Hi this is Russell Stannard from Teacher training videos.com today we're going to look at Camtasia
we're gonna look at Camtasia here 2019 but this is totally relevant to 2018 as well we're going
to look at ways of saving time when working with Camtasia and I'm gonna give you five great tips I
train lots of people in using Camtasia and it is one of the things that I notice that they don't
realize many of the time-saving techniques that are available so let's get into it 5 techniques
to save time when working with Camtasia now this first mistake I see all the time for example
people want to add the cursor onto the timeline so let's come over to the cursor here and they
drag it on to the first part of the video then they drag it on to the second part and there's
really no need to that what you can do is you can actually select all of the videos where you want
to add the cursor and then simply drag the cursor on and immediately it will be applied to all 5 of
the videos now another problem that I often see is that people are trying to edit the audio and
let's just take an example here we've got some audio here as you can see it's quite difficult
to edit the audio because it's on the video line here and we can just about grab it but
it's difficult to do really make it much easier to edit your audio if you just come over to the
right hand side here and right click and choose maximize track and immediately you can just work
with it so much easier so whenever I'm editing the audio I always maximize the track it just makes it
simple for me to then be able to manipulate and change the audio and work with it another feature
that you can use is to group objects together because then it's easier to move them around
the timeline I laughed and see people trying to move one object and then trying to move another
object and the easiest thing to do let's just take an example here I'm going to select all of
those videos at the bottom of the timeline and then I'm going to click right-click and choose
group now I've grouped all the objects together it's much easier for me to move that around and
put it somewhere else on the screen I want it so grouping objects can really save you a lot
of time if you need to manipulate things and move them around the screen another thing that I see
a lot and often happens to me as well is that you're trying to work on the screen with one
particular asset and you're interfering and moving accidentally other assets on the screen and this
often happens where you've got say two pieces of animation happening on the screen or when you've
got the webcam on the screen it often happens as well so if we took an example here where we've
got an animation here and an animation here and we don't want them to interfere with each other or to
begin to manipulate one and accidentally move the other whatever you don't want to touch lock that
particular track so if you come over to the left here you can just lock the track and what does
that mean well it means that you can't move that you can't even click on it and do anything yes
you can move other things on the screen as you can see but what you can't move now is that particular
one and in this case if I wanted to lock another track I could also do that as well just click for
example on this track track here at the bottom then I've now even locked that so locking tracks
when you're working on other tracks can really save you time and it will stop you moving things
around and accidentally moving the wrong object the biggest tip that I can give you though is
to really think about the project size the actual output that you're going to produce right from the
beginning of doing your project and this I often see when I'm working with trainee trainers and
trying to help them to produce content in Camtasia let me give an example because this is crucial
if I drag this asset onto the screen it seems to be okay let's imagine that we started doing some
work with this asset now and add an audio etc and suddenly at the end we go to the project settings
and we realized that actually the canvas size that we've set is not the size that we want to use when
we share the video we need to set the canvas size at the beginning because look what happens if you
don't suddenly if I then rechange the canvas size to the correct canvas size suddenly I
realized I've got all this white space around the asset that I've produced a golden rule is before
you even start to work on the screen decide what project go to your project settings set
your canvas size to the correct size that you are planning to use when you output your content when
you drag your content onto the screen then it's gonna look exactly the way it's gonna look when
you reproduce the video I really hope you liked that video if you did please like it please share
it with other trainers and teachers and please if you've got any questions about Camtasia then
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training then you can contact me from my website I do online training and face-to-face training
in Camtasia and lots of other technologies as well and thank you very much finally I've
added three additional links to other Camtasia videos that you might find useful thank you