Using Camtasia Studio To Create Content

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Content Creation - Camtasia
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Preparation for Recording
• There is a series of steps you should follow to
get the task done efficiently in creating a video
with Camtasia.
• After being forced to come out with six videos
for a school alumni dinner in the space of a few
days, I suddenly became more competent.
• So practice a lot, because practice will make
you perfect.

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Storyboard
• You begin by planning your video sequence.
Video professionals call this storyboarding.
• You can create storyboards with PowerPoint.
• I am old school, so I usually fold an A4 paper 3
times so that I end up with 8 squares. Then I
write down my storyboard in those 8 boxes. Then
transfer to PowerPoint.
• Always put down your thoughts in writing, it will
help to firm up the concept in your mind.
• Lecturers have slides which they’ve fine tuned
over years of lectures. Use this to your
advantage.

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Recording Your PowerPoint
Presentation.

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3 Ways to Record Your Screen
From within PowerPoint, click on Add-Ins At Menu
From within Camtasia Studio
Personally I prefer to use Camtasia Recorder to
ensure control which part of screen is recorded.

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Setting Up for Recording
Begins recording your PowerPoint Presentation.
Records Audio for the PowerPoint slides if selected.
Records Camera with the PowerPoint Presentation if
selected.
Displays the Camera Preview during recording.
Click the Recording options icon to set up specific
options for recording, including:
• Records the mouse cursor
• Video and Audio Format
• Audio source (adjust volume)
• Camera Setup
• Hotkeys for Record/Pause and Stop
Opens help topic for more information.
The Camtasia Studio
Recording Toolbar
within PowerPoint
Please click on Options and play around with it’s options.
From within
PowerPoint,
click on Add-
Ins At Menu
to see the
toolbox below.

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During Recording
1. Click record to launch your Slideshow.
2. Check the microphone input level. When
ready, select the Click to begin
recording button or use the hotkeys.
3. Give lecture as usual according to the
PowerPoint presentation slides during the
recording.
4. Once done, press Esc to stop recording.

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After Recording
1. At the end of the recording; choose
whether to Stop Recording
or Continue Recording.
If you choose to stop recording,
click the Stop Recording button
in the PowerPoint recording toolbar.
2. After you save the file, choose whether
to:
• Produce your recording.
or
• Edit your recording before
producing it. This will trigger open
Camtasia Studio programme.

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Cancelling a Recording
1. Press
2. When the Save Camtasia
Recording As… dialog box appears,
click Cancel. Don’t worry, it
happens to me a lot. If I can’t get
my thoughts to sync with the slides,
I cancel & restart again.
3. When the dialog box appears
asking if you are sure you want
to delete the current video capture,
click Yes.

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Camtasia Recorder – recording
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Recording Screen with Narration
• Open the Camtasia Recorder to record the screen with your
narration.
• Adjust the Camtasia Recorder capture area to record the
entire PowerPoint Slide Show window.
• It works best if you set the window to 1024 by 768.
• Make sure your microphone gain is turned up, but not so
high as to distort. Once ready, click on the “REC” button.

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Review the Recorded Slide
• After you record something, Camtasia provides a
playback window that lets you review it.
• You can delete the recording if you do not like it,
or you can save it for future use.
• When you save a clip, use a separate folder for
each new project and begin the filename with
a number (01 to 99), so the file manager will
display the clips in sequence.
• Give it a name that helps you to recall the topic of
the clip.

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Begin filename with number

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Time to try it out!
• Adjust the Camtasia capture area to record the
PowerPoint Slide Show window.
• It works best if you set the window to 1024 by
768.
• Record the slide with your own narration. Don’t
stop due to minor mistakes, can be edited out.
• Save it.
• Edit out any unwanted audio pauses or glitches
using Camtasia Studio.
• Save it & produce the video.

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Camtasia Studio
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Inserting Clips into
Camtasia
• After you begin editing your
production, you can change the
editing dimension of your
project.
• If you are producing for the
YouTube, I recommend 1024 x
768. Otherwise the text on the
slides may be unreadable.
• Automatic Smart Focus is
available in v7 to v8.3 or later.
However it is more efficient to
create the zooms manually.

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Using the Clip Bin
• If you right-click
the Clip Bin and
choose Import
Media, you can
import all the
.trec clips you
created earlier
plus any other
media files that
you want to use.

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• Undo
• Re-do
• Cut &split track
• Paste track
• Copy track
• Cut & restitch track
• Timeline zoom-in,
zoom-out
(horizontally)
• Tracks zoom-
in, zoom-out
(vertically)
•Different layers of
tracks, highest
number is topmost
layer, most visible.
Toolbar – dynamic, kept changing,
based on the previously clicked
item.

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Delete Pauses and Glitches
• On the timeline, you can delete all the pauses
and glitches in your production. The timeline’s
“zoom in” and “zoom out” features are very
helpful here.

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Cut & Restitch Track
• Play the recorded track. Upon reaching the part to be
deleted, pause it. Use green tab to mark the beginning
and red tab to mark the end of to-delete section. Press
play to ensure that no important part will be deleted.
Once you are satisfied, click on the “cut” icon.

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Create Markers
• Markers create a sidebar that users can click to jump to different
parts of your video when you compile it with a smart player.
• So we use markers when we have a complex, multi-part video.
• When you record from within PowerPoint, such markers are
created automatically but they are not that accurate.

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Add Transitions
• Transitions are used to connect different clips
or shots; i.e. from one slide to another, from
slides to diagrams or demonstrations.
• Try to keep them to a minimum. The
transitions are meant to create a visual break,
to cue the viewers that they are seeing a new
scene. Use it when necessary.
• There are 30 standard transitions available in
Camtasia Studio.

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Types of Transitions

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Creating Separate Clips
• Click on “Settings” & set to
“Show Marker view”.
• Lock the two audio track.
• Click on the marker to move
the playhead.
• Right click and select “split”.
• Repeat the “splitting”on the
other markers to create more
clips.

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Add Transitions
Between The Clips by
Drag & Drop in-
between the clips.

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Create Pans and Zooms
• Pans and Zooms enable you
to focus on the part of the
screen to which you want to
draw the viewer’s attention.
• Zooms are especially helpful
when the object is small
and you want to make it
more visible.
• You have to plan the scene
so that it flows smoothly
from the larger picture to
the zoomed-in image that
you have onscreen.

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How to Zoom-In

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Call Outs
• Call outs are drawings
or text that you could
insert as another layer
on your video.
• Just move the playhead
until the section that
you want to insert the
“call out”. Then drag
and drop it onto the
video. Then adjust.

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Sample Call Outs
• Pictured here are 3 call outs; 1-Sketch Motion Perfect
Rectangle, 2-Blur and 3-Text.
• Do it step by step. I started with the image, draw the red
box, zoom-in, then blur it so that the text can clearly be
seen above it.

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Insert Animated Intro

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Blue Screen Removal (v8.6 or later)
• Visual Properties ->
Remove a color.
• Tick on “Color Palette”,
“Select Color”, then
touch the dropper on
the colour that you
want to remove/make
transparent.
• After that, images on
the track below this
track can be seen.

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Blue Screen Removal Sample
Before After

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Produce the Video
• Click on “File”, “Produce &
share”.
• Pictured here are the settings
available for you to use. Since
I upload to YouTube, I use
MP4 only.
• It may take several minutes
for the video to render.

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Publish to the Web
• After you complete the video, your last step is
to upload it to the Web.
• Use your GMail or UKM account (not PPUKM)
to upload to YouTube.
• After you publish it on the YouTube, click on
the share button to get the URL to copy and
paste on OpenLearning or the UKM iFolio.