 Hi, I'm Russell Stanard, the founder of teachertrainingvideos.com. I'm also a TechSmith recommended trainer. Just to clarify, I don't work for TechSmith. I'm simply recommended by them as a trainer here in the UK. This is a great quick introductory course, really useful if you've just bought Camtasia and you want to kind of get going with it and start to learn to use it straight away. Or if you're thinking of buying Camtasia and you simply want to understand what it can actually do, I'll take you through the three key stages. That is making your original screen capture, editing it, and then the different ways that you can distribute and save the video. One final thing is I have added some links below to some additional videos that are up on YouTube that will allow you to continue your studies if you want to learn more. So let's get straight into it. OK, I'll turn off the webcam while we're working with Camtasia. I'm just clicking on Camtasia 2018. I'm going to open it up onto the screen. And the first thing then we need to do is how to do a recording. My advice to you is click on new project rather than new recording. That is it will simply open up this editing window and then you can click the record button from here. If we click on the record button, ignore this. This is happening because I'm doing a Camtasia of a Camtasia at the same time. But everything will function. And I'm not going to have the camera on, so I'm going to turn the camera off as well. Let's just bring the recording screen onto here so that you can actually see it. Now a couple of settings that I would suggest you think about before you start. Let me just take you through those. So I just want to go through a few basic settings. As I just said, if you want to turn off the camera here, if you want to turn it back on, of course you can. I'm going to turn it off. So click on that here. Make sure that you are connected to the correct microphone. I'm going to use my webcam mic for doing the recording on here because I'm using my major microphone to actually create this recording that you're watching. Get your volume level right. Mine seems to be okay. Now, how do you record? Well, actually the easiest way is just to click here, come down to select area to record and simply mark an area that you want to record on the screen. Now, obviously in this particular case at the moment, there's nothing there behind us, okay? And then we would click on the record button and then that area of the screen would be recorded. However, just before we start, I want to point out a couple of settings that I would suggest that you change before you start and I'll explain why. So the one recommendation I'm going to make is click on tools, click on options. Come down here and I would click on program and then choose. Make sure that this is unselected hide preview window after the recording is stopped. Now, why is that? Well, because I think once you make the recording, the first thing that you quickly want to do is just to be able to preview it and just play it back and check, yeah, I'm happy with that and then you can decide what you want to do with it. If you don't, if you have this check, then it's going to automatically save the video or it's going to do one of the following things. So my first thing is I always like to have the preview window. Now, let me show you that in action so you simply understand. I don't want to make things too complicated. So that's just the one thing I want to show you, but it's really important. So if I now quickly do a recording, so I'm going to click on this button just for a few seconds, okay? And we just play a few, a few, a recording for a few seconds. Testing, testing, one, two, three, testing, testing, one, two, three. So I'm just doing my recording here. Now I'm going to stop the recording and notice that it opens up immediately in this preview window and that's what I mean about the preview window. Now that I've done the recording, I can decide what I want to do with it. Do I want to produce it straight away? Do I just want to save it as somewhere and save it, which is what I normally do? Or am I going to save it and edit? So you've got three options. You've made your recording. Are you going to save this video and then edit it? Or are you going to save it and make another recording? Perhaps you want to do two or three together or are you going to produce it? Now what we're going to do for this first example, and I will come back and talk about the other examples, is we're going to save and edit, okay? Meaning we're going to save the original file, the raw file that you've actually created when you did the recording and then we're actually going to edit that as well. But to do this, I'm going to delete this one. I'm going to do a better recording, okay? So what we'll do for this one is just take an example of perhaps me talking over an image or talking over some kind of document and then turning that into a video. So let's have a quick look. So what we've got on the screen at the moment is an image I just opened up. In fact, what I've got here just to quickly show you is in fact three images. So if I just click through the image finder, you'll see it starts with an image of France and if I move forward there's an image of Spain and if I move forward that's an image of Italy. So I've got three images. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to open up the screen recorder software and I'm going to mark an area. So select area to record. And I want to make sure that it kind of will be big enough to cover all three maps. So I'm just going to quickly check that that's okay. So if I just click back, Spain fits in there and France. Okay, now I'm going to start recording. So what I'm going to do, imagine that I was perhaps creating a geography lesson and I'm just talking about the big cities in certain countries. So I'm just going to click here and start with note. I've got obviously got my audio set up, but I'm not using a webcam. So I'm going to click on that button now. Off we go. Here we've got a map of France. The major cities in France would be Paris, Lyon and Marseille is also a pretty big city there in the south of France. Next country, Spain, major cities would be Madrid, Barcelona. Valencia has got about a million people and so has Seville here in the south. And now the next country is Italy. Italy has quite a number of big cities, but perhaps in terms of significant numbers would be Rome, which is the capital. There's a pretty big city fairly near to Rome, which is Naples. Certainly Milan in the north of Italy is also a pretty big city. And other well-known cities, and there are many in Italy, but perhaps would be Bologna. OK, so I've finished my recordings. I click on delete. OK, no, sorry, not a click on. What am I doing? I don't want to click on delete. I want to click on stop. So I click on stop. Here we've got a map of France. Immediately opens up in the playback window, which is the point I was making earlier about always being able to play the video back straight away. Now we've got three options again, just like I mentioned before. If we are actually going to edit this and we just click on save and edit. If if if perhaps we're going to make two or three videos and then bring them all into the editor together, then I would click on save as. Or if I'm not going to do any editing, but I'm simply going to make that into a video immediately and put it on YouTube or YouTube or save it onto my computer or put it in my drop box, then I can do this. I can actually skip the editing stage. And that's what produce means. No editing going from doing the recording to immediately outputting. Now I sometimes use that. If I've just produced a video and I know that's exactly what I want to do. There's no need to edit. Then I'll often do that. In this case, I'm going to click on save and edit. And when I do that, first of all, I have to save the initial file. So I'm going to call this maps recording two because I've already kind of done a test one. And then notice that see that comes straight into the editing window. It even places the recording on the editing window for me. And I can even click on this button here and play this back. Here we've got a map of France, the major city. OK, so I'm quite happy with that. So now you've really looked at stage one that is making the recording. Now we're going to move to stage two where we start to really focus on the editing. Now this is an introductory video. And so obviously I can't show you absolutely everything in Camtasia because it is a really rich program. And you'll notice that underneath this video, I have provided you with links to some playlists where you can learn more. But sit back and I'm going to at least introduce you to the editing window. Now the first thing to think about is the size of the production that you want to make. Most of the time, if you're going to be producing for things like YouTube, if you click on project settings, the standard size at the moment is still probably 120 by 720. If you were going to go full screen, then you would go 1080. I'm going to just produce this one at 720 by 120 by 720. Now you'll notice now that we've set the canvas size, but the actual recording is a lot smaller. Now what we can do is a couple of things. First of all, if we right click, we can scout a fit. So it will make the image grow as much as possible so that it can fit into the screen. We can stretch that out even further. Remember, this is your canvas. This is actually what it's going to look like. So at the moment, what you're going to have is some black area and then this kind of video inside. But what I'm going to do is a little trick. I'm going to just push that out as far as I can take it without losing the map in the middle. OK, and I will have to remember, though, of course, I've got another map and another one. I just want to make sure that that's not too. I've probably pushed it out a little too much there. Let me bring that in a little bit just so that we've got that both maps in or we can definitely get all maps that probably still a bit too big. Yeah, let me make that a bit smaller still. So OK, that's about right. Good. Now what we can do, see, we've got this black background here, but we can actually go up and just choose the project settings and we're going to change the color of the background to kind of if I can click here and then click on that and make the same color and then apply it. See, now it looks like the canvas area. We've got the map in the middle. It looks a little bit better. So that's the first thing I've done. Now the second thing that I'm going to show you is how we can now add a cursor effect to that video. Now I can zoom in and out of that video very easily, OK? And what I want to do is kind of select the whole video. So I'm going to kind of zoom in a little bit just so that you can see it, but not too much. I'm going to select the whole of the video, all right? Now we've got two here. We've got this line of the video is where we've got the sound channel and this one is where the actual screen captures. So I'm just going to click on the screen capture. Come down to cursor. I'm going to drop a cursor property over that and then suddenly what you'll notice is we've played a video now. Here we've got a map. You've got this lovely yellow cursor. Now we weren't limited to yellow. We could have come over to the properties here and perhaps chosen another color and you'll see now it changes. I find yellow works the best. So I'm going to sort of put it on a yellow color and then I normally just slightly change it sometimes because at the moment it's about opacity of 60, 75%. I'll sometimes put it down to about 60. So now we've got a lovely cursor effect on our video. So we've got this video still, which we've resized, ready to add up onto YouTube and we've clicked on the buttons. The major cities in France. And we've got this lovely cursor now. Now one thing that we may want to do in this case as well is kind of draw on the screen as we're talking about the different cities and I'm going to show you that next. What I'm really trying to do is just show some of the things that you can do with Camtasia in terms of the editing. Now let's play the video a little bit and just kind of what we're going to do is we're going to kind of draw onto the screen at certain points. Here we've got a map of France. The major cities in France would be Paris, Lyon and Marseille is also a pretty big city. So if we were just to come back to where it says Paris, so if we just move the player back. Here we've got a map of France. The major cities in France would be Paris. Now, it's fairly clearly marked because of my cursor but maybe just to demonstrate what we can do. I'm going to come down here to annotations and then I'm going to click on this one here which allows me for sketch motion and then I'm going to kind of add a sketch motion onto the screen with my play head at the correct position, okay? Going to add that sketch motion onto the screen here. Going to make it a little bit smaller because I know I just want to kind of ring around the word Paris. I'm just going to play that so you can see what's going to happen. Lyon. Okay, now obviously I need to bring that forward a little bit, all right? Because I need to make it match with the where I'm saying that. So let me just have a quick look again. Cities in France would be Paris. Okay, so now it's lovely. You can see that as I'm saying Paris it starts to draw on the screen. Just cities in France would be Paris. Now I can even do that again if I wanted to. So that was quite, I might want to make that a bit faster. So I'm going to bring that down there, okay? And then I'm going to do another one. Lyon. And so again, I could just click on that and copy it, okay? I'm going to paste. Now we've already got the play head in the right position. So I'm just going to press on paste. And of course I need to move that over Lyon. So we've now got one going over Paris and then one going over Lyon. And you can see how I can use all these different draw tools to kind of highlight different things on the screen. So it's one of the things that you can do with Camtasia in terms of the editing, which is really nice. Now another thing, let's say that you wanted to add some extra information. So just to keep things simple, I'm going to delete that, okay? Let's just leave one on the screen, okay? So we just got the Paris one. And what we're going to do is we're going to have some information about the population and it's going to pop up in an area here. So I'm going to come over to annotations. Again, come on the first one. And this time I'm going to have a little kind of arrow coming onto the screen. So I'll do that. I'll make it a little bit smaller. It doesn't need to be that big, okay? And I'm just going to write in there population 7 million because I think that's the population of Paris. I'm going to actually check on the internet, but I think that's right. So you can see that I can kind of have these basically call outs coming onto the screen at certain points. And we've got one here that gives them some additional information. So I'm just going to show you how that would work. Again, I don't need it on the screen for that long. So I'm going to kind of put it on the screen for a bit of a shorter period. So now cities in France would be Paris. We've got a drawing and then we've got this little cursor coming up or this little what we call call out coming onto the screen. Now one thing I could do is even animate that cursor as well. In fact, I've got that wrong. The population of a Paris is less than three million. So we'll just put three million, okay? But what I'm going to do here is I'm going to animate this. I'm going to come down to something called behaviors. And in those behaviors, I'm going to do this one here. I'm going to drop this slider onto this one here. So now what's going to happen is we played a video again. The major cities in France would be Paris. So we've got this coming onto the screen. Now if we come over here, this is the properties of that particular animation. And I can always get to those by just clicking here and then kind of clicking and it will open here on the right-hand side. So what I'm going to do is I want it sliding on. So when it comes in, it's going to slide on from the left. During, I don't want anything to happen. So I'm going to put it none. And then out, I'm going to, at the moment, it's sliding off. So that's fine. So let's just check that now with this new properties that we've set. Cities in France would be Paris, Lyon and Marseille is also a pretty big city. They are in the south of France. So now let's carry on with Spain and let's try to add some extra things on about Spain. So again, what I'm going to do in this one is I'm going to show you how we can actually use another kind of technology to focus in on a particular area. So I'm clicking on annotations and let's find a bit where I start talking about Madrid. Country Spain, major cities would be. So what I'm going to do here when I start to talk about Madrid is I'm going to come up and I'm going to see from the top here, I'm going to click on this one here called special. And then what I'm going to do is I'm going to click on spotlight and I'm just going to have a spotlight so that when we talk about Madrid, we just focus in that area and the rest of it becomes dark and I'm going to make that quite dark outside. Okay. So let's just see how that works. Major cities would be Madrid, Barcelona. Now, then again here, notice that there's on the screen for too long. So I'm just going to move that off a little bit and I'm going to do the same again. I'm going to copy that. So it just saves me time. I'm going to paste that in. It will always add wherever the playhead is. I'm going to move that one to Barcelona. All right. So we've got now one on Barcelona there. So let's just see if that's worked. Major cities would be Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia. Right, Barcelona needs to come in a bit quicker. So let's just do it there. There's about a million people and so has Seville. And we could do Seville again. Again, we could do the exact same thing here. We could have a spotlight on Seville. And sorry, I moved the wrong thing there. One little trick here to avoid that happening so that you don't move the wrong object on the screen when you're working is that you can actually lock. So now the video behind it can't move and that way I can kind of really make sure that I narrow my video down to where I want to go, which is here, okay? And we've got this kind of area. And again, we're going to increase the intensity. All right, so again, now if we move the playhead back. Seville here. So a bit quicker actually. In the south. And now the next country is Italy. Okay, so again, we could make that bit quicker. Come off the screen and then now we're on to Italy. So you can see again that we can augment. And there's quite a few things that we can do we can, for example, blur things. If we don't want something to be easy to read, we can actually blur it. It's very common if you're perhaps doing a screen capture where you've got people's email addresses, all their names, especially with all the data protection that we now have to have. Then that's particularly important, especially revealing people's email addresses. So that's a really important one. And you can even as well highlight. So if you want to highlight something on the screen while you're talking it, you can do it that way as well with a color rather than just darkening out. So lots of options in terms of the things that you can do. Now you can have lots of animations going on. So one of the things that I do a lot of is that I tend to add lots of animations onto the screen. I'm just going to show you a little bit more about the types of animations that we can add on. Now a couple of extra features then that we could look at. First of all, I just want to sort of point out to you if you come to annotations you've got all sorts of things that you could add onto the screen. All right, so if we were to click here we've got shapes, we've got a whole range of different kind of text and we can change anything. So if I bring something onto the screen and then I want to change the background color of it and then I want it to change by clicking here on the font, I can change the font color. I can make massive changes to anything that I bring onto the screen. I can take off the effects if there's a particular effect. I can move it around on the screen and then again, I can animate anything. So for example, let's say that I want to do reveal and I'm going to drop that on. Now if we play that here then you'll see that this way it has a number of big cities but perhaps in terms of significant numbers would be. And then off again. So again, all these different possibilities. Another great thing that we could do for example is that we can add in if we want to, if we click on more here, you'll see you've got captions. So if I click here and then I'm going to add captions, let's put the captions on from the beginning. So just going to play a little bit. Here we've got a map of France. So let's imagine I want to put that. So I'm going to click on add caption and I'm just going to write here we have a map of France. Okay. And if I just play that I can actually listen to where that's going to go up to and it will kind of play in a loop. It's really useful. Here we've got a map of France. The major cities in France. Here we've got a map of France. The major cities in France. Here we've got a map of France. The major cities in France. Here we've got a map of France I'm just going to stop that. So I can know exactly how much to write. Okay. So I'm just going to put that on to another line. So then I'm going to put a full stop and then if I just simply click on plus it will now carry on and it will carry on from exactly the same point. So let's just watch again. be Paris, Lyon and Marseille would be Paris, Lyon and Marseille would be Paris, Lyon and Marseille would be Paris, Lyon and Marseille would be Paris. This is really good because it shows you how to make sure that exactly what you write is exactly what is underneath. Now you can't even resize this and you can change the duration to be longer or shorter. It's fantastic, it really works well, they vastly improve this and the result, let's just kind of give you an example, so if I just close that now, is that and we've now got the subtitles along with the video. So you can start to see all of the things that you can do at the editing stage to make this all more interesting. You can do all sorts of things, you could add music into the background, you have a whole library, so if you wanted to say some introductory music or an introduction at the beginning then you can also do that. We're going to have a quick look at that now. If you wanted to make our video a bit more professional what could we do? So let's imagine that we want to put a professional start to this video. What I'm going to do is I'm going to select everything that we've got on the timeline and I'm going to group it so it all becomes one object. There it is, it's all one object. Now I'm going to move that object out. I'm going to come up to the media and if that's the library, sorry I got that wrong, the library and I'm going to come down and choose intros. So what I want to hear is this one here intros and I'm going to choose spinning computer and I'm going to drag that onto the screen. So we're going to have like a professional opening and then after the opening we're then going to have the video plays. So now we've got this kind of video that comes on the screen and at the moment it says TechSmith Camtasia but I'm just going to stop the video then just double click on that and I'm going to change that to teacher. So let me just override that so I can write teacher training videos which is mycompany.com. Okay so now we've got this kind of lovely professional intro and what I'm also going to do is I'm going to add some music. So again coming to the library, all right, and coming up here because we've now introdone that. We want some music so just find the music. Got some music tracks in. I'm going to click on that. Double click and just listen to the music. Let's see if I've got something a bit more interesting. All right so I like that one there. So I'm going to put that. I'm going to drag that onto the screen. So that's going to be kind of on the screen now. Now obviously I only want the music to play until the actual talking starts. So let's just see how this is starting to look now. So we've got this kind of music live drag on. We've got this intro video and then my actual content starts. Let's have a quick look. Right so at that point where the music stops and I can actually use these this thing here to kind of click back to the previous media it says. So just going to click and it'll bring me back. At that point there it's going to select the music and I'm going to cut it and just chop it off. So the music stops there and I'm going to do something really clever. I'm going to come up here now to Audio Effects and I'm going to fade that music at the end so that the music fades doesn't need to fade so early so I'm going to just drag that along a little bit. The music will fade and then the speaking to start. So let's look how professional this is. Now I've got this introduction that I've changed to teacher training videos. Let's have a look how it looks. Here we've got a map. Whoa this is starting to look really professional and of course I could do the same thing at the end as well. All right so that's making use of the library. Now there are lots more things that I can do. We've really got lots of different things here but that gives you a taster of what you're able to do with the editing. So you've got that crucial record stage at the beginning then you come into this editing stage where you can really make your video quite funky and quite professional and add lots of elements to it and now we're going to move on to the last stage which is the distribution. Now the first thing we must do is save this project. We've got that original recording plus we've added all these extra bits so we're going to click here and click on save as and we're going to call this map video to project file. So this is the actual project file. That isn't just the basic raw recording. This is the raw recording plus all this extra stuff that we've done and that's really important because we may at a later stage want to come back and edit this and change it. So we've now saved all our work and we know that even if we produce a final video and then we find there's a mistake we can come back here and edit now. So that's really really important and I will quickly at the end talk about the file types so that we just make that really really clear. Now we can share this. Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to click up here on share. I'm going to click on local file and for the first one I'm just going to make a simple video so I'm going to choose mp4 only nothing else and the size I'm going to do is 720 because if you remember we're going to upload this into YouTube so we're going to put it at 720. Click on next. Don't worry about this. I'm just going to click on okay and click on finish. It's going to use the same name map video to project file. Click on finish and we just have to wait a few seconds while that video is now being rendered and now if we look on the screen here you'll notice that we've got three files and I just want to talk through these three files all right. The first thing was that we made that recording where we talked over the map that's the raw original recording. We then produced a project file and the project file is the raw recording but then all the changes and the edits that we made and now we've produced an output file which is in this case is an mp4 file which we can then share on the internet and if I was to click that open there it is that is the actual video now all ready to share on the internet. Notice this is an mp4 and if I was to click on that we've got that lovely introduction here we've got a map now we've got this lovely bit where we've got that map and we've got this cursor if I remember rightly we've got all other little bits happening got something coming onto the screen and we've got that draw in here absolutely brilliant yeah and it's all there and that then of course and we've even got that little bit where it focuses on and I think we had another bit where something else comes on the screen you can see all the work that we've done it's all been put into the video so you can see now the whole process the original recording stage and just close that down original recording stage the editing stage and then the final output now we've put that final output on our computer but we could have done lots of other things we could have saved it on youtube we could have saved it on our google drive we could have put it into dropbox so let's just have a look at the other options in terms of distribution now we can share this video in lots of different ways uh we've already obviously just saved it onto our computer but if we click on share here notice that we could put into our google drive we could add it onto Vimeo onto screencast onto youtube i'm going to show you youtube so i'm going to click on youtube and it opens up this window here where we can basically add in the file so i'm just going to call this let's use that name and then what we have to do is copy that and we do need a description so just to save time i'm going to put the tag in the description all the same i'm just call that map now i can also choose which level i want so i'm going to choose unlisted so that's the privacy level that means that only students who have the link who i shared the link we've can actually access this video it will not be searchable on the internet i click on finish and that video starts to upload now i'm going to just pause for a while that'll take a while to upload that video now the interesting thing is that when the video is uploaded the URL that is the unique resource locator of the is actually sent back to you like it's in your basics it's in your clipboard so it's like when you copy and paste something so just to show you what i mean by that let me just quickly open up a browser and i'm just going to come to the top of the screen here and i'm going to click on paste because remember it's been copied into my clipboard automatically and then i'm going to click on enter and you'll notice now that there is the video that is how easy it is to upload a video into youtube now obviously you'll need to understand a little bit more about your youtube channel for those of you that are not familiar with the fact that you have a youtube channel basically if i was to jump back to google one second and if i was to click over here i can come to my youtube channel anytime but just clicking on that button then that will bring me to my channel and if i click here i can just click and it will bring me into where all my videos are in my youtube channel so i click on studio creator i can't really teach you about youtube on this particular particular course but you can connect your gmail account to camtasia and then your videos are automatically being logged up into your youtube channel now if you want to learn more about your youtube channel i will give you some information in this last video about where to continue your studies okay now underneath this video you'll find that there's some links to some additional content if you decided you wanted to learn more about camtasia and also if you wanted to learn a little bit more about your youtube channel it'd be very very useful uh if you want to follow my work i can suggest two things that you can do or maybe three first of all please come to teachertrainingvideos.com lots of content at the top of the screen you can see all the different technologies that i focus on and it's kind of the 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