Objective: Learn to create and edit a Camtasia Video
Creating a Video
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Step 1: Open up your Camtasia Studio
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A small welcome window will show up
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Choose the Start a new project by recording the screen then click ok
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Step 2: New Recording Setup
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What would you like to record give you three options
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Region of screen
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Select region (this is a basic click and drag area of the screen that you would like to record)
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Specific window
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Select Window (press select button and to select window by highlighting it and pressing the left mouse button)
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Or entire screen
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Once you have selected one Click Next
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Step 3: Recording Options
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(choose the recording option you would like to include in your recording)
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Record Audio
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(record audio while recording the screen)
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Record Camera
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(record Camera video while recording the screen)
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Once you have selected one click next
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Step 4: Begin Recording
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Click red record button on Camtasia recorder or F9 to start recording
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Click stop button on Camtasia recorder or F10 to stop recording
Click finish to begin recording
Small Camtasia Recording box will show up
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Record button
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Pause button
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Stop Button
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Once you begin recording it is very simple you go about recording the screen
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If you choose the audio recording you can go ahead and talk as you record.
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If at any time you need to pause the video just click the Camtasia recoding box and click pause.
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Once you are done recoding you will click on the stop button
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Hitting the stop button will bring up a screen that shows you exactly what you have recorded. Once you have previewed it you will need to save it so that you can edit it
Editing Camtasia Video
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After saving it will bring up a Post-Save Option and you will have three options to choose from
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Edit my recording
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Produce My video in a sharable format
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Or record another video
For right now we are going to choose edit my recording
Click ok
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From there you can do so many different things to edit your video
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The easiest way to figure these out to click on each one individually and then click on assist me. In Assist me it give you a quick run down of each edit and how to use them
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Tranistions
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Callouts
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Zoom-n-panel
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Flash quiz
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Captions
Once you are done save your product. And you are done