Camtasia 2021 is here!
Hi! I'm Andy from TechSmith.
Let's jump right into showing off all the new effects we've packed into this release,
with Joe Dearman, a Senior User Experience Designer here at TechSmith. Take it away Joe!
Camtasia 2021 comes loaded with dozens and dozens of new transitions.
Now if you do a lot of edits with your screen recording – maybe you're trying to cut down the duration –
or maybe you're cutting between talking head footage and screen recording content –
or from one portion of a workflow to the next – or from one application to another
choosing the right transition will go a long way in helping that
viewer discern that shift of context.
But it also is a great shortcut for getting pro animation
results, or pro animator results
as a beginner. So I want to show you one example here today.
You can see I have some text on my canvas that I've done in Camtasia here.
I have my subtitle at the top this little cross bar and then a big headline.
And what I'm going to do is I'm going to select all three of
these pieces of media and I'm just gonna go over to the left of the screen and select, "transitions."
And you're gonna see this long list of beautiful transitions to choose from.
Now I'm going to go ahead and apply the blur slide
that's one of my favorites and you can see I've marked the gold star here.
And I'm going to go ahead and drag that
onto the media and let's go
ahead and preview what we get just out of the box.
Another way to really level up and make your videos more cinematic
is a new feature in Camtasia 2021 called "motion blur." It's a visual effect.
Now I'll show it to you really quickly here. I have my simple title treatment
and I've added the explode behavior and so the characters
explode into view and you can see all of them are pretty crisp and intact.
Now if I move over to visual effects and I grab motion blur and drag it on, right away
you can see all of this really expressive blur that just gives that
story of speed and quickness to the eye. Let's preview it and see how it looks
Just like that it's a really cool touch and polish your animation.
Another feature I've been using a lot in Camtasia 2021 is corner rounding.
If you ever wanted to just give a more refined look to your webcam footage
overlaying on screen recording or your slides this is a really great way to do it.
It's just a nice refined look. I'm going to go ahead and navigate over to the visual effects
bin in Camtasia and just grab the corner rounding effect.
And just drag it right on to my webcam footage.
And I'm just going to increase the radius here
and just like that you can see I've made a nice little
app icon type of treatment and it only just took a couple clicks of the mouse.
Have you ever noticed that great videos tend to have one thing in common?
And that is great audio? That's been my observation.
And one of the ways to do great audio in a video is adding background music.
And in the past that was a really time consuming thing to do.
But in Camtasia 2021 we've made it really easy to emphasize
the tracks that you want to be audibly louder than say a background music track.
Let me show you what I mean. Here I have added a background music track and I
have my voice over narration. All I'm going to do is just click and drag the Emphasize
Audio effect onto my narrator media and
Let's just go ahead and hear what it sounds like right out of the box.
I have a little intro I've designed let's go ahead and see for ourselves or hear for ourselves
[music]
"Adding great sounding audio to your videos is just a click away in Camtasia 2021."
[music]
Camtasia 2021 also comes with a new visual effect called the Media Matte
effect. This allows you to transform otherwise ordinary text, shapes, and even footage
Into eye-catching visuals and motion graphics that'll have your friends and colleagues wondering how you did it.
Add stunning color-grading treatments
with the Color LUT or color look up table
visual effect in Camtasia 2021. This is the same file format used
by professional filmmakers and photographers all over the world.
if you've ever wanted to add dynamic and expressive character animations
animations to your videos look no further than Camtasia 2021.
We've added the ability to import Lottie files which
allow you to import animations made by pro animators in other tools.
We've also added the ability to quickly turn off or on
visual and audio effects in Camtasia. This will give you freedom and flexibility to
experiment with the various enhancements you're making to your videos.
Our simple to use and efficient zoom pan workflow
has now made it to the Mac platform.
With this tool you can quickly draw your viewer's attention to
key moments with smooth and effective animations.
Thanks Joe! On top of all those sweet new effects Camtasia 2021
has streamlined the custom asset creation process
And smoothed out your high-resolution video workflow.
Kelly Rush, Product Manager from the Camtasia team can tell you all about it. Kelly?
Thanks Andy. Let's take a look at some of the new enhancements we have in Camtasia 2021
that will help with asset creation and streamlining your editing workflow.
If you've used the library in Camtasia before or especially if you've used the TechSmith Asset Store,
then you'll know that there's some great customizable motion graphics and animations available.
In Camtasia 2021 we're going to be making the same tools we've used to create these assets available to you.
With Camtasia's new Auto Quick Properties all you need to do to make a new quick property asset
is add your timeline objects to a group.
Once you've done that Camtasia will automatically look through your objects and assign properties
to your new asset so that you or others you're
collaborating with can quickly and easily edit
and update assets for future videos.
Sometimes you'll find that you want to customize your assets
properties even more. If that's the case,
simply select your asset and launch the Quick Property Editor
With this new editor you'll have more detailed control over the properties that are
exposed for your asset. You can change property field labels adjust listing
position and even remove properties altogether.
A great way to organize sections of video on your Camtasia timeline is by using groups.
In Camtasia 2021 we've adjusted the interface and workflow for how groups work.
Like before, to group parts of your timeline simply select all the objects you want to group
And choose "Group." Previously in Camtasia your media would be moved into a collapsible shelf.
In Camtasia 2021 groups are now presented in a tabbed interface,
allowing you to have multiple tabs open simultaneously. This makes moving
between groups much easier, especially when building more complex assets that contain nested groups.
Camtasia is great for editing all sorts of high definition video but sometimes
working with multiple HD or even 4K videos at a time can bring even the most powerful systems to a crawl.
To help with that, Camtasia 2021 is introducing proxy videos.
A proxy video will create a temporary lower fidelity copy of your video to use during the editing process.
This will allow you to edit more complex projects at higher playback frame rate.
When you produce your video Camtasia automatically swaps back to the higher fidelity original video
leaving you with a great looking final video.
One of the challenges of working with more complex projects
is keeping your source media files organized and
often the end result is having files scattered all of your hard drive.
This becomes especially problematic when it's time to share your project with a
colleague or if you need to move your project to different computer to work on.
To make this easier Camtasia 2021 is including Standalone Projects.
When you save your project as a standalone project
any media you import into Camtasia will be
automatically stored in a standalone project container.
This will keep all your project files in one spot allowing you to easily
copy and share them across your different devices
or with other collaborators on your video.
I'll send you back to Andy to take things home.
Thanks Kelly! Alright, to wrap it up I think you've seen something that made you go
"I have to try that!" And you can!
Download Camtasia 2021 today!