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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)

Snapping


When we move an item on the timeline, Camtasia Studio has a snapping feature that forces the item to line up at a reference point. If a vertical yellow line appears on the timeline, we know that Camtasia Studio is snapping our edit to the nearest possible reference point.

The reference points are determined by the following four items in our timeline:

  • The edges of other clips in the timeline

  • The playhead that indicates the current position on the timeline

  • Any markers we have created

  • Any quizzes we have created

Snapping is designed to help you make more consistent edits so that the content is aligned. When getting to know Camtasia Studio, snapping is very useful. It makes neat edits effortless.

As our skills become more refined, and our edits more ambitious, snapping may be less desirable. It could prevent us from making fine adjustments to the content on the timeline, and it could introduce unwanted gaps between clips, transitions, or animations.

Tip

We can choose to allow snapping in our...