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With the latest version of Camtasia, you can change the project settings
to be appropriate for social media. For example, if you want to do a vertical project,
you can do that at different dimensions. You can do a square version or
the traditional widescreen. 1080P is the standard one. But for now let's go with vertical.
Click apply and as you can tell, the canvas shows up here in this vertical look.
If the canvas is somehow not perfectly visible, simply go to this percentage up here and
choose fit and it'll drop in just nicely. Whether you made a camera recording as I did,
or a screen recording, or you imported footage from a phone, or for zoom,
it's probably going to not fit perfectly. It might look good, but you can tell already that
I'm pointing at something that is practically off screen. We will get there.
What I wanted to show you here is that we can get to something that does look pretty good.
It's got some motion, it's got some animation, it's got some text, it's got colors,
it's got arrows that bounce on and off and generally makes a pretty decent impression.
Let's start from scratch with a simple recording here. I've got here something that I am
pointing to that I obviously need to change. Let's say that for a good part of this recording,
it was OK for it just to be me on screen, but ultimately I need to be able to also
show the other object that's on the screen. So I click on my recording over here
on the timeline and I go to properties. At this point, if I wanted to, I could
scale it down and move everything over. That is definitely an option.
So it sort of looks like that. If I wanted to,
I could also split things on the timeline. Right there. And now what comes next?
I have some other options. I could choose to scale this U significantly and drag it over.
So now my shot might look a little bit like this your way in the wilderness,
but you can also use one of these RAM ball. OK, now I've got.
That zooming in just like that.
The alternative there is I can undo that and.
I can choose just about here. To do something called a custom animation,
that's what the keyboard combination of shift and a that adds a little error on the timeline.
Just so you can see it. I'm going to zoom in on the timeline a bit more and from here it's Louis
easier for me to make that animation little bit longer or shorter.
And. What I transitioned to from here to here.
Depends on what I change in the property. So if I choose now that I'm
clicked on that little red ball, it's going to end my animation with whatever I change here.
OI might zoom into this device right here and it
might look like this. About like that, OK. So we've got something there
that we want to focus people's attention to for just a second,
and I will add one more animation.
And I will simply zoom back out, restoring
that zoom level to where it was before.
Zooming in and zooming out. Now, I might want to show people what was actually in there.
So I'll go to the media and I can show people this Amazon cart item here.
Let's actually zoom down on my camera video.
We'll go down here with me and up here we
will have the camera video or excuse me, we'll have the Amazon,
so it might look a little bit like that. You can get the idea of how you might
be able to combine things as you go. Let's ultimately show people what it
looks like in in the wild, if you will. So I'm going to show one more photograph
from a trip in which I use that object and,
as I did before, shift a we are going to
transition to something really scaled up.
And I will bring it U like there. And this is now where we're
going to add some annotations. And the annotations, I'm going to choose the bold ones
and I'll grab an arrow over here and I'll point it down to where that motorcycle mountain goes.
And going over here to the properties, to the annotation tab gives me a
chance to make that nice and thick. And one of the beautiful things here is
that I can animate this by going to. Behaviors and I can choose anyone of these,
but I'll choose grow for now, and that arrow is going to O in a little bit like that. Finally,
if I'd like to add a little bit of text to go along with that,
I can go back over to my library and there is something called titles
in the Camtasia 2022 library. I'll choose this one right here. Big motion brackets.
Put it up here on the screen and
give it a name. Motorcycle mount.
If I want to, I can give it a different color.
We'll choose that color right there.
And maybe I'll just move that to
be just about, just about there O. There we go.
Zooming out on the timeline a little bit, I can choose how long I want all
of the this to be on screen.
And we will then go back to my camera video.
At this point, maybe in my camera video
I am let's hit a slit on the timeline.
And we're going to go back to. About that shot. Now, this is not bad.
This is a good sequence of maybe 1015 seconds worth of content here. But if there was one last thing
that I might want to change, it's that I've got a fair bit of black.
That's simply the color of the project. If I chose to change the background,
I could, and I could have it be, oh, I don't know, let's say maybe the
midnight blue in my Detroit baseball cap. Maybe that's kind of what I wanted to go for.
It's an option. It is absolutely an option. Another option.
Here if I zoom out a little bit so we can see it all is I can go and
right click and insert a track below. Now with what that track below
does for me is it allows me to put some more stuff into the titles.
There is something in the title excuse me, there's something in the Camtasia
library called PHILLS and overlays and I might go down to one of the
options here called Neon motion and I'm going to drag that down.
Underneath. And it doesn't look like anything happened. What's going on? Well,
the reason that you can't see it is because it's sitting underneath my camera video.
Lower track underneath it. Can't see it. Not a problem.
We're going to go to this property over
here and I am going to rotate it 90 degrees. Hit enter. Still, it's not showing up
because it's still fitting underneath. Not a problem. I can scale that up. OK, another thing.
Can do here is I can play with the opacity a little bit.
And it's going to go right through like that. Now if I want to, I can also go back
to some of those settings and maybe change those colors ever so slightly,
where maybe maybe we'll have one be
darkish blue that that animates through. So I can change the the colors of some
of these animations ever so slightly to match maybe what I'm wearing or
or some of my background as I go and I can adjust the opacity to.
Make it a little bit more artistic, as I wish. As it folks, there's a lots more that you
can obviously do with the video. But the good news is that you can make a vertical video look pretty
good with some animations, some behaviors, and the same thing you do with the normal width of videos,
which is you can add additional content to it and to animate it and still make it look pretty good.
Thanks for watching.
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