon.
Now I have made two cuts in my screen recording.
I can click on this portion here that I want to remove.
You can see it, you can move back and forth.
That is the portion I want to lose.
So click on it and delete.
But now what I have is, I have a black screen for a few seconds.
One more real quick.
There you go.
So since the screen doesn't really change, what I need is to close this gap with, you've
guessed it, an extended frame.
So select this clip at the end here where I cut it.
So after you select this clip, hold down the Alt key.
And you notice, when you hold down the Alt key, the cursor of the mouse changes to that
icon there, which means Extend frame.
If you don't hold the Alt key down, the cursor looks like this, and it's actually going to,
if you drag on it, it's actually going to bring back the portion you removed, look.
So I haven't done much.
So undo that, so what I'm saying is, make sure you select, hold down the Alt key and
click on the end of the clip there and drag it all the way to meet the other portion.
So what we've done here right here, if we remove the play head for a second, down here,
there is a stitch.
That stitch indicates that a cut was made, and this portion right here, because we used
the Alt key, that is an extended and still frame of the last frame right there at the
end of the cut.
So what happens?
Check this out.
Cool, cool feature right there.
One more real quick.
Seamless.
Now I don't see that application change, and although you don't see the mouse moving because
it's a static frame, the transition is very unnoticeable.
Nobody actually watching, all the people watching the mouse cursor can tell that the mouse cursor
jumps.
So because we've made this cut and Extend frame to fill the gap, but we've left the
video stream alone, so the clip with Chris, because the recording of the webcam is a separate
track, that actually doesn't change.
So then Chris appears to keep talking and he does, without all those applications showing
up.
One more real quick.
So then he moves on to the rest of the tutorial.
So I hope this was interesting trick for you or maybe a tip.
Maybe you knew this, let me know in the comments, if you enjoy this.
And by the way, if you are interested in making these kinds of cuts and splitting and making
room on your timeline, introducing new clips, all those things, there's a video on the screen
right now you can watch that will show you how to save time editing in Camtasia with
Ripple cuts, Edit, Move, Inserting time, making all these things, Extending frame, all those
things are covered in this video that you can watch now.
So thanks again, and I will see you on the next.