Hello this is Cristi from Graphicious and today I would like us to look at
animations in Camtasia with animations you will be able to achieve things like
this one I'm showing you right now
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so as you can see from four different graphics that I put on my timeline I was
able to animate move them around and create that nice animation it's not very
complicated Camtasia has some animations that come
by default if you look in the animation section on the left you will have some
animations already built in or you have a zoom in pan that's very simple but the
animations here you have different types of pre-made animations but it's very
nice if you can learn to use the custom animation which allows you to decide
yourself where objects move where they move from and you can add other stuff in
between and you can do all sorts of other effects at first I was confused by
the custom animation because I didn't know exactly how it worked so I was just
using these pre-built animations but once I learned this I discovered that I
never used these ones so much or not at all so I want to go today over a few
animation tips and tricks how they work from scratch let's delete this and I
have in my media library these logos that I imported and let's choose one I
will place it on my timeline here and if I go and move my playhead I can see it
here now Camtasia by default has resized my
canvas to match this image it thinks it's a video clip so it's trying to
match it so that I don't have to move it around but I don't want to do this so if
this happens to you you can just go to the drop-down at the top and select
project settings and change your project settings to your desired size I'm going
to use HD now my image is in the center and if you move it around with your
mouse you will see those very helpful snapping lines for example now
contageous telling me that my object is exactly in the center of the canvas
I don't need this to be so large so I'm gonna make it smaller and if I move it
in the center it's already it's there now so how does animation work well
animation works with something called keyframes so you have a starting
keyframe and an ending keyframe so in these two keyframes these are the start
and the end state of your object so if you want to move an object from the left
of the screen to the right of the screen you need to add an animation and at the
start of the animation you need to put the object here and at the end of the
animation you put it here then when you play the
animation the software creates all of the steps in between
so let's exemplify this I am going to zoom in control and wheel mouse wheel
and this is my object on the timeline it's an image so I can change the
duration of this with no problem so I it's going to stay on the timeline as
long as I want at the moment it's starting from zero to about 16
seconds so if I play it you will see there's nothing happening because
there's no animation add it to my clip let's go to the animations and do like
we said before let's move the object let's make it animate from the left side
to the right side of the screen I'm gonna move it so that it's shorter I'm
gonna shorten the clip and let's go to the start it doesn't really matter where
this headed because animations you can move them off later you can move them so
that they start earlier or end later and so on so I'm gonna move my image to the
left side of the screen and I'm gonna drag a custom animation to the object
before I do that let me show you these pre-built animations scale to fit if I
just drag this on my object and I play it it takes the object from where it is
moves scales it to be the size of the screen so there you go
that's what that animation does of course you also have control over this
animation to customize it later but at the moment I'm just going to click on
the animation let me make this larger so the animation is indicated by this arrow
that's added on to my clip click on it and delete now the animation has been
removed again I select my clip and I drag a custom animation when you do that
the clips highlight and you can see I'm not letting go of the mouse yet it's I
can move it left and right to determine where it starts or ends so I'm just
gonna leave it here in the middle of the clip by default you can see that the
animation is quite short so if i zoom in I can see that it is actually an arrow
if I pull these two and the starting point and the end point I can move left
and move right these two dots indicate the start and the end of my animation
let's play this from the before the start you can see there's nothing
happening because I haven't yet told the animation what's gonna happen in the
final point so now in the final point you see it's highlighted in red the
final point is what I want to happen with the animation so I wanted to move
this to the right side of the screen I'm just gonna place it there now if I move
the playhead we can see that it's moving the object so if I play it now the
object moves to the other side I can do multiple animations on the same clip
which is how I realize that animation I showed you at the start so all you have
is just this one image and I can move this animation to the start make it
shorter so this is how you extend the duration of the
animation if I make it shorter now you will see that it moves faster from one
point to another and let's go in the middle here and creates another
animation that moves the same object to the center of the screen or maybe down
here again drag a custom animation and you will see that it snaps if I move it
up left and right it snaps to the playhead so this is a very helpful tip
if you want to more precisely control initially where the animation stops you
can just place your playhead there and you know that's where it ends so then
when you drag your animation it will just snap to the playhead and let go and
now let's see what happens I'm gonna pull the left the beginning of my
animation to make it longer and in the end of the animation
I want my object to be down here in the middle let's see did that do it
yes it did okay so let me give you another tip if you have created an
animation and you want to replicate that you can either on the same clip or
another clip so let's now put another clip from the media bin onto my timeline
this new clip doesn't have any animation at the moment I'm gonna make it the same
length that's the red one so you can see now the red one is moving behind it
because this one is at the top let's put this one at the bottom there so that the
red one moves on top of it so you can still see the red one is doing the
animation but the orange one is not I want to make this one the same size as
the red one so I'm gonna just place it here just for an example
and now I want to copy this animation right-click on the animation and copy
and paste it on this second image right click on the image and click paste now
this has pasted the animation and it pasted it at the very start of my clip
I'm gonna zoom in for a bit so now what happens is both my objects are
performing the same animation so it's a very nice effect because the orange one
the animation starts earlier it starts to move first so I can move the
animation and again very helpful they snap into place now of course I'm not
going to see anything because they are behind each other but I can play around
with the animation maybe make this one go away a little later so now you will
see that the red one has a trail of the orange one it's a very nice effect let's
copy the second one click copy right-click and paste it's been placed
here I can move it so that it is a little later let's see what we did
right if you notice the animation doesn't work in a constant speed it
speeds up at the beginning and then kind of slows down you can see that the
objects slightly separate from each other for a while even and then they get
together again so this is why if you notice let's play this again maybe
slower
notice how the object speeds up and then slows down at the end this is called
easing and it gives a bit of a natural feel natural feel to the animation you
can change this easing by right-clicking on the animation and choosing enable
easing and then choosing one of these exponential in-and-out will do this let
me delete this one for a second the exponential one is sort of like the
default one where it speeds up it starts slow speeds up around the cent the
middle of the animation and then halfway through and then it starts to slow down
again if I change this enable easing to be linear it should move at a constant
speed all the way through the animation
notice there's no speeding no slowing down right click let's try it spring
you notice the object goes a bit more than the destination and then comes back
it goes further to the right so if you make this one go very fast by making it
short you will see it gives a bit of a springy illusion yeah very nice for
animations and finally I think there's another one here bounce you notice it
repeats this bounce at the end let's run it slower so it has four for skips
before it stops so this is how animations work you can achieve a lot of
effects just by creating custom animations and placing them along your
clip and then moving the clip to where you want it to be and where you want it
to come from so here select the end keyframe move the object up to make it
shorter you can make all move the all the animations together
so this is how animation goes the effect that I achieved in my in my video that I
showed you at the beginning was by replicating these animations on multiple
copies of this graphic maybe let's put the white one here so I have three
different graphics and each one of them is doing something different so once you
have set the size of the object and the placement the initial placement you can
play with them so if you see now this red one has the proper size but these
are the two ones if I hide this one for a little bit these are the two ones are
quite large so if I select both of them using my shift key or I drag like this I
can then resize them onto my on my canvas and because of this very helpful
snapping I can quickly find the place where they should be and then all I have
to do is just put them at the starting point and copy holding down shift I can
copy all the animations from the first clip right click ctrl copy and then
click on these clips and right-click and select paste
this has placed all the animations onto the other clips so again with the shift
key I can select all of the animations and line them up with the other one so
very quickly I have created the same animation on two more clips so if I want
this effect now to maybe happen to all of them so I can see them
because they are moving now on the same exact place all I have to do is just
select these ones and maybe move them if I want them to enter the scene later and
the animations will go with them
as you can see each one moves individually or if I want them to be in
the scene at the beginning all I have to do is just move the actual animations
for each one of them a bit later so now the same effect has been achieved
another trick if you want to make the animation you decide that the animations
are too slow you can speed them up by selecting all
of them and then you drag either one of them and all of them will change
duration so I can make my animations much faster if I just make them shorter
of course like this and if I want to move them closer again select them and
move them and they will move in sync like this so now they should move much
faster okay another trick I want to show you and
this has to do with the duration of the initial animation if I go to the
animations here and I drag a custom animation to my timeline to my clip you
will notice it's probably very short this is because I modified my default
because I wanted very fast action on that video I showed you but if you want
to change this so you don't have to change it all the time so let's say that
you usually work with animations that last maybe a second or half a second I
don't know maybe a second you can change the default animation duration for
Camtasia this will not change the animations you've already added to your
scene it will change all only the new ones so the way to do that is to go to
the program preferences go to the Edit menu preferences and go to timing and
here you have some default timings for various things for transitions images so
when you place images on your they will be by default five seconds
long each but here you have animation so at the moment because I changed this and
I made it shorter for myself 0.1 seconds that's why they are so short you can use
these arrows to move up and down or you can type in here let's say one second so
now when I click ok all of the animations that I put on my scene from
now on will be one second long so let's try custom animation drag it to my clip
notice it's now much longer so this is how you change the timings for default
things like animations and transitions so now I can use this one it's much
easier to use so this has been an overview of animation in Camtasia
remember that they work with a starting point and an ending point and then you
move your object in all of the points you move to the place you move the
object and then it moves from one point to another and you can vary the duration
vary the velocity the distance you can vary the easing and so on to achieve
many effects like this I actually added this clip to my library with with sound
so let me put it again and play it
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