Hey, this is Cristi. Thanks for joining me. In this video I'm going to show you a cool trick
on how to create a stamping effect in Camtasia. This works in Camtasia 2020 and 2021.
I'm doing it in 2021 now, but you can do it just as easily because we're using a feature
that exists in both versions. So what I mean by stamping effect is one of those stamps that
you can show like a fake stamp, just kind of approving a document or appearing like a red,
grungy edge stamp, that you stamp a document or you approve a video or something like that.
And it's very easy to do, let me show you. So I'm in Camtasia 2021. And I'm going to add a
annotation, go to annotations and just choose a text annotation and place it on your canvas.
And let's double-click and write the word Approved.
Like this, we want to make our stamp kind of say approved. You can, say any text you like,
I'm just going to make it a bit larger. And I'm going to make the text a bit larger like this,
and let's turn the text bold. I want a very bold text in here.
You can, of course use any font you want. So this is using no graphics coming from external
sources. I don't have to, you know, so the text is perfectly editable and I'll show you at the end,
how you can make it customizable in Camtasia 2021. And let's make this text
red. Just use a very bright red in here, and I'm going to add a border for this.
Now, in Camtasia 2021 and I believe also in 2020, if you go to Visual effects,
you can add a border. Unfortunately, the annotation like this doesn't have a border. So if
you go here, you don't have a border, but we can apply this border visual effect to it like so, and
let's just make it very thick. Maybe more than 10, let's say 20 maybe. And let's make it red as well.
So I'm just going to use the same red color. So far, so good. This is my stamp. Of course
I can click on it and resize this box so you can see, you know, it makes it any shape you like,
and let's move on to the next part.
The next part is making this look like a stamp. One thing that I want to do before I animate this
is I want to make it look like a bit of grungy kind of thing where you, you know,
it's showing a bit of texture maybe or something that it doesn't look so boring, like this one.
So the way we're going to do this is I'm saying, you know, we don't want to use any
PNGs or exported files from other software. So the way to achieve this in Camtasia is by including
a grungy bitmap with a grungy texture or something, and then applying an effect to
it on top of this video, on top of this text, so that it makes it look kind of random and grungy.
So the way to do this is we go to the media library, media bin here. And
I just found this image on the internet. It's a texture. It's a grungy texture kind of graphic
from the internet, depending on how grungy you want to look.
I found this on Pexels. You can go and download a lot of textures like this.
Let me just make this large here so you can see this grunginess here. It doesn't matter. We won't
actually see this on the scene. So what I want to do is you notice that my stamp is
at the bottom there. So it's now covered by this thing. So what I want to do is I want
to apply a track matte. This is something that was introduced in Camtasia 2020. A track matte
applies a alpha or a luminosity effect to whatever is underneath the next track down. So on the track
that I have this bitmap, I want to right-click on this eye icon, right here and choose the track
matte mode for this track. And I'm going to use luminosity like this. There you go.
You can now see that my stamp is looking very rusty, very sort of weird grungy edges and all
that stuff. So it looks more like a metallic kind of thing. You can actually do more with
this. Like you can change the opacity, but what I want to do is maybe change the contrast, because
maybe if I'm not happy with the kind of grunges you can, of course move the bitmap.
You can see, you can still move it. And when you're happy with the look,
maybe you want it to be a bit finer, so you make the image smaller just as soon as it doesn't
go out of the frame of your stamp. So you can go as small as this. So you notice here
I'm moving it here. So I kind of like how this works and it looks like this.
If you're still not happy with the level of contrast, you can go to visual effects.
I'm going to go to visual effects here and you can drag a color adjustment on your bitmap,
on the bitmap with the grungy texture that is now on the alpha with the track matte. I'm just going
to drag this on top and watch what happens: this one adds much more contrast. You can of course
play with the controls on the right side to change the brightness of the effect or the contrast of
the effect like this, because you're adjusting that effect on that bitmap that controls the
luminosity. So there you have it, when you're happy with your stamp, everything is cool.
It looks kind of grungy now, still moving it around here maybe, make it larger doesn't
matter what you do. When you're happy with this, all you have to do is just select both of these
things and group them. CTRL + G to group them like that. Now, the reason they disappeared
is because in Camtasia, when you group something, it brings everything together inside of the group
and inside of the group, there's all the track effects and everything you apply.
So what we need to do now, on the remaining track, we want to right click and turn off
the track matte. Put it to none, and there you have it, my object is done. Just to show
you how to animate this now, because you want it to be sort of coming in at some point and
you know, appear out of nowhere and stamp something. Right?
So for this purpose, I'm just gonna pull in a video file with a skater dude. So at some
point in here, I want to do, you know, show this jump, and then apply this stamp on top. I'm going
to move this graphic here that I just created on top, so just click and drag it to the top.
Okay. So this is the point where it needs to come in right here, right now, and there it comes in.
The way to bring this in is of course you want to animate it. So I'm going to zoom in
my timeline here so I can see what's happening. So you can notice, this guy just jumped in here,
so my animation should come in from this point. Just move your group to the back
and the way to animate this is we're going to make it very, very large and, let's zoom out a bit.
Okay. Like this. And I'm going to make my stamp huge, something like this. And I'm going to just
rotate it a bit too. So it comes in kind of like that, starts there. I'm going to go just a few
frames forward and just press, go to animations. I'm going to go to animations, animations,
custom animation, drag the animation on this group here and maybe make it shorter like that,
because I want my stamp to appear suddenly and with not much moving,
it just needs to appear from like very, very large, boom, just stamping my video.
If you notice here I have not yet told it where to go. So I'm going to the end of the animation here.
You see the final, the key frame is highlighted and zoom out a bit and just make the stamp small,
hold down the CTRL key to resize proportionally and from all corners.
And also I want to turn it sort of sideways like this a bit. So I'm just going to say
approved here on the sky. Okay. So let's see what we did.
I'm going to just go back to the playback. So let's see.
You can see it just stamps it there. One other thing I want to do just before the animation runs,
I want to go and turn the opacity down by going to this clip there and say opacity down like this.
So now. It appears and animates like that. Another thing you can do in Camtasia 2021,
this new visual effect was added called motion blur.
So actually you want to add, if you want to add a level of realism to this animation,
you can go to visual effects and scroll down, and then you have a motion blur here.
So I deliberately put my play head in between the two points. And when I
add the motion blur effect to the, group watch what happens. My animation is now blurred,
directional blur to where it's going. You know, radial kind of, I think it's radial
blur where it goes down like this. So this blur effect, notice what's happening, I'm scrolling
through my animation and it's making it sort of blurry because it gives it a bit of realism.
So now, that's my stamp right there. So you can play with this any way you like,
you can do the animation kind of, if you're not happy with the final position
you can zoom in and maybe rotate it a little bit.
And the thing that controls the motion blur intensity is the actual speed between the two
key frames. So the shorter the animation is, and the larger, the longer distances it has to travel,
the more pronounced the blur effect is. So if I move back in here and I make the animation much,
much, much shorter, like a couple of frames, you notice the blur effect is so intense,
you can hardly see anything on the screen. So I don't think you want that. You can play with it,
if you want like this. So notice, this is our animation with a stamping effect.
And let me show you a cool trick with Camtasia 2021. This doesn't work in 2020. With Camtasia
2021, you can turn this into a reusable asset and add it to your library, and every time you want
to apply a stamping effect with a different text like this or different colors, you can use this
trick, you know, so I'm happy with my approved animation here. Let's suppose I want to just leave
it until here, till this point. So I'm just gonna just make it shorter like that and just kind of
maybe faded out or something, I don't know. Let's just fade it, I'll use a transition,
zoom in a bit, like that.
So my stamp is going away in a few seconds. So watch this.
This is my group with everything I need inside of it. So I have my text,
I have my border and I have my bitmap that creates that grungy effect
all with the alpha effect, with the luminosity effect applied to it and everything else.
So this is a self-contained, asset I can add to my library.
Well, don't add it to your library yet, because if you come in here
and you go to the right side here in Camtasia 2021, you have this text box here. Look,
you can change the text that goes inside of the stamp. So if I want to say this,
something else, like Rejected, like that. Press ENTER, there you have it.
I did not have to go inside of the group. I didn't have to double click on the annotation.
The text just changes instantly because of this quick property. That's what it's called,
it's quick property. You can even change the font and the color in here
and all of that. Now you're ready to add this to your library.
So I'm just going to right-click and say, Add to library and you add it to your library.
Boom. You choose your library and let's call it a stamp and use the canvas size for that,
press OK. So now Camtasia's added that to my library.
So what I want to do is maybe later or in a different project, I have another video.
I'm just going to just drag another video in here with some playing car, just turn off the sound.
And watch this. This is a video I am just playing here. So now
all I have to do is just go to my library, drag this stamp to where I want it to come in.
You see it's coming in with the animation and everything, and it's playing like that.
And of course you can click on it and you can change the text in here again,
you know, travel or something. I don't know. So there you have it. We have created a reusable
stamp animation that comes in out of nowhere, it looks grungy, you can control the grunginess,
you can control, you know, make it look. And we did not have to use anything external except
for that grungy bitmap that we imported that gives us this nice border effect.
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