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Camtasia Studio 8 - Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques

By : Claire Broadley and Mathew Dixon
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Camtasia Studio 8 - Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques

By: Claire Broadley and Mathew Dixon

Overview of this book

<p>Camtasia Studio 8 is used to customize and edit videos, giving you the ability to record on-screen activity, add imported media, create interactive content, and share your results. It can be used for many things, including e-learning (predominantly for training) and for marketing within business settings.</p> <p>Delve deep into the advanced features of Camtasia Studio 8 and learn about the importance of consistency, subtlety, and forward planning when creating a video project. Camtasia Studio 8 - Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques will help you determine the best production settings to use and will reveal how audio can be used to enhance your video and make the content more engaging. This book is packed with tips and examples that will elevate your skills and greatly improve your video productions.</p> <p>Starting with how to source video appropriately, Camtasia Studio 8 - Advanced Editing and Publishing Techniques will teach you the basics of editing and introduce you to the most commonly used features of Camtasia Studio 8. This book will cover consistency and sensible use of effects as well as the danger of over-using enhancements. You will learn how to script efficiently and record a voiceover, fade in/out music tracks, and convert speech to text. Finally, you will be introduced to different formats and be shown how to export a video in an appropriate resolution and format. With this book, you will discover exciting new ways to improve your video editing skills, plan recordings, and produce better quality results.</p>
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Visual properties


Visual properties allow us to fine-tune the look of items on our canvas.

We may achieve this by adding a drop shadow, placing a border around an item, adding or removing colors, and so on. We can animate our items, make them spin, disappear, and re-appear.

Effectively, we are creating our own custom transitions. Just as with transitions, it is important to remember that visual properties should serve a purpose and should not be added to impress the viewer.

A little extra animation at the beginning or end of a video can add a nice finishing touch, but too much animation can be distracting and will look unprofessional.

Best-practice tips

Let's look at a few tips that will help you along the way:

  • Visual Properties are normally best added at the end of the editing process. This helps us to get the timing right first.

  • We must be consistent with the settings of our visual properties. For example, if we add a shadow to one instance, we should try to use the same properties for all other...