Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com Today we're going to
look at my favorite technology Camtasia we look at counter year 2019 and what we're going to do is
we're going to look up making really professional intros and outros to your screen capture videos
now lots of you will be producing content perhaps training content in a university in an institution
and an educational institution or perhaps in company training and you really want to brand
your videos or perhaps you're putting your videos onto YouTube and you really want to brand them so
we're really going to focus on the library assets that we have available to us in Camtasia that can
allow us to produce these really professional intros and outros now I'm just going to say
one thing I don't work for TechSmith Camtasia I'm simply I recommended trainer for them and
that's because I've been using Camtasia since 2005 really hope you like this video if you do
please like it please share it please comment on it and please if you've got any questions
write your questions in the comment section and I will do my best to answer them let's get
straight into it professional intros and outros - screen capture videos working with Camtasia 2019
now I'm imagining of course for this training that you already know how to do screen capture so what
we're really doing is taking some screen capture video and trying to make it look more professional
by having an interest in intro and an interest in outro so I've got some screen capture here I'm
just gonna drag one of the videos onto the screen so it's gonna drag that on and the first thing
I will do is click the right click and click on scale to fit because I want it to be full screen
on the canvas and I can play that video and you'll see it's just a standard video and start with the
website called and I'm actually talking about a technology here called TalkEnglish.com now it
wouldn't be a very good way just to straightaway have a video wouldn't it be great if we could
have a nice intro into this video perhaps with some music introducing for example my company
before we actually start this video and then again another perhaps outro at the end so this
is what I'm going to try and show you today and the way that we need to do that is to work with
the library so Camtasia provides a library with lots of video and media assets that we can make
use of I'm gonna click over here and the one that I'm gonna be interested in at the moment is the
intros and I'm going to click on that and there's a whole range of them I'll just click on a couple
just to see what they're like and just to show you we can click and actually see the animation
and what you can do with these intros is that you can simply change the text so we've got a
nice example here of an intro let's just have a quick look at a couple more this is another one
and can I use any of these I can simply come in to the actual text and change it now the one that I
like and I use a lot is this one here which is a spinning computer and the lovely thing about this
one is again I can simply change the text so it fits my company and I'm gonna work with that one
so what I'm going to do is move this video along the timeline a little bit because I want to bring
on this intro video I'm just gonna kind of zoom in a little bit just to make it a little bit easier
to see and now you'll notice that as we click we've already got the video on the screen and
the one problem is it says text move Camtasia and I want to change that so I'm going to double click
and I'm gonna right teacher training videos comp and now in seconds I have literally produced a
wonderful winter oh really professional-looking intro which comes onto the screen it shows my
company then that animation moves off the screen and then the screencast with the audio in it now
one thing is that we haven't got any music at the beginning that would be great so I'm going to now
look at introducing or bringing in some music to go along with that opening animation so not only
does Camtasia provide intro videos that we can use to make our own videos look much more professional
but we also have access to some music as well which we can use in fact this a nice collection
of kind of introductory music tracks that we can make use of so again clicking on the library you
going to come down to the music tracks we can quickly listen see if there okay so it's perhaps
look at this one here okay that's a bit perhaps a bit too heavy what about this one that's okay
this one here that I often use it's called Firefly I'm just going to click on this one
and I really like that one nice and lively and light so I'm gonna actually work with that and
I'm just gonna drag that on to my time line right from the beginning so now when I play the video
I've not only got some music but I sorry not only got the audio but I've also got the music as well
can we start now one problem is you probably notice is that the music still playing and
suddenly I've started talking because the screen captures started so what we need to do
is at that point and we can kind of use these controls here just to jump back to this kind
of moves you always to the next object on the screen you can do it with moving this way but
I often use these buttons to kind of jump back and at this point I'm actually gonna click on
that audio file cut it and then I'm gonna click on this section of it and delete it because I
don't want the music to be playing all the way through I just want the music at the beginning
now when I play the video the music will stop and and then the talking would start now one
thing that we can do to make this even bit more professional is that we can actually come down
to audio effects and we've got an effect here called fade-out and this is great because I
can drop this on the audio file just at the end so the great thing now that's gonna happen and
I'm just gonna bring it along I can do that as well that is that the music is gonna play and
it's gonna fade out before my speaking start so this starts to look really professional and I'm
just gonna play a few seconds of that just to demonstrate it so the music fades and in comes
to speaking and that's a great way of producing a really professional intro combining the use of
intros with the audio and don't forget to use the fade-out which is one of the audio effects
now we can do exactly the same as we did with the intro with the outro so if I come over to
my library and again this time I'm not going to perhaps use the computer one let's try a
different one so I'm going to bring in this one here which I showed you earlier drag that onto
the screen and now we've got this outro but I will need to change the text in fact what I'm
going to put I'm just gonna write thank you so I'm just going to make it really really simple
thank you and that's simply now added onto the screen and it's just play that back and
it should work okay video finishes and we've got then thank you coming up onto the screen
we can write anything else we want if we want to it doesn't have to just limit it to one line
of text and again it would be a great idea to include music too and come up to the library
and this time I'm going to come to the music in fact probably I'm going to use the same music
as I used before so I can actually click on my media whenever you use any objects in your
production of your video they will appear in your media bin so I don't have to bring that
in from the library again I can already use that audio file here drop that on so we've
got the music here as soon as I stop speaking the music starts with the outro but again I'm
gonna want to make sure that at the end there I'm gonna click on that I'm going to cut the
audio and I'm gonna do exactly the same as I did before I'm going to come to the Audio FX I'm gonna
choose this one here drop that in and that's gonna fade out now I can't even fade in I don't
use that so often but I always like to fade the music out so now we've got an outro so when the
video finishes that's just played the last few seconds seek understanding there's the ending
now I have to say that often I use the same intro as I do the outro because it kind of
connects the two together you get an idea now of how you can make your videos more professional
and how you can make use of the library it's a great facility that's available in Camtasia
we're using today Camtasia 2019 2018 and 2019 are quite similar there are some updates with
2019 but they're very very similar the interfaces really hope you liked that video if you did please
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