Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 Tutorials
Getting Started with Camtasia / Camtasia Suite Workflow
Subtitles of the Movie (Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 / Getting Started with Camtasia / Camtasia Suite Workflow)
Throughout this course, you'll notice me refer to Camtasia 7 as Camtasia 7 and also as Camtasia Studio 7 and in fact, occasionally you'll notice me call it Camtasia Suite. Well it's official name is Camtasia Studio and the 7 that I say every now and again, well this indicates the release version and we're working on Camtasia version 7, well in fact 7.1. I only bring this up so that you don't get confused when I refer to the many different functions within Camtasia. In actual fact, Camtasia 7 isn't just one program; it's comprised of five or six different aspects that allow for different functions within your project creation. And these functions that I talk about, well they include the Recorder, the Menumaker, Theatre, Player and something called Screencast.com. And all these functions or options are accessed by going up to Tools within Camtasia here and then roll down to where it says Studio Tools and then flying out to the right, gives you these options I've just spoken about. Recorder, Menumaker, Theatre, Player and Screencast.com. And we're not finished there, other functions include, well if you want to upload a finished project to a server via FTP, File Transfer Protocol, then move down a category below Studio Tools, to where it says Sharing. Where, if you fly-out to the right, well, it reveals these 3 options, Pack and Show, Batch Production and the one that we're interested in, Upload Media to FTP. Okay. So within the Camtasia Suite there are these various functions. Now in terms of these function just described, let me explain a typical workflow for a project. First of all of course, you'd need to decide on the program you'd like to capture on your screen. Now in our previous example, we saw us illustrating the Bullseye Function in the program Stylizer 5. Well once you've decided what particular function of a particular program that you want to illustrate, then next, once you've recorded your screen to illustrate the specific function, you need to move it into Camtasia. However, before doing that, let's step back a little. It's important to consider the screen size you want your final movie to be output at. For example, I've set Stylizer 5 here to cover a screen size of 1024 by 768. This isn't full size on my monitor, in fact it's probably only about half size but this is the size I want my final movie to be output at, therefore you need to set the Screen Recorder to those dimensions, 1024 by 768. There'll be more on how to do this as we progress through this course, in fact in the next tutorial, we'll be looking at the Screen Recorder itself. So dimension issues aside, once your screen recording is complete, it needs to be taken into Camtasia for editing and within Camtasia, any number of Editing Functions can be applied. Again, there'll be more on this as we progress through the course. Now I feel the next step would be to edit or enhance your audio, so once you've got your visuals sorted out, then as I say, the next step would be to enhance the audio, because bearing in mind, your audio could be recorded as you screen capture, ie when you are actually capturing the screen. At that particular moment, you could be talking live into Camtasia's Recorder or you could add the audio afterwards. Regardless to get professional results, in my opinion, the audio needs to be edited and cleaned up and enhanced to make it easier on the ear for your audience. Consider for example many users, use headphones, so any coughs or squeaking chairs that you might not notice initially, well all that needs cleaning up for professional results. Something else that I think is important in terms of audio, is you'll also need to even out the natural volume fluctuations of your narration. So as your voice's volume goes up and down, naturally, in normal speech, well those volume fluctuations need to be evened out so that they don't go so high and so low in volume. We'll work on this as we progress. Furthermore another consideration is, well you'll need to consider how to record audio from the screen as part of your program. For example, if you are screen recording an audio program such as Cubase or Adobe's Audition, where audio is the main element of that particular program, then of course, you'll need to record what's on the screen in terms of the audio playback. Again, this is something that we'll move onto as we progress. So once you're done in terms of screen recording, editing and then sorting out any audio problems, well possibly the next step is to consider the output of the project. For example, will it be deliverable on CD or DVD? Will it be deliverable only a website of yours? Or possibly will you be sending it to YouTube? All these options need to be considered to get the best looking results for your project and whilst we're on this topic, a very important consideration for movie output is what Codec you use. TechSmith, the makers of Camtasia provide a great compression, D Compression Codec called EnSharpen, just go to their website to grab it. Now bear in mind your end user will need this same Codec installed on their PC for certain output formats. Again, more on this as we move forward. So with this possible workflow, you'll require the many different functions Camtasia offers. It's not the only workflow but it is a typical or suggested workflow for screen captures. Okay, so we'll finish up here for this tutorial and we'll get more specific in the next few tutorials, in particular, in the next tutorial, we'll look at the Screen Recorder itself.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Camtasia Studio 7 and Snagit 10 |
| Author: | Mark Struthers |
| SKU: | 34311 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-61866-039-8 |
| Release Date: | 2012-03-31 |
| Duration: | 8.5 hrs / 92 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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