Hi this is Russell Stannard from teacher training videos.com I'm sorry I'm not
training videos calm I'm sorry I'm not in my studio today I'm actually in a
hotel room I'm gonna do a video about
the three different types of files that
we need to work with when we're working
with Camtasia a lot of you are confused
between the original recording files the
project files and the output file so if
you have that problem this video is
going to deal with it I'll show you some
real examples to make it really clear
let's get straight into it and as always
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section let's get started so let me try
to explain first of all before I
actually show your project when we start
with making recordings for example this
video that I'm making with you now it's
a collection of about four or five
recordings that I then put together so
those original videos are recording one
recorded two recorded three recorded
four recording five they're just the
original videos that you make okay and
then you bring all of those recordings
into Camtasia put them all together on
the editing line and that becomes the
project file so you've got all these
little recordings you bring them
together you stitch them together you
then edit them and you might add
different kinds of parts to the videos
for example you might have call-outs you
might have subtitles you might have some
animations going on so that project file
is all the recordings that you've
created
created
created plus any editing that you do within the
video editor so that's why you've got
initial recordings and then a project
file now it's that project father is
really important to save because if ever
you want to make any changes you're
going to go back to the project file
first and make your changes there now of
course you then need to produce that
file for different outputs you might
want to make
a video to save on your computer or you
might want to upload a video to YouTube
or you might want to save a video on to
your Google Drive so that is the output
now because you've saved the original
files and because you've saved the
project file if at any time you need to
make a new output you can simply open up
Camtasia open up your project file and
reproduce as many different outputs as
you want that's the great thing about
Camtasia now that way of working
actually works with all types of videos
so if you were filming real video so you
were filming someone again you might
have three or four pieces of video that
you've recorded you bring them into the
editor you then edit them and you then
produce an output so this kind of way of
working and having three file types is
standard in Camtasia and it's standard
in video production anyway so let's take
a now an exact look a project that I'm
doing and I'll point out the three file
types so over here in the left hand
corner we can see that we've got five
videos that we've screen captured okay
so each one of these is a video and that
is the very original recording and now
I've imported them into Camtasia and now
I'm gonna move them onto the screen onto
the editing window so what I'm gonna do
is collect one two three four five
together drag them onto the window here
so now we've got five videos all lined
up one after the other now is it this
stage that I could begin to add some
extra elements in I might for example
bring on some kind of call-outs where I
pointed something I'm Maya a later stage
for example have some text on the screen
so I can do all sorts of things now to
augment the video and put more detail
into it the idea now though is that once
I've done all the editing and I've
brought the original recordings together
I'm gonna save that as a project file so
I will click on save as and this would
become a project so let's call this one
test project one now in reality when I
work on this I get those project names
really clear name so if I need to use
that project again then I can easily
find it now another thing I always do is
I put everything in one folder so all of
the original recordings plus the project
are always saved in the same folder so
that I can easily find them and
everything is together in the one place
now it comes to and I'm going to click
on that Save button so we've now saved
that so we've got the original videos
okay which if we just come back to here
we've got the original videos which was
the original recordings I've made one
two three four five that's one file type
we've now saved it all together as a
project that's the second type of file
and the third type of file will be the
output now we can output in lots of
different ways we could click on share
button here and the most obvious thing
would be to do would be to click on
local file and to turn this into an mp4
video so that will be the third file
type so we would simply click on next
choose in this case for example smart
player or mp4 or we've got various
choices I'm using a slightly older
version of Camtasia for this example but
it wouldn't matter if you were using
Camtasia right and you're always gonna
have a series of choices you click on
next and then you would produce that
video so you would have your original
recordings you've then got your project
file and then you've got this output
that you've produced now if ever you
wanted to go back and produce more
outputs where you can simply open up the
project file again and produce another
output and say for example share and
share it on to go on to YouTube or share
it on to Google etc and that's why there
are always three file types in Camtasia
the original recording or recordings
that you make you then bring all those
recordings into Camtasia you then
augment it or edit it or make any
changes you save that as the project and
then you make your output for YouTube
for Google etc hope that's made that
clear really hope this video is useful a
lot of people have been asking me this
question if you're not kind of over
favorite video you may fight difficult
and confusing that they're free of video
types really hope I've answered that
question and thank you very much I
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