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Information Services

Academic Liaison and Development Team (ALDT)

Using Camtasia Studio 7

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Contents

Introduction .............................................................................................. 3 Preparing to work with Camtasia Studio 7 ..................................................... 3

Writing a Transcript ................................................................................ 3 Recording Audio ..................................................................................... 3 Recording Video ..................................................................................... 3

Making a Project ........................................................................................ 4 Recording the Screen .............................................................................. 4 Tips on Recording a PowerPoint Presentation ............................................. 9 Recording a PowerPoint presentation with Camera and Sound .................... 10

Editing a Recording .................................................................................. 14 Viewing the Timeline ............................................................................. 14 Importing Media ................................................................................... 15 Managing items in the Clip Bin ............................................................... 16 Title Clips ............................................................................................ 17 Inserting a Split ................................................................................... 18 Zoom and Pan ...................................................................................... 19 Transitions .......................................................................................... 22 Callouts ............................................................................................... 23 Captions .............................................................................................. 27 Cursor Effects ...................................................................................... 30 Audio Enhancements ............................................................................ 32

Outputting the Final Project ....................................................................... 33 Getting Help using Camtasia Studio 7 ..................................................... 42

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Introduction

Camtasia Studio 7 is a product that allows you to create short movie clips with accompanying video and sound to facilitate presentation of a subject electronically. Clips may capture a teaching event, such as a lecture with

accompanying presentation slides, or may be used to demonstrate computer based tasks by providing self-paced learning movie clips that users can

download from a web site and watch in their own time. Camtasia Studio 7 supports a number of output types, meaning that a lecture or presentation can be ‘recorded’ and then distributed electronically via the web to be viewed or

listened to in a multitude of ways, such as through a web-based learning system such as WebCT or on a handheld device such as an iPod or other MP3 player.

Preparing to work with Camtasia Studio 7

Writing a Transcript

If recording some form of screen capture, be it with a presentation or a

demonstration of a computer based task of some sort, it is very helpful first to write a transcript of what you wish to say. This makes you think about all the

steps involved and gives you an opportunity to think about the correct order in which to say things. Walking through your demonstration or presentation with the transcript to hand prior to recording will allow you to identify possible issues

that may come up during the recording process, such as a pop-up window or dialogue box which may otherwise be distracting or confusing to the viewer if

not explained in the transcript.

Recording Audio

It is recommended that you record your audio using a good quality microphone

in a suitably quiet environment with no interference or background noises. Quality audio recordings will lessen the need to using Camtasia Studio 7 as an audio editing tool, which is not its primary function, although from the Tools

menu some Audio options (not covered in this guide) can allow some basic sound file editing.

Recording Video

Test the quality of the output from your camera prior to recording. Set up the camera in accordance with the manufacturers’ guidelines on white balancing to

ensure a balanced picture that does not bleach facial tones. Try to ensure a plain and light background as a busy background will distract from the speaker’s image and a background that is too dark will make the video capture less

appealing.

Further tips appear in the Tips on Recording a PowerPoint Presentation section of this document.

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Making a Project

Camtasia Studio 7 refers to a ‘project’ to represent a screen capture of a presentation or some other activity on screen. Projects may of two main types:

Recording the Screen Recording a PowerPoint presentation

Recording the Screen

Making a Project by Recording the Screen allows users to generate a movie clip that captures the mouse movements in time with a narrative. This can be used

effectively to demonstrate tasks that users need to undertake on a computer, allowing self-paced learning opportunities for those viewing the clips.

To make a project by Recording the Screen, follow these steps.

1. From the Camtasia Welcome dialogue box (Figure 1) select Record the

screen.

Figure 1 - The Camtasia Welcome dialogue box

2. If the Camtasia Welcome dialogue box is not showing click Record the

screen option at the top of the screen (as shown in Figure 2).

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Figure 2 – Record the screen option

3. The Camtasia Recorder floating dialogue box appears (Figure 3). Select

whether to record Full screen or Custom.

Figure 3 - The New Recording Wizard

4. The options in more details are:

Full Screen This would capture all on-screen events. Users of Camtasia Studio 7

would need to set their screen resolution to one that would allow viewers of the output to see the entire screen capture.

Custom This will allow a pre-defined part of the screen to be the focus of the

screen capture and is the recommended option. A pull down menu allows you to choose a region of a specific size.

Figure 4 - Menu of Region size options

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Lock to Application This would capture just the events in a selected application and would

not allow any further windows that may be opened on top to be captured as well.

Select area to record This option allows a specific region to be defined by clicking and dragging

a rectangle around it. The drawn rectangle may be moved once created.

5. Once defined, the selected area may be dragged around on screen (assuming the full screen has not been selected) using the crosshair in the centre of the selected area (Figure 5).

Figure 5 - The crosshair at the centre of the selected area

6. Under Recorded Inputs select whether to switch the webcam and audio

on. Once plugged in the web cam will toggle on and off by clicking the

webcam button. Use the pull down at the side of the webcam button to select the required webcam in the event that more than one is plugged

in. Toggle the audio input on or off in the same way by clicking the audio button. Select the correct audio input from the pull down menu alongside the audio button. This pull down menu includes the option to Record

microphone and system audio if required. Figure 6 shows the webcam and audio turned on.

Figure 6 – Webcam and Audio on under Recorded Inputs

7. You are now ready to start recording your Camtasia Studio 7 clip. Click

Rec to start the recording process.

8. Camtasia Studio 7 prompts to remind you that pressing the F10 key on the keyboard will stop the recording, counts down from 3 and then starts

the recording. The Camtasia Studio 7 recording toolbar appears (Figure 7).

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Figure 7 - The Camtasia recording toolbar

9. Click Pause to pause the recording and Resume to start it again. 10. During the recording any on screen mouse movements will be captured,

as will any audio input from the microphone. The importance of having a transcript to follow will become readily apparent during this process.

11. Click Stop or press F10 to stop the recording. 12. Click Delete if the recording is unsatisfactory and you wish to scrap it.

Before doing this please bear in mind that it is almost impossible to get

the capture perfect first time and as long as significant chunks have not been omitted, many of the pauses and issues may be ironed out during

the editing process. 13. After clicking Stop the Camtasia Studio 7 Preview window displays and

plays the recording just made (Figure 8).

Figure 8 - The Camtasia Studio 7 Preview window

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14. Click Delete to scrap the recording at this point

15. Click Produce to skip directly to the output production stage 16. Click Save and Edit to save the capture and begin editing it. Camtasia

Studio 7 will bring up a Camtasia Recorder save box (Figure 9) to allow you to save the file in the desired location. The file is given the extension .camrec.

Figure 9 - Saving the Recording

17. After saving, Camtasia Studio 7 brings up the Editing Dimensions

dialogue box (Figure 10).

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Figure 10 – The Editing Dimensions dialogue box

18. Select the required dimensions for the video and click OK.

19. Camtasia Studio moves to the editing area. See the section entitled Editing a Recording for details on how to edit the recording.

Tips on Recording a PowerPoint Presentation

The following tips may make for a smoother recording of a PowerPoint presentation, and they are especially important if you wish to output your captured lecture or presentation for use with hand held devices such a iPods.

They have been produced largely by Sandy Winterbottom from the University of Stirling’s School of Biological & Environmental Sciences, who has much

experience using Camtasia Studio to create lecture movie files and has helped with the creation of this documentation:

Before recording starts, ensure you are using a good quality microphone and a quiet environment in which to record.

Avoid fancy slide transitions as this will create much bigger output files. Use Sans Serif fonts (such as Arial or Verdana) as there are much easier

to read on a small screen.

Number the slides. Font size should ideally be 36pt with an absolute minimum of 24pt.

Use high contrast text and background (e.g. dark text on a light background).

Use titles on your slides as these will be picked up automatically by Camtasia Studio 7 and placed into a table of contents.

For the benefit of users who will only be listening to your audio output

without the associated slides or with a printout of them, it may be useful to announce when you are moving onto a new slide or a new part of the

presentation, to add clarity. If you want to record a webcam picture so you have a ‘floating head’

shot on your iPod video, leave a blank space on your slides so the talking

head image does not overlap bullet points or vital information on the

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slides. The floating webcam window can be turned off for some slides (for example, if you need to show a large photo).

Recording a PowerPoint presentation with Camera and Sound

This process requires the user to have selected the required options during the installation of Camtasia Studio 7 to allow PowerPoint presentations to be

captured.

Making a Project by Recording a PowerPoint presentation allows users to generate a movie clip that captures a presentation, a virtual lecture. Sound may be added to provide a narrative, and a camera may be used to record a talking

head feature as well. This can be used effectively to capture a lecture or teaching session supported by a PowerPoint presentation, allowing remote

viewing for those who were unable to attend, or providing revision materials for those who wish to revisit the lecture’s content.

To make a project by Recording a PowerPoint presentation, follow these steps.

1. Set up your web cam and any additional microphone used in a suitable position to record your image and the sound.

2. Open Camtasia Studio 7. 3. From the Camtasia Studio 7 Welcome dialogue box, select Record

PowerPoint (Figure 11).

Figure 11 - Selecting the option to record a PowerPoint presentation

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4. PowerPoint opens with the Open dialogue box appearing, asking for the presentation to be recorded to be opened.

5. Navigate to find the PowerPoint presentation to be recorded and select it. 6. Click Open. The PowerPoint presentation opens.

7. In PowerPoint look for the Camtasia Studio 7 toolbar which appears in the ribbon under the Add-Ins tab (Figure 12).

Figure 12 - The Camtasia Studio 7 PowerPoint Toolbar

8. On the toolbar click the microphone icon to select whether to record

audio (click it again to deselect it). Selected options appear highlighted, as the microphone is shown in Figure 12.

9. On the toolbar click the webcam icon to select whether to record video

via a webcam (click it again to deselect it). 10. Click Record. This starts the PowerPoint presentation and puts its

recording in Camtasia into paused mode. The Camtasia Studio 7 Recording Paused message appears (Figure 13).

Figure 13 - The Camtasia Studio 7 Recording Paused message

11. Click the Click to begin recording button to start the recording.

12. Run the PowerPoint presentation as you would in a lecture, moving from slide to slide and delivering the associated narrative. The camera (if

selected) captures your talking head image and the microphone captures the audio.

13. When the presentation comes to an end, Camtasia Studio 7 brings up the

Stop Recording dialogue box (Figure 14).

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Figure 14 - Stop Recording dialogue

14. Click Stop Recording to end the video and audio capture.

15. A Save As dialogue box appears. Navigate to your desired location and then click Save to save the file (a .camrec file, the file type used by

Camtasia Studio 7). 16. Camtasia Studio 7 then brings up a dialogue box asking if you wish to

produce or edit your recording (Figure 15).

Figure 15 - The Produce or Edit dialogue

17. Select Edit your recording and click OK.

18. The Editing Dimensions dialogue box appears (Figure 16).

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Figure 16 - the Editing Dimensions dialogue box

19. Select the desired resolution (640 x 480 is recommended) and click OK.

20. Camtasia Studio 7 switches to the editing screen, with your captured video (PIP – Picture in Picture) and audio displayed on the timeline (Figure 17).

Figure 17 – PowerPoint presentation captured with PIP video overlaid

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21. The PowerPoint recording can now be edited as described in the Editing a Recording part of this document.

Editing a Recording

Once captured, the recording will most likely need to be edited before being

output as a final version for viewing. The working area for editing is shown in Figure 17.

Viewing the Timeline

The timeline shows the progress of time through the clip with video and audio

tracks shown on separate rows (Figure 18). Several tracks may be shown at the same time. For example, there could be a second audio track of some background music or to replace the spoken words on audio track 1 if those were

not clear enough or contained errors.

Figure 18 - The Timeline

The amount of detail visible on the timeline may be increased by stretching the

timeline area upwards. To do this hover the mouse on the horizontal grey line separating the timeline from the rest of the work area until the pointer changes

to a vertical, double headed black arrow. Now click and drag upwards to expand the view of the timeline.

To increase of decrease detail further, click the Zoom In or Zoom Out buttons on the magnifier slider above the timeline (Figure 19).

Figure 19 - The Zoom In and Zoom Out buttons

The Lock Track button at the left of the timeline may be used to lock any of the tracks to prevent them being edited accidentally (Figure 20 shows the video 1

track currently unlocked).

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Figure 20 - Lock Track button

Areas of the timeline may be highlighted by clicking and dragging the green and red sliders along the top. Figure 21 shows a small section of the timeline highlighted in this way. If played in the main part of the editing window on the

right, the clip would now start and end at the points indicated by the sliders on the timeline. If both sliders are placed against each other the clip would play

from that point onwards to the end.

Figure 21 - Timeline showing highlighted section

Selections of the clip may also be cut from the timeline in this way by positioning the sliders to highlight the desired area and then clicking the cut icon (Figure 22)

This technique may be used to remove unwanted parts of the clip. Note, however, that if the audio track is tied to the video track then the audio will be

cut too.

Figure 22 - The Cut icon

Importing Media

The following types of media may be imported onto the timeline to add to the clip.

.camrec– Camtasia Studio 7 recording file

. avi - Audio Video Interleave file

.mpg or .mpeg - movie file

.bmp or .jpg or .png or .gif – various image file types

.wav or .mp3 or .wma – various audio file types

To import media, follow these steps:

1. Click the Import media button (Figure 23).

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Figure 23 – The Import Media button

2. An Open dialogue box appears (Figure 24).

Figure 24 - The Open dialogue box

3. Select the file(s) to be imported, then click Open. 4. The file is imported into the Clip Bin. 5. Click and drag the file from the Clip Bin onto the timeline and position it

accurately. Video items are positioned in the timeline before the part of the video clip on which they are dropped. If the imported clip is an audio

clip then a second, new track will be created to accommodate it.

Managing items in the Clip Bin

Although there is no limit to the number of items you can add to the Clip Bin,

after a short while you will need to scroll to see them all. Options relating to Clip Bin items may easily be accessed by right mouse clicking on them, as shown in

Figure 25. In this way items may be added to the timeline, removed from the Clip Bin, previewed or, if they are items such as Title Clips or other Camtasia Studio 7 recordings, edited as well.

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Figure 25 - Exploring options on an item in the Clip Bin

Title Clips

Title Clips can be used as still images lasting for several frames or seconds,

usually with text on, to show users where they are in the overall clip. For example, a Title Clip could be used at the start and end of a demonstration video

of a computer based task. This could say at the outset what the task to be covered is and then it could inform the viewer when the clip is completed.

They can be used as templates to control the look and feel of clips. To ensure consistency of viewing between each clip, a title background image could be

made and saved in something like Adobe Photoshop first, and then this could be imported used as the background image for the Title Clip, with text overlaid.

To add a Title Clip follow these steps:

1. Click the Title Clips button (Figure 26).

Figure 26 - The Title Clips button

2. The Title Clips area is displayed (Figure 27)

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Figure 27 - The Title Clips area

3. Click the Add title clip button. 4. Type the text to be used in the Text field. Use the formatting buttons to

change the text font, size, colour, weight and alignment as required. 5. To use a file as a background click the folder icon after the Image text

field. This will open an open dialogue box. Navigate to find the file to be used as background and click the Open button. The title clip is previewed in the Preview area to the right.

6. The title clip is placed on the timeline automatically. Drag it from its position on the timeline to a better position if required. Title Clips will all

be set to the default length of 5 seconds, although this can obviously be changed on the timeline. Right click on the title Clip and select Title Duration to do this.

Inserting a Split

Inserting a Split divides the timeline up into sections. This may make the timeline easier to manage. Splits in the timeline are needed to import other

media into the timeline in that correct position. For example, if you had recorded a PowerPoint presentation with audio but made a hash of recording the audio

associated with one of the slides, a split could be inserted after each slide. The unwanted audio associated with that slide could then be replaced with silence and a new audio clip for just that one PowerPoint slide could be recorded and

imported into the Clip Bin. Having a split in the timeline would allow the replacement audio to be placed easily and accurately on the timeline.

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To insert a split follow these steps:

1. Position the sliders together at the point on the timeline where you wish to insert the split.

2. Right mouse click on the time markings in the timeline to view a menu of options (Figure 28).

Figure 28 - Right-clicking to insert a split

3. Select Split. A split is introduced on the timeline. The split goes through

all unlocked tracks.

Zoom and Pan

The Zoom and Pan features in Camtasia Studio 7 allow you to focus in on

specific areas of the screen capture to show detail more clearly. There are several types of Zoom and Pan feature:

Zoom In - zooms in on an area to show more detail Zoom Out - zooms out to capture a larger area

To apply a Zoom and Pan feature follow these steps:

1. Position the sliders together at the point on the timeline where you wish

the zoom and pan motion to end. For example, if you are zooming in on

an area, place the sliders at the frame where the associated narrative has reached the description of the zoomed in area. If the sliders are in

different positions, Camtasia Studio 7 will use the position of the slider earliest on the timeline and place both sliders together at that point.

2. Click the Zoom-n-Pan tab (Figure 29).

Figure 29 – The Zoom-n-Pan tab

3. The Zoom-n-Pan working area is displayed (Figure 30).

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Figure 30 - The Zoom-n-Pan working area

4. Click the Add key frame button. This positions a key frame on the

timeline at the current position of the slider. This may be moved later by

clicking and dragging the key frame marker on the timeline, as shown by the red arrow in Figure 31.

Figure 31 - Moving the Zoom-n-Pan key frame

5. The Zoom-n-Pan Properties area is displayed. To zoom in on an area

click and drag the Zoom Scale slider (Figure 32).

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Figure 32 - Zoom Scale slider

6. As you zoom in a surround appears in the preview area. This can be moved around by clicking inside it on the preview and dragging it to the required location (the area on which you wish to zoom in). A cross-

shaped cursor is shown when you are clicking and dragging the selected area around (Figure 33).

Figure 33 - Clicking and dragging the selected area

7. By default the aspect ratio of the original capture size will be maintained.

This will ensure the zoom area is in the same relative dimensions to the

original screen area. This avoids blurring and stretching of characters. 8. To alter this click on the Advanced option. The Advanced options are

displayed (Figure 34). Remove the tick from the Maintain Aspect ratio checkbox to resize the selected area as required.

Figure 34 - Advanced Options

9. In the Advanced options area the image may also be tilted on the

vertical axis to the left or right to a factor of 5. 10. To set the amount of time the zoom takes from start to finish drag the

Duration Slider (Figure 35).

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Figure 35 - The Duration Slider

11. The longer the zoom time selected, the longer the lead-in to the key

frame. This is shown on the Zoom Timeline as a sloping image leading up to the key frame (the point when the zoom in (or zoom out) has been completed) (Figure 36).

Figure 36 - Zoom Timeline showing duration of zoom

12. The entire Zoom-n-Pan may also be clicked and dragged along the Zoom

Timeline to change the time at which is it displayed. 13. Double click on the Zoom-n-Pan on the zoom timeline to make further

edits to it.

Transitions

If required, transitions may be added. These manage the effect used to move from one part of the clip to another, in the same way that transitions are used to

move from one slide to another in PowerPoint.

To apply Transitions follow these steps:

1. Above the Timeline, click the More button (Figure 37).

Figure 37 - The More button

2. From the menu of More options click Transitions. 3. In the Task List, click Transitions. The Transition options appear on the

left in the task area and the display switches to Storyboard view (Figure

38).

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Figure 38 - Storyboard view

4. The Transition effects are shown on the left. Double-click on a Transition effect or highlight it and click the Play button to see it in the Preview Area.

5. After testing to view the Transitions, drag the required one to the Storyboard and drop it on the desired location between parts of the clip.

Figure 39 shows a Radial Wipe on the timeline between two parts of a clip.

Figure 39 - Transition in place

6. Add further Transitions as required.

Callouts

Callouts are items such as arrows, shapes and text boxes that may be added to a clip to highlight areas or to add illustration.

To add Callouts follow these steps:

1. Position the sliders together at the point on the timeline where you wish to insert the callout.

2. Click the Callouts button (Figure 40).

Figure 40 - The Callouts button

3. Click the Add Callout button. 4. The Callouts area is displayed (Figure 41).

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Figure 41 – The Callouts area

5. First choose the shape of the Callout. More Callout shapes are available

by clicking on the downward facing scroll option (circled in Figure 41).

Further Callouts are displayed, as shown in Figure 42.

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Figure 42 – Callout varieties

6. Select the Callout Type required. Callouts with text will allow you to type

in text and set its properties using the Text options area, as shown in Figure 43.

Figure 43 - Text Callout Properties

7. The Callout appears on the Preview area. It may be dragged and moved

in a similar way to the surround of the Zoom-n-Pan.

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8. Using the Border Color, Fill and Effects pull down menus, apply the required colours and effects to the Callout. Note that not all of these

options will be available for all Callout types. 9. Use the Properties area to set the Draw time (the amount of time the

callout takes to fade in or be drawn) and the Fade out time (the amount of time the Callout takes to fade from the display) (Figure 44).

Figure 44 - Callout Properties

10. Callouts may also be made into Flash Hotspots, which can be used to jump to a specific frame in the Camtasia Studio 7 clip presentation or,

more commonly, to a web site. 11. To create a Flash Hotspot tick the Make flash hotspot check box. The

Flash Hot Spot Properties box appears (Figure 45).

Figure 45 - The Flash Hotspot Properties box

12. Select the required properties and click OK. Figure 45 shows an example

of a hotspot to pause the clip when the hotspot is reached and open a web site in a new browser window when the hotspot is clicked.

13. Callouts appear on the Callout Timeline, as shown in Figure 46.

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Figure 46 - Callouts on the Timeline

14. The length of a Callout may be adjusted on the timeline by clicking and dragging its end pieces. The start piece appears in green and the end piece appears in red, as shown in Figure 47.

Figure 47 - The end piece of a Callout highlighted in red

15. The entire Callout may also be clicked and dragged along the Callout

Timeline to change the time at which is it displayed. 16. Double click on the Callout on the Callout Timeline to make further edits

to it.

Captions

The Captions feature allows you to include some text alongside the clip as it is

displayed. In this way a transcript of any spoken narrative can be included for those watching the clip without sound and synchronised with the clip so the text

appears at appropriate times. If you are recording a PowerPoint presentation and you have used the Notes features in PowerPoint, you can automatically import these as captions. Therefore, scripting your narrative in the Notes area of

PowerPoint will allow you easily to add these as captions during editing.

To add captions follow these steps:

1. If you are providing a transcript of audio, type out the transcript in

another application, such as Word. 2. Click the Captions button (Figure 48).

Figure 48 - The Captions button

3. The Captions area is displayed (Figure 49).

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Figure 49 - The Captions area

4. Copy the narrative text from Word. 5. Ensure the sliders are at the start of the place on the timeline where the

narrative (caption) is to start. 6. Click inside the main text area so the insertion point is flashing and then

paste the text in using the Paste button.

7. Select whether to Overlay the text or display it below the clip. The latter is the most easily readable option.

8. Set the desired width of the caption in characters. Text will be displayed as captions three lines at a time. It may be useful to insert extra carriage returns into the narrative text to ensure that new parts of the narrative

start as a new caption, an event that will occur every three lines down the text.

9. When ready, click the Start button to start the clip. 10. All the text in the text box turns red, apart from the first three lines,

which will be the opening caption. As the clip plays through, click on the first word in red each time the audio track reaches that stage, as shown circled in Figure 50. This will synchronise the audio and captions. A time

stamp is placed to the left of each caption.

Figure 50 - Adding captions (next click location circled)

11. When completed click the Stop button.

12. Captions may be edited by revisiting the captions area, right mouse clicking on a caption point and selecting Delete caption and text (to delete both the caption and text), Delete caption point only (to leave

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the text in place) or Delete all captions and text to start again (Figure 51).

Figure 51 - Editing captions

13. Captions may be clicked and dragged along the Caption Timeline to

change the time at which they are displayed. Click and drag the caption point (marked by a blue circle) to move the start point of the caption (as

shown in Figure 52).

Figure 52 - Dragging a Caption along the Caption timeline

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Figure 53 - The Title Clips area

14. Type the text to be shown on the title clip, highlight it and select the

formatting as required. 15. If a background image is required, click the folder icon alongside the

Image text field and browse to find the image to act as the background.

Click the Open button to select this image as the background for the Title Clip.

16. Title Clips may be moved along the Video 1 Timeline. Click and drag on the Title Clip to place it as required on the timeline. Title Clips may only go before or after existing items on the Timeline. If a title Clip needs to

go in the middle of an existing item on the Video 1 timeline, a split will need to be introduced first. See the Inserting a Split section for details

on how to do this. 17. Title Clips may be lengthened and shortened

Cursor Effects

Cursor Effects can be used to highlight the movement of the cursor on screen if a screen capture has been made. If a PowerPoint presentation has been

captured and the keyboard has been used to move to the next slide then there will be no cursor action to highlight. Cursor Effects may also not be applied to

Title Clips.

To add cursor effects follow these steps:

1. Click the Cursor Effects button ().

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Figure 54 - The Cursor Effects button

2. The Cursor Effects area is displayed (Figure 55).

Figure 55 - The Cursor Effects area

3. Edit the cursor size by moving the slider to the right. How this appears

can be seen in the preview area to the right.

4. Choose a Highlight effect from the pull down menu. 5. Select Left and Right-click effects if required.

6. Select sound effect for left and right clicks. 7. Figure 56 shows a preview of the ‘spotlight’ cursor effect and the red

rings option selected to highlight a left click.

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Figure 56 - A preview of the cursor effects

Audio Enhancements

To access the audio announcements follow these steps:

1. Click the Audio button (Figure 57).

Figure 57 - The Audio button

2. The Audio area is displayed (Figure 58).

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Figure 58 - The Audio area

3. To even out the volume levels click the Enable volume leveling check box and then select the volume variation from the pull down list.

4. Background noise may also be removed by selecting the Enable noise

removal check box. Click the Advanced option just under this to expose more noise adjustment settings.

5. Click the Enable voice optimization check box and select a male or female voice depending upon the narrator.

6. To increase or decrease volume for selections of a clip select the relevant section on the timeline and then increase or decrease the volume accordingly.

7. The volume may also be faded in and out in the same way by selecting the relevant portion of the timeline and then clicking the Fade in or

Fade out buttons. 8. To replace a section of audio with silence highlight the relevant selection

on the timeline and then click the Silence button.

Outputting the Final Project

If it is to be placed on the University of Stirling streaming server and linked to

from a web page or WebCT, the final project needs to be a Windows Media Streaming video. Clips destined for You Tube can be made Windows Media

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Streaming video initially too, as You Tube converts them to Flash (You Tube’s working format) when you upload them.

Outputting the presentation

To output the presentation slides and associated audio, follow these steps:

1. From the File menu click Produce and share. The Camtasia Studio

production Wizard starts (Figure 59).

Figure 59 - Production Wizard - Step 1

2. The default option here should be Web if the dimensions of 640 x 480

were selected when the first video clip was dragged onto the Timeline

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earlier. Use the pull down to select Custom production settings and then click Next.

3. In step 2 of the production wizard, select WMV – Windows Media video, as shown in Figure 60.

Figure 60 - Production Wizard - Choosing output type

4. Under the Additional output options section, select whether to create an

MP3 file and at what bitrate by clicking the checkbox and selecting the rate from the pull down menu alongside. A 44.100Khz Stereo recording

or above will produce good enough quality.

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5. Select whether to create an M4V file (suitable for viewing use with an iPod) and at what level of quality by clicking the checkbox and selecting

an option from the pull down menu. 6. Click Next. From this point onwards it is also possible to preview the

settings you are applying to your clip by using the Preview button in the bottom left hand corner of the Production Wizard. Each preview will require the clip to be compiled and so may take a couple of minutes to

be produced. 7. The Windows Media Encoding Options part of the Production Wizard

appears (Figure 61).

Figure 61 - The Production Wizard - Windows Media Encoding Options

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8. Use Camtasia Studio Best Quality and File Size recommended options and click Next.

9. The Video Size part of the Production Wizard appears (Figure 62).

Figure 62 - The Production Wizard – Video Size

10. This confirms the size selection as being 640 by 480. Click Next. 11. The Video Options part of the Production Wizard appears (Figure 63).

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Figure 63 - The Production Wizard – Video Options

12. If the output is destined for the IS Streaming Server all these options

can remain unselected. Click Next. 13. The Marker options part of the Production Wizard appears (Figure 64).

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Figure 64 - The Production Wizard – Marker Options

14. Click Next.

15. The Produce Video part of the Production Wizard appears (Figure 65).

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Figure 65 - The Production Wizard – Produce Video

16. The Type a name for the output in the Production name field.

17. Select the folder into which to save the output. 18. Click Finish.

19. Camtasia Studio renders the project and shows a progress bar to indicate this (Figure 66).

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Figure 66 – Progress Bar

20. Camtasia Studio produces a Production Results screen at the end of the Production Wizard (Figure 67).

Figure 67 - The Production Wizard – Production is complete

21. Click Finish to clear this and view the clip in a new browser window.

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Getting Help using Camtasia Studio 7

Camtasia Studio 7 has in-built help files available from the Help menu or by

pressing F1. As well as these help files, there is a series of excellent short clips, made using Camtasia Studio 7 itself, showing how to perform tasks in the software. These are available from the Help menu by selecting Quick Start

Videos or by visiting the TechSmith web site: http://video.techsmith.com/camtasia/latest/edu/howto/enu/howto_cs4.html

e-Learning Liaison and Development Information Services

June 2010


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