 Hello, this is Cat-ing with LS N-Tap and I'll be walking you through the basic features of Camtasia Studio. Here I will be showing you everything you need to make your first video. To start with, I've grabbed some footage and a picture from archive.org, all public domain. Let's drop them over into the clip bin and they'll automatically load up. In addition to being able to get external stuff, the library has a little bit of music and some themes. Here we can right click on things and click Add to Timeline at Playhead. It drops them on the first track. We can see we have a nice piece of music. With the clip bin we can do the same thing with the video if you want. Or we can also just click and drag it down. As you see it creates a new track and then drops this in at the point we let go. We want it over left so we can just drag it over and that should be perfect. Now we can see that there is some audio in the video and that's going to conflict with the audio from the music. We don't really want that so let's right click here, separate video and audio and then delete this. That way it will be functionally a silent film. Finally we can take this picture and drop it here. As we take the playhead and scrub through the video, you can see the video is normal. When we get to here the picture will overlay on top of the video. The reason this picture is on a higher track than the video so it will overlay it. If you want this here but don't want to see it right now because you want to work with the video below it, we can turn off this track and that will hide everything on this track. We can do some similar down here and lock this track and that will prevent this from being edited. But something that you might do is for example select an area and then delete it. Notice again, below is protected but here we have video on one side, video on another side and then black space in the middle. These are two types of clips now so we can drag this around and do whatever we like with it. Here we can say unhide this, take this clip and drop it back down in there. So now we have a video with a picture in the middle. Suppose we want to remove some video but we don't want to deal with a black space and multiple clips. What we can do here is select what we want to eliminate as usual but this time hit the cut function. So now as you can see this is still one clip and that's gone but this has just been slide over and so on so it is still one clip. On the other hand suppose you don't want to remove any content but you want to make it into two clips so you can edit it. With that you select the clip you want and hit the split button and where the line is for the playhead is now two separate clips. The undo button so we don't really need that many clips. Okay so now we have a picture but the jumps are pretty sharp so we might want to have some transitions between. So what we do is we go to transitions and select the ones we want and to make this a little easier I'm going to zoom in a little bit. Zoom in on this so now we can see this area very easily. Let us grab the checkerboard and just drop it on top. So now when we play this we get a checkerboard transition. If we want to make it shorter we can shorten the duration if we want to make it slower lengthen it and it will slowly do that. So for audio we can edit the audio here we need to unlock this track and then select it and now we have all these options. The volume leveliness can be quite handy for some projects. If you have multiple sources for example a couple of people talking and some people are louder and some people are quiet. This will help normalize the sound. Noise removal is a little bit hit and miss from my experience. Sometimes it helps sometimes it doesn't it's not going to cure really bad audio but it can help. Volume up and volume down just raise and lower it. If you don't select any specific area it will do the entire track. Whereas if you select this you can say this section should be quieter, this section should be louder. You can also fade in and fade out. You can do both that silence so don't do that. Zoom pan is quite useful so let us go to here. Now let's shrink this down. Let's zoom in on here. At the end of this arrow on the track we will end up with this picture right here. At the start of the arrow we have the full image. Now you can watch as it goes through you zoom in. It will stay here until you change it. If you want to track it's pretty much the same thing but instead of shrinking this you will just move it. You get the same arrow you can move the arrow around. Move it over and there we go. We don't really need these though. The last thing that is fairly useful is the call out. Maybe here we want to point out this guy right here. Let's click add a call out. Shrink this up. Then we have this arrow here. This is the fade in and this is the fade out. If you want to shorten this you can mess with it here. Make it fast. Here you can rotate it. Then change the shape and add text. Let's point out this guy because he is really important. There we have pointed out that guy. There are many call outs. The sketch motion ones instead of fading in act as though they have been drawn as you can see. The final thing is the resolution up here. Generally it will automatically select one for you based off of what you give it as far as the clip in. Sometimes you want your own but generally it is pretty good. So you can select your custom height and width or go through here. That is about it editing your video. Once you have finished editing your video you can go to file and produce and share. What you do here is if you have a YouTube account or something else you would like to upload it to you can select it right here. It will give you a confirmation that it will automatically put it all the way up. Or you can just simply produce a file which you can then disseminate how you like. And that just about wraps things up. Thank you for watching and I would like to extend a thank you to LSC who's grant made this video possible. If you have any questions or comments leave them below and please check out other videos. Thank you.