Hello Friends!
As we continue to master Camtasia Studio, today I will show you a tip in producing a screencast that will surely capture your viewer’s attention and at the same time deliver your key points!
Add an extra kick to your screencast by using Title Clip. Title Clips, allow you to add graphic/text to introduce a video, set chapters or display relevant information like credits or video resources.
Here’s the step-by-step instructions on how to create a basic Title Clip:
1. Open Camtasia Studio and Record or Open and existing Video.
2. Once you’re done select ‘Title Clips’ from the Task List.
3. On the Title Clips pane, enter your desired text for the clip.
4. If you want to add background image to your clip, click on ‘Image’ option, then hit ‘Browse’ and locate your desired image to add.
5. If you want to change the background color, simply click on Color button and select your preferred color.
6. For additional texts, you can just type within the box in the pane.
- To change the size of the text box, simply drag the handles of the green rectangle in the Preview Window.
- To move the position of the text, simply drag the green rectangle in the Preview Window then click Finished!
Your title clip will be automatically added to the Clip Bin where you can conveniently use in the future with the drag-and-drop function.
How to Change Duration of Your Title Clip
Just drag the title clip onto the Timeline in your video. By default, the duration of the Title Clips on a Timeline is five seconds, to change the duration, you may do the following:
1. Select Tools
2. Go to Options
3. Click Programs Tab
4. Choose Title Clips
5. Set the amount of time for your Title Clips to display.
That’s all there is to it, I hope you find this tip very handy in your next Camtasia Studio screencast.
Until Next Time 
Peter – Your Camtasia Guide
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An excellent training of a very high quality. Many thanks for all the demos and great clarity. It’s very well done!
I’m a novice and I didn’t create my video yet. Should I record first my video with my Sony camcorder Handycam HD, and then edit it with Camtasia?
If I do a video using my PowerPoint presentation – then what I do first – create a presentation using MS PPT and then open it with Camtasia and edit? At which point I add the sound (my voice accompanying the presentation), I guess in MS PPT? Not sure, yet.
What are the best tutorials to read or watch, Peter?
Thank you Marta.
Camtasias purpose is to record the screen. If you are doing a video where you need both screen recording and regular video shoots, then you can work with your camcorder and edit those clips together with your screen recording videos in Camtasia.
But for most tutorial you will not even need a camcorder, just camtasia and a webcam will do if you want some pip (picture-in-picture).
If you already have a powerpoint presentation done you can record it with Camtasia using the Camtasia add-in toolbar that was installed into powerpoint when you installed Camtasia.
Be sure to do a test recording before recording your whole session. And set a smaller screen resolution before starting the recording to make the video smaller.
And finally, about watch or read, I would check out all tutorials
Best of luck with your Camtasia recording!
Peter
Very important aspect and Best video tool!
Waiting for articles about quiz.
Regards