Camtasia Studio Title Clips

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

Camtasia Studio First Time User

Hello There!

If you have just purchased Camtasia Studio or are thinking of purchasing for a friend then read on….

I decided to go back down memory lane on my first time using Camtasia Studio. I had just had enough raving from my friends about Camtasia Studio and so I decided to get my own copy.

As I was staring at the Camtasia Studio welcome screen, I was not sure what to expect. Yet, the only thing I was sure of was I’m about to embark on a trip to Wonderland.

To start off, the Welcome Screen itself was simple and clean. Its simplicity of design gives you an impression of, “Are you a newbie? Don’t worry, I’m ready to guide you.” That impression kept clinging to me while making my way on discovering the world of Camtasia Studio.

So, I tried recording an on-screen video, the Capture Area Selection window’s black background and minimal major options laid out gave me just exactly what I needed. Its visual presentation is good, that even, as a first time user, I can just simply do my own thing without having to completely depend on online tutorials.

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Recording was even cooler than what I expected it to be.

Here are the 10 things which I thought 100% Cool and Easy while discovering Camtasia Studio:

1. The 3,2,1 counting before the recording takes place. Whoa! What I miss is just a stool and a megaphone, I could have shouted, “Action!”

2. The Preview Window: Lots and lots of it, that is. I love it, super! I could just go back and re-do it, go on and edit it or just produce it in no time at all. Whichever way I want it, no more questions asked.

3. With a lot of formats to choose from: AVI, M4V, MP3, etc. I can’t wait to start making one and post it to my social network groups and blogs. My friends will surely be jealous of me. Haha

4. Assist Me and Show Me: When I talk about not completely depending on online tutorials, I meant it because every function available on the task pane, gave me the Assist Me and Show Me button on their respective windows. It made my experience easy and less hassle.

5. The customizable callouts gave me a chance to emphasize and de-emphasize the things I wanted to on the video I captured. It’s so easy and fast to do.

camtasia2 6. Decoupling of Audio and Video: As I was editing my test video, I noticed that there’s something wrong and I wanted to edit the audio track. Good thing, I found out that I could decouple it from the video track so easily. Phew! What a relief.

7. Adding Additional Audio Track: I like this, I was able to add another track which I found relevant for the video that I was recording. Pretty easy too!

8. Adding Transitions: All I had to do was just select an available preset and Tada! As easy as that and my video moves from one scene to another with style.

9. Adding quizzes and surveys during the video was cool too. I just had to choose which part of the timeline I wanted the quiz/survey to come out and then type in questions and the correct answer and then it would appear then and there!

10. Upload to Screencast feature: Boy, this one gave me a faster way to get the URL and embedded code. It’s really fast, as in, no need to open a browser, go to the site, login, upload, and get the code. The end.

There’s nothing I found too difficult or hard to understand. With consistent use and training, I’ll eventually be a rookie or an expert (if given the chance)in video recording, editing and sharing.

For now, need to familiarize more of this Super Cool program, Camtasia Studio 6.0 especially the new features.

If you are already a novice user you can continue enjoying the super features if you don’t own the latest version Camtasia 6.0 just send your existing license to Softwarecasa Support for your 50% discount on the upgrade!

Don’t Miss the Bus!

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

Camtasia Callout GiveAway

We have developed a Camtasia add-on callout graphics Package called SuperStamps.

SuperStamps includes 197 professionally designed graphics/icons in that you can access and use directly from Camtasia Studio.

As a small token of our appreciation to you, we are now giving away a smaller version with 20 New images (not included in SuperStamps) to all Camtasia Guide visitors.

You can freely download this package and use it in both educational, commercial or for private use. The only thing we ask you is to not resell it.

Download your Camtasia Callout SuperStamps MiniPack here.

See below for some examples of what’s included.

Already a SuperStamps owner?

Do not dispair, this bonus pack includes 20 Completely new icons not included in your original package.

What’s it for?

You can use SuperStamps directly from inside Camtasia Studio. Just download the .zip folder and unpack it. When setting up Callouts in Camtasia, just choose Custom Callout and include the SuperStamp callout you want.

But SuperStamps also work excellent in:

- Snagit as a stamp
- Microsoft Office to enhance reports/whitepapers and so on
- PowerPoint
- And any application where you can use graphics to enhance your statement.

I have an old version of Camtasia?

No worries, you can use SuperStamps MiniPack with all versions of Camtasia. But if you are ready to start using Camtasia 6.0 with support for HD you can upgrade Camtasia.

What about Copyright?

SuperStamps and SuperStamps MiniPack come with a generous license agreement. You can use these icons even in commercial products or work. The only thing you can’t do is to resell them as graphics or part of a graphics pack.

What’s included?

To keep the size of this email down I have just included smaller image examples. The actual images is 256×256 pixels and because they are made in PNG format you can make them as big as you like without any quality loss.

Download your Camtasia Callout SuperStamps MiniPack here!

SuperStamps MiniPack is great but what if I want the whole deal?

Check out SuperStamps Full version – 197 Professional Vector Grapichs

This is the full version with 197 additional SuperStamps. PLEASE NOTE: During the month of June we have a special $5 off. $14.95 instead of $19.95 on SuperStamps.

Let me know what you think of these Callouts in the comment area below.

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

Camtasia 6.02 with FLV

Camtasia Studio upgrade 6.02 was just released including support to produce FLV files and some other goodies.

All the new features in Camtasia 6.02

General:

Added ability to produce a .FLV file.
Added possiblity to set keyframe interval for .FLV and .MP4 file productions.

Studio:

Fixed an issue that would cause .MP4 production settings to not be correctly utilized for productions using PIP video.
Fixed an issue with dropping a transition over an existing transition causing a loss of sync between the Video 1 and PIP tracks.
Fixed an issue that could cause quizzes to appear twice during the playback.

PowerPoint

Fixed an issue that would cause an audio/video sync issue for some recordings with both audio and video.

Camtasia Recorder:

Improved error handling.
Improved the recording performance with applications with layered windows.

Go here to read more about Camtasia 6.0 and if you’re already a proud owner check out: Upgrade Camtasia

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide

Camtasia 6.0

If you think, your Camtasia Studio 5 is the best thing you’ve ever got, then you’re wrong. A few months back Techsmith launched its newest version, Camtasia Studio 6.0. With exciting new features added, you’d absolutely want to get your hands on it.

I would have written about it earlier, but I was just too busy building the worlds best software store! Now I hopefully have some more time on my hands trying out all the cool new features.

Some features that you should take a deeper look at:

Unlink audio and video tracks
This feature allows you to decouple the video and audio track, these tracks can then be locked edited independently of each other.

Customizable Hotkeys
7 additional hotkeys with which you can customize for you to save time in editing.

Production Presets
You can configure as to how you want your work to be shared and the dimensions to use. The options are Web, Blog, CD, DVD-Ready, HD, iPhone, iPod, Screencast.com, and Youtube.

Preview Window
Here’s what I think is cool, with the preset configured, a window will show the preview of how the video will look with the chosen dimensions. You can also see a preview of your work while and after editing.

Perspective Tilt
On the Zoom and Pan window, you can zoom one side of the video into different perspective. It’s as if looking on a flat screen on different angle you prefer for your audience.

Upload to Screencast.com
If you have a screencast account, you can upload your video to Screencast.com by signing in. With a free storage space and monthly bandwidth of 2gb for Free accounts that you can absolutely take advantage of.

Camtasia Studio 6.0 will fill you appetite for smart video recording, editing and sharing.

Go here to read more about Camtasia 6.0 and if you’re already a proud owner check out: Upgrade Camtasia

Until next time

Peter – Your Camtasia Guide