Hi, it's Troy. And I just want to show you how quickly you can make
an amazing looking intro with just Camtasia and Techsmith assets. But before we get started,
let's check out the intro.
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All right. As I said,
I used Camtasia 2022 along with Techsmith assets subscription service which
provides customizable graphics along with stock images, video and audio.
If you have any questions about the products, check out the link in the description.
Everyone has their own process when making an intro. I like to start with the music because
I find it easier to match the visuals to the audio than the other way around.
I'm going to start my search for music on the text Smith assets for Camtasia website.
You can see here that there's different categories. In this case I need audio,
so I will click here and we need music.
I'm making a demo video or a hype video.
I wanted to be a little bit uptempo, So what I'm going to do, you see we have these filters
over on this side. I'll go down to mood and action
sports seems like a category that might have some upbeat music. So I'll hit apply.
It's going to update the music and if I hover over any music it'll start playing.
I'll just scroll through this to find
the music that I need and this is the song that I'm going to choose.
And the reason that I like it is that there is a buildup at the beginning of
the song and then there's a beat drop which allows me to sort of emphasize
something visually at the same time. So this is the song that I'm going to use.
What I'm going to do is I'm going to click this send to Camtasia button
and it's going to ask me which library I want to add it to. And you can click this drop down
and choose which one that you want to add it to in this case. Want to add it to this one.
And I'll click import. And that music shows up here. Now I can just click and drag
it onto the timeline below. So listening to this music.
You can hear the you can hear the build up.
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There's like a new section that's that's also built up.
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OK, so here was the beat drop, right? Here and I can zoom in.
If I want to get a closer look. All right.
So this is the beat drop right here.
So that's the point I want to emphasize. We can see that that happens at
almost 20 seconds, 19 seconds, unchanged right here. So that's a little bit longer
than I want my intro to be. So I'm going to look for opportunities to cut out sections
of this to make that shorter.
So as we listen to this.
This is a little bit slower of a buildup.
So this is that new section so
I think I can easily cut out. This first section here, so I'll.
I'll split it there and I'll just delete this section. And we'll listen to the rest.
See how long is this?
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So the beat drop happens at 10. We want it to play for a little bit longer after that,
so let's listen to what's after it.
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So we'll probably want to end the intro right around here.
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So in this little gap, why don't we choose here? Split it again?
And we'll delete that section.
All right, So what we have is 14 seconds. That sounds like a pretty good
length for what I'm looking to do, so why don't we keep this audio track right here?
The default background or canvas color in Camtasia is black, but I think for this video I want to
add a little bit more visual interest. So if I wanted to change it to another
solid color I could just right click and choose project settings. Change the color here.
And select any of these colors, but in this case I think I want to use a color gradient instead.
Actually, for me, Camtasia already has gradients built into the Camtasia 2022 library,
so once I select that library I can go down to this fills and overlays section.
I can look through here, you can see there's a bunch of different gradients. I'll choose multi color.
You can see there's a bunch of different options. I'll choose this gradient #7,
drag it down to my timeline. As you can see, you can customize
the colors over on this side, and I've made a theme for Camtasia or snagit colors,
so I'll choose that one. I want this top color to be white.
I'll choose a light blue for the second color and we'll keep the orange for
the third color and this will be the gradient that we use for the video.
Next I'm looking to add a visual effect on top of the background we just added and for that I'm
going to go to the website for techsmith assets for Camtasia. If you remember,
this is where we got our audio at the beginning and now we're going to look for a visual effect,
and for that I'm going to go to videos. And effects. As you can see,
we have some different visual effects. A lot of these say alpha channel,
and that's what I'm looking for because that would be a visual effect
with a transparent background so that you'll be able to see the gradient behind it.
So this one looks good, so I am going to send this to Camtasia. Now it's going to ask me which
library I'd like to add it to. In this case I'll choose this one. Select import.
And you can see it next to our music from earlier.
I'll just drag this on to the timeline. You'll see the properties over on this side,
and one that you may want to adjust is the opacity and that will adjust how transparent this is.
So if I slide it all the way to 0. You can see the full gradient and as I start moving it over,
you start to see some of that smoke so we can move it over. Say right here and let's see
what this looks like.
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And maybe we want to make that just a little bit more opaque.
And why don't we leave it at 65?
What I want to do now is add a company logo to this intro, and I can do that by clicking this
plus button, selecting the file and importing it into Camtasia. Same as before, add it to the library
I want and wait for it to import. And here it is. And I could just click
and drag this down to the timeline. And I want to make this same length
as the music, so there we go.
I want to slowly fade this logo in and I
can do that by adding a custom animation. OI go to the animations tab,
grab the custom one and drag it down.
I want to have this fade in pretty slowly,
so I'll make it to right about there. I can make it fade in by bringing the
playhead to the beginning and changing the opacity over here to 0 so that
makes it disappear and I can come over here to the end of the animation. The opacity is 100%,
so let's see what that looks like.
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All right, the smoke kind of disappears abruptly, so I want to add a fade transition to that,
and I think I also want to add it to the logo itself at the end.
Let's see how this looks.
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So the beat drop is right here. So what I want to do is I'm
going to split this logo. In a couple spots. That's how I can add an animation
where it shakes as the beat drops,
so I'll split it here and the end
of the beat drop is right about here so I'll split it again.
And I will add the shake animation by
going to behaviors and this pulsating 1. I'll apply it to this one.
You can see over here in the properties panel for the in I actually want to
change this to none and the out I want to change it to none as well. And during.
I want it to pulsate right now if we grub through this.
It's not really shaking, it's very slow. And if we want it to shake
along with the beat, we want the shape to be really quick. So the loop time right here is one second,
which is going to be too long for what we're looking to do. So how about we change this
to 1/10 of a second? And see how that looks.
So that's a pretty quick shake.
I think that'll be good. All right, so let's kind of watch this through.
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Music kind of abruptly stops, so I think what we'll want to
do is just. Add in audio point.
Add another audio point. At the end there and just
kind of fade this out. As it goes, let's give it a final watch.
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And there you have it. We made a great
looking intro in just a few steps. If you enjoyed the video, give it a like.
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