hi this is Russell Stannard from TeacherTrainingVideos.com I'm a
recommended TechSmith Camtasia trainer here in the UK I'm gonna show you a lovely little trick
is just a couple of minutes it's gonna show you how to make sure your Camtasia recordings
are always the perfect screen size if you look at many of the videos on YouTube you'll see that the
aspect ratios are all mixed up and the videos don't fit correctly into the screen I'm gonna
show you just a couple of tips that will make sure that every video that you do will be the
perfect size and we'll put fit perfectly into YouTube or on to your website always working
on a widescreen aspect ratio let me show you how so first of all what you can see is that on the
screen I've got this browser and I'm going to imagine I want to record this browser perhaps
because I'm going to demonstrate to demonstrate something about using Google so what I'm going
to do is I'm going to set the screen size to one of the three possible widescreen aspect ratios
we always want to be recording and at an aspect of 16 pixels across by 9 pixels down and any of
these three will guarantee that so I'm going to click on that now obviously it's not the right
size if I move it into place it's not nearly as the right size but it's not quite the right size
so what I can do now is first of all click here and lock that aspect ratio that means if I make
this any bigger or any smaller it will always stay 16 by 9 and that's really important when I produce
the final video so now I've gotten 16 by 9 aspect ratio and it's always locked but of course I want
my browser to fit exactly inside that recording or what I do is just choose another option which is
lock to application now the application will now jump inside of that recording area and even if I
make the recording area smaller the application will also resize but we're always keeping the 16
by 9 aspect ratio that is what you want to do that is what I do every time to make sure that
every recording I do is always sixteen by nine now there's one final thing to remember when you bring
your recording in to Camtasia and let me quickly show you that now this is the final part of the
jigsaw puzzle let's import in some video so I just made a quick test video using exactly that
idea that I've suggested and I'm going to set the screen size of the final project to be full
screen so that's going to be ten or nine twenty by ten eighty so I click on that remember that's got
an aspect ratio of 16 by 9 I'm going to apply that and I'm going to bring in the video that
I just recorded now of course you can notice that the video is not big enough for the size
of the actual project and so I need to resize it but remember I did keep the aspect ratio to
be a perfect sixteen by nine so if I right click and click on scale to fit it will fit perfectly
and because of the quality of videos these days as long as you don't make the video too small
you're hardly going to notice any difference so it makes it easy if you want to record something on
the screen not full size for various reasons you often don't want to do that but you want to keep
that 16 by 9 aspect ratio I really hope that's helped you that's a great tip and you could often
see examples on the internet where people haven't done that and now you perhaps will realize why hi
this is Russell stand out from teacher training videos calm and really hope you liked that video
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